recycled for love.
My mom’s birthday was last Tuesday but tonight we took her out to celebrate! Just for fun, I wanted to share some pictures of the lovely presents I found for her on Etsy and the packaging I used.
The main gift for my mom was this necklace from zafirenia’s shop:
I thought it would be fun and feel good to support other artists on Etsy this year. I’m so glad I did. I think the things I found were really fantastic!
I have been saving this cake box that I made last year for something special. It turns out that this was the something special!
But the coolest thing of the day was when I pulled out the extra supplies leftover from when I printed the box—pieces that didn’t work for anything then, but I put to good use today! I also had a beautiful set of cards to give my mom that were made by a friend of mine. She is a digital scrapbooking designer, but I didn’t know that she was a fine artist as well until a few weeks ago when she posted her Etsy link on Facebook.
So, I wanted to wrap the cards in a brown paper bag. When I opened the cabinet in the kitchen that holds all our various shopping bags, sitting on top was a yellow paper gift bag. It was the perfect color yellow to go with those hybrid extras!
I decided to deconstruct the bag:
I ripped the bottom seams apart and then tore the side seam, too. Then I snipped up the bag to fit the gift…
Here is the paper with Heather’s lovely cards inside:
Heather’s shop is here: Ooh la la, Artsy! Shop!
My mom has recently become a fine artist herself, working with watercolors. I thought she would really appreciate them because of that. Aren’t they pretty?!
Then, I just wrapped up the cards like a Christmas present:
I “parcelfied” them with some black twine and added the hybrid tag.
And this is the part that just gets me—a random bag in the cabinet just happens to match a random “Happy Birthday” tag that I made to go with a matching cake box from a year and a half ago?! That’s not coincidence. That’s was a little gift from the Daddy of All Things Creative. I got goosebumps. So cool.
Here’s everything together:
I had some scraps of leftover printed paper and I made a butterfly out of my Martha Stewart punches. I stamped “MOM” on the bottom in Stampin’ Up! White Craft ink with my nifty clearance aisle find (also Martha Stewart, purchased for just $3!).
And there we have it! A lovely coordinating gift set.
It’s cake without the calories. Ha! Delightful.
Thanks for listening all about my crafty afternoon. 😀
December 17th, 2011 at 12:27 am
Oh, Nicole! <3 This is all so lovely! 🙂 It turned out beautifully. Love love love!
December 17th, 2011 at 7:10 am
Happy Chance – and so beautifully co-ordinated!
December 17th, 2011 at 11:54 am
How very lovely!!