Wow wrapping ideas

[HolidayHappy123]

I love wrapping presents and I’m fine with the paper bit. But when it comes to ribbons and other decorations to make it more interesting it just looks shit.

Does anyone have any ideas for how make wrapped gifts look amazing?

I love newspaper and brown masking tape. It looks lovely and natural and on the day you can can tape on a bit of extra holly or whatever.

Get yourself over to Instagram, there are tons of inspiration reels, accounts like gift wrap savvy, wrapped by Carrie, gift wrapping love etc.

now I really want more gifts to wrap, we have a small family who mainly want cash, vouchers and experience gifts, and I don’t think the cat really appreciates my efforts

I put cash and vouchers in boxes and wrap those.

I’ve decided on a Nutcracker theme this year. I have Nutcracker printed wrap and plan wrap in coordinating colours with Nutcracker ribbon and I bought some small Nutcracker tree decorations to tie on and use as tags.

Frill the ribbon with the side of the scissors so you get the lovely curls, do some so that the wrapping is in the centre of a square box or off-centre for variation. the wide metal fabric ribbons can look lovely, as well as velvet ribbon if you're wanting to splurge a bit.

I love wrapping. Following for ideas.
I did brown paper and red string one year and made my own tags using mushroom ink stamps.

But a roll of wide satin ribbon in a solid colour 6-8” wide.

Choose a thick wrapping paper in a solid contrasting colour, and use boxes for any awkwardly shaped gifts.

Take a little bit of time to learn how to tie a bow that knots the pulls the four sections of ribbon on the top together. You want the bottom overlap to lie flat, everything quite precisely centred and on the top, each of the four sections starts wide and tapers to the middle, with a generous bow. Cut the ends in a sharp V, just longer than the edge of the gift.

It’s very simple, but does require a little bit of care to centre everything. Satin has enough thickness to hold a bow well. You could create a rosette either extra loops, but I think the simple classic bow, that just tugs loose with one pull is the archetype image of a gift.

I love brown paper with nice ribbon and sellotape rounds (sooo much neater and easier). Then I free hand scribbly Christmas decorations on it with a black fine tip pen, looks quite arty (and I have no skill!)