DIY Gift Packaging for Tori Spelling

So I have declared this week DIY Gift Packaging week.

The Earth Day gifts, and Tori Spelling gifts are going out in the mail in the next couple of days, so gift packaging has been on the brain.

Yesterday I posted all about the Earth Day Gift Packaging...and now I bring you my packaging for Tori Spelling's jewelry!

I think that packaging is so important for a gift. It conveys a message, it sets a tone, and it creates excitement for the gift within all of the wrapping.

For Tori's gift, I wanted it to maintain a whimsical feel to it, with a bit of personalization and color.

I made my own necklace cards to hold the necklaces. 

FRONT:                                                         BACK:

For a bit of cute personalization I found some Scrapbooking initial stickers that had some bling to them and added them to each of their necklace cards:

 

I then wrapped each one in some padding, and then fun colored tissue paper.  I found these cute little metal initial charms, and added them to some blue ribbon, wrapped them up and VOILA:

 

The back of each one looks like this, I used my sticker labels from my DIY Sticker Label post:

They all went into a simple white organza bag, I again used my sticker labels to create a little tag by pasting two together over some cardstock and there you have it!

DIY Wednesday: Celebrity Earth Day Bracelets Packaging

It's almost April, which means it is almost Earth Day!

I have been feverishly finishing up my Celeb Earth Day gifts, as I need to get them out to California this week.

So here are the finished bracelets!  These little beauties will be going to
Jeremy Piven, Tom Hanks, Bill Maher, Adrian Grenier, Kate Bosworth, P!nk, Leonardo DiCaprio, Dave Matthews, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Daryl Hannah, Drew Barrymore, Ellen DeGeneres, Orlando Bloom, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Hartnett, Sting, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Silverstone, Courteney Cox, Cameron Diaz, KT Tunstall, Mark Ruffalo, and Edward Norton.
I included a little note to the fellas that if they're interested in a set of cuff links I'd happily make them...poor guys.

They were made using old vinyl records, which I hand cut, and then shaped and sanded down for a perfect setting.  I was again inspired by Banksy's street art for this piece, but this time I added my own flair, and created an Earth heart shaped balloon for an Earth Day touch.

Now, perhaps almost as important as the bracelet itself is the packaging. 
So here's a little DIY Packaging for my Earth Day Bracelets:

SUPPLIES: Hole Punch, Scissors, Tissue Paper, Small Kraft Bags, Sticker Labels, Business Card or Cardstock)

1) I punched holes in my business card to act as a holder for my bracelet. 
2) I cut slits to the holes so I could slide the chain to rest in the holes
3) I wrapped the card and bracelet with tissue paper in a neat little package and then added a little note to the celebs...you can see the back has all of my contact info on it (I used GIMP to create them)
5) I used the sticker labels from my DIY Sticker Label Tutorial to close the bag, and then punched holes for my divine twine to go through so I could tie a cute little bow

AND TADA:

Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Stay tuned...later today I will be posting the finished packaging for Tori Spelling's jewelry!

DIY Wednesday: Make your Own Sticker Labels

 Today I'll show you how to create and print your own sticker labels like this one:

So my need for sticker labels actually arose out of my Celebrity Earth Day Gifting opportunity.  I'm making these super cute Upcycled Vinyl Record Image Bracelets for Earth conscious celebs this coming April, and I have been working on my packaging.  I am using brown Kraft bags, but they needed some sort of closure.  Immediately stickers popped into my head, . I looked into having them printed for me, but my DIY brain kept yelling at me "You can do these yourself!"
So I did.

WHAT YOU NEED: 
Sticker Labels (I used Avery #22807 White Round Print to Edge)
Internet 
GIMP or Photo Editing Program (Paint.Net or Photoshop will work great as well)
Computer with Word Program
Color Printer

1) After purchasing my labels I went to the Avery Templates page and typed in 22807 to pull up the right template (If you didn't use Avery, go to the brand's website as they will typically provide templates for you)
2) Download the template, and then open it up (I used Microsoft Word)  It will look something like this:

3) Design your label.  I used GIMP (Use this video tutorial on How to Make a Blog Button to help in using GIMP to make your sticker label)
4) I then inserted the saved JPG file from GIMP into my Word Document Template for each label on the sheet

5) Next, print IN DRAFT MODE on a blank sheet of paper so that you can insure proper alignment...I needed to adjust my template a tiny bit to the right so the circles lined up exactly with the template.  When you're sure they line up...
6) Print your labels on your sticker paper

Stay tuned for finished packaging for the Earth Day Bracelets!

Academy Awards Finished Packaging

It is official!

I received an e-mail from Valerie of The Artisan Group, and my box of necklaces for the 2012 Academy Awards arrived on her doorstep!

HOORAY!

I am very excited for them to make their way into the celebrities hands.  Who knows what will happen.  I might not hear anything, I might get a tweet, I might get some new customers, but it really doesn't matter as this has been such an amazing journey from start to finish.  It is just exciting to be doing this, and I owe it all to The Artisan Group!  None of this would have been possible without them!

 Here were all 100 necklaces before they were all packaged up in their individual little boxes:

My little baubles:

My little staging area:

Here is the little note I included to my celebrities.  This one was for the Banksy inspired silhouette designs:

You can see where my little note went on the inside of the box. 

 

I cut up fun colored tissue paper into strips, and then crumpled them to act as the packing around the necklaces:

Here were my little Release Me Creations trademark airplane charms that I attached to the boxes on the Divine Twine:

I hand stamped 'Handmade With Love" on the back of the boxes for a little extra touch, and used Divine Twine from Whisker Graphics.  I think the light blue and white just looks too cute!

TADA!

PARTYING ON THESE FABULOUS BLOGS!

I'll keep you all posted on the outcome of the necklaces!