Comments on: Gift Box Studio® Celebrate Giveaway

By: Bev C

Bev C — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:28:40 +0000

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.

By: Carole

Carole — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:45:13 +0000

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.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:45:37 +0000

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.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:17:28 +0000

That would be a fun book to own! I would like to learn how to make these cool gift boxes.

By: Shasta

Shasta — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:12:32 +0000

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!

By: LoriD

LoriD — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:47:09 +0000

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!!

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:04:58 +0000

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!

By: Mary on Lake Pulaski

Mary on Lake Pulaski — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:04:13 +0000

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.

By: Jackie W

Jackie W — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:02:58 +0000

i sewed a bunch of those jammer boxes together,the ones kids take in their lunch for their juice drink and used that.

By: Linda Moran

Linda Moran — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:59:09 +0000

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!