I've documented before the blue and gold splendor that my friend Page once chose for the holidays. This year I inherited many of her old wrappings, and incorporated them into several gifts. One of them, appropriately enough, is going back to her.
Here are the rest.
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Though usually it is Page who prefers to simplify this process, I note she went to the trouble to purchase matching blue-sparkle hot-melt glue, which she used to decorate this lovely pale-blue and gold paper ribbon. My contribution was to add the pale-blue curling ribbon (I think) and maybe some gold mylar shreds.
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This one got wrapped, in an extremely hasty fashion, xmas morning, and is very much thrown together. I had some fancy elastic gold cord with dags or poufs along it, which I tied in a bow between the navy tulle and blue bow in a not entirely successful effort to create a transition between the two, as well as pull in the gold elements. Oh, and I burned my fingers for about the 20th time on hot glue. Really, setting the gun on low would be better—both for the mylar elements as wells as my tender fingertips!
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I don't remember exactly what I did to change Page's original idea, but you may be certain the original had a crisper silhouette, and less of the busy texture.
This series was one of the ones in which I used the mirror to bounce light fairly successfully.
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