The month of gift giving is here. Just when you think you’ve got all your shopping done, you realize there is still the wrapping to be done and nothing short of creative or original will do. Good news, this week’s giveaway is a wrap task helper. Gift Box Studio® Celebrate pop-out gift boxes, cards and embellishments are so easy and trendy that you’ll surely hear those oohs and ahhs as you bestow your presents. Check out the whole Gift Box Studio collection. Their beauty and function also make them great gifts.
For a chance to win your copy of Gift box Studio Celebrate leave a comment here or on Facebook telling us your most interesting gift wrapping experience.
Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Monday 12/14/09 and the winner will be announced later that day!
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I think the most interesting gift wrapping I ever did, was to wrap up a small gift and put it inside a box, wrap that box, and then put it into a larger box, and so on. It was so fun to watch my hubby open this LARGE box and keep opening until he finally opened the small box with his gift (I think it was a watch). We all enjoyed the opening of that present.
The boxes are great and easy to use too. It would be great for someone to win, maybe me????
I don’t know if this is an interesting experience but as a child my Father would wrap my gifts in paper with rubber bands around them and I had to carefully remove the paper so that it could be used for gifts for people he wanted to impress (not me)
not very interesting –
but i use newpaper/comics -
depending on who it is
i choose that section of the paper
that goes with their personality!
A couple of years ago our quilt guild had a gift exchange. The challenge was you were given a Chinese food take-out box, and your gift had to fit inside. It was a lot of fun to decorate the box, as they were all white. I used stamps, but some used fabrics — all kinds of creativity.
This year, I am using brown craft paper and decorating with Shiva paintstiks. I will stencil gold pinecones and tie with gold ribbons. I have used brown paper and beautiful ribbons before. Very handsome packages adn the brown paper holds up better than most gift wrap.
The most interesting response I received from a “differently” wrapped present was when I took a present wrapped in the funny pages (Sunday comics). I didn’t think it was that unique but the group of people oohed and aahed. I’ve also wrapped gifts in a quilt (the quilt was part of the gift). Or use plain paper (brown or white) and draw and color all over it.
Wow! That’s a neat prize! My most interesting wrappng experience was when I bought my husband a large compressor (very large! Two guys had to deliver it on a pallet). I had a coordinating wrapping paper collection that was “good” paper, luckily, so it didn’t tear easily. I alternated patterns and taped the paper directly onto the compressor using packing tape. When I had the entire thing covered I made a gigantic multi-colored bow for the top. I really should have taken a picture of it! What was funny was seeing my husband looking in the garage for his gift (I like to play the “getting hot, getting cold” game)…he was looking on shelves and behind boxes, unaware that this huge compressor was sitting right in the corner! He was so excited to get that (I usually don’t spend $500 for one gift….this year spending $5 will be a lot!) and I’m really glad I did a good wrapping job on it.
Last year, I was living on a small island off the coast of Belize. The barge that was carrying our supplies sank so we didn’t have the paper products that we were expecting – along with our food and many of our other necessities. So we wrapped our gifts in banana leaves and the “burlap” that grows on palm trees.
I wrap gift quilts in custom-made pillowcases. Thanks for the chance.
i haven’t had any interesting gift wrap -
that’s why i need to win this book!
unusual?
I try to wrap things in old fabric
or scraves using furoshiki.
It’s a way of wrapping and tying –
amazing!
My mother once put our small items, like lip gloss, in a balloon instead of wrapping it! That was sure a noisy, yet fun, way of “opening” a present! Thanks for the chance to win!
One year I painted a picnic basket for my wonderful mother-in-law – tole all around, great Southwest colors, a shelf for pies – I knew she would love it. But wrapping it was a problem – no box would work, knowing it would need to go into an even bigger box for mailing across the country. So we grabbed a black plastic garbage bag, put the basket inside, and twist-tied it shut – and added loads of ribbons cascading down the sides. We put a big note in the mailing box saying not to throw out the trash bag! My mother-in-law loved it!
i sewed a bunch of those jammer boxes together,the ones kids take in their lunch for their juice drink and used that.
My sister was very very snoopy and one year to get the better of her, my Mom used the wooden cover from my grandmother’s sewing machine to wrap a transistor radio for her. We laughed so hard because she was sure it was something else.
At Christmas time, you can take one look under our tree and instantly know who the giver is – presents I’m giving are wrapped – presents my husband is giving are all in gift bags!
My kids have the greatest time wrapping gifts. When my daughter was a tween she wrapped her brothers small gifts in 1 whole roll of crepe paper. My son was supposed to unroll it to find small gifts. When he didn’t unwrap “right” she got so mad! WE have that on viideo and as adults they get a good laugh at it. So do we!!
I’m not a good wrapper so the giveway would be very useful!!
The most interesting gift wrapping experience I have is reusing a box. My sister had given me a chopper as a gift, and when I reused the box, she thought I was regifting the chopper back to her. We passed it back and forth several times, until one day I used the box for someone else, and she didn’t give it back!
That would be a fun book to own! I would like to learn how to make these cool gift boxes.
I make wire-ribbon roses and leaves to attach to basic gift bags then give sets of the bags as gifts. It’s my MIL’s favorite present who then gives them to all her friends when she needs to wrap a quick get-well gift.
I like to use newspaper but first I ‘paint’ it with gesso, then when it is dry I often will add a colorwash or even spray paint shapes or stencils… this is work, but fun and it makes the paper sturdy.
It can even be reusable.
What a lovely prize. I still have a little gift box one of my daughters made with a love note to me. It is on my bedside table. No interesting stories about gift wrapping though I once boought my Husband a wheelbarrow for Christmas. I left it at my Mum’s and she had to wheel it to our house early Christmas morning. I often wonder what people thought was going on. Happy days.
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