Christmas gift wrapping: original ideas

The New Year is a magical holiday on which people not only wait for miracles, but also exchange gifts with dear and close people. And, of course, one of the main attributes of gifts are bright and original packaging.

Any person will be pleased to receive a gift that is beautifully packaged, and not hastily wrapped in a plastic bag. This suggests that the donor took the time to make the gift look interesting and beautiful, and not just run into the nearest store an hour before the meeting. Wrapping paper can help out in a situation when the gift hidden in it is not very expensive or does not in itself look festive. Thanks to the packaging, the impression of the present will be much brighter, and the souvenir itself will immediately look more presentable.

Packaging for Christmas gifts immediately creates a feeling of celebration. It will be more pleasant and interesting for any person to untie a bow on a box or open a bag to finally see your gift than to get it in your hands right away. Thus, a surprise effect and a joyful anticipation are created.

Themselves open gifts like not only children but also adults. With the help of the Christmas wrapper, you can select your own gift from a variety of others, make it more original and demonstrate a personal attitude to the person to whom the gift is intended.

Depending on whether the gift is large or small, whether it is for children or an adult, There are several packaging options.

• Tin can. Such material will be appropriate for storing sweets and other edible gifts, including even homemade cakes. In addition, in a tin Christmas box, you can put tea, coffee and spices, without fear that the material will miss the smell or get wet. Shops offer tin packages in the form of trunks, boxes, briefcases, balls, Christmas figures. This gift decoration looks expensive and spectacular.

• Textile. Fabric packaging looks at least original and interesting. In addition, it is safe, so you can put gifts for small children in it. The stores have the following types of textile packaging: backpacks, bags, Christmas socks, bags. A toy-packaging is the best fit for children's gifts. Fabric design option is universal and suitable for both small and large presentations.

• Cardboard. A fairly common version of the package due to the low price. This includes various gift bags, boxes, figurines in the form of Christmas trees or snowmen, little trunks. You can put almost any gift in a gift cardboard bag, except for especially heavy or fragile items.

New Year's shops are full of a variety of gift packages. In order not to get entangled in this brilliant variety, it is worth to distinguish several styles of gift paper.

• Classical. This option is universal, even home. This design style assumes the presence of red and green color, symbolic for this holiday. As decorations used silk bow with bells or even toys. At the same time, the paper itself should be monophonic, striped or checkered.

• Luxurious. This style just allows shiny packaging, felt paper with satin ribbons or beads. It is better to use a gold or silver shade of paper. As for ribbons, they can be safely combined and combined several color schemes in one gift. The main thing - do not overdo it.

• Glamorous This design will be more like the female gender. Packaging includes pastel colors, foil, beads and even a variety of shiny figures. This style looks uncommon and somewhat playful.

• Natural. Gifts are packaged in monochromatic, not glossy paper; instead of a bow, the packaging is tied with a special decorative rope, and all is decorated with natural elements - for example, cones or branches of berries.

• Winter. The wrapper must be in white and blue, and it is decorated with snowflakes, snowmen, Christmas trees - all that is associated with winter and New Year. You can cut the figures of deer out of paper or make snowflakes from beads. It all depends on imagination and creativity.

• Vintage. This style is very personal, so it is appropriate for the decoration of gifts for family members or close friends. For the packaging will fit newspapers, old wallpaper, lace, fabrics. Here, the ability to sew, knit, draw is useful - in other words, the packaging must be truly handmade, resemble a retro style and be original.

• Fabric Who said that festive packaging should be made of paper? You can approach the design of the presentation from the other side and use textile products. For example, to wrap a gift in silk or flannel fabric, while the ribbons and bows must also be made of fabric.

If the shopping bags and boxes are not encouraging, then you can do scrapbooking and make a gift bag. In this way, on New Year's Eve you will be able to present a gift like a real Santa Claus. This bag is perfect for sweet gifts. For manufacturing, you must have a sewing machine, jute thread, ruler, thread, pins, chalk, scissors, cotton fabric, needles and calico.

Step-by-step instructions for making a textile bag looks like this.

• First you need to decide on the size. For example, in order for the bag to turn out to be 24 x 23 centimeters, it is necessary that the cut-out fabric has the following parameters: width — 26 centimeters, height — 57 centimeters.
• The fabric must be folded in half, with the front part must be inside. From the sides you need to pin on the pin.
• Then, using a sewing machine, a wide overlock stitch is made, and the seam is ironed.
• The thread in the final must be fixed in the form of a knot.
• After that, you need to bend a piece of fabric inside out, well ironed, this is done to handle the upper cut.
• Then the fabric should be bent about 4.5 centimeters and re-use the iron.
• The edges must be fixed with pins and stitched with a sewing machine.
• Another parallel original line is required. The distance between them can be any.
• Then the pouch is inverted, the corners are aligned.
• With the help of a needle, a jute thread is threaded, and a bow is tied at the end.

So that the packaging does not look boring, you can add decorations here, for example, decorate the bag with beads, rhinestones, applications with snowmen, deer or snowflakes. It remains only to put there a gift!

See below for a few more ideas on gift wrapping in the original packaging.