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How to Gift Wrap with Toodles Noodles
If you are like me, my gift wrapping skills are not that great, I usually settle for a nice bag to put my presents in. Lucky for us the talented Liora, who designs and makes her own gift wrap, shares her amazing gift wrapping skills with us. Just follow along step by step below.
(Post written by Amber at Elite16, photos by Michelle at Studio:Weir)
Gift Wrapping 101:- Pick out your paper. Liora used her confetti, follow the arrow and New Zealand floral paper for this DIY.
- A pair of scissors
- Gift tags
- Tape
- Ribbon or twine
- Imagination and patience and maybe some music for inspiration
Confetti paper tutorial
To make this package stand out Liora created an extra fold on top. A perfect place to put your gift tag.
The finished product. Add your ribbon and a gift tag and you have a package almost too pretty to open!
With her New Zealand flora paper tutorial, Liora added a pop of color, by adding a red piece of fabric on top of the paper. 
New Zealand flora tutorial: see the steps below on how to make your gift stand out
just add a fun gift tag with some ribbon or twine and show off your gift wrapping skills
Follow the Arrow: This tutorial is my favorite. I am a big fan of this playful pattern and check out the whole gift wrap kit here. Those fun arrows on top are cupcake toppers.
Follow the Arrow tutorial 
Use an extra strip of paper to create a place holder for your gift tags and adornments
Add your cupcake toppers by creating a notch in the paper for showing them off
You may not want to open up these packages. They just look too good!
Now you should be a gift wrapping expert. With some fun paper, some cool accessories and a bit of imagination you can create packages that really stand out. A big thanks to Liora for sharing her wrapping skills. If you love her paper she also has lots of other goodies in her shop: tote bags, tea towels, note cards and more. She also has a fun blog.
Your finished product. Now you are an official expert gift wrapper. Show them off!
Weekly Roundup - 27 September
Happy Friday everyone! This week's roundup is very close to my heart. I am part of an amazing group through Etsy of talented artists from around the world called Elite16. I was approached to join this Etsy team last November. Now, never being a part of a team before I wasn't really sure what it meant. The requirements were pretty simple, 12 treasuries featuring at least 6 team members each month. Sounded simple enough, 3 treasuries a week, easy! But little did I know what it really meant to be part of a team. This group of artists have been an amazing support team for me. You can always count on them to seek support when you find yourself in hard times and they are also there for long a distance high five when celebrating achievements. The forum has provided me with an immeasurable amount of advice, support, and knowledge. Because we are all small business owners, some full-time, some doing their craft on the side, we all benefit from each other. The latest advice I received from my team is how to deal with stress, workload and saying 'no'. We all want our businesses to succeed and grow - which usually goes hand and hand with stress. Over the last few weeks there is no denying that the Toodles Noodles workload has increased exponentially and it's extremely exciting to see this business taking off. But with another full-time graphic design job (yup, for those who didn't know, I have a full-time job apart from Toodles!), and wanting to look after myself, things can get tricky. Here are some great words of wisdom from my fellow team members with stress and tackling a growing workload:
- Do you have anyone helping you? That would be the first step ( if it's feasible) to have someone help out with shipping, etc.
- Price increase is the next step. If people are buying it might be time for a price increase and reward yourself for all your hard work.
- Don't over commit yourself. It's exciting to get lots of orders, but if you can't or don't have help you will just wear yourself out.
- Extend your lead time with custom orders.
- Take a day off. It's probably one of the hardest things to do....but when you work for yourself and/or from home it's hard to "turn off." It's hard to do but that you come back reinvigorated, more organised and with a clear idea of what needs to be done in an orderly fashion.
- Sit down at the end of each work day day and write down everything about the business that you've worked on that day & what your next steps are. It's different from a To-Do list because you write down future tentative plans and try to decide if they are practical or not.
- karoArt - home of quirky and creative ceramics handmade in Ireland.
- A Quiet Curiosity Award Ribbon Brooch, Stamped Polymer Clay Ribbon Brooch handmade in Arkansas.
- Handmade healing lip balms from LittleFlowerSoapCo in Michigan.
- Hailing from Brooklyn, NY woven Jute bags great for everyday use by IndependentReign.
- Made to order linen towel from bonnbonn in Illinois.
- Hand-hammered silver nailheads adorn this natural linen pillow cover in a sleek polka dot pattern by JillianReneDecor in Virginia.
- Beautiful art blocks, perfect for any home, by redtilestudio in the big hearted state of Texas.
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