By Noreen Doll. Learn how to gift wrap a box. It's really quite easy. Unroll your wrapping paper enough to cut a piece that will overlap by a few inches when you wrap it around the box. To make sure you have enough paper for the ends, add the height of one end plus 4 or 5 inches, to the length of the box. 1. Lay the paper with the decorated side down. 2. Lay … [Read more...] about How to Gift Wrap a Box
Gift Wrapping Ideas
Camo Wrapping Paper
By Noreen Doll. Here's an easy way to make your own camo wrapping paper - and recycle as well. Save the crumpled brown paper that is packed in boxes you've had shipped to you. Use green and black paints to create camouflage wrapping paper. Notice that you can barely see the twine bow. That's because it is camouflaged, which makes it perfect for this wrap! What … [Read more...] about Camo Wrapping Paper
Creative Gift Wrap
by Noreen Doll. Making creative gift wrap is fun, especially if you wrap presents to keep pinchers from guessing what is inside. One person I know used a different wrapping paper for each member of her family, but that member's gifts were all wrapped in the same paper. She put no names on them so no one was sure what belonged to who. Another gal swapped names … [Read more...] about Creative Gift Wrap
How to Gift Wrap
Once you learn how to gift wrap, it can be fun making beautiful and unique presents. Part of giving a gift is packaging or wrapping it. After your gift is wrapped, you can tie a ribbon around it and add a beautiful bow. Or you can think of all kinds of creative ways to make it look interesting. If you really don't enjoy spending a lot of money on wrapping a gift, see … [Read more...] about How to Gift Wrap
CD Gift Wrap
Make your own easy CD gift wrap. CD's are such a common gift to give and receive that it's nice to know how to make a gift holder for one. You can use decorative paper, gift wrap, or fabric to make them. CD Holder Use a thicker decorative paper to fold into the required shape for a CD holder. Card Case A holder for greeting cards or photos, use decorative … [Read more...] about CD Gift Wrap
Gift Wrap in a Snap
For gift wrap in a snap, there are some great ideas here. In this fast paced world, we frequently don't have time to spend making ornate gift wraps. Below you will find some really speedy ideas, many of which can use recycled paper bags if you choose to. Quick and Easy Bags For quick and easy gift bags, buy red and green lunch size bags. Fill, fold down, and hold … [Read more...] about Gift Wrap in a Snap
Free Printable Gift Wrap
Using free printable gift wrap is one quick way to wrap a present. Just print, cut out, fold and tape and your box or bag is ready to use. Printable Gift Boxes Christmas and everyday printable gift boxes. Click through the pages at the bottom for more shapes and designs. Printable Christmas Boxes Scroll down to find a printable Christmas house box, along with … [Read more...] about Free Printable Gift Wrap
Bags and Bows
by Noreen Doll. Use bags and bows to wrap gifts quickly and easily. For quick, efficient and beautiful gift wrapping, bags and bows are all you really need. You can buy new attractive bags or recycle bags so creatively that no one will suspect their lowly origin. Paper bags are particularly easy to repurpose into gift bags. You can decorate them as they are, … [Read more...] about Bags and Bows
Gift Wrap Bags
by Noreen Doll. Making gift wrap bags is easy and fun. You can recycle a bag by covering the store logo with a design, greeting card, or piece of wrapping paper. You can reuse a box such as a cereal or cracker box by cutting off the top end. Cover the box in attractive paper and add some handles. Or wrap a piece of gift paper around a box the size of the bag you … [Read more...] about Gift Wrap Bags
Gift Bags
Make your own gift bags using recyclable bags from the store, or from wrapping paper, brown craft paper, butcher paper, or newspaper. Gift bags are reusable and handy for quickly wrapping a present. Lunchbag Gift Bag Here are clever ways to make them using easy to find materials. Printable Popcorn Bag A printable popcorn bag is a fun bag to use when you have … [Read more...] about Gift Bags
Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas
by Noreen Doll. Fun and creative gift wrapping ideas for special gifts. Sometimes it's fun or important to use creative gift wrapping ideas. Gift Wrap with Recycled Christmas Cards For "green" wrapping ideas, try using gift wrap with recycled Christmas cards. It's a great way to reuse some of those greeting cards you've been collecting. Santa Triangle … [Read more...] about Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas
Fabric Gift Wrap
by Noreen Doll. Use fabric gift wrap and recycle. People are realizing more and more that we can't keep trashing the earth's system by creating so much garbage. One way we can minimize our trash is by wrapping gifts in reusable cloth instead of paper. Gift bags are very easy to stitch, and you don't even have to stitch the top, you can just tie ribbon or string … [Read more...] about Fabric Gift Wrap
