The Painted Apron

Creations, Recipe for Easy Gift Wrapping

Posted by the Painted Apron on May 9, 2013 · 9 Comments 

This  post is all about gift wrapping, but first I want to mention another kind of “wrapping,” this slip covered chair in my studio

This chair was featured yesterday on The Dedicated House, Before and After Wednesday

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Now on to the gift wrapping!

I often wrap gifts for my JMdesigns {hand painted glassware} customers and have learned to streamline the process as well as make it super affordable.

My favorite method is stamped bags and tags~these are some of my favorite stamps, birthday cake, palm trees, heart, baby shoes, kiss, wedding cake, it’s a girl thing, and cupcake.

I have found with just a few stamp designs and these three colors I can cover all the bases from brides to babies.  I have a couple of Christmas stamps too. I never pay full price for these, just look for them on sale at Hobby Lobby and Michael’s often has bins of them for $1 each near checkout.  You can always pull up coupons on your phone too if you leave home without one.

With white bags you can wrap just about anything for any occasion.  Add a stamp and a colored tissue sheet and your gift is wrapped!

Let your bags dry after stamping to prevent smears

These bags were for a bridesmaids luncheon

I printed out the girls names on card stock and cut them into tags and punched a hole on one end

I used this heart garland to attach the tags to the bags, it’s wired so it will curl and bend

just a piece of scotch tape inside the upper edge of the bag

Wrap the gift in several pieces of white tissue and use 1 sheet of accent color or print tissue over the white

Here’s a peak of the gifts inside…

The bridesmaid’s dresses are blue so I found a tissue in their dress color.  The other wedding color that will be used is green so I printed the stamp and names in green.

Hobby Lobby has a great selection of bags and tissue, very reasonably priced.  These bags were 10 for $1.99.  The blue tissue was the same price.  I buy white tissue in reams and keep it on hand, but you can also buy big packs at Costco for $5 in late fall which is a good time to stock up.  I keep all sizes of white bags on hand for fast wrapping any time.

You can also cut the accent wrap in half to make it go further.  Use the white tissue for bulk and add the accent pieces for color.  These bags were tied with a short piece, about 12″ of ruffled ribbon, so I was able to get 3 ties per yard.

You can see many more gift wrapping ideas by clicking here

Here’s the recipe for an easy gift wrap:

1 white bag

1 rubber stamp and pad

1 sheet of card stock or heavy paper for tag

hole punch

ribbon

2 sheets of white tissue

1 piece colored or printed tissue

Wrap item in white tissue.  Tuck accent tissue loosely around item and carefully tuck into bag being careful not to wrinkle tissue and making sure the accent tissue is visible.  Make tag with card stock and rubber stamp.  Punch hole in tag and use ribbon to attach tag to bag.

Makes 1 gift!

Unexpected gifts are the most appreciated, wrap up something today for someone special,  just for fun!

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