Hopefully by now you've got most of your holiday gifts bought and stashed. (No worries if you haven't, right?) If your wrap session moment has come, MomSpeaker Hillary Chybinski's got a great idea for an unusual DIY presentation: chalkboard wrapping paper!
It's that time of year when we spend almost as much time wrapping gifts as we do buying them. But I have to confess, I love selecting a wrapping "theme" and making pretty packages to give to people. When I first started doing this, back in the early '90s, I had rolls of foil paper with penguins and flamingos on them.
What You Need to Make Chalkboard Wrap
- Black Kraft paper
- Chalk or chalk markers
- I also bought a roll of red baker's twine because you can NEVER have enough of that!
I plan to add some grosgrain ribbon, maybe a sprig of rosemary and/or boxwood to make things even more festive.
Draw pictures, write messages, whatever your imagination can come up with — the possibilities are ENDLESS!
Be warned, the paper is thicker than regular wrapping paper, so use care when wrapping. Also, the roll is larger than I thought, so I have plenty of black Kraft paper for future projects.
Hillary Chybinski is a crafty mom of two boys living the American Dream with her husband in the Philly burbs. This post was adapted from her blog, My Scraps.
