a very cute and easy way to spruce up your plain gift wrap, OR the packaging paper that you get free in packages!!

every year i collect all the kraft paper from our packages for about a month before the holidays and then use to wrap our gifts — but i really wanted to spruce them up this year.

so i made some potato stamps and did patterned wrapping paper this year! i cut out shapes in potatoes to make the stamps, but obviously you can skip a step if you already have cute stamps. i then brushed on some acrylic paint and spent the next few hours stamping away like a jolly little elf!

i did a simple square to do an irish chain pattern, a quirky star and a fish of course.

i made some tin gift toppers too and my gifts look so special now! (you can see how i made them here)

why spend money on gift wrap that’ll be tossed immediately after opening!? save that pretty gift wrap for paper chains instead!

and if you don’t want to make your own i found a couple cute rubber stamps and more wrapping supplies that should arrive in time!!

cute wrapping supplies