Yay! Happy Friday! In the past few weeks several of you have asked if I was going to put together more eco-friendly gift wrapping ideas for the holidays this year because last years’ ideas for wrapping holiday gifts with kraft paper were a hit! Well, here they are, 100% compostable gift wrap using all flowers and leaves (and just a bit of green artist’s tape). They are quite jungalicious are they not?
Have an amazing weekend you all and I hope you feel inspired to use all kinds of crazy sh*t to wrap your gifts this year 
These are stunning! I am looking at my garden now, and I think I can see the leaves trembling in anticipation that I shall come and pick them to wrap up some presents like this! Clever stuff.
eeek! justina, these are perfection! is that all goodness from your garden? …pinning now!
j.
Noooooooooooo!!!!! I can’t take it! Just too amazing.
Can you give us some pointers on what the biggest kinds of leaves are?
@Glamour Drops– thank you!! glad you are inspired!
@Jennifer — all from the garden except the Chinese Lantern! Thanks hon!
@Charissa — thank you!! I will get back to you with a suggested plant list!
*___* Wonderful!! I’d like this idea!!!
Wow! This are stunning J. Gift wrap from the garden is going to be all the rage this year thanks to you!
Are you kidding me right now?! These are incredible, J!! Dying.
What a fantastic idea, these are just AMAZING! So pretty. I love the different looks you’ve managed to create with the different flowers and colors, simply stunning!
There’s being creative and then there’s being Compai creative! So awesome!
omg, this is freakin fabulous!!! Being Filipina, organically oriented and an advocate for Mother Nature, I am LOVING this project. Hope you don’t mind, but I’m reblogging this on my website, and crediting you, Queen of the Jungalow, of course!
@flowerland thank you!
@ Bekka ha! Let’s hope so!
@Jessica
@Jackie thank you! they were actually all easy to do!
@Will LOVE that! I think you just wrote my next tagline!
@Amee love for you to share! Thank you!
Amazing!! I wrote about this on my Eco-Blog, and linked back here of course. Hope that’s ok!
Absolutely brilliant!!! Justina this is pure genius. So excited to try this out!
I love this idea.
Anything that cuts down on the excessive amount of paper and waste is great….but this one is also super beautiful.
I have included them in a big list of tutorials for wrapping and decorating. You can see it here….
http://allysonadeney.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/21-handmade-wrapping-and-decoration-ideas-with-tutorials/
… if you like.
Thanks again for sharing!!…and for your beautiful blog.
Ally on harrysdesk.
Beautiful! Reminds me of a beautifully wrapped rice cake that are given as gifts during New Years in Asia!
Gorgeous!!! Sharing on my blog tomorrow!
I have actually been doing this for 8 years. My friends love getting gifts from me and have a hard time unwrapping them cause they are so pretty
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