Crafty Wrapping

A couple years ago I bought tons of rolls of brown

craft paper from the dollar store and have used it

little by little over the years for this or that - baby shower

gifts, bridal shower gifts, birthday presents, etc.

 

Last year I planned to wrap Christmas presents with this

paper, and had bought scrapbook paper to make tags, along with 

twine and ribbon to match. Well, I didn't get around to it last year -

my dad had heart surgery AND a stroke the week of Christmas,

so I really didn't care much what any presents looked like. My

priorities were definitely different one year ago!

 

 But at least I was one step ahead this year =) I used a cricut to make

tags out of scrapbook paper with floral print, diamond print, and

sheet music for "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - all in dark red and

tan colors. I also used the cricut to make initials for a lot of the

gifts that I was giving.  I thought the wrapping turned out pretty... but my

husband and brother-in-law didn't appreciate my crafty wrapping - they

said they would have given me money for real wrapping paper so I didn't

have to use old grocery bags! Mean boys.

 

For presents that needed to go in gift bags, I got craft paper bags

and brown paper lunch bags (both from the dollar store!).

For the smaller gifts, I just put a couple hole punches at the top

of the lunch bag and tied a bow. For the larger gift bags,

I glued a tea-stained doily to the front with a small bow in the

middle, and then added a name tag. I have tons of these doily's 

leftover from a bridal shower my sister and I did back in the spring,

 and I had already decorated one of my trees with them this year. 

So having doiles on some of the presents under the tree looked really cute.

I still have LOTS of these doily's... I'm gonna have to come up with

some other ways to use them all! 

 

 My husband acted like he couldn't believe I turned my Christmas

wrapping into a craft project... you would think he knows me better by now!