One of my favourite parts of the holidays is decorating.. if you haven't noticed!! I've got more ways to pretty up your place - even your work place. The first thing on my list is felt ornaments. I love making them - they are quick, easy and cute.
For this ornament you need two felt circles, a die-cut or punched shape, a button, and thread. Make sure you sew on your button and punch out first (you can use glue to adhere the shape). Next put your ribbon inside, you can use a glue dot or two to hold it in place and then stitch both circles together.
For the paper ornament I used a leftover journaling shape and instead of two felt circles I just used one. Once I stitched it together I punched a hole and threaded it with ribbon. These ornaments are great especially if you have little ones that like to touch and grab everything.
Next up some gift wrap options! With all the paper and consumption during the holidays it's hard to do your part. Especially for me - I LOVE to wrap things but this year we're making an effort to do much better. One thing you could do is make your own gift wrap. All you need is old papers you want to get rid of. They could be old text book pages, newspaper, instruction manuals, phone books, pamphlets - the opportunities are endless. Aside from the base you need a few stamps, some ink and a bit of time.
You can make your wrapping paper as complicated or a simple as you like - it's a great way to practice your stamping.
Make sure before you get out your paper and stamps that you measure your gift and get the right sized paper. Newspaper is sometimes the best option! Finish it off with some ribbon and a tag and you're good to go.
At our house this year, in an effort to reduce all the wasted paper we are using some old cardboard boxes from Costco. I wraped them up pretty and tied them with bows.
They sit hollow side down so that we can pop our unwrapped presents underneath them. The best part is that it looks like we always have gifts under the tree! I'm sure if you have little one's it's not as exciting - part of the fun is unwrapping gifts - I agree!
Happy friday - the last friday before Christmas!!!
-Ashley
