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How to wrap a shapeless gift in paper. How to wrap a gift in gift paper without box, large and small, round and square gift wrap


The easiest way to wrap a gift is to wrap the finished box in wrapping paper. Indeed, very often the things that we buy as a gift are already in a cardboard box. In this master class, we will tell you how to pack the box in gift paper. In fact, there is nothing difficult about this, you just need to know how to correctly calculate the dimensions of the wrapping paper and how to properly wrap the box in paper.

What you need to pack the box
- wrapping paper;
- decorative ribbons, cords;
- scissors;
- tape measure;
- double-sided tape (try to get just double-sided, as the pieces of ordinary scotch tape are very noticeable and will need to be carefully masked).

How to determine the right amount of paper for packaging
In order to pack a rectangular or square box, we need to cut a rectangle out of the wrapping paper, respectively. To determine the width of the rectangle, take a measuring tape and measure all four sides of the box around the perimeter (full turn), and add 2 to 3 cm to the hem. And the length of the rectangle is one box length + two box heights.

A little advice
If this is your first time packing, do it first on a regular newspaper. See if you have correctly determined the dimensions, where the tape should be located, how the folds look, etc.

How to pack the box. Basic steps.

Step one. Place the gift box in the center of the paper rectangle. Fold the left or right vertical edge by 0.5-1 cm, glue a strip of double-sided tape to the fold.

Step two. Wrap the box tightly with paper as shown in the photo. Then peel off the backing from the tape and glue the folded edge of the paper.

Step three. Make sure that the edges of the paper that protrude from the ends of the box are the same. Then fold the top of the paper as shown in the photo, press it firmly against the end of the box.

Step four. Flex and press firmly on the sides of the paper.

Step five. First bend the lower part and press firmly against the end of the box. Then fold it back and bend it about in the middle. Stick a strip of tape on it and glue this part to the end. Do the same on the other side of the box.


How to decorate a paper-wrapped box

1st option. Cut out a small strip of paper in a different color, wrap the box, and tape the ends together. Tie with a decorative cord.


2nd option. If the wrapping paper is double-sided, then you can leave a larger allowance for the width and use it for decoration.



3rd option. You can use several ribbons of different colors and textures.




On the eve of the holidays, many of us ask themselves the question: how to properly package a gift? It's no secret that people are divided into two categories: those who like to receive gifts and those who are more pleased to give them. It is especially pleasant to give a gift in an original design that you made yourself. There are specialists in souvenir shops and shopping centers who can pack any present without any problems. But it is much more interesting to beautifully pack the gift yourself.

Gift paper

One of the simplest, but at the same time beautiful design options is gift paper. Now in stores you can find a huge number of various designs and types. You just have to make your choice, and we will tell you how to properly wrap a gift in gift paper.

What do you need:

  • paper;
  • double-sided tape (can be replaced with glue);
  • scissors.

When decorating a gift, give free rein to your imagination and do not be afraid to use even the most daring color combinations.

What to do:

  • If you have never decorated gifts before, then it makes sense to practice, for example, on the newspaper. So you will understand the principle and the amount of material required for the design.
  • If the thing has an indefinite shape, then it must be placed in a box.
  • The box is placed face down in the center of the wrapper. A 1 cm thick fold is made from one edge and a strip of tape is glued to it.
  • Pressing the package tightly against the box, you need to wrap it, placing the edges with tape on top. After that, you need to connect the two edges with tape.
  • Adjust the box so that the edges on the ends of the box are the same length. Bend one of the long edges and press it against the box.
  • Then fold the short edges. Glue a strip of double-sided tape to the remaining long edge and attach the long edge with tape to the box after removing the tape.
  • Do the same from the other end.
  • Now you know how to wrap a gift with wrapping paper. To complete, you need to tie it with a ribbon or attach a bow.

Instead of paper for wrapping a gift, you can use fabric with any pattern.

Use leftover wrapping paper to create a bow for your gift box

Unusual material

If your friends or loved ones are creative people, then they will surely like packaging made of unusual materials. For example, if there are avid travelers among them, then they will definitely like a gift wrapped in a geographic map. The design principle is the same as with ordinary wrapping paper.

Musicians will be delighted with the presentation of the music sheets, and those who are related to literature and journalism will definitely be delighted with the packaging from the newspaper.

