The joys of pressie wrapping!

How great is wrapping paper?! No, really! I just love people's creativeness when it comes to wrapping presents! I often enjoy the wrapping as much as the actual gift inside and will reuse the paper or ribbons. And I get even more excited when the piece of paper I am reusing is the perfect size and needs no cutting! Score!!!

There is a video hidden in some box somewhere of my fourth birthday (or at least I'm guessing it was my fourth). My older sister and I are sitting on the floor surrounded by my wrapped birthday presents. My ever so kind and caring sister looks at me and say, "Ok, Amy. You can open the cards and I'll open the presents!" Wwwhhhhaaaatttt?!?! Well, it's safe to say I was no fazed by this at all! I was just loving all the bits of paper and ribbon I didn't even notice she was ripping into the actual gifts! True story!

So, yes, wrapping presents! Such fun! This is a little idea I saw somewhere using scraps of paper so I've adapted it a little using scraps of material. Do not, and I repeat, do not throw out your scraps of material! There is still too much fun to be had with the left-over pieces after whatever project you originally used it for!

Cut your material into strips about 1cm wide and however long you can get them. Cut out some circles of varying sizes from cardboard, I've used an empty cereal box (waste nothing!). Use a glue stick to hold the material to the cardboard and just twist the material around the circle. 

Here's some I prepared earlier! ;) No, really, I have been using these as 'bunting' on some empty wall space until it was present wrapping time!

Assemble the troops!! 

How do you like to wrap up presents? I would love to hear your tips and creative ideas! Or if you give these little guys a go, share how they turned out!