Half the joy of gift giving for me is in the wrapping, I love that the present giving starts with when the receiver claps their eyes on my gift. I’m by no means a ninja wrapper, my tape isn’t always straight and my corners could do with sharpening but I always put love into my gift wrapping.
Each Christmas I go with a colour theme and its NEVER traditional Christmas colours as my mister is red/green colour blind. For him traditional christmas colours just look browny grey…bleh! We always have colour and lots of it, sometimes pastel mostly bold and hot pink always features (did I tell you I have no daughters LOL). Seeing gifts wrapped in a theme en masse under a tree has impact, I just love it!
This year I went with a never fail favourite using brown paper, my theme started with the tags. I found these tags made by a local Adelaide artist Rhi Creative and just had to grab some ( I need more!). I’m such a fan of neon, can’t help it, neon featured heavily in my teenage years and supporting local artists is just so good for the economy.
It’s not necessary to spend a gazillion dollars on gift wrap, most of my goodies came from TYPO with a few things like cellophane and brown paper from the reject shop. This year I had some fun with ‘washi tape’, I have no idea why they call it that but I like it. This tape is removable so if you stuff up you can lift and re stick! I also stumbled on some crazy animal print sticky tape from K mart ($2 per roll!) which is great for covering seams on wrapping and I know the little girls who will be opening these gifts will go cray cray for it.
Sometimes we want to give a token gift (like to your hairdresser or barista) and a tub of chocolates is always great but this year I added a rolled up funky tea towel tied with jute. They can use them in the kitchen or frame them as wall art, it just takes a basic present up a notch and doesn’t break the budget.
There you have it, I’ve made a start on the Christmas gifts, it feels good and I know it will keep the anxiety monster at bay in a few weeks when life is crazy hectic. Don’t over think your wrapping theme, just choose a few colours and go for it. The intention is far more important than perfection, I know I’d far prefer a gift wrapped with personality and love than perfect corners.
What’s your favourite Christmas wrap colour combo?
Shannon says
November 26, 2014 at 5:12 pmLove it Jenni, I would actually like to turn your colour theme in to a dress and wear it! The neon will look fabulous under the tree. When you put your tree up make sure you show us the finished product. Xx
Jenni says
November 26, 2014 at 5:16 pmThanks Shannon, I’d put an order in for that dress 🙂 hoping to put tree up this weekend x
Teresa says
November 26, 2014 at 5:12 pmLove all of what you have put together and your colour choices,looks fantaastic!!The word decorating and i do not go together and therefore i do not enjoy wrapping presents.I absolutely LOVE giving gifts though and take plenty of time in selecting what to give.I have been blessed with a daughter who is very talented with craft work and makes amazing cards.She is currently making about 100 Tictac Xmas boxes with tictac of course inside to give out to Family. :-)I hand over the money she hands over the goodies haha.
Merry Christmas fun to you with your decorating xo
Jenni says
November 26, 2014 at 5:17 pmNot everyone loves crafting or decorating Teresa, that’s ok 🙂 lucky for you that you made a clever daughter 🙂
Bec @ Styled by Bec says
November 27, 2014 at 6:56 amLove the colours. I’m also using brown paper and I bought pink, silver and gold dots to stick on the paper. It’s kind of tedious sticking the stickers on the paper, so I’m gonna wrap the presents and then get my 4 year old to put the stickers on. Love the tea towel idea with some choccies.
Jenni says
November 27, 2014 at 8:23 amSound gorgeous Bec and a great way to get your four year old to participate. I’m on the hunt for gold dots.