Got the presents now HOW do I wrap them!!!

sisbod

Dear Santa

I have been very moneysaving and bought most of my presents either second hand or in a bargain without fancy boxes/wrapping/ or in a collection. :T

BUT how can I make them look the million dollars that they are when I am artistically challenged and begrudge spending more on the wrapping than the actual present??? :eek:

With love

a very frustrated Santa helper:p
x

aliasojo

Mine are wrapped in brown paper this year.

I kid you not.

Ikea have a range of more 'natural' looking wrapping (including rolls of brown paper) so I bought the tags there.

I got a big bag of bows and ribbon from Poundland.

OH shook his head when I said I was using brown paper but even he had to admit they all looked good when I was finished.

sisbod

example of what I need to wrap
1) Tesco's had loads of sweets on their half price eg refresher bars, haribo mini bags flumps love hearts.
What can I do with them? I have about 6 sets.
2) mini snack dishes that spell SNACK now I thought put with little bags of nuts and midget gem style sweets but how do I put it together to look like a pressie?
3) home made sweets - last year I made for a friend and individually wrapped the sweets in film then put into a large glass bowl with more wrapping cellophane - friend was very polite about wrapping but REALLY ???? this time it is for- SIL and it is to be transported 300 miles in an overfull car!

Candles_by_Lisa

sisbod wrote: »

example of what I need to wrap
1) Tesco's had loads of sweets on their half price eg refresher bars, haribo mini bags flumps love hearts.
What can I do with them? I have about 6 sets.
2) mini snack dishes that spell SNACK now I thought put with little bags of nuts and midget gem style sweets but how do I put it together to look like a pressie?

1) You could put the sweets into the Cellophane cone bags you get and use some ribbon to tie off at the top.

2) Again you could use cellophane roll, cut out a square a good bit bigger than your dish, sit the dish in the middle of the cellophane square and then pull up the corners again tie it off with some ribbon at the top.

HTH.

Lisa

Chris25

I buy Christmas decorations in the sale when they're right down to the final pennies, keep in the cupboard & then use those to decorate presents.
We usually get at least one new bauble for the tree each year & so I always find a few plain ones we no longer need & thread those onto ribbon to use over the wrapping paper.
I keep all the trimmings from our cracker too & use those.

I would put the sweets into the dishes & then make a box for it & wrap that.

With the other sweets, could you make a festive sweetie bouquet? with the packets attached to bamboo skewers or narrow dowelling. http://ediblecraftsonline.com/ebook2/mybooks73.htm

there are also demos on youtube

moneysavingmumofone

sisbod wrote: »

example of what I need to wrap
1) Tesco's had loads of sweets on their half price eg refresher bars, haribo mini bags flumps love hearts.
What can I do with them? I have about 6 sets.
2) mini snack dishes that spell SNACK now I thought put with little bags of nuts and midget gem style sweets but how do I put it together to look like a pressie?
3) home made sweets - last year I made for a friend and individually wrapped the sweets in film then put into a large glass bowl with more wrapping cellophane - friend was very polite about wrapping but REALLY ???? this time it is for- SIL and it is to be transported 300 miles in an overfull car!

What about a jar for the sweets, put them in a glass jar and tie ribbon around it and tag. You can get cheap jars in Home Bargains or Ikea.

SugarSpun

Sweeties in jars with labels - Ikea do cheap jars, or you could use recycled and thoroughly washed jars from your recycling with a fabric circle fastened over the top.

Bowls with sweets wrapped in a big square of cellophane and tied up with lots of ribbon.

Home made sweets - buy some cardstock and Google "box template" and make little boxes for them.

Lunar_Eclipse

I'm another that would put the sweets in a jar and add a nice label. You could always use an old jam/sauce jar and add a fabric top if you feel it looks plain.

However, I think you should also bear in mind that it's total gift cost that matters. If you paid nothing for a gift, try to think you're £10 up (for example), not 'oh I can't wrap this because I have no paper and can't spend more on the wrapping than the gift'. That sounds ridiculous, but highlights how you should think in terms of total outlay. Say you splash out any spend £2 on a recycled gift, give yourself a pat on the back that you're giving someone this amazing gift for only £2! (Or, if you're like me, you think about how much you've saved and put that money into something else ...)

sisbod

chris 25 - I never think of searching Youtube yet it is so helpful so thank you for the Links! Some pretty clever ideas on there!

Candles, MSM1 and Sugar the jars and cones are good ideas but Ikea is over an hour and the Dartford bridge away so not quite so practical for most of the pressies (but going past on the way to family at Christmas )

Lunar I tend to have a budget for each person and try to get as much as I can on bargains etc. As such I am not thinking "oooh it only cost £2" more like I am thinking "wow this means I can get more for my budget" and I dont necessarily think that this paper is costing me more than the present but I dont want to spend lots on stuff that goes in the bin. Biggest reason for this I have a family of ingenious and artistic wrappers and I really dont have those genes!!! :rotfl:

I've got loads of jamjars so looks like that will be my first port of call for the sweeties but the cutout boxes look like a good option especially if I can use the dice template and put little HM sweets in each box http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dice/ that will save on the actual sweets!:T

PixieDust

have a look in the supermarket homewares department for sweetie-type jars: A$da have very reasonably priced ones

kitschkitty

Supermarkets & Wilkinsons are good places for decent quality jars and tins that are reusable (so not a waste of money).

Many people will reuse a nice gift bag and can be bought very cheaply in the card factory - if you wrap the gift in tissue paper or cellophane first it looks lovely.

Same works in a mug for sweets.

Odd shaped presents can be put in a cracker or box made of old recycled card and some nice wrapping paper - my FIL was impressed the year I used the Amazon cardboard wrapping covered in nice wrapping paper for his car atlas (the spiral bound spine would have made it harder for me to wrap it normally).

You can make a bed of shredded paper if you have a shredder and some old wrapping paper etc, that is past it's best for wrapping.

How about Furoshiki... http://www.recyclenow.com/what_can_i_do_today/furoshiki_japanese_w.html

In a foil/film box http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302017678831/

On a picture frame http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302017684989/

DIY "boxes"
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302015816613/
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302017731916/
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302017813124/
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302016815503/

Sewn brown paper http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302017921883/

Recycled bottle packs/pouches
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302015775984/
http://pinterest.com/pin/50806302015775978/