wonky style gift wrapping from scraps

No seriously, I am so into the holidays. I normally don’t even do the gift thing but this year I am magically finding perfect little giving opportunities for the people in my life. But the best part for me is the gift wrapping – that is where the fun is to be had. I have a ridiculous studio that is so fabulous and it is filled with things to pull from for any project. I am an organized, focused hoarder. I love, love, love the personal label maker – so I know where everything is right now. Easy! Buy the bins, buy the label maker – make it your New Years Resolution. okay that is another post let us focus on the wrapping of the gifts. This was so much Fun – yes capital F! Descriptions of what the materials are in the captions below each image.

Faux wood contact paper, creme constructions paper, found maroon ribbon and a white felt circle

Sports section of the newspaper, thrift store found rubber stamp "I love Grandpa", snowflake stamp, blue ribbon and blue cardstock

Tissue paper, school "practice writting" paper, "happy holidays" rubber stamp, peppermint striped bakers twine, candy cane stamp and colored card stock

Paper IKEA tablecloth, brown pok-a-dot ribbon, orange grossgrain ribbon, cardstock, rubber stamp tree from Anthropology

Tissue paper stamped with a bicycle (rubber stamp from Anthropology,) orange ribbon, green felt circle

White tissue paper stamped with snowflakes, vintage silver tinsel ribbon, blue card stock

School "practice writing" paper, creme construction paper, stamps and drawing with a LePen

Homemade Disney paper: 1$ store wrapping paper, 1$ store princess rubber stamps, cotton ribbon, creme construction paper. Stamp princesses all over and everywhere

Orange 1$ Store wrapping paper, Vintage orange plastic drawer liner (cut into a strip), white poof balls on a ribbon, stamp, drawing on creme construction paper

Vintage, yellow, faux canning, plastic drawer liner with a cotton ribbon covered in buttons and a red button snowflake ornament

Banking leger paper, bicycle and house stamp from Anthropology and red bakers twine

December 18, 2009labfive Leave a comment

and from the leftovers rose . . .

More Sugar! After Monday’s project of creating frosted furniture there was a great deal of batter, blanks and frosting left over. There were so many bowls of frosting and the cupcakes that were calling for a sweet topping. So I thought it the right thing to give full life to those miniature cupcakes. I used the leftover, already colored frosting, pulled out my favorite wide flower tip and set about decorating the little yummies. Color by color I filled the bag over and over and made a little sugar flower garden. These pictures are of them put into Tupperware (glass Pyrex really) to take into my last day of class with my after school JR High kids. I was so exited to show them the artistic possibilities and talk to them about color mixing. Unfortunately, it being the last day of class, they ripped the lids off and devoured the little sugar yums without noticing the colors or the flavor and with too few thank yous over their shoulders, they ran off to meet their buses for the ride home. I will take it as a compliment that the cupcakes were so tasty the kids were speechless.

I heart cupcakes

A counter top filled with cupcake blanks

Vanilla cake and vanilla frosting with pink sprinkles

The orange and green topped cakes

The light orange and dark green topped cakes

Pinks, oranges and a few greens . . . mmmmmm

More Pinks and Oranges

The Short ones contribution to the project (she ate this one)

December 18, 2009labfive Leave a comment

It started as Mid-Century Mod . . .

So the day started out with baking of cupcake and cookie “blanks” to build the sugar fun. We decided it would be a mid-century modern house of a Hollywood producer with a dog named Princess. We were thinking 60’s party scene with cocktails, a turn-table, records and so on. Once the cutting of the shapes and the frosting began the look kind of quickly turned a bit more Flintstones. We had a lot of fun though! What a great holiday baking day!