Well Merry Christmas!!!
I had so many patterned gift wrapping ideas for this season and well… ya know how it goes! Oh the holidaze… Oh life…
Since I ended up not DIYing any of my gifts this Christmas, I wanted to share last years’ that, well, never made it to the blog either… Okay, next year I will get it together! ;)
As most of you know, I had my very first born November 27th of 2013. So this time last year, from Thanksgiving to New Years, I was like, “WHAAAAA?!?” Somehow in between back to back feedings and sporadic crying fits (and when I say “crying fits,” I’m not talking about the baby- new moms cry A LOT too, ya know - haha)… Thru all that craziness, I managed to pull off some pretty cute DIYed presents if I must say! hehe
My apologies for the poor images. I may have had a baby literally attached to me while taking these pictures, if you know what I mean… :)
Things You’ll Need
1. Good ole brown packing paper you can get from just about anywhere. I get mine from either Lowes or Target.
2. Any patterned paper. You can find holiday patterned paper at any craft store! Or you can design something yourself like I did for this wrap job. I printed my patterns out on cardstock so I wouldnt have to tape the shapes completely down to the brown paper.
3. Yarn or any ribbon. I used red yarn for these.
4. Mini Candy Canes
5. And tape, duh… ;)
That’s it! It was really easy!
PS - I originally REEEEEAAAALLLLLLLYYY REALLY wanted to get these patterns I designed printed on actual wrapping paper to wrap my gifts with… And, well, I did, buuuuut the print job was terrible. If you know a good place/website to get your own designs printed on wrapping paper, please comment!
Happy Holidays everyone! LOVE!
XOXO,
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