RECYCLED GIFTWRAP

Last week I needed to wrap up a birthday gift, but we had no wrapping paper anywhere!   It was my son’s 15th birthday and we had all bought him something weeks before but had left it to the last minute to wrap it.  Now here I was the night before, stores closed and only the brown paper we wrap our orders up in.  So with the help of my daughters and some paint we decorated the boring brown paper with colourful circles, using various circular things we found in the kitchen.

Things got a little messy, but we had a lot of fun.

It was an inexpensive way to make a unique giftwrap for my son’s presents.  To finish the look we added letter “J” gift tags tied on with string.

I also made up some bunting by stringing a bunch of paper triangles onto some embroidery thread and hung them around the kitchen to surprise him when he came down the next morning

Here’s a few of the colourful birthday cards he received this year, including the one we gave him in the centre.  Of course after this brown paper project we had to chose this one from our new RAINBOW range.  The other cards he received from his Aunts compliment it so well too.