Creative Gift Wrap
Kraft paper, and a lace bow make for a unique gift wrap
Being a well prepared person, on Saturday you could find me trying to wrap a wedding present about 15 minutes before we were supposed to leave. The plus side was that I actually remembered to get the wedding present. The down side was that I had no wedding wrapping paper. I decided that Christmas paper, or the Sunday comics would be inappropriate so I was at a loss until I spotted the roll or brown craft paper. You know the paper that looks like a grocery bag that we used to use as book covers for our school books back in the day.
As my husband watched I know he was concerned that he was going to be carrying in a grocery bag looking gift to a wedding. Luckily, I had seen a piece of lace fabric in a drawer the other day. I cut that into 2 long 4” wide strips and used it like ribbon. Wrapping in one direction and tying a knot, and then doing the other direction. It looked great, and even my husband was impressed.
In fact, I think I’m going to use my new wrapping technique more often. Fabric can be cheaper than ribbon and besides, I’m envisioning using old sheets or curtains in different colors for birthday presents and such.
Tags: gift wrapping, recycle fabric
October 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am
thanks for thats, how are you doing for this xmas? i took your reccomendation and purchased a
emit for my wife
http://www.anhsao.net/story.php?title=fun_christmas_presents_for_men
October 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
For wrapping Christmas presents this year I’m going for a snowy type look. So I thought I would buy a roll of the white ‘butcher’ paper and use that with some old blue curtains I’m cutting up into strips to tie as the ribbon and bows. And for a little different look I’m going to use some worn out white sheets that I saved to wrap around gifts and I’ll gather it at the top and then tie the blue fabric strip to hold it in place, so I won’t even need tape!