Make your presents feel fun, festive and beautiful, without the fuss this holiday season! These Christmas Gift Wrap ideas and tips make wrapping fun!
I’m always looking for beautiful ways to simplify everyday tasks. Christmas gift wrap is no different!
This year’s gift wrapping was oh-so-easy to tie into the Scandinavian Christmas decorations I used throughout our lake cottage. When I saw this pretty line of Christmas wrapping paper, I knew it was the perfect inspiration!
Like anyone else, I realize that Christmas gift wrapping can be both a joy and a burden. While it might not happen early in the season every year, I do love the look of beautifully wrapped packages under our Christmas tree. This year is no exception!
Inspired by the natural wood, textures, layers, and colors of a Scandinavian Christmas, I knew this soft blue and white line of Christmas wrapping paper would fit perfectly into our lake cottage decor.
Once I chose the pretty papers, ribbons and embellishments, the ideas blossomed from there!
How to Wrap a Gift
Choose a Color Palette
I like to limit the palette to 3-4 colors. In this case, it was soft blue, white, gold and green touches of foliage.
Add Ribbon
Baker’s twine, double faced satin, velvet, silk and striped are among my favorite options.
Embellish
Add fresh stems of olive, pine, cedar or evergreen, or use trinkets like bells, ornaments and more to make each gift feel unique.
Personalize
I love customizing the gift to the recipient, but it’s also nice to personalize the gift wrapping! This is easy to do by ordering customized, monogrammed paper.
I chose this twigs and branches Christmas wrapping paper pattern that was virtually seasonless and it is such a charming touch under the tree!
Add a Gift Tag
Salt Dough Ornaments make beautiful gift tags and feel special. You can find free printable gift tags here!
Christmas Gift Wrapping Supplies
Use a Box
It’s so much easier to wrap something square in a box! If you’re wrapping a soft item, or one with awkward lines, try to find a box that works.
Use Sharp Scissors
This is a tip that makes an amazing difference! It’s so much easier to cut clean lines on both your wrapping paper and your ribbon.
Double Sided Tape
An easy trick to disguise your tape lines, using double sided tape will create smooth edges and seams for your wrapping paper.
More Christmas Wrapping Ideas
While it’s no secret that I’m a fan of kraft paper, there have been years when I decided to wrap 100% of our gifts in it. Why? It’s recycled, inexpensive {$1/roll at the dollar store} and it’s the perfect backdrop for any garnishments.
Recently, I decided to update an idea I implemented years ago when I used photos for a lot of our gifts. When we tried this fun idea, it was perfect for our stage of life in more ways than one!
Even if your little ones can’t yet read, they will know exactly who each present is for based on the photographs used. No labeling required!
The gift tags made in 2003 include my lifelong friend Liz and her mom!
Use Photos for Your Christmas Wrapping
It’s easy to do!
- Find photos, old or new, that you like, change them to black and white and insert them into a Word document. *I quickly did this by dropping all of the photos I liked into a folder, selecting them all, dragging them to the Word document and then resizing to preference.
- Print on white card stock and you’re done! I made all of my gift tags in just 5 minutes.
- For another charming, personalized touch, I wrote the to and from in a silver pen on each package.
For the remainder of the gifts that year, I used snippets of Frasier fir, picked up free at the hardware store from the Christmas tree cast-offs.
Both styles of kraft paper packages were embellished with the baker’s twine I bought a few years ago and will have for years to come!
Of course, some gifts are better in a bag. This gift luckily came in it! Awkward, yet small gifts are equally darling when sealed in an envelope with washi tape.
That’s one of the best parts of using kraft paper for your packages – you can coordinate it to virtually any Christmas wrapping color scheme.
Salt Dough Ornament Gift Tags
After so many years of using kraft paper, I decided to update my Christmas gift wrap for this next look.
I purchased a few sheets of wrapping paper and framed one for a winter vignette. We then used the remaining wrapping sheets along with ivory gift boxes that several purchases came in.
I also chose ivory double sided satin ribbon {one of my must have craft supplies}, bakers twine, and salt dough gift tags the girls and I made.
This is my soft and sweet take on Christmas. It’s a pretty scheme I used all winter!
These 2″ circle labels are Avery 22807, but you can also print them on sticker sheets and cut. Click here for the free printable holiday labels.
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