Have you started wrap­ping gifts yet? Or, are you one of those orga­nized ones who are already done?! We’ve started some of the wrap­ping and been using some of my Elmer’s prod­ucts! There are SO many great prod­ucts to choose from that are per­fect addi­tions for your gift wrap­ping sta­tions! Here’s a glimpse at just the Elmer’s Mem­ory Keep­ing & X-ACTO sec­tion at Wal­mart! (For more, you can see my Google+ story here)

Once home from my lit­tle shop­ping trip, I set up a wrap­ping sta­tion com­plete with the following:

• Var­i­ous wrap­ping papers
• Craft­Bond Glue Spots (Pop-Up)
• X-ACTO Grip­ster Craft Knife
• X-ACTO Craft Mat
• X-ACTO Basic Templates
• Craft­Bond Per­ma­nent Tape Runner
• Craft­Bond Flex­i­ble Dual Tip Glue Pen
• Elmer’s Painters Markers
• X-ACTO Designer Series Scissors
• Craft­Bond All Pur­pose Glue Stick
• X-ACTO Dec­o­ra­tive Shapes Template
• Scrap­ping paper (for mak­ing gift tags)
• Var­i­ous ribbons

First up, we had to get the fam­ily cal­en­dars wrapped & shipped off to fam­ily mem­bers! The gift has become a tra­di­tion for the last 5 years (since Big Brother was born). Before any­thing else though, I had to use my white Elmer’s painters marker to cor­rect an error on the front of the cal­en­dar (next year is 2012, NOT 2011. Oops!)So, after that was fixed, we needed to wrap them! No fancy direc­tions or tricks with that–just your stan­dard wrap­ping. But, a few Elmer’s prod­ucts, like the Craft­Bond Per­ma­nent Tape Run­ner and Craft­Bond All Pur­pose Glue Stick, work great for wrap­ping adhe­sives! Over the years of ship­ping gifts, we’ve found that fancy bows & things unfor­tu­nately don’t trans­port well. But, I decided to at least make some cute gift tags!

I used an X-ACTO craft knife to cut out the shapes using the tag shape from the X-ACTO Dec­o­ra­tive Shapes Tem­plate! And, I was SO glad to have the X-ACTO craft mat to cut these shapes out on! I had those cute snowflakes cut outs from the fam­ily snow­men orna­ment & thought they’d look great on the tags! Just use a pop-up glue spot to stick them on! Then, I used my Painters marker again to label the tags. Once they were made, I put a bit a curly rib­bon on it–and helped to hold the rib­bon down with a Glue Spot & some glue using the Craft­Bond Flex­i­ble Dual Tip Glue Pen. After get­ting those done, I used the large gift box I made from Elmer’s tri-fold board (you can get all the direc­tions to make it here) for my sister’s gift–and it was per­fect!!! I can’t show you pho­tos of the whole thing (in case she hap­pens upon this post), but you’ll notice, that yes, it’s a lamp shade. I know, ran­dom right, but she’ll love this par­tic­u­lar one. For awhile I was SO stumped as to how I was going to wrap it, but then real­ized that the gift box would be per­fect! I stuffed the open part with white & red tis­sue paper. But, it still needed some­thing. So, I took a wide red rib­bon and wrapped it up each side. I used one glue spot on each side just to help hold the rib­bon on & keep it from slip­ping. Then, I tied a big bow using the two rib­bons. I love the out­come! So pretty! Now, I just need to tackle the rest of the pile hid­den in the closet!

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Dis­clo­sure: This project has been com­pen­sated as part of a social shop­per insights study for #Elmer­sHol­i­day #glu­englit­ter #col­lec­tive­bias #cbias. As always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.