i absolutely loathe going through the stores this time of year & seeing boxes upon boxes and armfuls upon armfuls of christmas wrapping. oh yes i agree, the pretty colours are delightful but seeing the pile of 'pretty' paper crunched into a giant ball & tossed into the recycling on christmas day is devastating.
i am the other extreme & all presents are wrapped in newspaper with pretty raffia & a gift tag cut from an old cereal box. i personally think it looks very attractive in a a very simple sort of way. you could however stamp the black & white newspaper with bright red christmas trees & decorate your gift tags with smaller stamps or drawings to liven things up a bit. last year we even made salt dough ornaments which we painted & used as decorations on the pressies...very cute.
so i urge you to steer away from the glossy, pretty, colourful christmas wrapping & get creative with newspaper or the tissue paper that they often wrap ladies clothing in. if you're concerned about how the recipient will take it...not a worry, it'll all be unwrapped in 2 seconds flat anyway. we have now reached a point where our recipients are more enthralled by what section of newspaper their present is wrapped in.
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