Do you wrap the gifts you bought others? Or do you have the store do it ?

Are you any good at making beautiful packages ? I wont be applying to be a gift wrapper at Macy's anytime soon.:cry:

Any tips to make my packages not look like an angry 3 year old wrapped them much appreciated- I still have loads to go yet !

I wrap them and they look quite terrible :')

I am quite good at it since I work in a shop.....we love packing others' gifts just because we are pretty creative and our customers usually love the way we pack things....we get a lot of compliments for it and that's why we like doing it so much....it is good to see others appreciate your work

I am terrible :uhoh:

 

The gift wrap I was given last year was really shitty and kept tearing so eventually I got pissed off and wrapped the whole entire thing with cellotape :wacky:

:bigcry: Great Julia- BUT YOU FORGOT TO TELL ME ANY TIPS ! :bomb::P

I'm surprisingly good at it.

I'm pretty good at this :wacky:

 

I have no patience when i have to unwrap a gift though and i always destroy the pretty wrapping paper :disappointed:

:bigcry: Great Julia- BUT YOU FORGOT TO TELL ME ANY TIPS ! :bomb::P

 

oops sorry....

 

ok I will try it

 

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This is too hard for me to explain in english:bigcry:

 

now I want to make a video to show you how to do some nice stuff haha

:\ OK-Im grasping at straws here, I have to deliver 12 presents in about 2 hours here, and I have about enough tape left for 2 gifts- (the first 4 gifts used all the tape up- (well....refer back to thread title)

Anyone want to fly over and help me out ? All the bourbon-laced eggnog you can drink supplied !!!:D ( did i just hear Angie and Christa on their way ? :sneaky:)

I'm mediocre at gift wrapping. :lol:

 

It's easier if you only just have enough paper to cover the gift.

:uhoh: Would it be tacky to use a staple gun ?

I'm pretty good at this :wacky:

 

I have no patience when i have to unwrap a gift though and i always destroy the pretty wrapping paper :disappointed:

 

Ren ! You good at this ? Who'd a thunk it !

Ren ! You good at this ? Who'd a thunk it !

Haha yup! I bought tons of xmas presents for my family and i spent a whole day wrapping them and oputting little bows on it and all ...i feel girly now :disappointed:

 

One easy way around it is to buy those cute gift bag that are decorated and just put the pressie in it and ta-da! ready! :dance:

I don't do this, but my sister does, she starts of by taping the wrapping paper to the item, so if you cut out a piece of paper take one end and tape it about the middle point on the back, then the other end of the paper fold the edge down only a little bit to give it a clean edge that is not jagged. Then take that side and fold it around the gift, pull a little snug so that the package is neat a crisp, my dad often will then err kind of fold the corners so to make each side crisp, if that makes sense..? The ends are often challenging, so the best idea is to make sure you don't have a ton of paper left on either side, if you have too much, trim it down a bit, then like an envelope fold the ends to make right degree triangles.. then with the middle section fold the tip a bit to create a neat edge, then fold up and tape. Good luck, that's the best I can do with explaining it with words, it would be much easier to show you a video.

...i feel girly now :disappointed:

 

That's not surprising :tongue:

I did actually take a video of me wrapping a gift hahahaha...:wacky:

but it won't help you...

I wrap them and they look quite terrible :')

That's cos you have manly hands , you're mucho macho :mean:

I did actually take a video of me wrapping a gift hahahaha...:wacky:

but it won't help you...

Post it Jules! :lips:

I suck at it :disappointed:

 

I praise the person that thought of the idea of putting gifts in a bag with some fancy paper instead of wasting time & tape.

That's cos you have manly hands , you're mucho macho :mean:

 

My hands are actually pretty small :shifty:

Just had a look on youtube, this is cool!

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn6zdyCAwJs]YouTube - Furoshiki gift wrapping[/ame]

 

 

Here's some help for wrapping with paper:

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1GBPeyyMo]YouTube - Swiss gift packing[/ame]

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M50GBFVFdsU]YouTube - VIDEO: Gift wrapping tips[/ame]

 

 

Hope that helps!

Good luck :)

Just had a look on youtube, this is cool!

 

hahaha gotta love that music

ok I can't compete with those hahaha...

 

I'm uploading it anyway.....just because of the music I chose hahahah

The bow on the second video is genius :awesome: ! I'll try it when I'll wrap my presents :wacky:!

The 3rd one is really basic though, I'm sure you can compete with that one Julia :p!

 

I did a job where all I had to do was wrapping presents in a toys shop so I'm quite good and quick at it now :).

I always used the gift bags, but the fam Im dropping these off to are a bit ermmm....:snobby:.....so they have to be Martha Stewart level or I`ll be laughed out of the party.:\

Post the vid Julia!

And thanks, Kjones- that helps I think !

 

And leave it to Anna to pull a few vids out of her bag of tricks, lol...thankies.

Is it New Years YET ??