Paper Bags

These paper bags are perfect for gifts and are super easy to make too. And all you need is paper and glue ..:)

Paper Envelopes

Next time when you want to give a card or a letter, try giving them in a hand made envelope too...:)  You can customize it by using different color or design paper and it adds a nice personal touch to it.
These will be great for giving gift cards too..:)

Paper Treat/Favor Bags

Packaging is just as important as the gift itself, right?

Who wouldn't love receiving treats in these cute bags. These are great if you are dropping off some cookies at your neighbors...:)  or even as party favor bags.

Wrapping a cupcake.

Few days back,when we had the school carnival, I volunteered to bake cupcakes for the bake sale. Baking was no problem, but  all baked stuff needed to be individually wrapped for the sale and that was the problem. How do I wrap 50+ cupcakes!!. I didn't have time to go shopping and as it is those cupcake boxes I have bought in the past are not really cheap, specially if you need so many.

I searched online and found lot of ideas of wrapping cupcakes. But the one I liked and that was really inexpensive and with the things I already had with me was to use clear plastic cups. The idea was to put the cupcakes in the clear cups and wrap it with clear plastic sheet and tie with ribbon. But I dreaded cutting all that wrapping paper to wrap each cupcake. So I used the fold down sandwich bags and that worked just as well. No need of cutting 50+ wrapping paper squares.

Paper Bows.

Few days back I came across this tutorial to make this paper bow and fell in love with it. Its fun and good to have to dress up your gift when you have nothing else to top your gift with. The tutorial is very well explained, so I didn't even bother to make another tutorial.

Paper Snowflakes/ Paper Dollies

The other day one of my kids brought a paper snowflake from school.  They learned how to make these at school in one of their art classes.Then I remembered making these as kid myself. We used to make a bunch of these and glue them to a string to make a garland/bunting to decorate the house.

Having fun with confetti.

I had a bunch of scraps of paper, all left from my previous projects. So the other day I had fun just punching those paper and collecting a whole bunch of colorful confetti. Pinterest is full of ideas to use the confetti in different ways, but this is how I used it. Just decorated a gift. Let your imagination flow and have fun with confetti..:)

Origami Gift Box

Love how easy these gift boxes are to make and if you have a small gift to give someone or you want to store something, these are perfect. And you can make it in a jiffy.

Gift/Favor Bags.

Sometime back, I saw somewhere how to make these gift bags and have been thinking of making my own. And now finally got to make it. I made it with old calendar paper. The paper was quiet sturdy to carry little gifts. You can even make these with newspaper and it looks pretty nice. And it is a good way to recycle...:)

Crepe Paper Flower

Today I am posting another crepe paper flower tutorial. I think I'll keep posting these different crepe paper tutorial, till I run out of crepe papers...:D I have had these papers for quiet some time now. I bought a whole bunch of different colors for a rainbow party and it has been there in the box for all these days.

Crepe Paper Flower

Yet again, another crepe paper flower.

Crepe Paper Flower

Here I go again...with another crepe flower.

Crepe Paper Rosettes

Continuing on my series of crepe paper flowers, today I am posting the crepe paper rosettes. Yesterday while watching a movie, I made a bunch of rosettes with the crepe paper I had in hand. You can use these rosettes in whatever way you like. I used it to stick it in the Styrofoam ball.

Crepe Paper Flowers 3

So here we go again, with another crepe paper flower

Crepe Paper Flowers Again

Lately I have been making a lot of different types of crepe paper flowers. I have a pile of different colors of crepe paper streamers from the rainbow birthday party I had sometime back and I am trying to use those streamers to make something fun. There are so many variations of flowers you can make with these that I guess I should have a series of flower making tutorials with just using these crepe papers..:)

Crepe Paper Flowers.

I love making paper flowers. Most of the paper flowers are quiet easy and it doesn't take much time to make. Ok, maybe I should say that most of the paper flowers I make, doesn't take much time. And I for one, do not have patience, so I love flowers which I can make in very less time.

Ideas for wrapping gifts.

I love the natural look of the brown paper and like to use it to wrap gifts. But sometimes it is too plain and need a little something to brighten it up. 

Tissue Paper Flower

I love making paper flowers. You can use them in so many different ways. And these are very easy and quick to make.

Paper Dahlias

I have seen beautiful paper Dahlias all over the blog world. Most of the ones which I saw were bigger and used for hanging on the walls, like a wreath. I made a smaller version of it, great to be used as gift toppers.

Recycling Tissue Paper Roll to Favor boxes

This is another one of the recycling projects, made with cardboard tubes in the paper towel roll. You can find other project made out of paper towel rolls here.