Made Marian: Oozing Crafty Goodness

I’m just about half way through my holliers at this stage so it’s time for a quick post. 

There’s no point going to all that effort making a beautiful card for someone if you’re just going to put their gift in one of those gift bags from the local €2 shop.  I love wrapping presents, so it’s no surprise that I love Christmas then.   I’ve often considered taking a part time job in a department store in the gift wrap section, but time has always been an issue, maybe this year .

I had already made the card featured in the photo so I wanted to tie in the gift wrap with the red ribbon.  This paper was left over from another project but fitted the bill perfectly.  It was a little bit see-through so I put some white copier paper on top of the box to cover the brand name etc.  I had hoped to get a gift box that would fit the bottle and the contents of the box (champagne flutes) but I couldn’t find one big enough so I had to keep the bottle separate.  I decided to keep it simple but keep the theme going with the red ribbon.  I made the gift tag for the bottle in case they got separated at least the recipients would know where they came from.

The gift tag was made from some pearl white cardboard and I punched a butterfly shaped hole and put the ribbon through that.  I drew in the To: and From: lines and then stuck on the red shiney hearts, I have no idea where I got these from, they appeared out of my stash, as these things do.

I hope this will give you some good gift wrapping ideas for any special occasions you have coming up.