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Birthday Gift ~ Personalized Wrapping Paper
We just celebrated my niece's birthday. I custom-designed a necklace and earrings for her made of sterling silver and pink and clear crystals (see previous photo).
I wanted the gift wrap to match the colors of the gift, and finding ribbon was no problem, but solid pink gift wrap was nowhere to be found.
Enter creativity! In her book, Presentations, Carolyne Roehm recommends designing your own gift wrap in Photoshop and printing it out on an inkjet printer. So ... I gave it a try, and I'm very pleased with the results.
Large gifts would be difficult to wrap this way unless you have a large-format printer, but this gift was small, so one 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of white copy paper worked perfectly. I printed a matching card using the same pattern on heavy white card stock.
Kathryne very carefully and attentively opened the package being sure not to tear the paper. She said it was going on her bulletin board. Picture me smiling :0) ... giving is so much fun!
Happy birthday, Kathryne!
Update: This is my first photo on Flickr to receive 1,000 views (and 2,500 views as of January 25, 2010). Thank you to everyone who helped make that happen!
~s
Birthday Gift ~ Personalized Wrapping Paper
We just celebrated my niece's birthday. I custom-designed a necklace and earrings for her made of sterling silver and pink and clear crystals (see previous photo).
I wanted the gift wrap to match the colors of the gift, and finding ribbon was no problem, but solid pink gift wrap was nowhere to be found.
Enter creativity! In her book, Presentations, Carolyne Roehm recommends designing your own gift wrap in Photoshop and printing it out on an inkjet printer. So ... I gave it a try, and I'm very pleased with the results.
Large gifts would be difficult to wrap this way unless you have a large-format printer, but this gift was small, so one 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of white copy paper worked perfectly. I printed a matching card using the same pattern on heavy white card stock.
Kathryne very carefully and attentively opened the package being sure not to tear the paper. She said it was going on her bulletin board. Picture me smiling :0) ... giving is so much fun!
Happy birthday, Kathryne!
Update: This is my first photo on Flickr to receive 1,000 views (and 2,500 views as of January 25, 2010). Thank you to everyone who helped make that happen!
~s