Another option for an original design would be to pack the presentation in a monophonic wrapper with pasted photographs. Anyone will be pleased to receive such a present, because such a design is individual. Get creative and you can wrap gifts in an unusual way.



Packaging for a man

If you have a need to make a gift for a man, then you should not limit yourself only to strict colors of the packaging. It is much more interesting to make a design in a masculine style. There are several ways to beautifully wrap a DIY gift for a man.

Packaging in the form of a man's shirt with a tie

Shirt

What do you need:

  • paper of different colors;
  • scissors;
  • double sided tape.

What to do:

  • To create this design, you will need a rectangular box. Place a present in it.
  • Wrap the box in light-colored plain paper. This will be the shirt.
  • Take paper in a contrasting shade and wrap the box with the free edges on top.
  • Fold them up so that they resemble the collar of a jacket. Attach them with tape.
  • Pull up the collar of the shirt. To do this, make a strip 5 cm wide. Visually divide it into 3 parts and bend in these places so that the upper corners touch and the lower corners do not. Attach the shirt collar with duct tape.
  • It remains to make a tie. It can be made of cardboard, or you can take a real tie and neatly attach it to the collar.

Gift decoration for men who value a sense of humor and an original approach to everything

Butterfly

What do you need:

  • paper of different shades;
  • satin ribbon;
  • scotch tape (preferably double-sided);
  • scissors.

What to do:

  • It is necessary to place the gift in a rectangular box. It is wrapped in plain wrapping paper, craft paper is perfect.
  • A piece of dark green shade must be glued along the length of the box. It should be centered. The strip should be wide enough to show the main packaging around the edges.
  • In the center of this insert, make another white insert. It should be twice as narrow.
  • The final touch will be the dressing with a dark green satin ribbon. You need to tie it at the top of the box, and then make a butterfly out of the remaining ends. You can also take a ready-made butterfly in the color of the ribbon and attach it to superglue.

More ideas about original DIY gift wrapping in our gallery - get inspired and enjoy your viewing!






How to wrap a gift? Of course, the easiest way is to use a gift bag purchased from a supermarket. But if you put a little imagination and make original packaging with your own hands, you will produce a much greater effect!

Especially for you, the Maternity.ru portal presents ideas for gift wrapping for every taste!

Magic slots

Quite easy design - magic slots on the package. It can be a themed street, a star, a Christmas tree decoration, a silhouette of Santa Claus, a candy, and more. This approach looks original in combination with a contrasting color box from.

Gift Themed Paper

Lovers can pack in a geographical map, for musicians - in sheet music, or you can use wallpaper with the image of twinkling stars and Christmas trees.

Instead of signatures, take plain brown paper and glue down photos of family members. Thanks to them, even a child who does not know how to read will be able to give gifts to the addressees!

Decor for newsprint and wrapping paper

You can create a bright gift design not only with colorful paper, but also with the help of an ordinary newspaper or craft paper.

To do this, you can draw lines with glue, draw the symbols of the New Year - a Christmas tree, a ball, an inscription, a snowflake - and sprinkle them with colored confetti.

You can apply a pattern to the wrapping paper. For example, a lush Christmas tree.

You can glue the wheels from a toy car to the gift wrapping for a man or boy. This will sound especially original if the gift itself is related to the automotive theme.

Plain paper can be vacuum packed for an easy gift. To do this, draw a contour, make outlines, put the gift inside the envelope and cover it with colored threads on all sides. Original shapes are obtained.

You can decorate the gift wrapping with snowflakes from scrap materials: cocktail tubes,.

You can attach colorful handmade cards to wrapping paper or newsprint packaging.

Simple packaging can be decorated with colorful threads and fun pom-poms.

We decorate newspaper packaging with bright stripes of colored paper. It can be golden or silver, with imprints of New Year and Christmas symbols. Take a look at the scheme of adding the stripes.

We decorate the wrapping with a garland of colored balls, Christmas trees, snowflakes made of colored paper. Simple and stylish!

We make a reindeer from a gift. We fix the eyes and mouth, funny horns on the sides. The original packaging of the New Year's gift is ready!

We glue the appropriate application on paper bags - a clock with the last New Year's minutes, New Year's or Christmas.

We decorate a New Year's gift with real cones and spruce branches. Very New Year's!

