Simply Green Giving: Create Beautiful and Organic Wrappings, Tags, and Gifts from Everyday Materials

by Danny Seo

Overview

Danny Seo's brand Simply Green is a way of living that embraces certain rules–Be Authentic, Be Resourceful, Be Simple, Be Unexpected, Be Truthful, and Be an Individual. In Simply Green: Giving Danny takes these goals and creates projects that are both thoughtful and sustainable while still being stylish and beautiful.

The book has 50 quick and simple projects to create beautiful gift wrapping, tags, and handmade treasures from everyday materials.

Projects include:

Recycling oversized gift calendar pages turned into gift wrapping

Old silk flowers reborn as stunning flowering bows

Luxury store bags turned into personalized gift bags

Jazzing up boring gift store cards

Making organic soy treasure candles

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062043726
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/14/2010
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	26 MB
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About the Author

Danny Seo is America's leading environmental lifestyle expert and host and creator of Simply Green with Danny Seo, a new show on LIME TV with a companion weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio. The author of four books, he is also the columnist and the Environmental Lifestyle editor with Country Home magazine.

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Simply Green Giving
Create Beautiful and Organic Wrappings, Tags, and Gifts from Everyday Materials

Chapter One

Cards and Tags

You may find this surprising, but even though e-mail invitations and online greeting cards are an ecological, tree-free choice, I am not a fan. I've always found something too convenient and impersonal about receiving something like a birthday greeting via e-mail. Something about the phrase, "Click here to view your greeting," turns me off.

I know there are many of you who agree with me that there is nothing more touching and personal than receiving a handwritten card, invitation, or even a gift tag from a loved one. Whenever I receive a beautiful note or card, I save them. Instead of photo albums to remind me of special events, handwritten notes do the trick for me.

Perhaps in a fast-paced, disposable world, making a gift tag by hand or handwriting a note on a card is one way to remind everyone to slow down.

This chapter is full of ideas to create unusual and ecological gift tags that you can use on all types of gifts, for all types of celebrations. If you've got a stash of cards tucked away in a drawer someplace, bring them out. I have a number of ideas how to display them, recycle them, and even transform them into something spectacularly decorative.

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Simply Green Giving
Create Beautiful and Organic Wrappings, Tags, and Gifts from Everyday Materials. Copyright © by Danny Seo. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.