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How To Tie A Gift with Only a Ribbon Slide

This has got to be the slickest, easiest tricks for making a pretty gift bow! You will need a ribbon slide, ribbon or a strip of fabric and a gift. If using fabric, your gift can't be huge, or your fabric won't be long enough, but for something the size of a book, DVD, etc, you'll have plenty.

I used our Cheer Ribbon slides and a 2" strip of fabric from our Dear Mr. Claus collection, but I can't tell you what I used for the gift. 

Start by laying your ribbon or fabric, face down and placing your gift toward one end face up. Thread the short end through both openings on the slide.

Now, loosen the threading so that you have space between the two openings of the slide. We are going to take our long end of the fabric down through that space. Just to be clear, or try to be anyway, you are looking at the front of the package, the slide is folded back toward the right so that you can see the backside of it. The fabric has been loosened and the other end is coming around and down through the little space we made when we loosened the slide.

When we fold the slide back over and pull everything tight, our gift is well on its way to being beautified.

Working with the long end of fabric still, bring it around the backside of the gift, over the top and down the front until it meets the slide again. This time, we will take the end of our fabric strip and thread it through the LEFT side only of the slide. You will have to fold the slide back again to do this. Hopefully the picture helps you see what I'm doing.

Pull everything tight and trim your ends. The backside of your gift will be nice and flat.

The front side of your gift will be lovely, having two flairing fabric accents to the left.

If you are decide to use different slides or ribbon, you will need to experiment a little on what it takes to get the right amount of pressure to hold the slide tightly. 

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8 Techniques for Gift Wrapping with Kraft

Welcome Pinterest fans!

I love packages wrapped in Kraft paper. For my kids, I must choose something bright and whimsical, but for my friends this the look! There's something so beautiful about the simple, drab brown color when it is dressed up for the holidays.

Here are 8 different techniques to use when you wrap up your own packages.


1 Use our new Gluber Strips to make ruffles from tissue paper. I used an old sewing pattern, which I think is lovely with the kraft paper. I wrapped over the center of the ruffle with heavy twine. In fact it was too thick to thread through my buttons.....

2 Split the ends of the twin, thread one half through each of the button holes and then knot. It made fun little bobble ends. (I used our Cheer Wooden Buttons.)


3 Stamping. I used dark brown ink paired with our Jolly Days stamps for with all my packages, but white, dark red, gold and dark green ink are all beautiful on kraft. As is obvious in the above photo, I worry little about making a perfect impression. I like stamping to look hand-done.

I think you could make lovely packages with just stamping alone, but I usually combine it with other techniques like number

4 Thread your buttons on the string you're tying your package with (with bigger packages, you can use buttons to make a garland or bunting effect).



To add a little holiday bling, try

5 Coating Glubers with glitter. The Gluber strips make lovely glittered ribbons to hang button ornaments, while the circles are fun for polka dots or snowman building. We thought placing the twine so that it could double as the snowman's scarf was clever!



6 Ribbon slides are one of my favorite ways to wrap things up and make our list at technique. You can thread them with fabric, ribbon or even tissue paper. 



7 Coil your twine onto a Gluber. I went from the outside in, but I think one could go either way depending on your outie to innie preference. A simple Cheer Canvas brad in the center completes the look. (And yes, that is my FAVORITE stamp!)



We can't do a post using this many  Glubers and not have some flowers made with them, can we. I think not!

8 Ruffle some tissue paper, I'm using sewing pattern paper again, from the outside in to make a pretty gift topper for technique number. Place your Cheer Canvas brad through the center and stick the whole thing to your gift. 



9 (I know I said eight, this is a Holiday surprise!) combine our twine Gluber technique with our glittered Gluber tecnhique. The floating polka dots look like the kraft was torn and rolled back to reveal sparkle goodness underneath. To get the effect, just place your Glubers as desired, press twine around the edge and then fill the inside with glitter. For the glittery garland, cut some glubers in half and follow the same steps. 

I think I could add even one more tip to round it out.

10 is especially if you have little elves helping you with your wrapping. Consider a couple valium, maybe a strong drink or two and some holiday music. That way when one child knocks over the glitter and another child sits on a gluber, you won't mind so much. It will all just be sweet holiday memories!

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If you loved this post as much as the rest of Pinterest gift wrappers seem too, share it with your friends. It's like a gift you don't even have to wrap in order to give!!

 

$100 Gelaskins Gift Giveaway

I just got an email from a dear friend at Gelaskins. There latest cool thing is Cosmo Cricket art printed on a stretched canvas. I think I need to get one or two of these for myself and maybe a couple as gifts too.

Sea Garden would be perfect for Abby's bright bedroom. I just love this pattern and think it must be awesome bigger and with the canvas texture.

I think Kate would prefer Rose. She likes all things flowery and girly.

And of course, they still have our patterns for all your favorite electronics!




Gelaskins is so nice and so generous, that they are offering one lucky fan a $100 gift certificate. I think that means you could get something for yourself and someone on your gift list! Leave a comment today to enter yourself.

And for those of you that prefer not wait to see if you won, they have free shipping for the next 5 days. Since we moved to Texas, I now realize just what a great perk that is!

Good luck everyone. We'll announce our winner Monday morning. Thanks!