We wrap gifts of various shapes with plain paper. Now we decorate with spruce branches from green colored paper and a cone from.

Pieces of fabric, lace, or braid can be glued to wrapping paper or newsprint packaging.

Packaging with prints and stamps

Themed New Year stamps are perfect for decorating festive packaging.

If you do not have such stamps, then you can use other materials at hand. For example, a spruce twig.

Packaging - sweets

The packaging of a suitable gift in the form of candy or crackers looks original. Inside the cardboard tube, you can put a soft gift rolled up in a roll or several small gifts. From above, a thick tube is wrapped in colored paper, tied and decorated according to your taste.

You can make a candy entirely from thick cardboard according to the scheme.

New Year's attributes

Small Christmas tree decorations can be tied to the bow on the gift wrapping.

For children, you can make a sweet decor with candies and candies.

You can “sew” bright winter mittens from colored paper and attach them to a gift.

You can make a gift with wishes. It can be a chamomile with excerpts from poems, anecdotes and aphorisms. Such packaging will impress more than the gift itself!

You can decorate a gift with threads with "filling" - beads, balls, snowflakes.

Chocolate girls

An original gift-chocolate maker. This is a box the size of a chocolate bar where you put a sweet present and a warm sincere wish. There is an opportunity to put a cash gift - right under the bookmark with a wish.

The chocolate girl can be decorated to match any symbol of the New Year. For example, by wrapping a chocolate bar in white paper, draw the figure of a snowman, put on a little hat. Original and tasteful. Thus, you can decorate any non-voluminous gift.

DIY boxes

We offer several schemes for cutting gift boxes.

You can make an original box out of thick paper or wallpaper with “spruce” decor as follows:

We wish you a creative approach and original ideas for wrapping New Year's gifts!

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We present gifts to loved ones, friends, colleagues for birthdays, New Years, and other holidays. Those who believe that the content is more important than the form think that it is quite possible to do without a beautiful wrapper. Candy wrapped and without is equally tasty! However, even a very serious and respectable person will be sincerely delighted with an exquisitely and ingeniously wrapped gift.

The most popular "container" for him, like hundreds of years ago, remains paper. Let's see how to wrap a gift in paper.

Paper that the ancient Chinese never dreamed of

The choice of paper is colossal. The stores offer wrapping paper that is thin and durable, glossy and matte, corrugated and embossed.

Sheet-fed glossy paper

Most convenient for our purpose. It comes in a variety of colors and patterns.

Craft

Kraft is intended specifically for gift wrapping. This type of paper is slightly ribbed to the touch, with a transverse embossing. It is produced in rolls of ten meters length.

Silence

Silence is thin, light, airy. Therefore, it is also used as a filler. Objects of complex shapes are wrapped in silence, which this type of container fits elegantly and in relief.

Polysilk

Gifts of irregular shapes are often also packed in polysilk... Large decorative bows are created from it. It resembles a dense film, stretches a little. For these not quite papery properties, polysilk are loved by designers and stylists.

Corrugated paper

One-color rough corrugated paper is familiar to everyone, as an element of packing flower bouquets. It is often used to decorate souvenir bottles and other narrow elongated gifts packed in boxes and tubes.

Mulbury

Mulberry is a kind of handmade paper made in Thailand. The range of colors is extensive. Often has a pattern or ornament, sometimes inserts of floral materials (dried flowers, fragments of stems, leaves).

These types of wrapping paper do not exhaust the entire selection. There is also mother-of-pearl, silk, wrinkled, embossed, gel ... The ancient Chinese inventors of paper never dreamed of this!

We pack a square or rectangular box

Let's start by learning how to properly pack a gift with our own hands if it is in a square or rectangular box.

We will need:

  • packaging paper
  • ribbons, cords for decoration
  • tape measure or centimeter
  • scissors
  • scotch tape (preferably double-sided - the usual one will be too noticeable, and it remains to be seen whether it will be possible to disguise it neatly enough).

We pack a round or oval box

Let's figure out how to pack a round gift. Hats, tea or coffee sets, sweets, cookies, tea are sold in a round or oval box. Not every professional packer can handle a box of this shape, so again practice on junk paper first.

We measure the height of the box. Cut off a strip of gift paper 2-3 cm wider. We glue the box round with this strip, remembering to tuck 1 cm under the bottom, 1-2 cm inward. Naturally, we remove the lid. Cut out a circle or oval from the wrapping paper slightly smaller than the bottom. We glue the bottom of the box so that the turned-up allowance is not visible.

