Last week I flew down to Sydney to have lunch with a few lovely people that read this blog. I’ll be writing about it a bit tomorrow, so I won’t share too much. But I’ve had lots of emails since I shared a photo of the gifts I gave each person in my newsletter and I thought it might be fun to share how I made the wrap.
I love to wrap, and Hubby always likes to give me a hard time because ‘Who has time to wrap? And does anyone really care about it anyway?’ I don’t know. But I know I appreciate it. Boys just don’t get it, do they?
Each gift had the same thing inside, a Kikki-K photo album and a box of Max Brenner chocolates, but I wanted the outside wrapping to be a little bit different for each.
All were wrapped in brown paper packaging which I then decorated {details below}. The little box of chocolates were wrapped in HiPP paper {my favourite wrapping paper – you might recognise some of them from my Instagram photos, I use it as backgrounds now and then}, some neon pink string and a little camera that flashes and makes noises. I added the camera because the lunch was hosted by Olympus, and we were talking about photography… so it kinda made sense. Each gift had a different polaroid {from Typo} and a little card name tag.
I used a different shape and colour sticker for each gift. For some I had huge gold polka dots {that are meant for wall decals} that were from Papier D’Amour. And the others all had stickers from Blank. I used little dots and triangles.
Here are some other presents I made this week for my blogging friends. I might be slightly addicted.
I love this – so simple to do but so different. I’m definitely going to remember to do this next time. I often use brown paper and end up drawing things on it…but stickers are so much easier! 🙂
I love this, they look so great! You’ve inspired me….wrapping something up like this would make me feel enormously creative LOL….because I’m usually rubbish at this.
What a fun lunch you must have had 🙂
PS Hope the night-time sleeping is still going well 🙂
This is beautiful wrapping. Thanks for the ideas & inspiration x
I love wrapping, especially when it looks this good. I love seeing what’s inside too! Such great ideas – so simple but so pretty. How about wrapping for the festive season? Do you still make your own? This will go down in history as the most artfully wrapped gift I have ever received. FYI – those chocolates were the bomb!
Such cuteness! I wrap all my presents in Ikea plain or white paper. Simple and effective. One Christmas I stamped an entire roll of the stuff. Clearly that was the year of the craftiness or something. BUT I love, love the idea of adding stickers for colour and way more fun. You’re right, boys don’t get it. Some fo them anyway. I think this means it’s time to update my sticker collection. I’ve been looking for an excuse.
The wrapping is sooooo important, it builds the anticipation of what’s inside! Thanks for sharing xx
I love wrapping beautiful presents, my Mum used to get me to wrap all her Christmas presents years ago (not my own 😛 ). Love your styling here – I’m a big fan of the Typo polaroids too ~ I let my daughter choose a new one occasionally to use as a bookmark when we’re reading chapter books 🙂
I love pretty wrapping and what a great idea how on to decorate brown papers!
OMG! I was wondering why we had lots of orders for stickers!! Woo hop! Thanks so much Chantelle for sharing! Your gift packaging looks beautiful! xx
Oh sweet! Thanks for sharing on Instagram too. xx
I used to spend hours (actually I mean days) wrapping Christmas presents. One year I made paper roses and stuck them onto parcels wrapped in the Financial Times (pink) with gold ribbon.
Nowadays I seem to fling things into wrap but you’ve reminded me how much I loved the creative process. Beautiful and thoughtful.
wow… this beautiful. Im no DIY person at all, but im trying to lately and this is just perfect. and yes, boys don’t understand this at all.