wrapping papaer - brown?

[roastedfox]

thinking about using plain brown paper, the sort from a post office and just adding a red or green ribbon, will this look naff? will get some brighter paper for the boys.
thanx

What about the DC's doing potato prints over the brown paper - Xmas trees, snowflakes etc?

I often get my DS to do this to create individual birthday/Xmas paper for his friends!

Other than that - I think plain brown paper is fine.

I think it could work well. Probably better quality paper that a lot of the naff xmas stuff you can get. I think that 'dressed up' with ribbon it would look very nice. Would be bit naff with brown paper alone with no colour added though.

I'm using brown paper, with hand made tags.
But I know nothing about style!

it will look lovely, imo. i use plain paper and get the dds to decorate with stamps.

Nope - did it last year, with some lovely ribbon and the presents looked lovely. You can even dispense with name tags if you write on them with silver/ gold pens!

yes, very nice and simple

I've done it, the dc 'decorated' with cut out bits of christmas catalogues. Worked very well.

Have also done birthday presents like this where dc decorated/ glued/ stamped. Well received all round.

great think i'll def do it then!thanx
merry christmas

I'm doing it this year too!

Took me ages to find the right paper though as lots are a really insipid brown colour. Mines from hobbycraft and my ribbon is from costco but I there is loads of lovely ones about.

It's me, geekoftheweek, btw

I've done it the past three or four, the whole family laugh at me now . What care I, it looks fabulous. Paper from the PO, ribbons galore and like someone said, gold pen or luggage tags - my PO sells red and green ones.
I think actually we're a bit passe and all the super-trendies have moved on from this look to horrible purple metallic paper or something.

You have to do ribbons tho or it looks poor. Either big blowsy satin or velvet or narrow tartan or silver, they all look ace.

hey there geek!
like the sound of a tartan ribbon, wheres the best place for ribbons? thanx

I get mine from the off-cuts basket at my local department store. But in a town with real shops - hobbycraft?

I use this every year.
My DD's do silver and gold hand and footprints on it and it looks lovely

ooooo yeah i have a hobbycraft near me!
that sounds pretty fab MyDingaling!

I always do this too.
Brown paper from the post office, and then some nice gold twine type stuff wrapped around it. Sometimes I print it, or stick things on it. Sometimes I use ribbon. I never use labels, just write on the paper with a nice pen (or black marker).
I do it on Birthdays as well (even for the dc's friends ).
I think it looks nice!