Gift Packing Tips: How to Decorate Your Gift Perfectly with 3 Quirky Gift Packing Items You Can Order Online (2020)

• Always pick wrapping papers is solid colours. Try to buy paper of good quality so that it does not tear off from the corners and ruin your surprise. It is advisable to use white, silver, gold, or Kraft wrapping papers to wrap wedding gifts to make them look festive and decorative.


• Remember to wrap a gift with nice, crisp folds. The folds should be symmetrical; using a box for a gift is a good idea as packing a box is easier than wrapping other gifts.


• Use equal length clear tape to tape the paper; you do not want your gift to look untidy.


• Finish up the wrapping with a thick ribbon. You can use contrasting colours. You can also wrap it with twine. Be creative, and see what looks unique on your wrapped gift.


• Always go for the thickest wrapping papers to wrap a gift, buy a roll with a grid pattern on the back to get it right, and use a double-sided tape for a neat seam.

Method

• All you need is 3-inch square fabric of your choice to make this forget me not flower. Choose a bright colour for the flower.
• Fold the square piece diagonally and gather the sides at the middle bottom corner.
• Tie it at the base.
• Now construct four or five petals and add pips in the middle, you can also make one more petal using a different cloth.
• Tie it all together with the wire in the middle, and your flower is done.
• You can make a couple of flowers and put them on the top of your wrapped present or just one flower will a tag would do.

Material Required

• Brown Paper
• Tape and Scissors
• Red Paper

Method

• First put your gift in a box and wrap it up with red paper.
• Then wrap it again with brown paper.
• Now, cut two hearts on the brown paper and fold them in the opposite direction.
• The red paper will peak from within the half-cut brown papers to give a 3D effect of floating hearts.

Don't forget to click your husband's smile to see so many hearts floating on top of his present.

Method

• Put your paper with the pattern side facing down and fold it in half, crease well. The pattern side of the paper should be in the inside.
• Fold this in half and crease it again.
• Now, open the paper and flip it over.
• Now, fold it in half, keeping the patter side on the outside.
• Open it and turn it 90 degrees, fold again in half diagonally.
• Press the paper along the folded lines, keep the pattern side in.
• Press it flat and fold the tip down to 1 to 2 cm. Crease well.
• Now, open the paper, you should see a small square in the centre of the paper.
• Make mountain folds by creasing along the sides of the square.
• Now, for the paperback in on itself, the square should be visible and collapse as you fold it.
• Fld the top layer of the paper, so it meets in the middle and flip the folded paper over, repeat on the other side.
• Open the paper and watch out for the square forming in the middle.
• Press it flat, make sure the folds stay in their place.
• Now turn the paper, so the pattern side is down.
• Make four cuts along the fold to make two flaps.
• Fold the first flap down so that the top of the blow is visible. Now, fold the top to form 2 triangles. Fold both the flaps, repeat to make the bottom of the bow.
• Now, fold both the flaps down, this will make the tail of the bow.
• Fold the sides in and cut up the centre of the tail.
• Now fold the sides you cut inward.
• Flip the bow over.
• Fold the tips into the centre and tuck them under the square. You can either press it flat or leave it for a 3D effect, and you are done with a cute little bow for your special gift.

The instructions may seem long but if you follow to the tee, it is quite simple and makes a perfect bow.

Method

• Start with a 12-inch piece of yarn, keep it aside to use it to tie the pompom at the end.
• Now, take the yarn and drape it around your fingers. Keep the rest of the yarn put it horizontally across your fingers. If you want to make a large pom drape, hold the yarn across your ring finger or else you can simply wrap it on your forefinger and middle finger.
• Start wrapping the yarn on your fingers. Don't wrap it too tight. You can choose to wrap as much yarn you want, depending on the size of the pompom you wish to make.
• Now, pull the yarn from the fingers and put it on top of the piece of yarn you kept aside in the beginning.
• Tie that separate piece of yarn around the bundle. Tie the knot tightly to hold the pompom together.
• Tie a couple of tight knots and trim of the excess yarn.
• Now, cut through the loops on both sides of the bundle.
• Roll the pompom in your palm lightly to fluff it out.
• You can trim the pieces of yarn that stand out, and you are done.
• Make a bunch of colourful yarns and decorate your gift any way you want.

• If your friend is a traveller, you can pick different colourful maps and wrap the gift in them. He will love this unique idea.
• Wrap your music lover sister's gift in music sheets and tie a gold or silver ribbon on it.
• If your mother is an artist, no worries! Cut out her favorite shapes like butterflies, hearts or snowflakes, colour them and stick them on top of the wrapped gift.
• Giving out gifts in a mason jar is another cool way to give gifts in something that can be used again.
• Looking for a creative way to wrap your kid brother's gift? Cut out different cartoon characters from old books and paste them on the wrapped gifts.
• Want to make a gift look special for an art lover, stick some colours on top of the wrapped gift with double-sided tape and watch her smile.
• For a puzzle lover, wrap your gift with a crossword puzzle wrapper.
• Want to be creative for your dad's gift? Buy a shirt, put the gift box in the middle, and wrap the shirt around it, tie the sleeves of the shirt over the box. He will be happy to receive two gifts in one.
• Make stencils of different alphabets and print them on a solid colour wrapping paper. Ask your kids to colour them before they open the gift. They will love the activity and the anticipation of what is inside the gift.