Making your own wrapping paper.

I placed the tissue paper onto a magnetic mat with the rougher side up and started with stencil number one and the colour dried marigold. I placed the little magnets against each side of the stencil to line every stencil up. I used little brushes to add the inks onto the paper. For the second stencil I used the colour carved pumpkin. The third stencil twisted citron, the fourth cracked pistachio and the fifth Spanish moss. Now one wreath is done and I moved the magnetic mat to make another wreath, I repeated this several times until I was satisfied with the amount of wreaths. 

At the end I saw I made one wreath too many so I cut one out of the paper and used it to make a gift tag. For the biggest gift tag I used watercolour paper because I wanted to ink smooch the background. I placed some twisted citron ink onto my glass mat and sprayed a little water over it, I took my tag and placed it on top of the ink and pressed it into the ink with my fingers. When you pick up your piece of paper you’ll see there’s a lovely smooch of ink on the paper. I dried it with my heat tool and did the exact same thing after it was dry but now i used dried marigold. The inks won’t mix but lay on top of each other. 

I cut out the wreath along the lines and cut it in three pieces. I placed them onto the tag, smooth side up, with modpodge and smeared modpodge over the wreath pieces too. When its dry it’s water resistant. After it was dry I added some Ranger ink tarnished brass coloured distress paint splatter and dried marigold distress oxide spray paint splatters. 

I wanted to add a sentiment but I didn’t want to place one over this big tag so I made another smaller tag and just added a sentiment on it. The sentiment stamps I used for this tag are from the Birthday Bouquet stampset. I used memento tuxedo black to stamp the sentiments and uni-ball signo pen in gold to colour some of the edges of the letters. 

Now everything is finished I can wrap up my gift with the tissue paper, smooth side up. If you want to have a white base for the tissue paper you can use normal wrapping paper inside out first. Adding the gifttags with a shiny thin piece of rope to the gift gives it an even more festive look.

There’s one downside about using tissue paper, it can’t get wet, because it’ll tear up very fast when it’s getting too wet. So be careful. 

I hope I inspired you with this blog and you’ll give it a try too! I wish you a wonderful weekend and hope to see you next Saturday for another blog.
~ Karin