Anyway, this year I decided to get all creative with my wrapping paper and instead of buying expensive gift wrap I bought 2 rolls of brown paper and printed it up using a lovely stamp I already had plus a homemade potato stamp!
First I got together my paper, ink and stamps. The brown craft paper was from Hobbycraft and cost about £2 for a large roll. I did buy a new white ink pad but the others I already had.
The stamp is from Noolibird and is a lovely image of a reindeer. They do the most beautiful stamps, not cheap but I got this one a few years ago and have made countless Christmas cards and wrap so it's earning it's keep!
I find it hard to be totally random in my stamping, so as you can see this is a fairly regular pattern.
A close up of the stamp. Gorgeous!
I wanted to stamp some stars so took a humble potato and cut it in half.
I then used a marker to draw a rough star....
...and then cut it out using a knife. Just be careful not to cut through the star, just around the edges about a half centimeter or so in depth.
Stamp away! It's not the most perfect star but I don't mind it's quirkiness. All part of the charm.
I did find though that the water in the potato did mess up my ink pad a little and I'm not sure how much stamping you could do with one potato stamp. I did about half a metre with mine because that's all I needed.
And the finished paper stamped and presents wrapped. Really pleased with the final result. The gift tags are mine and can be found in my Etsy shop
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