santa’s elves II

Last year I forged a strong connection with a simple style of gift wrapping, so this year I’m continuing the theme, but taking it a step greener.  I’m using mostly recycled papers and boxes for my wrapping materials.

I started by making a bow out of strips cut from assorted old maps.  This one’s for my mommy and I hope she loves it!

I used a snippet of envelope lining for the gift tag.

Many of my gifts this year are very small items, so I used my favorite folded envelope style wrapping and garnished each package with a vintage button.

These envelopes are made from a standard brown paper grocery bag and a large white envelope (used, of course).  The sturdiness of both paper sources makes them excellent choices for this re-purposing effort.

I liked the bottle-green button color with the brown paper.

Instead of wrapping gift boxes, I chose to highlight each plain white box with a simple adornment.  The embellishment below is made by threading 10-12 fabric circles onto a strand of ribbon.

I used a white packing box (below) as a gift box and adorned it simply with a band of brown paper layered beneath a band of map paper and finished with a string tie and plain white button.

Of course, this box (below) needed to be wrapped to keep the contents a secret.  I used paper circles (from a security envelope) threaded on cotton string as the adornment, similar to the one above it.

Santa still has a few more gifts to buy and to wrap.  But it is one of my favorite chores of the year!  Sending warm holiday cheer 🙂  Thank you so much for dropping by.

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