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Making Wrapping Paper and a Bow from Packaging Materials

Craft: Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items

15mhhm15
Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,298 Posts

August 7, 2018

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - wrapped gift If you are an online shopper, some companies send a lot of packaging items (i.e.: filling, bubblewrap, tissue paper, etc.) and I keep them because they can be useful like for making your own wrapping paper. I didn't have any wrapping paper besides Christmas theme, so I came up with this using kraft paper and a bow made from tissue paper from Victoria's Secret.

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Total Time: 30 minutes + drying time

Supplies:

bubble wrap
scissors
pipe cleaner
tape
paint
paint brush
kraft paper from online packaging order
tissue paper from Victoria's Secret

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - bubble wrap and scissors

Steps:

Cut your desired shape as your bubble wrap stamp. I cut my bubble wrap in a square shape.
Paint your square bubble wrap with your chosen paint color(s).

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - paint bubble wrap shape

Stamp and repeat. Reapply paint when needed and stamp away. Allow to dry.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - stamp

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - stamp and repeat adding paint as needed

The next day, I wrapped a birthday gift (sprinklers)

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - gift

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - wrapped gift

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As an accent, I made a bow from tissue paper. I cut 4 sheets of tissue paper measuring 10.5" long by 4" wide and stacked them on top of each other.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - cut and stacked pieces of tissue paper

Fold accordion style and secure the middle of the tissue paper with a pipe cleaner.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - fold accordion style

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - pinch center

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - secure center with a pipe cleaner

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - pipe cleaner wrapped around center of the tissue paper

I cut a triangle on both ends, you can opt for rounded if you'd like.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - trim ends to desired shape

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - both ends cut on the angle

Carefully fluff out all the layers of the bow. The more tissue paper used, the fuller your bow will be.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - expand the layers of the bow

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - begin fluffing out the layers

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - tissue paper flower

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Secure bow to gift with tape.

Wrapping Paper and Bow Made from Packaging Items - tape bow to the gift

Comments

Iceskater
Silver Answer Medal for All Time! 320 Answers

August 7, 20180 found this helpful

Excellent re-use ideas! Thanks for sharing.

likekinds
Gold Post Medal for All Time! 523 Posts

August 12, 20180 found this helpful

The flower looks like a beautiful carnation!

Pat yourself on the back!

Esther Bradley-DeTally

August 12, 20210 found this helpful

great

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