I’m delighted to welcome Cayce from Just a Curl as our guest today!!
I’m loving her idea for a quick and easy way to wrap a birthday present.
Hello, fellow bargain lovers! Many thanks to Rene for allowing me to do a guest post here on Bargain Hoot.
Recently BigBoy had a birthday party to attend. I had a boxed Lego set to give as a present, but the only wrapping paper I had on hand was way too girly for a boy’s 6th birthday.
Instead of buying new paper, I decided to use some of the brown shipping paper I had for my etsy orders.
Who doesn’t like getting packages in the mail?!
This was a super-easy project. I just wrapped the box as normal, whipped out a black sharpie, a red marker, and a random sticker BigBoy got to choose.
If I hadn’t been lazy I would have used some twine I had on hand to tie around the box, but I thought it was fine as-is. Especially since the birthday party started in 30 minutes. 🙂
The awesome thing is…there’s not even a need for a card because the names are written directly on the paper. Let’s face it, kids never care about the cards anyway!
So there you go, a creative, easy, and convenient way to package (sorry, pun intended) a birthday present!
Thank you so much Cayce… I love that idea and I’m sure the birthday boy loved it too!! Be sure and visit Cayce’s blog and also her Etsy shop Just a Curl! She has a lot of great vintage finds and the good news is….she’s offering a 15% discount to all the Bargain Hoot readers!!! How sweet is that!!! Just enter HOOT15 at the checkout.
What a great idea! I only buy wrapping paper for Christmas….for birthdays I very rarely buy it because I never want to waste the money on something that’s just going to get crumpled and thrown in the trash. This looks so cute and I’ll bet I could get the same look using a brown paper bag (depending on the size of the gift, of course.)
My kids would absolutely love this! And I especially love it as I won’t be rummaging through the closest for a used/smashed gift bag at the last minute! Adorable! -diane
What an awesome idea for wrapping a gift!! Girl or boy, doesn’t matter! Thanks for the great idea 🙂
What a great idea! Will definitely have to use this one.
Awesome. What a great idea. I was surprised. A gift wrapping in to a paper. Here, we spend less money and time for preparing a presentation. And more over everyone like this special birthday gift. This type of presentation is very precious.
Thanks for your idea.
Kiran