Hello Friends!  I hope this finds you having a great Monday and that you had an awesome weekend!  My weekend was jammed pack full of fun.  We had a Christmas gathering every night.  Just had a wonderful time this weekend.

Saturday evening we had couples over for dinner.  My husband and I are in a group that gets together for dinner once a month.  We take turns hosting at each other’s homes.  It was our month to host.  It was such a great time.  Love our sweet friends!  The reason I am telling you about us being in a group pertains to my blog today.  Today I want to share with you how I wrapped our sweet friend’s gifts.  Now that the night is over, I think it is safe to share with you what their gifts were.

First let me show you their gifts and then I will show you how I put the gifts all together.

I don’t know what you think, but I think they turned out really cute.

Here is what I gathered to wrap these three gifts.

Crazy right?  Let me just show you one gift and each item I used step by step.

I found these cute little monogram cheese trays at Kirkland’s.  I took the twine and tag off of them.  I kept the items to the side to use later.

I attached with tape to the tray a box of turtles and a cute little wine stopper.  The snowflake is a battery operated LED light.  I found those at a place called Tuesday Mornings.

It looked a little plain to me so I wanted to add just a little color.

I re-purpose a few things, because you know me….I don’t like to throw anything away.

Remember friends (you that follow me on my Facebook page) the bow ornaments from The Dollar Tree I used for my DIY snowman globe?  (If you want to see how I made the snowman globe you can go HERE.  I have a closed group (request to be my friend and I will add you to this group) on my page that I shared several little DIY for Christmas).  I took one of the bows apart keeping the wire and greenery.  I didn’t want to use the ribbon it came with so I made my own.

The bow I purchased at The Dollar Tree

The parts of the bow that I will be using

Measured out my ribbon with the ribbon from the bow

Fished tailed the ends

Making a criss-cross bow

pinching the center

placing the wire from the bow to the pinched center of the bow

securing the wire

Taking the greenery and berries from the old bow

placing hot glue to the center of the bow

placing the greenery to the hot glue on the bow

I added some crinkled paper to each side of the handles and hot glued the bow to the wine stopper package.

I used a shrink wrap bag, but not the way it was meant to be used.  I did not want it to be placed in a bag.  I purchased the shrink wrap at The Dollar Tree and cut the bag in half.  I can now use the one bag for two gifts.  Here is how I wrapped the gift with shrink wrap.

placed the shrink wrap over the top of the gift

cut some of the bulk off

taped the shrink wrap to the bottom. (making sure there were no wrinkles)

took the blow dryer and let the heat do the work

This is what it looked like afterwards.

Now I took the tag that came off the cheese board and removed the string.  I set it to the side.

I made a monogram tag to place on the package.  This is how I did that.

I used a piece of scrap paper – cardboard letter – pen – ruler – hole punch – scissors that cuts corners into a curve shape

I cut a rectangle out of the scrap paper

using the corner scissors to all 4 corners

the shape I wanted

I punched a hole with the hole punch through the letter and the DIY tag

I made sure the holes are lined up

I took the tag string and attached it to the tag

I sat that aside.   I wrapped twine around the package.  Just wrapping it around the left side of the package.

The string on the tag was a little too long so I tied it shorter and cut off the excess.  I took the twine on the package and thread it through the tag string.

I grabbed the rope twine that came with the cheese tray, a piece of ribbon and a piece of floral wire.

I took the rope twine that came with the cheese tray

I made a loop bow with it

I cut a piece of ribbon and fish tailed the ends. I placed it on top of the rope bow

I used a piece of floral wire and tie both together in the center

I placed it on top of the package where I placed the DIY tag

I used the twine and tied it to the package

I took an old piece of a pick that I used all the embellishments for another DIY and another one of the Dollar Tree bow ornament and finished the bow of the package.

Cut the leaves off of the pick and took apart the bow

This is what I used for one package

I hot glue both leaves and the little greenery berries to the center of the bow

Here it is all finished.

I hope they enjoyed the gift as much as I did putting them together.

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I want to thank you for stopping by today to watch me put my gifts together for our friends.  I hope you come back here on Wednesday.  Until next blog I hope you have a great day!

Stay strong and stay blessed!

Terrie

Terrie

Decorating our home on a budget is my thrill.   I think a home can look beautiful without breaking the bank.    Your home should bring the best out of you and make you feel happy.  You should smile every time you enter your home. 🙂