Homemade Gift Wrap

We had two birthday's in December of this year and I am a firm believer in making birthdays special. Especially in December when so much focus seems to be on Christmas, (which really is a good thing)! Unfortunately, when it came time to wrap the birthday presents I realized that the only paper I had was Christmas paper! What's a girl to do? So I did what any self respecting crafty-ish (is that even a word?) mother would do. I made my own!

This paper was for Porter's birthday. I just started pulling out things that I had available to me and this is what I came up with. I used a large circle punch to punch out a bunch of circles in fun scrapbook paper scraps that I had lying around. I wrapped the gifts in butcher paper and then used a glue stick to randomly place the circles on the paper. To finish it off I just added a bunch of curly ribbon and voila!

And these are from Luke's birthday. I started the same as last time by getting out my trusty butcher paper. I wanted it to look a little different this time so instead of cutting out scapbook paper I just got out a new stamp set that I had recently purchased. I picked two ink color that I liked and went to town. For a little extra something I added the ric-rac and that ended up being my favorite part. Then I just used those fun little bubble stickers for his name.

Since making my own paper for these birthdays I rarely use store bought paper. I love that these are so unique and one of a kind. I even did some for a baby shower a few weeks ago and it was adorable. I just forgot to get pictures! Just imagine reds and whites with huge pink ric-rac... Adorable!!!

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