In the past I've always loved wrapping gifts and adding ribbon, but after wrapping a whole load of presents I  lost all enjoyment in it and gladly handed the job over to my Mum. But last night, when I had nothing better to do, and instead of asking good old Mum to do it for me, I decided to wrap Jess' presents myself, and after a minute or two I began getting into it a bit too much and ended going OTT on the whole idea (although I was very happy with the outcome)!

Firstly, (being creative and all) I made some gift tags from parcel paper, stapled two sides together, and addressed each gift to my friend. I know it would have probably been a lot easier to just write on a bought gift tag, but why do it the easy way ? Not me, No.. I decided to cut it all out myself; the result was great, and personally I think it looked that little bit better than it would have if I used 'shop bought' tags.

After wrapping each of the smaller presents with distressed,white and pink, heart patterned paper, tying with ribbon and adding bows, I chose a different mirrored, metallic wrapping paper for the last present. It was going great until I didn't cut enough silver paper for the present and only realised this once I had wrapped the  paper around it. But me.. whilst I was in my creative mind set, I used the parcel paper to my advantage, covering a square of it in small "16's" and a great big one (Jess' age if you hadn't already guessed). And afterwards, this looked just as good too. I also used the same mirrored wrapping paper to cut Jess' name out  to stick on the envelope to her huuuuge card. 

I honestly don't know where we bought this wrapping paper from, however I'm sure paper similar to this and the parcel paper can be bought from Amazon or eBay!

I hope this post has given you a few ideas on Gift Wrapping, do you have any tips of your own?