Blog: Quality Gift Boxes

If you're talking about presents, presentation can be everything. With 14 creative gift packaging ideas.

1. Cut shapes or monograms from cardboard or old holiday greeting cards and hang from tape, jute or yarn.

2. Use a creative wrap that coordinates with the gift. For example, use a receiving blanket and ribbon
A hereditary disease, wrapping paper, fun scrapbooking paper for a Crafter, old maps for a traveler.

3. Use scraps of fabric and tape. Whenever you are in aDiscounter stop by the fabric clearance section.
You can often elegant and unique supplies at a deep discount.

4. Print your favorite family photos of the year on paper and use for wrapping small treasures.

5. Recycle gift wrap from previous years.

6. Adorn the gift with silk flowers or small charms. The booming scrapbooking industry has made available
so many amazing little embellishments that decorate for gifts perfect.

7. Use rubberStamp Stamp Recipient's name, monogram or a special holiday message.

8. Make use of a substance or gift bag. Orientaltrading.com has a large selection of affordable and unique
Packaging supplies.

9. Use by the recipients' favorite newspaper as wrapping paper. Whether it's the comics or the
Sports page, this is a simple and inexpensive way to give a personal touch – especially in combination with
one of these other techniques.

10. Fold a gift box from the lastYears Christmas cards or seasonal card.
Here's how: http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts?page=CraftDisplay&craftid=10500

11. Wrap a gift in a drawing or painting, have done their children.

12. Use natural elements from your region to decorate gifts. Pine boughs or pine cones, dried grasses and
Dried leaves are attractive possibilities.

13. Purchase plain paper and ask your children the items packed gift bag or decorate with drawings
and specific messagesfor wrapping paper that is truly one-of-a-kind.

14. Browse flea markets, flea markets or dollar stores for inexpensive and unique boxes, bags, and bows.
You can even decoupage an old cigar box with photos or memorabilia and create a gift box, which is a gift to yourself.

Use your paper scraps on your gift wrapping

by Tania Willis

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Looking for ways to bring a little papercrafting into your holiday gift giving?  If so, today I have a few very simple, yet very stylish ways in which to do so!  Gift giving has never looked so cute—nor been more affordable since I’m encouraging you to dive into your scrapbooking stash to dress up those packages.

decorate store-bought packaging

Adorable trinket sized boxes are readily available almost anywhere you can buy gift wrap supplies.  My favorite place to pick up a random assortment of boxes is the Dollar Tree and the paper mache aisle of my local craft retailer.  These boxes just beg to be gussied up and beautified.

I love to dig in my supply of patterned paper to choose just the right pattern for my present.  More fun than covering the box though is creating the topper to go on top.

For this box, I created a paper ribbon embellishment that was adorned with buttons and dangling jingle bells.  Here’s how:

1. Punch 1 ½” circle from chipboard.
2. Punch 1 ½” circle from patterned paper.
3. Adhere patterned paper circle to chipboard circle.
4. Cut (12-14) ¼” x 12” strips of patterned paper.
5. Wrap strips around a pencil, pulling tightly as you wrap.
6. Gently slide paper curl off pencil.
7. Adhere one end of each curled strip to the center of the chipboard circle.
8. Stack 2 or 3 buttons and thread a 10” piece of ribbon or jute through the holes.
9. Tie ribbon/jute in a knot and adhere buttons to center of ribbon curls to cover where they are adhered.
10. Tie jingle bells to the ends of the ribbon/jute.

What’s even better? Once decorated, these boxes can be used over and over and over again!

wrapping with papercraft supplies

Another idea is to use your paper craft supplies in place of gift wrap supplies for those smaller items of gift giving (i.e. gift cards, CDs, keychains, wallets, etc.)

For this gift wrap, I chose a dark color of patterned paper to wrap up a CD for a friend.  Then, I created a custom topper with another sheet of patterned paper and miscellaneous embellishments.  Super cute, right!?

Instructions for the Bow:

1. Cut 8 1/2″ x 5″ strips of patterned paper (all matching…..or not).
2. Using a small hand-held hole punch, punch a hole in BOTH ends of each strip.
3. Stack all your strips together so the holes line up.
4. Place a brad through all 8 strips on one end.
5. Bend your strips to form a loop and place the brad through those 8 holes.
6. Separate brad prongs to hold strips in place.
7. Fan the loops out evenly spaced to form a bow.
8. Attach bow to package using glue dots.

Happy gift wrapping!