Help with wrapping - Brown paper!

hels102

Hello everyone!
I went and bought some Brown Paper from tescos to wrap the presents but I'm not sure what to use ribbon wise I want it to look traddtional and classy! I'm sure I saw someones picture on here which included a candy cane attached to it.
Any ideas would be much appreciated!

mary43

A sort of raffia would look good................failing that green or red - it's festive and would look ok with the brown.

The_Sparkly_One

I usually use gold and/or red ribbons with brown paper, it looks very effective.I make my own gift tags to go with them too. I attach the tags with coordinating ribbon and use the fake red berries you can buy as an added touch. I've seen it decorated with small pine cones, cinnemon sticks fake poinsettias too - they all looked nice. Hope that helps.

Shevs

I have used plain white string before and they looked really good. very effective

stormbreaker

Ikea have organza type ribbon in silver blue gold and red. Red seems to be the most popular, I have yet to see it!!!

whitesatin

I've used brown paper wrapping with raffia to tie up. Also used brown luggage labels which look good tied on with string.

My all time favourite is Noel ribbon:

http://www.coxandcox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=156

bluenose1

Red gingham ribbon or string would look good.

rainmac

I wrapped mine in parcel paper last year and used string, my pressies looked fab!

mirrorimage0

i tend to use the brown paper and raffia, or a brown string. just think it tends to look smart under the trees

emg

red gingham ribbon looks fab with brown paper

rosekitten

agree with the raffia and the
gingham both look great