by Noreen Doll. Not only is it less expensive to make your own homemade gift boxes, you often create much nicer ones. If I'm going to wrap paper around a box, then I like to recycle a cereal or cracker box, or a shoe box. After the gift giving occasion, the boxes can be put in the recycling. Sometimes I want the box itself to look really pretty, and then I need to make … [Read more...] about Homemade Gift Boxes
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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
Gift Wrapping Techniques
Learn gift wrapping techniques to make your gifts stand out. They are easy to learn. Find a box or container that is the right size for your gift. Determine whether you will need to add padding (if it's fragile) or stuffing (if the gift fits too loosely). Stuffing can be extra tissue paper crumpled, or shredded used wrapping paper or bubble wrap. Or it could be a new … [Read more...] about Gift Wrapping Techniques
Gift Wrapping Tips
by Noreen Doll. Gift wrapping tips can be very helpful in streamlining the process of wrapping presents. Usually as the holiday season approaches, I start saving the boxes from oatmeal, crackers, cookies, cereals, egg cartons, shoe boxes and wrapping paper tubes to use for gift wrapping. After Christmas all these recycled boxes can be put in the recycling, and I don't … [Read more...] about Gift Wrapping Tips
Package Mailing Wrap
by Noreen Doll. Would you like an easy way to make your own package mailing wrap? As we are mailing more and more things, and sending boxes becomes ever more expensive, padded envelopes have become a great alternative to boxes for mailing items. Collected below are several good ideas for preparing your own bubble wrap envelope, plus a few other creative ideas for … [Read more...] about Package Mailing Wrap
Bracelet Fastener Gift Wraps
Recently my daughter, who publishes Jewelry Making Journal, designed this genius bracelet fastener tool that allows you to fasten a bracelet yourself when there is no one to give you a hand. She asked me to come up with a way to gift package her bracelet fastener and I created these ideas: Bracelet Fastener Gift Envelope Bracelet Fastener Gift … [Read more...] about Bracelet Fastener Gift Wraps
Recycled Gift Wrap Ideas
by Noreen Doll. I love recycled gift wrap ideas. By reusing things to wrap presents, you can let your creativity go wild and end up with some really unique gift wraps. And they're free! Some Items You Can Recycle Into Gift Wrapping. With a little thought, you can recycle almost anything into an interesting package. Bags of all kinds: fabric, paper, and … [Read more...] about Recycled Gift Wrap Ideas
Gift Decorations
by Noreen Doll. There are many ways to add beautiful or unusual gift decorations to your packages. Bows of all kinds and sizes can be made with ribbon. The wider the ribbon, the larger your bow will be. Bows can be made out of almost anything. Paper bows can be made with newspaper, old maps, magazine or old book pages, catalog pages, telephone book pages, wrapping … [Read more...] about Gift Decorations
