In between all the craziness of moving, one of my friends Alex sent me a note that said basically, "I know you're moving and congrats on that, but where's the gift wrapping scheme?!" Every year since I graduated college, I've picked a gift wrapping color scheme. I do this for two reasons: 1) I hate most Christmas wrapping paper and I like to have paper I could use all year and 2) it pushes my creativity and makes me think a lot about color theory.
Maybe I should just *sings* Let it goooooo, let it gooooo, but I couldn't get the "Frozen" colors out of my mind this year. It's super girly, but I wanted to see if there was a sophisticated way to pull off those wintry colors of blue, silver and purple. Let me tell you, there is very little purple wrapping paper out there right now, but I found a way to work it in with ribbon.
My papers include:
- A gray herringbone print from TJ Maxx
- Blue triangles from Target
- Blue-green geometric print from Target
- Gray gingham from Target's baby shower gift wrap section
- Purple floral from World Market
I always get my ribbons at Michael's or fabric stores. This year, I bought skinny and fat rolls of purple satin, a wired silver ribbon, a sparkly blue, a braided purple ribbon and this awesome star ribbon from World Market. The rest of the ribbon is left over from previous years.
See all my previous gift wrapping themes:
2013,
2012,
2011,
2010 and
2006-2009.
1 comment:
I've been meaning to ask!... I'll get right on that now, lol... seriously I do try to do yours in the correct scheme...
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