Easy Valentine's Day Gift Wrapping

Happy Valentine's Day...

I love using wrapping paper to make coordinating tags. I especially like this gift because their was no waste! I used that extra piece of wrapping paper left after cutting it to the size of your gift, as the horizontal stripe and tag. I just used plain off-white paper behind it, tied with twine.

The best part is I bought the wrapping paper at the after CHRISTMAS sale for 90% off. That means the whole roll cost me $.29! Just thought I'd share that deal..

Total cost of wrapping this gift: $.10

A pattern, A solid, Ribbon, & stickers

The basics for card making:

Card stock base, a patterned piece of paper, and solid piece of paper, some ribbon, and stickers...

I found this alphabet 12 x 12 paper in my stash and I just decided to work with it...

I only used 1 piece of patterned and 1 piece of solid (not including the card bases).

Simple is always good. The bird sticker's image is strong enough to detract from the busy alphabet background.

I found this one harder to balance, enough pattern to solid -

I still think I need something next to the butterfly...

This was the first one I made..

I thought I was being clever cutting out the letters I needed to spell "THANKS".


A few easy tags with the left overs...

A few more tags with walnut spray..

I'm not very good with this stuff yet! It just looks dirty to me.

Making a simple Tag

I can't imagine anyone being intimidated by making a tag. But if you're one of them let me give you a quick and easy tag to start with....

In this case I started with a pre-made flimsy tag. Cut a scrap of coordinating brown card stock, cut a smaller square of white card stock - glued those two pieces together and punched a hole at the top. (The white paper is for the back to write to: and from: on) Found some 'matching' ribbon and double stick foam tape.

I'm cheap remember so I cut the foam dots in half and adhered them to either side of the pre-made tag. Flipped the brown card stock over to the front side and lined up the holes, centered, adhered. Then added the ribbon..

There you have it..a simple fast and easy tag.


Cost: Stash (scraps from it)