The Gift Wrapping Book

Creative gift-wrapping can add a huge amount of fun and anticipation to giving - and receiving -presents, Yet often our imagination fails us when it comes to wrapping the gifts that we may have spent many hours choosing. Packed with quick and easy ideas and suggestions, The Gift Wrapping Book will ensure that your wrapping is as individual as the gift inside.
The book opens with a series of themes such as 'Christmas' or 'Romantic', or how to use Hi-tech wrapping to dazzling effect. In contrast, Natural wrapping offers great ideas for using garden twine, raffia, shells or feathers. Ideas abound for different ways to wrap gifts and finish them off with exuberant ribbon and bows, both shop-bought and home-made. The author shows how all sorts of purchased papers and ribbons can be used in unpredictable combinations; and how materials such as newsprint or corrugated paper can be recycled for fast, stylish last-minute wraps.
Boxes are particularly useful for fragile gifts, while gift bags are perfect for hand-delivered presents. Here you'll find instructions for making more than 20 individual bags and boxes (with and without lids).There's a section to help you tackle those awkward shapes that can be real wrapping problems, while the final section will help you create the perfect finishing touch with original ideas for tags and labels, tassels and paper flowers.
Step-by-step photography ensures every project is easy-to-follow, while the trace-off templates will get you wrapping today. Inspirational photographs of the finished wraps will spur you on to be so inventive that wrapping will never be a chore again. If only present buying could be as easy!