cute packaging...

my friend cara celebrated her birthday on tuesday... today, we got together for a fiesta of a lunch at tequila jalisco to celebrate the occasion...

 

 i knew that i wanted to take her a little gift... i found the perfect alex and ani bracelet for her and  also tucked in a small pumpkin frost hand sanitizer {or... hanitizer as my marina has always called it!} because... tis the season...

 

i'm pretty sure that i've said this before, but i love wrapping up presents... it's one of my favorite things to do...

 

i gathered some supplies... rubber stamps, a manila tag, a bit of lace and trim, a brown paper lunch bag, yarns, cotton twine, cupcake liners, a mini clothespin... not really knowing what i was going to do yet... and mainly focusing on colors...



i trimmed a paper bag down with pinking shears and used the part that i cut off to make a band around the bracelet box... i secured it with a bit of washi tape and added a chipboard present embellishment... i tied the box up with a mix of yarn and cotton twine... {forgot to take a pic of that part... oopsie!}

 

for the hanitizer... i needed something cute to package up the little bottle... a glassine bag would have been perfect but i was fresh out of those... i started looking around and saw my stack of cupcake liners... i was immediately inspired by jessica at two shades of pink... i was recently reading her blog and she made the cutest, little pouches from cupcake liners to hold cookies... i made it work for the hanitizer...

i placed the wrapped bracelet and little pouch above into the brown paper bag, folded it down, hole punched the top and tied it up with more yarn and cotton twine... i like to mix textures and colors for interest...

hand stamping tags with the person's name adds a nice touch... i sewed a strip of lace and a bit of trim that i had removed from the sleeves of one of maizie's baby lulu dresses from years ago... used a tiny clothespin to clip it on and wall-ah... it was done!

 

next time you need to wrap, remember to look around for things you may already have, brown or white lunch bags, cute tags can easily be made from card stock cut and hole punched... if you're unable to sew... a hot glue gun will do the trick for adding the embellishments along tags, etc... it's always fun to collect different alphabet stamps and have an ink pad on hand... lately, target has had them in their dollar bins for as low as $3 for the set...

 

happy wrapping!

xo

angie