Make Your Presents Stand Out From The Rest This Year With These Gift Wrapping Ideas That Won't Break The Bank
Cost-effective, environment-friendly and fabulous wrapping ideas for your holiday gifting this season
It’s that time of year again! COVID-19 or not, the spirit of giving starts to come alive as the date comes closer and closer to Christmas. Everyone is just as excited about giving gifts as they are in receiving them, especially if they’re for and from loved ones and friends. The gifting experience becomes even more exciting when the wrappings are unlike your typical store-bought printed paper.
Wrapping your own gifts shows that you took that you put a little more love into the gift. It's the extra step that gives the present a personal touch of your own, showing the receiver how much care was given to the package, from the choice of the gift, to its presentation. What’s more, you can also do this while helping the environment! Imagine the amount of waste we have every year on gift wrappers alone. By using what we already have on hand, not only do we spend less, we also reduce waste and have a chance to let our creativity run free!
Here are a few ideas to get you started on going for that extra present pizzazz:
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Contain Yourself!
With the pandemic at large, there has been a marked increase in the use of plastic or cardboard containers in deliveries. Be it for food, or something else that you’ve bought online, containers have become a staple in business nowadays. Plastic and glass jars retired from food storage are in abundance, too. Instead of throwing them out, try to see if you can pick out those you can safely wash and/or disinfect for re-use. Place your gift inside and close it up with just a little tape, twine, or ribbon. Top it off with nice little accents like pages from an old book you’ve been meaning to let go of or tiny leaves from ferns in your yard, or pine cones from old decor along with your colorful gift tags or ribbons and you’re good to go!
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Contain Yourself!
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Contain Yourself!
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Contain Yourself!
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Contain Yourself!
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Save the Trees!
While super environment-friendly, recycled paper by itself is too plain and boring to wrap up a Christmas present. That’s why we’ll add the most colorful and textured accents we can find. Colorful strings or twine, spare trinkets you’ve been ready to clear out, old Christmas decor you have no use for anymore, or any other scrap material you were planning on throwing out might just be the thing to spice up your wrapping game. You can mix and match and cut them up in shapes, putting them together in designs that form some paper relief art. The contrast it makes against the plain background on your base recycled paper will be sure to make your gift pop among others under the tree.
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Save the Trees!
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Save the Trees!
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Save the Trees!
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Mix and Match!
Who says there can’t be order in chaos? In creative gift-wrapping, you certainly can! Just like with our tips with recycled paper wrapping, you can also hit two birds with one stone in clearing out scraps and stuff you don’t really need and repurposing them to make your smaller gifts beautifully presentable. Left-over wrapping paper from last year, old stickers, extra beads or buttons, random strings, scrapbooking materials you’ve forgotten you have sitting in a drawer, old stamps, and anything else you can find. Don’t be afraid and let your creative spirit run free!
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Mix and Match!
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Mix and Match!
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Mix and Match!
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Wrap It Up!
In pre-war Japan, it is common to see people walking around with packages wrapped in cloth called furoshiki. In modern times, plastic and paper bags have replaced them but furoshiki are still commonly used to wrap and transport lunch boxes (bento). However, it’s been making a comeback in recent years in an attempt to encourage environment-friendly practices to reduce waste. Furoshiki is actually a very convenient and creative way to wrap your gifts! You can actually do it with a single piece or a combination of cloths, but no strings or other things attached. Similarly, the traditionally square Korean pojagi can be used as a cover for your gifts - it’s originally made from patches of old garments, which is a form of recycling in itself. Old clothes can be cut up and sewn together in nice patterns to make your own pojagi. You can fashion and fold them any which way to make your present look elegantly classy or cutely fun! The possibilities are endless! What’s more, it encourages re-use because the material is textile. There’s nothing like the beautiful execution of creative ideas while helping save the earth to wrap up a year such as this.
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Wrap It Up!
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Wrap It Up!
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