To be honest I don't really go to town with wrapping, it seems a bit of a waste to me, and I certainly hate to see all those recycling bins overflowing with the detritus of Christmas on the first collection day after the festivities. So every year I like to reuse paper I've collected from parcels and packing. There was a long length of crumpled brown paper in one parcel I received sometime in the last 12 months and I remember smoothing it out and rolling it up for just this moment. It was easy to turn it into Christmas wrap with a small reindeer stamped randomly all over in chocolate brown. And garden raffia to tie it up just seemed right. My simple office stationery tags finished off the the home made look I think. I even reused one of those board backed envelopes in the same way for one gift - can't say what it was but it was flat and had 12 pages!!! ;o)
Stamps: Folk Art Christmas Additions and Twas the Night Before Christmas from Waltzingmouse Stamps
Lovely! Like you I hate to see all that paper wasted and think of all the trees cut down to make it so your idea is great and very attractive too. Happy Christmas!
ReplyDeleteMe too i keep papers to reuse.. Take care!
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