Holiday Wrap

I am a big believer in good packaging. I am a product marketer's dream. I've purchased many things simply because I loved the bottle or container it was in. Like buying a few bottles of coke when I could get a 24 pack of cans for the same price...

 

In the same spirit, I like to decorate my holiday gifts. For one, they look like a continuation of the Christmas tree decorations, but they also add to the gift giving fun.

It's really easy to add a few extra touches to your gifts. I made a tutorial of how I did mine, but use your imagination and do something that says "this gift is from (your name)"!

Most of these things I just had at my house. 

I started by adding a small glitter dot sticker to the fabric brad.

Then I inserted the metal tabs of the brad into two of the holes of a slightly larger button.

Now fold the brad tabs down to secure them all together.

So cute! That might be cute in a little girls hair.

My gift tag is just a 1.5x3 inch piece of white paper.  I stitched a line down one side with my sewing machine and then used a glue dot to attach the buttons. You could stop here and just use this for a gift tag. Especially for a smaller gift.

Next I added a couple glue dots to my 3x3.5 inch paper.

Secure the snowflake a little off center.

Use another glue dot to add your tag to the snowflake. These snowflakes came in a pack of 8 for $3 at the craft store. I think the fabric brads were the most expensive item I used, but I love them.

Hole punch the top corner and your tag is done! 

Now we do the raffia ribbon. You can use any kind of ribbon, but I have a thing for the raffia. Make a simple knot and leave some strings to attach the bow.

To make a bow with this thin raffia, you just take a long strip and fold it back and forth until you get two loops on each side.

Set the folds of raffia on the knot you already tied on the gift. Take the strings from the knot and tie the raffia folds to the package.

Isn't that cute?  This is why I love the raffia for gifts. Now all you have to do is use the long strands to tie on your gift tag.

I liked the gift plenty with just the gift tag, but I wanted to add one last thing. When I did the cake table for my nephew's first birthday, I had sewn a bunch of circles together to make the birthday sign. I thought I would do something like that again. Using a glue strip not only made sure the stitches won't come apart, but now I can glue it to the package.

I think adding the stitches makes it more "from Andrea". 

I just love it. I made sure to wrap a gift to myself so I can keep one!

To: Andrea    From: Yourself

If you live in Utah and you are interested in decorating your gifts, you should go to a Roberts craft store. They are, sadly, going out of business and everything in their stores is 40% off.

Happy Holidays!  

Comments

[Rachel F]

I love this! You really do always wrap the most amazing present. Every year its hard to even want to unwrap them they are so beautiful, and every year I try to wrap them as pretty as you and never can! Thanks for the tutorial maybe this year I can do it! Well see...

[Tara]

I kept checking the tags hoping to see a "to tara, from andrea"... but then I remembered that it won't be until 2017... hahaha

[Laura folkman]

So adorable! Love it