Gift wrap...

Hi, happy Sunday-before-Christmas... eek!  Hope you're all ready for the big day?!  I finally got my shopping finished yesterday, now is the wrapping - which I used to love, although I'm not a neat wrapper...

I had to make something to put some monetary gifts in, and wasn't happy with the gift bags I made for Joanne's challenge the other week, they were too squashed... so I took a couple of no 10 sized tags and got decorating...

 I used the large background from Wendy Vecchi's Art of Making it Merry set, which is a lovely script of Christmas greetings.  Stamped it in Watering Can archival to cover the tag, back and front..
I then sponged over some watered down Snowflake Fresco paint to push the stamping into the background.

 stamped the tiny pine branch from Tim Holtz's mini holidays set, in Fern Green archival,

 wrote the message inside and tied the gift in with ribbon,

and a greeting (also Tim H)  on the back

and some die cut reindeer to the front.

attached the ribbon with Tim's tiny attacher so they'll be easy to open. I may wrap these further to prolong the surprise, rather than just putting them in envelopes or leaving them like this.

Now the real challenge - finding enough space to wrap some bigger presents!!



** edited a few hours later... wrapping done!