Vintage Birthday Wrapping Paper

I love making my own vintage Birthday wrapping paper. It is a fun and simple project that can really finish a Birthday gift perfectly. I love all things vintage, so creating vintage inspire Birthday wrapping paper is just so fun and easy.

While this vintage inspired Birthday wrapping paper may not cost anymore than the store bought version, it will look like a million bucks!

To Make You Own Vintage Inspired Birthday Wrapping Paper You Will Need:

Roll of brown craft paper or white paper

Sponges

Paint

Stencils

Crayons

Markers

Ribbon

Now, when making your vintage Birthday wrapping paper you have a couple choices you can make. You can go ahead and roll out the paper on a work surface and decorate it before you even wrap your Birthday gifts.

You could also decorate the vintage inspired Birthday wrapping paper after your gift has been wrapped. I sort of like this method because when you have folds on the sides of the gift you can really disguise them by stamping or stenciling directly on them. People will be amazed and wonder how you wrapped their Birthday gift and made all the details on the vintage wrapping paper match!

So, I cannot not tell you what to draw, paint, or stencil your own vintage wrapping paper for birthdays, but what I can do is give you a few ideas that are great starting points.

Paint Color

Try using milk paint that you make rather thick to stencil with. Milk paint has an awesome vintage look when it dries. Best of all it will stick to anything and can even work as a primer. This is a super quick way to make vintage birthday wrapping paper.

Stencils

Try using some of those great letter stencils. I love vintage typewriter looking letters. Nothing screams vintage more than an old typewriter! The letters are distinctive and so fun. So, cut out your letters and tape them to your paper with painter's tape. Buy the low adhesive kind. Use black acrylic paint mixed with brown acrylic paint to dab on your letters. I love to do this one on brown paper and let some of the letters look like they are fading away.