Holiday Gift Ideas
Gifts decorated with style:
Creating projects, articles and photos by: Madeleine M Langlois
Difficulty: Easy.
Materials and tools:
Variety of scraps of paper, rice paper, colored paper normal
Scissors
Glue gun and sticks
Double-sided tape and regular tape
Tapes assorted colors, widths and styles
Variety of results: Jewelry custom belt buckles, quilling paper strips, feathers, sequins, tinsel garland, wire, beads, etc.
remnants of cloth, skin fun taffeta, wool diffuse, scrapbooking tools, snowflake punch, decorative edge scissors, tags, rub-on letters
Also see each wrapper gift description.
(Materials for this project are available at arts and craft shops.
My favorite part of the holidays is wrapping gifts. It is the perfect time to use up many remnants of various projects and my creativity is let loose, just for fun. From my wrapping room shared with the laundry room is a safe place to find some peace of mind during all the madness of the holidays.
Minimalist with a touch of Ritz, great gift wrapping ideas start with interesting results. The secret to achieving the look of these French chocolate gift wrapping is all the decorations. Custom to make an impact, even simple gifts can look elegant with a little accent. Do not be afraid to expand the color palette beyond the traditional, all is good because, really, anything goes. Despite using a variety of color combinations of bright turquoise, green and blue with accents in soft pastels half of silver, angelic whites and chocolate brown, the issue is what brings everything together.
Fuzzy wool for a nice warm feeling: Super easy but elegant. Once a gift is wrapped, place one or two ribbons around the box and then wrap a few lengths of wool trim diffused throughout the package. Variety of fancy yarns an economical and elegant to wear chocolates and gifts in the form of cookie.
Rows of ribbons: Create patterns based boxes with satin, velvet and grosgrain ribbons of different types of colors and widths more than a tissue wrapped gift. Garnish with a touch of white tinsel garland. A piece of wide satin ribbon looks stunning when applied to the center of great gifts and normal paper bags. Secure the ribbons on the back of a package with hot glue. large ribbons can also be decorated with fuzzy wool lengths.
Jewel using recycled jewelry and belt buckles: retraining and ends pieces of jewelry, earrings and charms. Glue these on a decorative ribbon to create a stylish heart. Painting buckles natural wood or silver or gold (or any color) and set a length of ribbon around a gift wrapped in cloth. Top with a feather.
Dazzling with sequins: Make your gifts sparkle and shine with sequins. sequins use the patio as you would with tape. Double rows of brightly colored sequins are spectacular plain wrapped gifts of silver. Besides hitting random sequins embellish individual wrapped gifts.
Snowman Quilling: Quilling, also known as paper filigree, is the art of rolling thin strips of paper in different forms and shapes to form designs. Quilling papers come in packages of assorted colors. accents idea, such as natural snowman shapes or monograms can be crafted to decorate boxes wrapped with clarity. Set designs for gift packages with ribbon duplex. You can even apply for roles in flat strips or a pattern marked fashion. dressings make simple swirls wonderful gift.
Cut-it-with snowflakes Paper: So easy to make and yet so charming. They make cuts in the magical gifts of different sizes. And cut with scissors snowflake shapes with Folding simple type or a variety of recycled papers. Even children can help you out with this. garlands of paper can be very impressive too.
Punched snowflakes: Paper punches with holiday designs are wonderful to use and incorporate in the donation of cut. Using a punch snowflake design and a variety of roles, from veil to silver, punch out snowflake shapes and paste them into gifts, ribbons and cards in a row or randomly. Even used the die cut to negative decorative bands around gift boxes, and the edges trimmed with decorative scissors.
Monograms Notes: The letters, the initials of delicious topping make the gift accents and can be shaped with wire or wires of different colors of beads.
Fabric remnants: Excellent for greater adjustment gifts, and to exhaust the fabrics that you know it will use in the next year or so. Take leftover fun fur to make a snowman to decorate a gift box bigger.
Hang-tags embellished with rub-on letters stickers, clip art, beads and photos of the gift recipient ornaments also make great gifts.
Get packing and gaskets happy!
Tips: For all the gifts wrapped with fabric, be sure to iron out any creases in the first place and wrap gifts as you would with paper wrapping. Use hot glue to secure the pleats in place of tape.
Variations: Other role of creative holiday gift include tea towels, tablecloths, textiles and wallpaper. Or you can choose to make the wrapping of the gifts using a variety of household and clothing items.
Senior Christmas tree decorations that you are no longer using ingredients also make fun gifts.
Do not be shy to use colors like green lime, hot pink, bright orange, purple, turquoise and vibrant blues, are very "in" and trendy colors this season.
Pretty packages can be integrate into your table decorations, to grace a mantel, or even used outdoors. Double up and use the card holders name.
MaddyLane Copyright © 2006 Designs
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About the Author
Madeleine has over 25 years design experience. She studied fashion merchandising and design. The fist part of her career was spent in the fashion industry designing ladies and children's wear to fashion accessories. Maddy then went on to design giftware products, Christmas decorations, packaging concepts as well as illustrating for Canadian companies. She has even published a bilingual children's book that she both wrote and illustrated. Maddy's designer talents, from fashion to decor and her love for crafts has directed her to produce and write “how-to” step-by-step décor articles. For the last five years, Madeleine has been creating innovative home decorative décor items for her weekly syndicated “make-it-yourself” Miy at home articles. Maddy work has is presently featured in Magazines and newspapers.
For more “Miy” articles and a more detailed artist bio, I invite you to visit my; www.maddylane.com
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