For today’s Christmas craft video, I decided to show some creative ways to wrap presents. I think I might like wrapping gifts even more than shopping for them. It just shows the person that you’ve put a lot of thought and effort into their present if you’ve also taken the time to present it well. For this video, I showed how I wrapped the actual Christmas presents I got for my dad and my sister as well as a box set of books that Sanne (booksandquills) sent me to review on this blog, which I’ll do as soon as I read them! Keep reading for more photos of the three ideas I came up with!
For the first gift, I decided to wrap it in an old map with a double bow of wide translucent white ribbon and thin yellow ribbon. Then to keep the travel theme going, I attached a little plane toy and made a gift tag out of the same map.
I made the gift tag by cutting the shape out of white cardstock, then using double stick tape to stick it to the map. I cut that out and then did the same thing to the other side to get a double-sided map gift tag. From there you can just write the To and From with Sharpie.
I used a hole punch to put a hole in the gift tag and then just wrapped the yellow ribbon around the gift tag and jump ring to hold them in place.
The map has such a nice texture when you look at it through the ribbon.
The next gift I wrapped is the Christmas gift for my dad. I wanted to make this one a bit more simple and graphic, so I went without a bow and instead made the main focus the large helvetica typography that I cut out of cardstock.
I wrapped the gift in silver tissue paper and then made a stripe pattern with thin silver tape. I love the subtle pattern it creates that looks different depending on the angle you look at it.
For the typography, I printed the type with a light gray outline backwards on cardstock, cut it out with an x-acto knife, and then hot glued it on.
I love how you can see a bit of a mirror in the wrapping paper since the type doesn’t lay perfectly flat.
For my sister’s present, I brought some color back in by wrapping it in green tissue paper and creating a striped pattern with green artist’s tape. I created a focus corner with some wide silver ribbon and a big silver bow.
I made the gift tag out of an old price tag, and tied a jingle bell onto it for extra effect.
Thanks so much for reading! I really hope my family likes their gifts, and I hope you got some inspiration for how you’re going to wrap your gifts! If you missed my previous Christmas craft videos, you can watch DIY Christmas Ornaments as well as Homemade Christmas Decorations. And if you haven’t been following along with my 12 Days of Christmas Project, I’m posting new content every day for the 12 days until Christmas Eve, and you can get caught up below!
Previous 12 Days entries:
Day 1 – Intro video and Reddit Secret Santa vlog
Day 2 – Homemade Christmas Ornaments video and blog post
Day 3 – Graphic Design Holiday Gift Guide Part 2
Day 4 – Christmas Survey Tag Video
Day 5 – Project for Awesome video about charity: water
Day 6 – FakeJohnGreen photo archive
Day 7 – Project for Awesome follow-up video and blog post about the P4A designs
Day 8 – Christmas video playlist
