Feb 23, 2009

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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9 comments:

Kara said...

Love this idea, the wrapping paper in the stores is too expensive anyway. Plus kids can create the paper, use white, etc. Endless possibilities.

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Karli said...

Don't worry, those comments above weren't negative or anything... just repeat comments that accidentally got posted more than once!! (When I see deleted comments I always think they must have said something really mean to be deleted!)

Kelli said...

I have been following your blog for awhile. I think you do the cutest stuff!!! Your house is adorable, your kids are the cutest, and you make awesome stuff! I love reading your blog!

Lauri said...

Good grief Karli, can it get any funner than this? You are amazing! And so cute too - you little cutie pie.

Amy said...

Karli,
This is such a cute idea! Since I have a birthday in January, I appreciate the fact that you make sure not to wrap your kids presents in Christmas wrap. I always got that when I was growing up and I always hated it! It made my birthday feel like an after thought! Good for you for being such a good mom!

Erich said...

Plain brown is my fav, but a little style is nice too...

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