handmade christmas gift wrap...

hello! hello! and HAPPY hip hop thursday!

i REALLY hope you have had a FANTASTIC week - isn't this time of year just CRAZY busy!?!?  i've had lots of fun crafting and coming up with handmade gifts for everyone this year {however, i think my niece & 2 nephews will be getting a little of both!} so in preparing for the holidays i decided to create some HANDMADE GARLAND and use it as an embellishment for my GIFT WRAPPING!  so i decided to show you some EASY PEASY gift wrapping using your {ippity} by unity stamps!

BUT first...DID YOU START at the UNITY BLOG????  be sure to head back that way if you didn't...we have TONS {as in THIRTEEN} NEW releases today and they are absolutely GORGEOUS....AND as a release week special we are offering them all for just $19.99!!

to create my gift wrap i used kraft paper that i had purchased at the dollar store {i LOVE a good deal!} BUT you could also always use your unity/ippity kraft packaging paper that we wrap all of our product in! i stamped the music notes from music of my heart randomly {think of ALL the cute ippity stamps you could use for this!!}...i actually wrapped the gift and then used my tim holtz distress ink to give it more of a vintage feel. EASY, huh!

then i created this tag using the ticket from here and now.  i actually used one of my american crafts stamp markers so that i could just ink up the parts that i wanted to stamp {i omitted a few words and the 5} and then put my CHRISTMAS SPIN on this ticket to create the PERFECT GIFT TAG.

i had a BLAST making this garland and already have started some more strings of it.  i will share once i find the time to snap a photo or two! :)

LOOK i used that music background on my garland TOO!  i just can't seem to get enough of that stamp!

also...DID YOU KNOW? that you can just sew NOTHING and it creates this awesome twine look...YEP, you can. 

i created this garland by first cutting all of my felt circles using my cuddle bug so that they are perfect circles. i then created my smaller circles by stamping the music note background, distressing the paper, and then punching small circles.  THEN i went to my sewing machine and started sewing...you sew through the circle...and then just KEEP ON GOING to get this twine look - every so often i stuck another felt of paper circle in there to get the garland look - no rhyme or reason just whenever i felt like it needed one.

you should give it a try...i think you'll have FUN with it...

AND if you do, please share your photo's with me. i would LOVE to see what you create!

remember you can get ANY of the kits that i used to create these projects from an

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okay...i guess i am pretty CHATTY today, huh! :)

so i better GET YOU MOVING...

NEXT UP is our FABULOUS FULL of ENERGY girl

ANGIE!