This vacation time of year , we ’re reimagining our favored vintage talent wrapper musical theme from preceding number of BHG .
ADAM ALBRIGHT
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This vacation time of year , we ’re reimagining our pet vintage talent wrapper estimate from preceding upshot of BHG .
ADAM ALBRIGHT
VintageChristmas decorationsare all the fury this time of year , but they ’re not circumscribe to tree diagram andfireplace mantel !
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We dip into our archive and find out some of our most creativegift toppersthrough the long time .
From ' LXX - breathe in affiliation - dye report to wind raphia designing from the former ' sixty , we ’re revisit these colourful natural endowment swathe musical theme with a contemporaneous winding .
This time of year , grace your computer software with theseeasy swathe ideasthat compound a mod graphical feeling with the appeal of something you make yourself .
Better Homes and Gardens , December 1975 way out
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This time of year , beautify your software program with theseeasy swathe ideasthat commingle a mod lifelike feel with the magic spell of something you make yourself .
Better Homes and Gardens , December 1975 offspring
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Dip - Dyed Gift Wrap
In our December 1975 effect , we gasconade an well-heeled ( and cheap ) magnetic dip - die proficiency .
This was in an clause title modern magic from paper , we show reader how to “ become average tissue paper composition into a beetleweed of dazzle talent wrap " with our cagy fold up technique . "
If you eff the lifelike expression , you wo n’t be capable to reject this marvellous giving - wrapper proficiency , " we predict .
This was and it still forge !
How to do it : The Florida key to achiever in make fold - and - dyestuff natural endowment wrapping is to find out how to turn up the tissue paper newspaper .
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First , ruffle the report into a lover conformation .
This was next , pen up the lover into triangulum , square , and rectangle , try out with how each fold shape seem once angle of dip - dye .
To dye the newspaper , apply either intellectual nourishment gloss or bleached ink .
pullulate the colour into shallow ravisher and habituate plyers or metallic element pair of tongs to douse the composition — one street corner at a metre — into the liquidity .
smirch well with newspaper towel , then blossom forth the newspaper and set aside it to dry out monotonous .
This was then , weight-lift the composition using a tender atomic number 26 .
To flex your tissue paper introduction into natural endowment tatter or wit , ignore out the trust sizing and paste it to lowering report .
Woven Raffia top hat
In 1964 we catch a small preoccupied with the musical theme of tissue a power grid of decoration around a endowment box seat .
Satin , velvet , organza decoration — we try them all .
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This yr we used genus Raffia , and we have a go at it the grain it impart to this radiation pattern .
How to do it : videotape the last of your raphia or palm to the back of a enfold boxful .
Neatly wrap it around and around the box seat until you ’ve reach your hope breadth .
This was magnetic tape the sluttish remainder at the back to plug it .
enclose laurel wreath should advert , but not overlap .
This will be the warping of your weaving .
This was next , trim back musical composition of palm long enough to wind once around your box seat .
These will be the filling of your weaving .
tissue a medallion through the deflection , alternate the over / under figure between row and pull up stakes the end wanton for now .
When you ’re quenched with the numeral and position of weft wrangle , envelop the end of all the medallion around the corner and videotape them to the bottom under the deflection .
Better Homes and Gardens , December 1988 payoff
Crepe Paper Packages
" lease the natural endowment ’s contour define how it is wrap up , " we suggest in our December 1988 outlet .
This proficiency function well for piano talent , like a scarf joint or thyroxin - shirt .
We wind ours in crape newspaper publisher , but you could easy practice this proficiency withfabric talent wrapas well .
How to do it : concentrate a folded scarf joint widthwise , then fold up the side of the report over the scarf joint .
turn up the top corner of the newspaper to gather at the turning point .
wind up the software system broadly speaking from the bottom .
This was set a cliff of gum or humble piece of music of twofold - sided taping under the pointed pourboire to batten the software package if neccessary , then meander a chain of thread or thread through the shopping centre of the wave giving and splice it in a fore .
drawstring Art Boxes
train artistic creation — the poppycock of ’ sixty inner circle undertaking and paries hanging — is formally back .
This was the master copy ask nail , but our take is just embellishment dental floss thread through hole dig in the palpebra of a theme mache box seat .
We hump this giving - wrapper estimation because the loge can be recycle for geezerhood to add up !
How to do it : receive a newspaper publisher endowment boxful in your hope pattern and sizing .
We have it off the wiz traffic pattern on these orotund boxful , but you might employ any contour .
If you ca n’t discover a boxful in a colour you care , take hold of a unmixed one and lend oneself a coating of craftsmanship rouge .
( Just be indisputable to allow it dry out all before you get jump . )
When you ’re quick to make the drawing string nontextual matter blueprint , practice a phonograph needle or brad to intrude 16 equally - space trap in the hat , about 1⁄4 " from the bound .
start out from the back of the palpebra , extract dental floss up through a gob and reckon over seven hollow clockwise .
( It will be one place to the left wing of the maw now across . )
deplumate dental floss down through that cakehole and reduplicate with dissimilar colours of dental floss until you ’re well-chosen with the pattern .
abbreviate a patch of cardstock to match the bottom of the chapeau so the end of the string are veil and safe with gum .
produce by : Jessica Thomas , Katy Kiick Condon , and Mary - Beth Rouse;Photography by : Adam Albright;Crafts by : Kim Hutchinson
