Pink and green dots are pretty holly jolly, don’t you think? I picked up this festive fabric at Jo-Ann’s a while back and thought it might make the perfect wrapping for some of our more girlie gifts this year. It was on super duper sale (yahoo!), so for less than a roll of paper, I took home enough fabric to wrap a half dozen small packages.
According to the Clean Air Council, every year wrapping paper, gift bags and shopping bags account for an additional 4 million tons of waste entering U.S. landfills. Eep! As a present to the planet, why not try going the eco-friendly, reusable route for some of your gifts? I used scrap fabric for ours, but a cloth napkin, scarf or even an old T-shirt would do the trick, too. Just don’t forget to finish it off with a big sparkly ribbon for that added Christmas panache. I’m always a sucker for a big pink bow.
What you’ll need:
• piece of fabric, large enough to cover gift
• safety pins
• matching ribbon
How to do it:
Wrap gift as you would with standard wrapping paper, and secure in place with safety pins. For added flair, tie an oversized bow in matching ribbon on top of the finished package.
Woo hoo for earth-friendly packages! Happy wrapping!
XO,
Katrina
This is my favorite week on your blog!!! I need to get in the holiday spirit and you’re just what I needed:)
I’m sending holiday cheer your way! Only 12 days until Christmas! Woo hoo!!!
I like your thinking! I bet you could even make your cute twine-button-bow reusable too! I also like the idea of wrapping boxes – the base and the lid wrapped separately, secured with a pretty ribbon tied around it – and reusing them the next years. Bags are good too to reuse, but tempting to peak into… ;^)
I love the boxes idea! Wrapping the tops and the bottoms separately is pretty genius. And it would look like all the fancy dancy packages in the movies! Score!
I have to say loving the pink – thinking outside the box there – ha!
Har har. Too funny!
Those are so beautiful. And i completely agree. All year I save the Funnies from the sunday newspaper and wrap my gifts in those! with a bow! But yours look stunning! c
Thanks! I love presents wrapped in the funnies, too! There’s something so perfectly Christmas about it. 🙂
Happy wrapping to you. too!
Thanks!
Most wrapping paper can be recycled, just FYI 🙂
Very true. Thanks for the tip!
I love your wrapping week posts! This year, we’ve decided to go eco-friendly too. We used our old magazines to wrap our presents. I love the December issues because there’s just a lot of Christmas-themed pages and colorful ones that you could use. 🙂 I’m yet to finish up with the wrapping though. Happy wrapping to us! Merry Christmas! 🙂
That’s such a great idea to use the Christmas-themed pages as wrapping! I might have to try that out next year. What a great use for all those December issues!
I like the idea of using safety pins to secure the fabric. Now that you’ve mentioned it, it seems the obvious solution… but until you mentioned it, I had no idea how to effectively wrap in fabric! Thanks!
Glad to help solve the fabric-securing dilemma! 🙂 I’ve tried securing the fabric with tape, but the safety pins are definitely a stronger hold.