This reusable option is more eco-friendly than wrapping paper. Learn how to wrap a gift using fabric.
…In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. - quote by Albert Camus None of these pictures...
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Have you seen the GORGEOUS new May Arts Burlap and Organic Cotton Ribbons ? I absolutely love them. Here's a peek at what I did with the...
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I had intended to post about the Trad Home Napa Valley Showhouse Tour today but decided to put it off until after the 1st. We will all be thinking about how we
We’re always looking for new ways to wrap presents. A gift is just that much more special when it is delivered in a pretty package, no? So when we received all these beautiful ribbons from Studio Carta, we were overwhelmed with the possibilities! If you’re not familiar with Studio Carta, you should check out their web […]
You’ve said goodbye to your camper and now you want to send some love from home – but you don’t know where to start! Here are 10 tips for sending care packages to camp.
Have you ever felt bad throwing away all that pretty wrapping paper after opening gifts? I think we all have. What a waste of some of the prettiest papers around, right? I have often wondered what I might make with the leftover wrapping paper, but at Christmastime, my DIY mind sometimes goes blank. Fortunately, some
Get creative with your packaging this holiday season
I’ve been a big fan of Christina Schmidt of Yellow Owl Workshop for quite some time and I was thrilled to receive an advanced copy of her brand new book, Make It Yours: Patterns and Inspiration to Stamp, Stencil, and Customize your Stuff due out March 28th (on pre-order now!). The book touches on a variety […]
There are many ways to build a castle with children. Once I already made a small cardboard toy castle with my kids, but this time we wanted something more impressive. For our castle we collected cardboard boxes of different size, and toilet paper tubes. Using those building blocks, paint and some colored paper, we created this castle with floors, round towers, windows and a cone-shaped roof. This project is very easy and straightforward. Reverse the boxes, stack them one onto another, put the toilet paper rolls at the corners, paint. Place towers also at the top and around the gate. I showed how to make a cone in my post about gigantic pencils, the cone-shaped roof can be made the same way. A flag from a toothpick and piece of paper is the final touch. I think you may enjoy the Cardboard castle by Ann Wood. It's more of a piece of art than a kids craft project. Take a look.
How do you wrap your gifts usually? Just some simple paper wrapping? You feel embarrass when you don’t have a pretty wrapper for your gift?
Day 37 50 DIY Days of Christmas: Clever and Silly Wrap Ideas!
Pop on over to the blog Green Living Ideas for a whole big list of ideas for using recycled paper to wrap your Christmas gifts.
Do you want to personalized your Christmas presents with a fabulous Vintage look? Take a look at those ideas from La Boutique Vintage.
**UPDATE: Please visit my updated website to view this post and download a template for these petal-shaped gift boxes. Holidays Fit for the King is coming up this weekend! I'm SO excited! This year our committee is wearing petal pushers made by Lindsey from The Pleated Poppy. When I was trying to decide how to give these yummy little goodies to our group I was stumped. How do you wrap this up? I discovered this tutorial that I really wanted to try, but for the life of me could not figure it out... humph! But just as nap time was coming to an end and the situation was getting drastic... an idea hit! Let me suggest that you make these with someone around because these are definitely squeal-worthy and you'll want to show them off! Here's the tutorial: Draw a square the size of the odd shaped gift (mine was a 3 inch square). Locate the middle of the square and draw a big X. The distance from the farthest point of the X to the center of one of the sides of the square should be 1/2 inch larger than the side of the square. The picture below might help: Grab something with a good arch (I used an embroidery hoop) and draw in the arches. Here's what the design looks like before you cut it out: Oh I can't wait to wrap up these beauties! Trace the template on to double sided card stock then hole punch the tops of the four "petals".Line up the holes in three of the petals and thread a piece of ribbon through. Put the two ends of the ribbon together then thread them up through the fourth petal's hole. Tie a bow. Then squeal! I'll have tons of pictures from HFFK next week... get excited! Update: Thanks to Aimee over at Homespun Threads for putting together a downloadable PDF for these boxes. You can find it here. The Petal Pockets have been entered in Michael's Handmade Holidays contest. If you'd like to vote for them, please click here. Thanks so much!
