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DIY gift wrap
Allexie
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Just had a 'lack of gift wrap' emergency.
*thinks thinks*
Found remains of a roll of lining paper. Watered down emulsion paint in contrasting colours + scrumpled up kitchen roll.
colour 1-> dab dab dab
colour 2-> dab dab dab
Result - yards of good quality paper with a nice 'marbled' effect. Might try various paint effects now such as rag-rolling, stencils, feathering, stamps (well potato prints or I might attack one of those green scoury-things)
Hmm...Xmas wrapping paper...Xmas tree prints...oooh I can feel a whole new hobby coming on...
*thinks thinks*
Found remains of a roll of lining paper. Watered down emulsion paint in contrasting colours + scrumpled up kitchen roll.
colour 1-> dab dab dab
colour 2-> dab dab dab
Result - yards of good quality paper with a nice 'marbled' effect. Might try various paint effects now such as rag-rolling, stencils, feathering, stamps (well potato prints or I might attack one of those green scoury-things)
Hmm...Xmas wrapping paper...Xmas tree prints...oooh I can feel a whole new hobby coming on...
♥♥♥ Genius - 1% inspiration and 99% doing what your mother told you. ♥♥♥
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my kids make there own like this. they do prints off some stamps i have of xmassy thigs on brown paper. always looks quite good.0
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where do you get the stamps from, 160, please?
(Hate calling you by a number...makes you sound like a prisoner!
) ♥♥♥ Genius - 1% inspiration and 99% doing what your mother told you. ♥♥♥0 -
i got them a couple of years ago in my local craft shop (in the sale after xmas so they were cheaper). ;D0
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You could also use Christmas shape punches on coloured paper - like say,a christmas tree, using green, then stick all the shapes onto the wrap.
We've done this with a snowflake punch and white & light blue shimmery paper and also black paper and a spider punch, sticking the shapes onto orange crepe paper( for Halloween).0 -
you could always marbelise the lining paper dead easy, I did it once in a moment of "craftyness" and it turned out great, i just used emulsion paints I had in the shed.
it was for drawer linings if I remember rightly
but it would work great on wrapping paper lining paper you can get for 99p a roll. so how cheap is that???
good idea Allexie ;D
http://www.preservedgardens.com/projects/marblepaper.htm0 -
Excellent ideas here - I suppose if you didn't have any Christmas stamps you could do some sponge prints, buy some cheap bathroom sponges and cut out shapes (stars, Xmas trees etc) and then print those onto the lining paper.
Oh I sense a craft day looming soon!0 -
never thought of using sponges, thanks yoga girl0
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last year our scouts sold us a strip of postage stamps theyd printed for £1 for 24 and we posted the cards in their special box in the village and they delivered the cards to local addresses look out for yours doing the same0
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bet the service was better too!!last year our scouts sold us a strip of postage stamps theyd printed for £1 for 24 and we posted the cards in their special box in the village and they delivered the cards to local addresses look out for yours doing the same0
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last year our scouts sold us a strip of postage stamps theyd printed for £1 for 24 and we posted the cards in their special box in the village and they delivered the cards to local addresses look out for yours doing the same
awww...wht a nice idea...wish I lived in a village :-X♥♥♥ Genius - 1% inspiration and 99% doing what your mother told you. ♥♥♥0
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