Wrapping
I'm posting pics of my wrapped presents, pretty much just for Lefty and Mina. Mina, what'd you eventually decide to do for wrapping?
First I go through Arizona Highways and tear out all the full page photos that are either monochromatic or very pretty.
Then I generally do something like this. Um, the photo makes that lower left one look jarringly pink but I swear they're all red/purpleish sunsets.
I just decide my color and pattern, flip the pages over and tape the edges together from the back, and use it like regular wrapping paper. I generally use a combination of doublesided tape and postage tape - the doubleside makes a good quick hold for flipping a pattern over or fixing little edges, the postage tape gives a clearer, more solid hold than normal tape, which is important because magazine pages do not want to fold around things. It looks really nice if you cover the edges with ribbon.
On this one I needed a lot of pages, so I alternated red and green pages to make a Christmasy checkerboard. And then stuck a cutout flower on to balance it out because in the wrapping process the center pic got pulled a little to one side.
That's our tree! It's a cookie tray! :D The extended family isn't coming over this year so we're going low key. Mom made a pretty garland for the window, we spread our holiday cards around, and I brought up my immortal eyeless singing Santa stocking because it just doesn't feel like xmas without him. Last year was me and Helen hanging handmade and IKEA ornaments from our favorite tree (which was not even close to a pine tree), and coloring some toilet paper tubes to make a garland. I seem to be developing a trend...
This one is a really cool present inside so I felt like it needed extra special wrapping. I found a bunch of red/orange pages that had different textures (all things like sand dunes or rocks) and cut them into different sizes to make an uneven patchwork and then put a special page on top as the main image. I misjudged the size a little and couldn't do the usual triangle fold on the sides, so I had to do some creative taping and cutting to get it to hold, which resulted in the rougher edges. I actually kinda like the effect so I didn't tape everything down.
This was the toughest one by faaaaar. I was going on a theme that matches the present inside, and made a real collage out of it. It is very difficult to make a collage that's meant to wrap around something. o_0 This was my first time attempting this, I like the way it turned out but this is definitely a one-present-a-year kind of wrap.
TaDa!
First I go through Arizona Highways and tear out all the full page photos that are either monochromatic or very pretty.
Then I generally do something like this. Um, the photo makes that lower left one look jarringly pink but I swear they're all red/purpleish sunsets.
I just decide my color and pattern, flip the pages over and tape the edges together from the back, and use it like regular wrapping paper. I generally use a combination of doublesided tape and postage tape - the doubleside makes a good quick hold for flipping a pattern over or fixing little edges, the postage tape gives a clearer, more solid hold than normal tape, which is important because magazine pages do not want to fold around things. It looks really nice if you cover the edges with ribbon.
On this one I needed a lot of pages, so I alternated red and green pages to make a Christmasy checkerboard. And then stuck a cutout flower on to balance it out because in the wrapping process the center pic got pulled a little to one side.
That's our tree! It's a cookie tray! :D The extended family isn't coming over this year so we're going low key. Mom made a pretty garland for the window, we spread our holiday cards around, and I brought up my immortal eyeless singing Santa stocking because it just doesn't feel like xmas without him. Last year was me and Helen hanging handmade and IKEA ornaments from our favorite tree (which was not even close to a pine tree), and coloring some toilet paper tubes to make a garland. I seem to be developing a trend...
This one is a really cool present inside so I felt like it needed extra special wrapping. I found a bunch of red/orange pages that had different textures (all things like sand dunes or rocks) and cut them into different sizes to make an uneven patchwork and then put a special page on top as the main image. I misjudged the size a little and couldn't do the usual triangle fold on the sides, so I had to do some creative taping and cutting to get it to hold, which resulted in the rougher edges. I actually kinda like the effect so I didn't tape everything down.
This was the toughest one by faaaaar. I was going on a theme that matches the present inside, and made a real collage out of it. It is very difficult to make a collage that's meant to wrap around something. o_0 This was my first time attempting this, I like the way it turned out but this is definitely a one-present-a-year kind of wrap.
TaDa!