Gift Wrapping for The Christmas Season

The giving season is here with us and what a better way to share with family and friends than by giving them gifts wrapped in a way that conveys thought and showing them you took time to think out their #presents and #wrapping. Here are a few for it yourself candy boxes wrapping options that should be enjoyable to make.

 

A. STAMPED WRAPPING PAPER

What you need: pencil, ink pad and brown craft paper.

 

Procedure: Take the pencil’s eraser end, push it into the pad containing ink then stamp down the eraser end down the kraft paper. Repeat until the whole paper is full of stamped dots. You can add a further decoration by tying a red twine around the middle of the wrapped gift.

 

B. TYPOGRAPHIC GIFT WRAP

What you need: Brown craft paper, utility knife, used book, pencil, scissors, alphabet templates, tracing material, glue stick, used book

 

Procedure: cut out pages from the book using the utility knife, wrap the gift using craft paper as you would any normal gift. Use the template to choose the alphabets you’d like to use (for name of recipient). Trace out the letters from the cut page and cut them out. Glue the cut out papers onto the present wrapped in craft paper. The end result should be a series of beautiful #candy #boxes.

 

C. CHALK BOARD PACKAGE

What you need: black craft paper, white paint marker, ideas..more creative ideas.

 

Procedure: wrap the gift in a black craft paper, then draw, write, display your creativity using the white paint marker, the creativity should result be attractive.

 

D. UPCYCLED GIFT WRAP

What you need: Recycled paper, shopping bag, newspaper, sweater and cereal box, craft punch, scissors.

 

Procedure:

Step 1; remove both the bottom flaps and handles of the #shopping back by cutting it open into one large sheet, you can remove wrinkles by ironing the paper out .

Step 2; wrap the gift as you would normally.

Step 3;cut out a strip of fabric from the recycled sweater or tshirt to tie as a ribbon round the present.

Step 4;take the ceral box and use the craft punch to tag it out which you can then paint or use glitters to bring out the names.

Step 5: present to loved one or put under christmas tree for them to pick.

 

E. POTATO STAMPS

What you need: 3 to 4 potatoes, large or small any is good, small paring/X-acto knives, brown kraft paper or masking paper,stamp pads of different colors.

Procedure:

Depending with what you want, you can cut out triangle, O’s or XOXO’s,

Blot out potatoes using paper towel to enable sticking of the ink to the potato surface since it helps remove moisture, then firmly but softly press down on the potato.

 

F. STAMP ROLLER

What you need: Lint roller, craft foam, baker’s twine, scissors and skewere stick. Others include green ink pad and gift paper/card.

 

Procedure:

1. Cut the foam in sizes of 1 by 2.5 inches and make tree shapes on them, then use the skewere stick to make tiny holes into the trees, then cut one piece of twine.

2. Take the roller and add foam to it with the trees positioned with the stumps pointing to the handle, create a hillside look by wrapping the twine through and also around your trees.

3. Press to ink pad and roll so that the green ink completely covers it.

4. Roll it to a paper and allow it to dry.

Done