Crafter's Delight: Purple Flower Garden Gift Wrap

I'm back with another crafting project! I have a present for my little cousin and I wanted to do something special - it would be youthful for an 8 year old but also a little grown up so that she can feel extra special. I got inspired by multiple shades of purple and came up with this gift wrap design. Here's how I did it.

First, I started by wrapping the box in plain lavender gift wrap paper. 
The color was so fun that it inspired me to work with multiple shades of purple to create something really special and to play with a tone-on-tone design.

This was my purple palette. I grabbed multiple shades of purple card stock and some glitter paper to run the full range of pinky-purples. From there, I got inspired to create a purple flower garden theme.

I used this decorative punch to make a string of flower petals. I then used an adhesive dot roller and coated the very bottom of the petals and proceeded to roll the petals in a circle to make the beginning of the flower bud.

Here's a top view of the flower after I'd made additional petals in the other shades of purple and wrapped them around my original bud.

And here's a side view - I used a very thin strip of glitter paper to wrap around the base to add a little something extra to the design and to hide the paper edges of the petal string to make it look a little cleaner.

Next, I took one of the darker shades of purple card stock and used an ivy decorative paper punch to create a string of ivy.

I grabbed my adhesive dot roller and laid down the ivy on the gift box.

Finally, I used a hot glue gun to secure the flower to the box and then, after spreading the flower petals open, used some purple/green holographic beads to create the illusion of pollen.

To create the accompanying card, I kept it super simple and cut some of the leftover card stock into ovals and secured it to the body of the card. I used a silver stamp pad and my "Congratulations" stamper to finish the card off.


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And that's the finished product! I really like the way it turned out - it looks very simple and clean with the tone-on-tone color palette but is super fun and festive at the same time.