chronicles of a stay at home!: Gift Wrapping Paper!

finally after so so long another DIY.... i've missed it !!!!

this, well i did long back .... when i was still in bombay (u can see my old table....!!) but it was a very fun and easy one to do....

So i love gift wrapping paper as you well know.... and i love the idea of creating your own... I'm not much of an artist.... so this whole stamping designs was what worked for me...

One was is to buy those mehendi (henna) stamps that you get ready made in the market... but i find those designs too traditional... i wanted something fun!!

So i decided to cut up my erasers into different designs and use them. I did see this at another site.... but now i've forgotten which one... :(

but here is my version of making a fun gift wrapping paper....

all you need is like a thinnish paper ... i used a butter paper (gateway was too thick tracing paper too thin....) some erasers pencils and a cutter and then some paint.

now this is the first most important thing.... i lost one sheet over this....!! the writing has to be a mirror image.... i know you're thinking "but obviously".... but no when your super excited "not so obvious!!!"

So write anything like love or happy birthday (if you have the patience) I chose Hello because it just seemed most cheerful!!!

Start cutting.... again be very careful.... the eraser is small and the cutter is sharp.... also if you cut one alphabet wrong you have o start over.....

also remember to cut only up to about half the eraser in thickness....don't go all the way you could end up separating the alphabets.

yes it is not very neat I agree..... but by the time I reached "o" i was a little run out of patience!!!!!!!

I also did some fun stars and stripes to add a little design element....

So here we are with our little stamps.... always test first.... see the colors you like.... regular acrylic paint is what i used.... just make sure your paint is not too thick not too watery....