With our desire to be
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Inexpensive Gift Wrap
My husband and I try to get the most for our dollar (or penny...) and that's a part of the reason we choose to give (mostly) homemade gifts... plus, I LOVE making things. Win, win.
With our desire to becheap frugal I didn't want to buy any gift wrap stuff this year. We used what we had... and what we had: brown wrapping paper.
For this first gift I made the gift bow from a magazine page. Pretty cute huh? You can find the tutorial here (except I used wayyyyy less glue dots/tape and more staples).
And for this one (which is for a girl) I used some tulle and one of my crocheted hair bows as the topper. Cute and reusable (the bow part). Find my tutorial for the crocheted hair bow here.
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That is a super cute bow made out of a magazine page. I really like it! Also, fun that you have found so many places to link up to...I've been following in your footsteps over on FloralShowers. Seems like there is a new one every day! Awesome find! =)
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(Is there any way you can add a Name/URL option on your comments? I can't link up to floralshowers...or maybe I can and I'm just lame and don't know how?)
Cute ideas, Jess. I am a big one for reusing things. I keep every bit of ribbon and scraps of paper for using to make greeting cards.
ReplyDeleteWhat cute ideas. I think homemade always looks better than bought you know someone has put love into the gift.
ReplyDeleteI love the magazine bow! And the crocheted one, for that matter.
ReplyDeletevery cute!
ReplyDeleteI like your idea! Although it's inexpensive or cost nothing, it really looks great! I like the way you use magazine to tie as a bow. really cool.
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