Wrapping Christmas gifts is an art that must be perfected by practicing well in advance. In order not to arrive unprepared and “wrap” at the last moment, find out how to make surprising gift boxes, using recycled gift paper and low cost decorations: here are 12 creative ways to best wrap your Christmas gifts and make a great impression with friends and relatives.
Often a gift package made with care it attracts much more than its content. The art of packaging it does not require specific skills, but it can become definitely source of stress for those who have not a lot familiarity with paper, tape and various decorations.
Anyone who thinks that choosing the perfect gift is the hardest part of the holiday season will sooner or later have to deal with paper and ribbon. To simplify the packaging many avoid resorting to wrapping paper, using alternative ploys, such as pre-packaged baskets or bags to be stapled.
But do you want to put the beauty of a gift package, carefully wrapped with love and dedication? If this year you have decided to make you yourself of the personalized gift boxes, you are in the right place: here are 12 easy and creative ways to pack to the best Christmas presents, and surprise friends and family with unique and pretty packages.
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What do you need?
To wrap gift packages fantastic you don’t need to go crazy looking for designer gift paper and precious ribbons. All what you it will be necessary to:
- brown wrapping paper, newspaper or geographical maps
- colored balls of wool, twine, trimmings, colored ribbons
- double sided tape
- scissors
- colored cards
- seasonal natural decorations (pine needles, pine cones, red berries, leaves)
- hot glue.
1. Garland
If the environmental issue is particularly close to your heart, creates eco-friendly gift packages with recycled paper and natural seasonal decorations, such as pine cones, pine needles, and red berries.
To find them take a tour of the park and collect everything that nature offers you: you will be surprised by how many decorations you can make in an easy and low cost way!
To create a decorative garland wrap a sprig of pine around to a circle of wire. League your composition to the package, using colored woolen threads. Simply tie the ends with a knot to obtain a Christmas composition with a green touch.
2. Stamps
If you want to give a touch of color to recycled brown paper opt for stamps. This is the fastest and cheapest way to get perfect decorations in a short time: choose a Christmas pattern and have fun creating your own personalized wrapping paper.
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3. 3D sapling
To pack a gift package in a truly original way, you don’t need special effects: you can create those yourself, creating a 3D decoration of great impact.
Cut out a circle from green construction paper and divide it in half: you will get a half circle which will in turn be folded in the middle.
Realize of the vertical folds on each half, folding the cardboard accordion. Secure the ends on the package with double-sided tape and decorate the tree with a star on top and some decorative ribbons.
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4. Scrapbooking
Another original way to revive a card Brown recycled it is scrapbooking, a really fun recreational hobby, with which you can create decorations unique to be applied on your packages Christmas.
To obtain the shapes of the same size you can use a die cutter suitable for paper cutting.
Alternatively you can choose to crop you yourself of the Christmas shapes, previously drawn on a cardboard colored.
5. Pine needles
If you want to amaze the person who will unwrap your gift package, forget about ribbons and rosettes and make a real Christmas decoration: embellish the package with a pine branch is paste your mini tree with a hot glue strip on the back.
6. Roll of toilet paper
Often i smaller gifts they are also the most valuable ones and to enhance them you do not need to resort to standard and anonymous looking boxes.
Realize, instead, of the mini customized packaging and friends of the environment, recycling paper rolls hygienic: fold the two ends inwards is stack them on top of each other. Finish the job with twine or colorful decorative ribbon.
7. Newspapers
Do you have mountains of newspapers invading your home and you don’t know where to put them anymore? The new trend is wrapping gifts with newspaper sheets or maps: the ease of wrapping and the size of the sheets allows you to wrap small and large packages without distinction.
The decorations I’m very important: do not forget to add a splash of color with a large colored ribbon. The alternative, for those who don’t like bows, is a woolen thread closed by a vintage button.
8. Straws
Would you have thought that the biodegradable straws could become an enchanting star decoration? To embellish a gift package insert long strands of wool inside of five straws; weave them to create a star pattern and tie all the ends at the back, pulling the threads of each straw well.
9. Footprints
The reindeer Rudolph is one of the most loved subjects on Christmas decorations. Also it is perfect for pack a gift intended for a child, which surely will not wait other than to know what the gift card hides, embellished by the presence of many colored reindeer with the characteristic red nose.
Decorate a wrapping paper brown leaving your fingerprints: dip your thumb in gouache colored and create many small colorful polka dots, on which you will have to glue some red pom poms to the base.
With a black pen makes the eyes and antlers of the reindeer. Remember to finish the package with decorative ribbon.
10. Trimmings
If you have kept lace, lace or decorative borders, waiting for inspiration to be able to reuse them, now is the time to take them out of the box: exploits the leftovers of trimmings to embellish gift packages, creating a mix of colored weaves, alternative to classics tapes Christmas.
11. Biscuits
Do you want to take friends and family by the throat? Make a gift package closed by a biscuit shortcrust pastry or with ginger and cinnamon. Create the cookies using the molds of your choice. The important thing is that they are Christmas: once the gift has been unwrapped could be reused as decorations for the tree Christmas.
With the help of a straw creates two holes at least 1 centimeter apart in the center of the biscuit; they will help insert the decorative ribbon that will go laced on the back of the gift package.
12. Reindeer
If you also find reindeer to be adorable, don’t miss out on this cute gift package idea: make with cards colored the nose, eyes and antlers of the reindeer.
Cut them out and glue them directly onto the package, decorating the package with a red ribbon and a bell to realize the collar.
Christmas gifts: pictures and photos
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