I'd like to share some tips I found online...- Wind leftover over crepe paper around the package again and again, overlapping slightly, until the package is covered.
- Recycle yarn to replace ribbons. This is particularly appropriate for hand-crafted gifts.
- Your leftover shelf liner, with or without adhesive backing, is a clever container cover. Best of all, the sticky kind, such as Contact, means you don't need any tape!
- Gift-wrapping tip: "Invisible" tape isn't really invisible, so use double-stick tape instead.
- In addition to ribbon in all its varieties—satin, French-wired, acetate moiré, lace, Mylar, metallic, cloth, and so forth—many other objects make creative tyings. These include colorful shoelaces, artificial rope pearls, leather strips, vinyl cording, jump rope, strips of netting, paper streamers, paper twist, raffia, hemp rope, twine, and yarn.
- For added interest, embellish your gifts with baubles, fresh or dried flowers, small toys, balloons, knickknacks, ornaments, trinkets, or potpourri sachets.
- A bag of potpourri inside a package makes a sensory treat. Scented candles and fresh flower petals would also be scent-sational inside wrapped gift packages.
