I’m Stephanie, a wedding + lifestyle photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Warrenton, Virginia. Whether I’m by the mountains of Colorado or Virginia, my soul feels at home, surrounded by rural living and the raw beauty of nature. I genuinely love what I do, and feel so passionate to share the enthusiasm and joy of these celebrations with you!

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December 16, 2014

Christmas Wrapping

Keeping my posting brief today as I run around and check off my to dos before Christmas next week (Hair pulling now?)! It’s all manageable as I was able to check a bit off my list yesterday. This morning I spent some time finally starting to wrap some gifts! Typically I just buy whatever cute paper and slap a bow on it. This year I wanted to try to put a little more effort into it and create a theme with my wrapping. Simple but it looks great under the tree! I love red and blue tones together so I picked up all kraft paper in this color scheme with original brown kraft paper I used a LONG time ago for client packaging. I love reutilizing items that sit around the house! What I really love about using Kraft paper is that I can stamp on the gifts to make it a little more customized! I found all of my Kraft wrapping paper at Walmart and the amazing red/white twine at Target (of course)! I had to use the twine on everything because that’s how much I love it. 😉 If you haven’t wrapped anything yet, be sure to pick up some of this twine because it’s the perfect touch! Also I’m testing out my modern calligraphy since I can write directly on the kraft package and not on a tag. 🙂 So fun!!!

Hope your shopping/Christmas decorating is coming together! Less than 10 more days … AH!!! Tomorrow, I’m excited to share Nate and Theresa’s beautiful wedding with you all … including their wedding video! SWEET!

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