Hello!
Last Christmas, I didn't really put much effort into decorating and making my friend's presents something special, but this year I've broken that uncreative banner and stepped out of the box. Nearly every present i've wrapped has had some sort of decoration around it, but these design ideas I'm going to show, and explain to you today may help you step out of the box when it comes to wrapping.
The 3 design ideas will consist of a wrapping, card, and present idea, which look like this:
The first idea I will be explaining to you about is the Fabric wrapping with bows and glitter:
I came up with this idea when I was looking around in my fabric box for some ribbon to tie around things, and I thought I should try and do something creative with the fabric for wrapping up my bestfriend's presents considering she put lots of effort into my birthday gift. Anyway, I then came up with a solution and made a very easy fabric wrapping paper, which looks very sweet and rustic.
How To make:
1. Get a piece of fabric bigger than the present you're giving away, place the gift in the middle of the fabric and collect the fabric at the top of the gift, but make sure you leave enough material at the top to tie something around it.
2. Try your best to bunch up the material at the top of the present making the bottom bit as tight as possible so there aren't too many gaping holes.
3. Get a piece of ribbon or wool of your choice and tie it tightly around the scrunch at the top. I chose to do colours that match the present inside just for a sweet touch.
4. (optional) Dip the top of the scrunch in some glue and sprinkle glitter on for a more festive look and effect.
Handmade personalised christmas card:
This card is also for my bestfriend in returns of the adorable card she made me for my birthday with her creative talent. I had seen quite a few of the bauble designs online but instead of photos as the baubles, buttons were used, however I wanted to add a personal spin and use photos instead.
How To make:
1. Get a piece of card and fold it in half, draw 3 lines from the top downwards ,and make sure they stop and different lengths.
2. Print off the photos you want to be at the end of the lines, and cut them up into circular shapes to represent a bauble.
3. Stick something between the joining of the "bauble" and "string" to neaten it off-I made little bows out of wool.
4. Decorate the rest of the card how you wish. I used sequins to represent snow, and stuck a long line of sequin fabric at the top in which the "snow" would fall off of.
For the inside of the card I wrote in my own message, but made a red woolen bow to stick in, aswell as adding an extra photo of us in the top sector and neatening the edges off with white wool wrapped round a few times! You don't have to add all of these touches, but I did to make it a more personal card.
Rainbow Sweets Jar:
How To make:
1. Get your jar and make sure it's big enough to fit in a good amount of sweets, then open up the coloured sweets you're using and organise them into colour groups. (Make sure you wash your hands before fiddling around with the sweets because the person you're giving them too won't want dirty sweets.)
2. Go round the bottom edge of your jar with one colour then fill in the middle with the rest of that colour.
3. Repeat step 2 until you fill up to the top, and the jar is really compacted. Beware this gets quite tricky as you go up because the sweets want to intertwine, so don't move the jar/sweets around too much.
4. Close the lid and tie a ribbon around the jar.
What you could also do to add something extra is attach 2 candy canes either side to make a little sleigh like this:
As I only post on Sundays I won't have anything up on Christmas to say Merry Christmas, so Merry Christmas and I hope you have a lovely day!
