This weekend is Quinn’s 1st birthday party!!! Her parents, John and Emily, have been dear friends of ours for years. I decided I would try and get a little crafty this evening and customize her wrapping paper. 

It was my first attempt at doing this and I discovered a few things that worked and some that didn’t. I’ll let you be the judge in deciding how it turned out….

Step #1: Measure wrapping paper (in this case I am using a large roll of brown drawing paper I had from college and recently unearthed in my parents garage). Score!

Step #2: Take a glass (or any round top object will do) and draw circles on another sheet of paper the same or similar size as the one you will be wrapping with…

Step #3: Cut out circles and place them by taping on wrapping paper surface…

Step #4: Choose desired color of spray paint and coat wrapping paper with circles still taped in place…

Step #5: Remove cutout circles…

Step #6: Wrap gift and use ribbon, or in this case yarn, to tie a bow…

Voila…instantly personalized! I even used one of the circles to make a little heart label! 

Cost: $0. All products used were those that I had laying around the house!

Time: About 30 minutes. If I was to do this again I think I could move a bit faster. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was doing. :)

All in all….pretty cute, don’t ya think?

xoxo,

jenn

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