Learn Something New Everyday...

[muskiestamper]

I discovered this on my own the yesterday and just had to share!

I first discovered that brown paper grocery bags make great wrapping paper. I ran out of paper about 20 minutes before we were to leave for a party and stamped the bags with red ink and tied a piece of hemp around it for decoration! It looked like an old time package.

Then I was using my background stamps (which I always have trouble lining up on 4 1/4 by 5 1/2 paper) and found that if you ink the stamp and then lay your paper on top and run your brayer over that, that you get better coverage and don't have to worry about flipping and lining things up.

[basketballmom]

You can also use your brayer to ink the background stamp - run the brayer over your inkpad, then over the background stamp.

[Sereikastamper]

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Originally Posted by basketballmom

You can also use your brayer to ink the background stamp - run the brayer over your inkpad, then over the background stamp.

Hmmm will have to try that out...never thought of that! LOL

[msulee]

great ideas i'll have to try them all

[sunseeker]

You can also buy brown paper and white paper (often called butcher paper) in the packing supplies section of stores. I did this one year for Christmas and then made all sorts of wrapping paper using stamps and markers. It was fun! And then I could use it throughout the year for other occasions instead of having a ton of wrapping paper rolls.

[Sereikastamper]

With the White Butcher Paper...does it take an image well? I saw some at Sams club and I was going to buy it but decided against it for fear of it having a coating or something that would not allow the image to look nice...

[sunseeker]

You can get uncoated white paper - I think some people just refer to it as butcher paper - with the packing supplies. I would think the actual butcher paper would not take the image so well.

[msdetloff]

You could also save your packing material from SU! and it will look nice and vintage with all the wrinkles....I think my hubby is going to kill me soon since they put like 10 yards in a box and I don't go through it that fast!


Mindy