I really enjoy wrapping paper. When I was poorer, younger and had more time, I used to love wrapping gifts in brown butcher paper and painting on them with all sorts of paints and use thick wired or fabric ribbon to wrap the gifts. Who cares what was inside! They just looked pretty and old fashioned like they should be sitting under a natural pine tree that was dragged in from the woods just behind the cottage in my imagination. This cottage, of course, would be nestled comfortably amidst a sparse forest of trees whose leaves make that lovely swishing sound when the wind blows. Then outside the window you would see the sloping green grass that went down to meet the embankment of a creek or babbling brook. SIGH! But I digress.
My favorite kind of wrapping paper was the kind they would sell through fundraising catalogs with the neat samples in the middle. This was the real thick wrapping paper that was like $7.00 a roll, about 20 years ago! I haven't seen those in a while. Then of course, I would buy the beautiful expensive wrapping paper and was apprehensive about using it because only my mother saves the wrapping. I liked to save pieces of it to add to photo albums, cards or a scrapbook when these crafts weren't a lucrative business or hobby. Why didn't I think of that? My new purpose for wrapping paper is to decoupage: the art of decorating surfaces by applying cutouts (as of paper) and then coating with usually several layers of finish (as lacquer or varnish) .
I don't know much about decoupage except that Rosie O'Donnell used to talk about it all the time on her OLD show in the 90's. She talked about Decoupage, Tom Cruise, Harry Potter and for a year, her motto was "eat less, move more" which I totally appreciated because it seemed to be the most simplistic way to tell someone how to lose weight. (She's got a new show now, but I don't have that channel now.)
My favorite kind of wrapping paper was the kind they would sell through fundraising catalogs with the neat samples in the middle. This was the real thick wrapping paper that was like $7.00 a roll, about 20 years ago! I haven't seen those in a while. Then of course, I would buy the beautiful expensive wrapping paper and was apprehensive about using it because only my mother saves the wrapping. I liked to save pieces of it to add to photo albums, cards or a scrapbook when these crafts weren't a lucrative business or hobby. Why didn't I think of that? My new purpose for wrapping paper is to decoupage: the art of decorating surfaces by applying cutouts (as of paper) and then coating with usually several layers of finish (as lacquer or varnish) .
I don't know much about decoupage except that Rosie O'Donnell used to talk about it all the time on her OLD show in the 90's. She talked about Decoupage, Tom Cruise, Harry Potter and for a year, her motto was "eat less, move more" which I totally appreciated because it seemed to be the most simplistic way to tell someone how to lose weight. (She's got a new show now, but I don't have that channel now.)
This is what I am going to decoupage, I have had this sign for about five years.
Wrapping paper of choice, of course, Mary Engelbreit motif. I got it at Michael's
this summer for 99 cents --why doesn't the keyboard have a "cents" sign?!
Medium, beginner's decoupage kit.
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