Evening star., 1935-12-15
Old Cards and Envelope Linings
Will Help Create Unique Effects
Each GIFT Can Be
Wrapped To Suit Person
Who WI Get 1t.
By Marie Baumann.

- VOW comes time for good old
N st. Nicholas to shake the crisp,
" flaky snow from his beard and
4 set his nimble fingers busy
at wrapping Christmas gifts again!
When you help him this year, why not
wrap those delightfully."- bulky bundles
and trim looking fiat packages in your
own personality? 1t is not hard. 1t
is cheap, and it is fun. The way to
do it is to utilize your Christmas
greeting cards.
Doubtless by a few days before
Christmas you will have collected a
huge and trembling stack of yuletide
greetings. Or you may have saved
your last years bunch. These mes
sages come in gay envelopes which are
often lined with the loveliest of pat
tern designs. The cards themselves
picture everything from the conven-
tional Three Wise Men to the most
extremely futuristic representation of
greenland orange clad skaters.
THE thing for you to do is to cut
all the choice bits from the cards
and envelopes-tiny blotcheS of color,
particularly appropriate verse, block
designs, or vivid pictures. Then clear
your table and get out your gifts. Lay
your Christmas card tidbits in heap
near two or three rolls of plain
colored paper in red, white, green,
gold or silver. Plain paper is best to
produce your varied effects. For ties
you can use figured ribbon, plain green
or red cord or gold and silver metallic
ribbon. Be sure to have a jar of
paste.
Now you can start to wrap your
gifts in your own personality" OF
course, your personality is not so
warped that you would want to put
red, green, gold, silver and orange all
on the same package! The most ef-
fectiVe packages carry out scheme in
one, two or three colors.
You'll also wish to consider the taste
OF the recipient of the gift and you
will see that sizes and shapes of dec
orations harmonic as closely as pos
sible with the particular packages they
adorn.
FOR tiny Jack, who prefers gayety
and noise. you will probably choose
bright red tissue paper for the big
box containing those first boxing
gloves. You'll cut out in rough outline
the large picture of a madcap sleigh
ride across glistening white snow. !
Paste it near the center of the pack |
age. If you think the hurrying little !
brother will stop long enough to look
at the outside of the package any
further, you can outline the picture
in gold ink about a half-inch from
the edge and finish the package with |
huge golden bow.
Grandmother usually prefers more /
Subdued colorS, but, of course, cheeri- !
ness must prevail. If you wrap her !
long, fat package, containing neck /
lace, in white paper, you are sure to |
please her, especially if you find a
picture of three carolers dressed in
green to paste in the lower right-hand |
corner. See those plain green and /
silver scraps? Cut a huge green star
and two smaller silver ones and paste |
these in cluster at the top left of /
the package, printing Grandma Bios
kom" on the green star. Finish hits
package with strand of green and /
a strand of silver ribbon.
IF BROTHER JOHN is in a blue
haze of perplexity concerning the
girl friends" precious package, you
might help him by telling him to wrap
the expensive looking small box in
black, lustrous paper. Select that
black silhouette of well-bred Scottie,
paste it on small square of silver
paper, and this in turn on a slightly
larger square of red. Now glue it in
the upper left-hand corner and wrap
a wide band of silver around the ex-
treme right side of the package.
When you have finished this highly
lob YOU can look at yolIr