You will experience even more savings if you consider taking the DIY wrapping process or going with the Semi-DIY wrapping approach. You can go old school with Kraft paper and twine. This look is timeless and inexpensive. You may think Kraft paper is too plain for wrapping paper, and if this is the case, try using a sharpie to create your own design! The receiver is bound to be impressed by your personal touch added to the gift.
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But gift wrapping gives us the same challenge as dressing fashionably. You want it to look sophisticated, neat, and pretty, just without all the waste, exploitation, and environmental impact. That is not always the easiest thing to pull off.
So I decided to really dig into this problem this year, try out all the internet suggestions for eco-friendly wrapping ideas, and share what I learned with you, complete with illustrative pictures of the results. (Hat tip to The Art of Living Simple and Martha Stewart for generating some of these ideas for me.)
Simply follow the link provided below each image to know more details about each design. Most of them come with a step-by-step tutorial on how to do them. Have fun doing these very creative gift wrapping techniques!
A Splash of ColorThe designer channeled her inner grade-schooler by sandwiching colorful wax shavings between layers of tissue paper (three on the top and three on the bottom) and ironing them until the wax melted. After wrapping, Wong adorned the gift with an asymmetrically placed satin ribbon and a cluster of tissue dahlias.
Let Martha inspire your creativity with the most beautiful crafts. The 225 handmade projects include cards and greetings, decorations, gifts and gift wrapping, tabletop accents, party favors, and kids' crafts, as well as more holiday-specific activities, such as egg-dyeing, pumpkin carving, and tree trimming. Each idea is sure to make the holidays more festive--and memorable.
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Wow! So many wonderful ideas. Brown and white paper can be so effective. It's all about the accessories and I love the natural touches particularly the pine cones. My gift wrapping is finished but I'll remember these for next year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you for all your lovely comments too. Much appreciated!
Every gift requires two decisions on the part of the giver: first, what to buy, and second - increasingly important! - how to wrap it to make a maximum impression. That could explain why some of the longest lines in stores and malls this season can be found not at the cash registers or even in the food courts, but at the gift-wrapping counters.
The practical-minded could argue that this increasingly popular service adds up to a lot of money for something so ephemeral, so guaranteed to end up in the trash by Christmas night. Yet those who run gift-wrapping services expect a banner year, with male customers increasingly outnumbering women as Dec. 25 approaches.
Across the country, gift-wrap supplies alone represent a $1.3 billion industry, according to Hallmark. In Boston, a charity that sponsors gift-wrapping booths at several shopping malls this month will net tens of thousands of dollars from its services.
Call this The Age of Packaging, when the comforting old sentiment, "It's what's inside that counts," has been upstaged by the recognition that what's on the outside can be important, too. Americans are learning what the Japanese, world masters of supremely elegant wrappings, have long known - that presentation is an art form. Would a gift from Tiffany's, for example, however beautiful and costly, still carry the same cachet if it didn't come tucked inside the store's famous robin's-egg-blue box?
In the same way that the true meaning of a gift can never be measured by the wrapping, the idea that an employee will succeed or fail as much on the basis of appearance as ability is an unfortunate argument for packaging. It runs the risk of reducing everyone to the predicament of politicians in TV ads, who are supposed to look presidential, or whatever, never mind what's within.
On the other hand, the most innovative argument for packaging may come from the often-maligned Martha Stewart, who this year - surprise - is promoting "cheap elegance." Instead of buying expensive Christmas wrapping, she suggests, the gift-giver should devise his or her own, inexpensively but tastefully, with tulle and tissue paper. In this way, the wrapping actually becomes the creative part of the gift.
The holiday season is in full swing, which means marketers are unwrapping some of the year's most eye-catching and thumb-stopping campaigns of the year. In our final Campaign Trail of 2018, our editors selected some of the oddest novelty gifts on the market and a parody PSA from a concerned gingerbread man: 2ff7e9595c
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