I wanted to show you my holiday packages this year. I was determined to be more creative this year so I bought some brown kraft paper, grabbed my glue gun, and got to work.
This first package is for my brother. I got the idea from Pinterest so I strolled outside and grabbed some fallen branches, broke them in half, and arranged them in size. When I was satisfied with the pattern, I glued them on the package. The star and the trunk were hand-drawn on a piece of orange cardboard, compliments of a Nike shoebox we had in our closet.
At one of our salvage jobs, I found a tiny book on how to build roofs. My brother is multi-talented — he’s a carpenter, mechanic, and mason (to name a few of his skills) — so I thought, “Perfect!”. I would have just given him the entire book, but it was in terrible shape, so I tore out several good pages and glued them on the package randomly.
The miniature snowman package is for my niece. She collects them. I found the small collection at Hobby Lobby. I thought they were so cute.
Oh, and I bought several rolls of cheap red and green ribbon and randomly picked several to wrap one gift.
For Zach’s gift, I simply cut a bunch of small triangles from some paint strips I picked up at Sherwin Williams and glued them on top of a piece of twine.
For Melissa’s gift, I glued a vintage frame — I made sure to pick a box that was just the right size — put her name on the package using sticky letters I bought from Hobby Lobby, and glued a tiny birdhouse next to her name. (She loves to garden.)
After wrapping multiple packages, I had a mound of kraft paper scraps, so rather than throw them away, I decided to tear the scraps into strips and glue the strips to another package. It took forever, so I’m not sure if I’ll ever do that again, but I was happy with the outcome. For decoration, I glued two French vocabulary cards because, you guessed it: my sister loves Paris.
For my niece’s package, I bought a cheap stencil at Hobby Lobby and had fun drawing circles with several colored pens.
Lastly, for my Mom’s package, I hand-drew the letters on a piece of scrap fabric, then glued them down. I used inexpensive rubber stamps to stamp the “is” and “for”.
All in all, I’m quite pleased with how they turned out.
these look great
the recipients may not want to open them
it will spoil the wrap job
diane
Your presents look so pretty and so original. I hate most of the cheap wrapping paper in the stores. I just went out during my lunch break to Wal-Mart to buy brown paper! What a coincidence! Just this morning I decided to use brown paper and whatever bows or ribbons I have for my gifts this year. I am inspired by how great your packages look. I am sort of a Christmas bag and wrapping paper and ribbon hoarder so I will have fun after work tonight doing my wrapping.
Merry Christmas.
I love this! Your wrappings are so much fun ~ you’ve given me some inspiration for next year!