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Lotts and Lots | Making the everyday beautiful

Fresh flower gift wrapping

Friday, 29 July 2016

Love is in the air this week, my best friend got married yesterday and I'm feeling all glowy. Inspired by her nuptials I've created a special summer wrapping project using beautiful paper from Lonetree , fresh flowers and hand dyed silk. Lonetree kindly sent me a selection of their beautiful papers to wrap with each design printed in the UK by the first carbon neutral printed in the world. I really love the delicate natural patterns and gorgeous soft shades each the papers come in. 
Using the papers as my guide I wanted to create wrapping that incorporated fresh flowers and also silk that I had dyed previously using avocado skins and pips. To dye silk, bring a large sauce pan of water to boil add the skins and pips of approx. three avocados and 1 metre of silk fabric let it simmer for about 20 minutes or until it has turned pink. Rinse and dry.

Wrap your present, if its an odd shape then I recommend putting into a box. It'll make the flowers much easier to work with and you'll be able to see as much of the paper as possible. I used this paper. 

Wrap the silk fabric around the centre and tie in a knot. My fabric was 45 x 90 cm. you want the fabric width to be quite full so you get get lots of texture. 
Using the techniques I shared in my supermarket bouquet I created a mini bunch of flowers using hydrangeas, peonies and jasmine from the garden. Remove as many of the leaves from the main flowers as you can, put them together so the main buds face upwards and fasten together using florists wire. Leave ends of the wire free so you can tie onto the fabric. 
Position the flowers over the knot and wrap the wire under the 'bow' so that it can't be seen. You might need to play around with the position of the flowers so that everything lies in the right direction. 
I love this so much, of course it probably won't travel too well (!) but for a local special occasion it is really gorgeous. If you wanted to create something similar then you could substitute the fresh flowers for really good fake ones and create the same effect. Happy making! x 

The wrap for this paper was kindly supplied by Lonetree, project, styling, photos, thoughts and opinions are all my own. 
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Labels: A Creative Life, DIY, gift wrapping, Wedding Flowers
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  1. Jesse31 July 2016 at 23:43

    I love this, so delicate and no doubt making a little gift extra special. Bookmarking it for later Charlotte - thank you for sharing!

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    1. Lotts and lots5 August 2016 at 02:50

      So glad you enjoyed the post Jesse! I'm waiting for another opportunity to do this wrapping again. x

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  2. Emma Connolly1 August 2016 at 01:15

    This is so beautiful Charlotte! Love the silk ribbon too! Will be having a go at that! Xx

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    1. Lotts and lots5 August 2016 at 02:51

      Thanks so much Emma - the silk ribbon is a favourite (I made sure I didn't cut it so I can use again!) x

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  3. Royal Service22 April 2018 at 10:04

    If we look out for the most different gifts, then why not gift wrap them differently too?Grote Teddybeer

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  4. Steve R27 September 2018 at 13:32

    So much time goes in to finding the gift that, too often, the gift wrap is an afterthought, but you can take your gift giving to a whole new level by making the wrapping part of the experience.
    https://www.luxtime.su/hermes-handbags/birkin

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