Tutorial: Home-made heart print gift wrap

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Home-made heart print gift wrap

When doing the laundry the other day, I discovered quite by accident that craft paper transfers its color when ironed. So I thought I would try transferring shapes onto butter paper, and I am quite pleased with the results.

For Valentine’s Day, I decided to try out heart shapes. It’s also an amazing solution for those 11th hour hunts for birthday gift wrap.

Here’s a quick tutorial

craft paper
Draw and cut out heart shapes on ordinary craft paper

heart shape
Place these shapes in between 2 sheets of butter
paper placed on layers of soft material.

trace the heart shape with the iron
Run a medium hot iron on top of each heart. Make sure
you “trace” the entire heart with the iron.

heart shape
Then separate the papers. You will find that the heart shape has stuck to the
trace paper. Peel it off gently to reveal a beautiful colored heart shape.

It’s as simple as that! If you are not into hearts, try other shapes, alphabets or patterns.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Sharon DSouza is the founder and editor of this blog. A mother of two, she is based in Pune, and works as a content strategist. She is a coffee lover and writer, and is a regular at her writers' club which meets in a coffee shop every Sunday. She is also a home baker, and loves to travel!

8 Comments

  1. Sangitha Aanand
    February 13, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    Great tip Sharon…loved the idea!

  2. Inderpreet Kaur Uppal
    February 13, 2015 at 5:25 pm

    That is a super idea! So cool, i will try it. Thanks.

  3. Vasudha Somayaji
    February 17, 2015 at 4:23 am

    Such a cute idea.. Definitely comes handy when there are no gift wrapping papers at home.

  4. Manish Dwivedi
    February 20, 2015 at 7:53 am

    WOW!!!.. very beautifully you have done it. I really liked it so much.i will definitely try to do this for sure. Thanks for sharing it here with us.

    Thanks!!
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  5. Raj Aryan
    February 20, 2015 at 8:15 am

    Really impressed… Found a unique way for gift wrapping. Thank you for sharing
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