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6 fun gift wrap ideas for Christmas

6 fun gift wrap ideas for Christmas

My post featuring 5 easy gift wrap ideas for kids’ presents is one of my most popular, so I thought it would be fun to do a Christmas gift wrap version for the holidays. If, like us, you have a habit of finding yourself doing lastminute wrapping on Christmas Eve, and you run out of decent wrapping paper.. don’t panic! All you really need for these Christmas gift wrap ideas is a roll of brown paper, some white paper or card, some string and a black Sharpie. Simple, and inexpensive! 1. Car and tree A present version of the old…

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5 festive parcel tag ideas

5 festive parcel tag ideas

Yesterday I shared my Christmas crafting table top for Teri from The Lovely Drawer’s 12 Styled Days of Christmas series, and I promised you’d be able to see the results of my crafternoon. This crafting session was all about giving the humble parcel tag a makeover, and I’ve come up with five different ways you can spruce up your tags using really simple materials. [Blanket stitched edging] I’ve given the tag on the top left an update with blanket stitching all around the edge using black embroidery thread (here’s a tutorial I recommend if you don’t know how to do…

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