Creative Gift Wrap Ideas

Hi Friends,

A beautifully wrapped gift really shows someone you care. These clever do-it-yourself ideas are sure to impress everyone on your Christmas gift list without breaking the bank. Courtesy of Morgan Levine

Three-Dimensional Christmas Tree

To create the tree, cut 1/3 of a large circle out of green card stock. Score the center of the pie shape then accordion-fold the paper outward at evenly space intervals. Glue the edges of the folded paper tree down onto a wrapped gift and embellish with a paper star, rickrack garland and a brown paper trunk.

Paper Pine Branches

Just a few basic materials are all you need to create these colorful pine branches. Start by cutting long pointed oval shapes out of two sheets of light and dark green card stock. Stack the two pieces, score the center then glue the sheets together along the scored line. Once glue has dried, use scissors to fringe the edges to mimic the texture of pine needles. Create the branch by gluing a craft-paper-wrapped piece of floral wire along the center fold. Learn how to make the pinecones in the next paragraph.

To create pinecones, cut a tall triangle out of brown Kraft paper. Trim one long edge with scalloped scissors and darken it by running a brown marker along the edge. Fringe the opposite, non-scalloped long edge. Glue the short base of the triangle to a piece of paper-wrapped floral wire and wrap the triangle around the stem, scrunching fringe and moving up wire. Secure tip of paper with glue. Use a thin strip of craft paper to wrap branches and pine cones together, securing with glue. Tie sprig to wrapped gift with waxed twine.

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