How are your Christmas preparations coming? Finished shopping and ready to wrap some gifts?! I love wrapping Christmas gifts, and I love using unexpected elements to glam them up a bit.
Today my Junk Visionary friends and I are bringing you our posts about how we used vintage or unexpected elements to wrap Christmas gifts. I love this kind of challenge because I love wrapping gifts. Sometimes it doesn’t really LOOK like I love to wrap gifts because I get so busy I don’t have time to wrap till last minute but I love detailing gifts and making them look fun.
I used the heavy cardstock-ish paper that was used on the inside of a roll of wrapping paper to keep it stiff AS my wrapping paper! I’d kept the heavy paper because it just seemed like something that needed to be on hand for a craft idea instead of just tossed in the trash.
You can get the same look with a roll of craft paper you can buy at a craft store.
After I wrapped the gift I gathered up a few items I had around. I have this tub I stash stuff in all year long that I think would be fun to use for gift wrap.
I knew I wanted to use the birchbark ribbon I’ve had for a couple years. I hoarded it for awhile, not sure what I wanted to use it for, but decided it was high time I used it. While I was digging for it I found this vintage, oval-shaped embroidery hoop and a pack of vintage bottle brush trees I bought right after Christmas last year.
The black and red check ribbon I bought at Hobby Lobby this year.
I cut a length of the birchbark ribbon and wrapped it around the gift, securing it with tape on the bottom side.
Then I took the embroidery hoop apart and just used one half of it. I decided to secure it to the gift using the checked ribbon. I wrapped it around the gift twice, the first time it went under one edge and over the other of the embroidery hoop, and the second time it went under the edge that I’d gone over the first time and vice versa. Make sense? The photo shows what I mean!
After the embroidery hoop was secured I added a bottle brush tree. I tied it to the checked ribbon using baker’s twine and then covered the spot where it was tied with a piece of checked ribbon tied loosely around the tree. Voila. Done. Unique and unexpected elements used to wrap a Christmas gift!
I used another bit of checked ribbon to tie a glittered wood gift tag to the hoop. And now it sits beneath the tree awaiting Christmas 🙂
I have a few other gifts wrapped and tucked beneath the tree with this gift. I didn’t want it to feel lonely! And you get a peek at my tree this year! I have a bit of a home tour coming up for you very soon so come back and check it out!
Don’t forget to visit my friends and see what they used to wrap their gifts!
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Here is another post from another Christmas when I used some unusual and unexpected elements to wrap a gift!
Very Cute and cleaver Jill Your tree is just beautiful!
Thanks Tammy! I love my tree so much!
I love dressing my packages up and this is great. So cute. Love that reindeer pillow I spy on your sofa. Cathy
Thanks Cathy! I loved how the reindeer pillow looked too – it was one I needed to package up and ship out but it was so cute there I used it for my photo shoot before sending it to its new home!
What a neat idea! I would love to receive such a beautiful gift, and your white tree is gorgeous.
Thanks so much Carrie! The gift is for my sister and I hope she loves the packaging as much as the gift!
Jill this is so unique! Love the addition to the bottle brush and your Christmas Tree is AMAZING!!!!
Thanks sara – I’m quite happy with my vintage white Christmas tree – I just got it this year and I love it!
Bottle brush trees are my favorite so you had me right there…..you created such a lovely embellishment with stuff you already had! And your tree/living room looks gorgeous! xoKathleen Charm Bracelet Diva {At Home}
I love pulling things out of my stash and seeing what happens when I put it all together 😉
Oh my goodness Jill, I just LOVE your wrapping idea! Your photos are definitely magazine worthy!;o)
Ahh, thanks Lucy, you are so sweet! I had a ton of fun putting this wrapping idea together!