How to Pretty Up a Package

These days I find myself celebrating a lot of milestone birthdays for friends and family.

For these special birthdays, I like to present a pretty package.

Now, one of my "very serious" faults is that I cannot wrap a package for the life of me.

I try...but my corners are never right, there is tape everywhere - you get the picture, right?

So I have taken to embellishing and creating fun ways to pretty up and personalize packages (to divert attention from my other wrapping faults)! 

Using  my Lifestyle Crafts Dies and Evolution Die Cutter, plus some fun chevron washi tape and miniature pom poms...and anything else I can think of, it is easy to create pretty packages for those special people in your life.

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Pretty Paper Rosettes: A Centerpiece Accessory

I love to throw a PARTY!

No seriously, I would probably have a party every night, for any reason...if I could! After many years of planing parties and wedding for other people, I delight in entertaining my friends. I love to create intimate environments full of unique touches. I like my every day occasions to be special but not overdone, and this idea for centerpieces is a perfect example of something that is so easy to put together but has great impact. I used if for Christmas (even thought we might have eaten dinner in our jammies!) and will be using it for New Years and through the winter...and well, knowing me even into the Spring!

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