today has been spent doing a small bit of christmas trimming...trying to finish up cards and beginning to stash surprises under the tree. giving gifts and wrapping them up special is something i love to do. but having a little teething baby has made making homemade gifts almost impossible this christmas...so i've been doing lots of shopping online. but adding a little special homemade touch is important to me...so this year i decided to use fabric and painted canvas paper to wrap things up with.
i tried my hand at recreating the pom pom anthropologie paper i've been pining over (i used white crate paper (to give it a handmade paper feel) and 7mm red pom poms...wrapped the gift up in the crate paper and hot glued the pom poms on).
to make hand-painted paper, i use primed canvas pads and acrylic paint. max and i had a ball painting away last night...and because the sheets are primed they mold really nicely around the gift when it's time to wrap! they're like little pieces of fine art to make the best kind of first impression.
wishing you all a wonderful weekend!
tonight is a date night/hobbit night (eep!) and tomorrow is mad dash finish shopping saturday...
xoxo
These are fantastic! I especially love the idea of hand-painted wrapping paper - pure genius. I found your post via Pinterest and am smitten with your blog!
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The pom pom wrapping paper is IDENTICAL! you are amazing! i've been lusting over it myself...might have to try this...
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oh golly, you are so talented. i love your wrapping paper paintings!
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I used to do something very similar! But not to wrap gifts but to wrap my school note books....something to make them colorful and interesting.....I recall they were very popular among my friends
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these are so beautiful. and i am so jealous! i love wrapping gifts and making them pretty...but now with three kids i feel like i don't find the time! i guess my kids are young enough i can toss on the paper and they could care less, but i need to find time to wrap the adult gifts in my life pretty-like!
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