The Man of the Place and I are going camping this weekend to celebrate a number of family accomplishments, and we have gifts for several people, both birthday and graduation-type items.
I was all set to wrap them up today when I realized--all I had was Christmas wrapping paper!
Horrors!
We, unfortunately, have a great deal of Christmas wrapping paper; the MOTP got an entire case from his employer as severance when he was laid off at Christmas.
Waste not, want not, I thought.
With the help of the MOTP, I laid out a large sheet of the Christmas paper, printed side down, so that the white side was on top.
Then, I cracked open my Garden Whimsy set, handed him the Green Galore ink, opened the Brilliant Blue ink, and we just stamped the whole paper up randomly.
We ended up doing this three times in order to have enough paper to wrap all the gifts, and each piece was unique.
When we were finished, we simply wrapped up the gifts, stamped side out. Worked like a charm! And the cards that I made for each person heavily featured Garden Whimsy, coincidentally enough, so they all MATCH the paper.
How cool is that?
Try this the next time you're in a pinch! For that matter, you could easily adapt this to a kid project the next time they're bored. Just assign each child a color ink and a stamp, and let them stamp up the paper any way they want to. You'll have a stock of unique wrapping paper that shows off their talents.
1 comment:
So fun! Garden Whimsy is one of my favories, and surprisingly, I don't own it! Neat to have a picture!
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