Bevor wir heute wieder in den Schul- und Arbeitsalltag gestartet sind, durfte unser Jüngster heute Morgen ein Geburtstagsgeschenk auspacken und seine Kerzen ausblasen - er feiert heute seinen 8. Geburtstag. Bereits gestern hatten wir ein paar liebe Gäste zu Besuch. Wir haben die Geburtstagsecke mit Häkelsternen und in den Farben Weiss, Grau und Petrol dekoriert. Für die Muffin Toppers und die Mini-Kuchengirlande mussten ebenfalls kleine Häkelsterne herhalten: Vom Geburtstagskind wurde eine einfache Schokoladentorte, nochmals der Marronikuchen (diesmal mit Schokoladesternen verziert) und Mississippi-Muffins gewünscht: Ich möchte mich bei euch ganz herzlich für die lieben Kommentare, die guten Wünsche und Mails bedanken. Leider bin ich noch nicht dazu gekommen, alle Fragen zu beantworten. Ich werde das in den nächsten Tagen nachholen. Einen guten Start in die neue Woche! Kram, Doris Wabenbälle: 'Søstrene Grenes', gibt es aber z.B. auch bei der 'Baumhausfee' Das Muster für die Häkelsterne habe ich mir anhand von Bildern herausgesucht. Ähnliche findet ihr zum Beispiel HIER oder HIER
Orders are usually shipped within 48 hours and arrive within 4 - 8 days. If you need to arrive quickly, please purchase shipping services separately. The following is the transportation service link: https://aflowermadestudio.etsy.com/listing/1657699482please visit my store homepage directly: https://www.etsy.com/hk-en/shop/AFlowerMadeStudio?ref=seller-platform-mcnav 🚀GLOBAL SHIPPING🚀 This is a finished product! we will ship it within 1-2 days. Packaging scheme： ⚜️Flowers+Packaging⚜️ I will pack the bouquet for you, and pack the bouquet into a box. After receiving it, it can be given as a gift directly. (Note: Due to shipping issues, the bouquet may be squeezed in a cardboard box. It is recommended to check the packaging of the bouquet after receiving the goods before sending it as a gift) ⚜️Flowers + paper⚜️ We have prepared these accessories for you: Colored wrapping paper + flowers+silk ribbon. We will put all these accessories in the same shipping box。 You will package it into a bouquet yourself Please package them after you receive the package in the way you want them to be packaged! ⚜️Only Flowers⚜️ Only crocheted flowers, Does not include any packaging materials 🌹What the Bouquet is Made of🌹 The crochet flower bouquets are all 100% hand-made of the highest-quality yarns like no other. It will stay in the best shape and won't pill like regular yarns even after a prolonged use. I hope you enjoy knitting these bright flowers and arranging your display. Of course, the many advantages of knitted flowers is that you don’t have to water them and they don't wilt! Usage: Gifts, Anniversary, Back to School, Birthday, Graduation, Mother’s Day, National Girlfriend's Day, Proposal, Thank You Gift, Valentine’s Day, Wedding etc. If you would like to purchase our product for a special occasion, please inform us, and we will wrap your bouquet with a card. Notes: Due to the nature of our creative process, the handmade items you receive may vary slightly from the pictures shown in the listings, adding to their unique charm and individuality. The color of the item may appear slightly different from the pictures due to variations in light and screen settings. Additionally, please allow for slight differences in dimensions due to variations in manual measurements. 🥇BEST AFTER-SALE SERVICE🥇 If you are not satisfied with the items received or the items are damaged during transportation, please get in touch with me first before leaving a review, and we will definitely solve the problem for you. 👋Thank you for looking, please contact me if you have any questions! 👋I am happy to do custom orders! 👋Happy shopping!
Want to make your Valentine's gift the best that it can be? We have 2 simple Valentine's Day gift wrapping ideas that are super easy and fun to create!
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You know how it is – you suddenly realise you've got a present to wrap for a child's birthday and you're out of decent wrapping paper (happens frequently here). Grab yourself a roll of brown paper (I always have one kicking around), and use one of these simple gift-wrap ideas to come up with a
What's better than an awesome gift? An awesome gift wrapped so nicely that it's truly a shame to open it up! We have collected 10 Cute and Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas that will add that extra oomph to your already awesome gift...
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Vintage and reproduction landscape and portrait paintings can be found in so many spaces around the globe from grand castles to tiny city apartments. Thankfully they've been popping up more and more (especially portraits) and are being used in fresh ways (on pillows, bags, ceramics) though I still l
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Good Morning, If you are new to this post, welcome, I am glad you are here. If you are a return visitors, I am glad you are back again. Please respect my time and my willing to share. If you made the origami bow using this tutorial and you have either one of these facebook, yahoo group, blog, twitter and others please share the link to this tutorial. Sharing is what making blogging fun. I saw this origami bow tutorial here. However, it was in another language and many of you needed a written tutorial plus pictures tutorial, so here it is. A 3" x 3" paper would make a nice bow for greeting cards. I used 4" square for the bows that I made for the cake here. A thin pattern paper would make a beautiful bow. If you are using double side pattern paper place the side that you want down. Mountain fold horizontally, crease well, then unfold. Rotate 90 degree mountain fold, crease well and unfold. you should have this. Flip the paper over, valley fold diagonally, crease well, and unfold. Rotate 90 degree valley fold, crease well and unfold. You should have this: 2 mountain fold lines that looked like a plus sign. And 2 valley folds that looked like an "X". Follow the creased lines and fold your paper like this Press it down and fold the "closed" side about 1/2" down like the picture below, crease well. Open your paper completely like shown. As you can see there is a small square in the center and the creased lines are not the same. You are going to mountain fold those lines or the small square. like this refold the paper like the 7th picture above except you will push the small square down like this you paper now should look like this with two layers. fold the top corners down like this turn the paper over and repeat you are going to open the paper, making sure your folds (small square) stays in place. it should look like this after you opened the paper. Turn the paper over, make sure you place your paper like in the photo. Cut at the fold (where the black lines are.) After the cut you should be able to move the two pieces up and down. These two pieces will be the bow tails. Fold the top piece down and fold the edges of the side pieces down like shown fold the other edges up and over lab the previous fold a bit. now working on the bow tails, fold the edges in then cut both pieces at the center where the black line is (make sure don't cut the small square on the bottom) then fold it like shown turn it over fold the bow tip under the center square cut the bow tails and you are done! It wasn't too hard right! I was in a rush putting this tutorial together so some phrase might not be clear but I was hopping the pictures will help. I just reopened my ETSY SHOP. I will be adding more new items soon. Thanks for looking. Helen
