Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas

A gift is not complete until it gets packaged and wrapped in a festive way. It’s the wrapping that gives the first impression and can make any gift more special. To inspire your creativity, I’ve put together a collection of creative gift wrapping ideas. These ideas are sure to make your gifts even more appealing.

Creative Christmas Gift Tags

Use Game Letter Tiles For Gift Tags

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Game letter tiles are perfect for spelling out names for gift tags. Whether you use Scrabble tiles or other game letter tiles, like these, they all work for making fun tags. I simply glued the tiles onto a small strip of ribbon and then attached it to a mini clip. This tag works great for clipping to the top of a gift bag.

Make An Easy Festive Wreath Tag

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TUTORIAL: Damask Love

These pretty wreath labels make an ordinary paper bag look festive and fabulous. I have used the mini boxwood garland before and found it to be super easy to work with. It’s a wired garland so it’s easy to form into shapes.

Argyle Paper Gift Tag

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TUTORIAL: How To Make Christmas Gift Tags

You can also use fun papers for some creative gift wrapping ideas. Plain manila tags can be made more special with decorative papers and little embellishments like buttons.

If you want to personalize gift tags in a fun way, use photos for making the tags.

Fun Driftwood Sign Tags

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TUTORIAL: How To Make Driftwood Sign Gift Labels

Use driftwood as a base to make fun gift tags that can be used later for home decor. Decorate driftwood with burlap, paint, paper or wood burning to make a unique tag. If your piece of driftwood has a shape that looks like a common item, emphasize the look with your decorating. I thought this piece looked like a car so I went with that theme. Since this was a Christmas gift, I added the look of a tree on the top.

Creative Gift Package Toppers

Wreath Topper

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TUTORIAL: Craftberry Bush

A package wrapped in Kraft paper is made beautiful with the topper. Using burlap, twine, and a wreath adds a ton of festive interest to the package.

Top A Gift Package With Pine Cones

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TUTORIAL: HGTV

Talk about creative gift packaging ideas! This package is full of rustic goodness. Using pine cones as the ribbon for the package is such a fantastic idea. Although it may be time consuming, the wow factor just might be worth it!

Creative Gift Bags

Make A Felt Gift Bag

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TUTORIAL: How To Make A Felt Gift Bag

A felt gift bag is almost like getting a second gift. Since the bag can be used over again for storage, it serves two purposes.

Decorate A Plain Kraft Bag

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Transform an ordinary Kraft gift bag into something special and festive by adding embellishments. For these bags, I just added ribbon and pine sprigs to give them more interest. I glued the ribbon onto the bags but just clipped the pine sprigs with the mini chalkboard clips. Mini chalkboards are fun to use as gift tags. To contrast the neutral look of the bags, I used fun patterned tissue paper to top off the bags.

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I couldn’t decide between chalk and paint markers so I did some of each.

For more creative gift wrapping ideas, check out these 15 creative and chic Christmas wrapping ideas.

 

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