Gift Wrapping Tips

katia | 7:24 pm | March 6, 2008 | Gifts, TheGift.com

Impress friends and family this holiday season by ditching the wrapping paper for a more personalized gift presentation. Creative packaging can heighten suspense and make gift exchanges more memorable and meaningful. Here are a few tips:

• Make reusable gift bags from silk, tafetta, burlap, chintz or another fabric; or from dishtowels, doilies or pillow cases. These are great for wrapping odd-shaped or un-boxed items in a hurry.

• Use colorful shoelaces, artificial rose pearls, leather strips, vinyl cording, jump ropes, strips of netting, paper twist, raffia, hemp rope, twine or yarn as creative alternatives to ribbon when tying a package.

• Mislead shakers and squeezers by adding marbles, bells, weights or padding to your package before wrapping it.

• Design your own gift wrapping paper by splatter-painting, rag-rolling, sponging or stenciling sheets or rolls of plain-colored paper.

• Use sheet music to wrap concert tickets or other small gifts for the music lover.

• Hide a small gift in a huge bouquet of flowers, a jar of penny candy, a bucket of marbles, a box of chocolates or a bag of popcorn.

Have fun and let us know if you find a new way to gift wrap!