Pretty Packages: Natural & Vintage

A whole new round of packaging ideas to try!  As much as I love the peppermint and lace theme, this one also makes my heart beat just a little faster.  I find myself uncontrollably drawn to vintage fabrics, natural textures, and I love the shabby and worn look of burlap. So I came up with a few more packaging designs to share.

I kept a neutral palette using brown and white kraft paper and also a brown paper bag.  The embellishments are made using wonderfully different textures like lace, vintage fabrics, satin, a paper doily, a wood tag, a clay tag, raffia, twine and burlap.

This simple paper bag is secured with a fabric wrapped dowel ties on both ends with twine. I folded the paper bag closed and using a hole punch, made two holes and slid the dowel through the holes.  Then I wrapped the bag vertically with satin and lace ribbon and tied it off.

The tag is made of camphor wood from the tree in my front yard. I actually made these over a few weeks and every time my girls went outside to play, I would just start sawing. :)  I made about 50 circles from a branch and drilled holes in them to create tags. The wood tag is stamped with mini alpha stamps and threaded with twine.

I love this one a lot too.  This is a clay tag and using a CLEAN set of alpha stamps, I made the word rejoice and used twine as well.  It is wrapped with ripped strips of vintage fabric and just tied around a few times.

Here's the same fabric around a large wooden spool and used as a ribbon in the center. I love all the frayed edges so much!  I also wrapped a paper doily around the one edge.  The spool is tied on by the selvedge edge of the fabric.  (I waste nothing!)

How crazy fun is this raffia pom pom?  I was staring at this huge bag of raffia and thought of making a pom pom out of it would be just ADORABLE!  I love how it ended up turning out so spiky and sweet. A smaller paper doily girls it up a bit and softens the look. :)

Oh this fabric bow is what truly makes my heart go pitter patter.  I adore this particular one so much (that I  saved it for last) because it appeals to my love of texture.  I just roughly cut several strips of fabric (lace, burlap, linen, satin) and piled it all in a big stack.  Then I tied it off tightly with some twine threaded with a wooden bead and then kind of fluffed it out into an almost flower pattern.

I just loooooove pretty, pretty packaging!

Hugs!

♥

P.S. I heard a rumor that I might...just might...have an ETSY shop opening with some packaging goodies like the ones I will be sharing over the next few weeks. But it might just be a rumor. We shall see.

(check out sweet Andrea's guest post at 36th Avenue woo hoo!)