With the lid, the opposite is true. Cut out a circle or oval of a slightly larger size, glue it and allowance on the sides, laying neat folds. Cut out a paper strip 1 cm wider than the height of the lid. Glue it flush with the top of the lid, turn the protruding allowance inward.

Here is another master class in pictures using corrugated paper.

The final touch - box design

How to properly pack a gift in paper, we figured out. Now you need to decorate it in an original way. Let's look at a few ideas.

The box can be tied with a ribbon or string. No, this is too commonplace. And if with several ribbons or ribbons of different colors and textures?

If you chose plain paper as a wrapping paper, without a pattern, drag the box with thin thread or ribbon and attach a flower or bow on top. This bright accent will give plain paper a special charm.

For a man's gift, a more restrained packaging is more suitable. You can tie tiny plastic Christmas balls to the New Year's; for the birthday - small bows or other decorative ornaments. Anyone can do it in an hour, it will look spectacular!

It is better to put a children's gift in a bright textile bag or arrange it in the form of a large candy. Toddlers love to extract all sorts of interesting surprises from packages.

The gift shops sell ready-made packing boxes. If your gift is oversized, take a look there: what if you guess the size?

In general, it is useful to go shopping in search of fresh ideas on how to complement the gift wrapping in a winning way. Among the various cute little things, you can sometimes find something that is useful to you. Brightly colored natural bird feathers or miniature butterfly brooches, for example. Or you can delve into your home supplies and find there original ribbons, decorative laces, miniature souvenirs that you just need to glue on a gift box. For those who know how to crochet, making a round flower is a matter of minutes, and glued together with ribbons to the package, it will look like a designer exclusive.

Stir up your imagination, and your efforts and experiments on how to wrap a gift will not be in vain, but will be appreciated.

Attractive packaging is half the pleasure of a gift. How beautiful and original to pack a gift with your own hands? An urgent question for those who are tired of standard paper bags. We will tell you about the methods of festive packaging and share ideas for decorating gifts without special financial costs.

How to wrap a gift yourself in paper

The easiest and most affordable way is to wrap a gift in paper, and for this you need to choose the right material. What kind of paper can be used for packaging?

Gift, rather thin, decorated with drawings and prints of various themes. Sold in large rolls.

Kraft paper known as wrapping paper. It gives a lot of scope for decorating a gift, because bows, lace, stickers, drawings, cards, buttons, tinsel and all other gift decors will look great on its emphatically laconic background.

Foil. It looks very smart, especially on New Year's holidays.

Design paper. It is distinguished by a variety of textures. Such paper can be artificially aged, embossed, parchment, rice, interspersed with natural herbs or flowers. Ideal for original packaging.

After the paper is selected, you should prepare the workspace and tools. You will need:

Scissors;

Plain and double-sided scotch tape;

Marking pencil;

Present;

Selected wrapping paper;

Accessories for decorating the finished gift.

All is ready? Now you can move on to the packaging process.

1. Measure out the correct paper size. It should completely wrap the gift in length and width, with a small margin of 2-3 cm, the end of the box should be completely closed.

2. Place the present in the middle and wrap around the long side of the box, securing the paper with pieces of tape. There is also a neater option - attach a strip of double-sided tape to the edge and wrap the gift.

3. Lower the paper onto the end of the box, fold the loose edges, and lift the opposite side of the paper so that it rests on the end.

For a better understanding of the process, see the short video and in two minutes you will become a true packaging professional.

This option is the simplest and most common, but there are other packaging schemes. For example, it is convenient to pack small square gifts in an envelope, as shown in the diagram.

How to pack a sweet gift with your own hands

Not all gifts are sold in paper-wrapped boxes. Sweet gifts, especially handmade gifts, require a different approach. There are several easy ways to style your sweet gift:

1. Fold a box of thick paper or cardboard.

2. Wrap in transparent paper and then wrap with regular gift box.

3. Place in a basket.

Use one of our diagrams to fold the original box.

This pattern creates a box with a lid, which conveniently fits sweets, lollipops, small cookies or cake.

According to the scheme, it is easy to fold a box-bonbonniere for chocolate, sweets, cookies.

In the resulting boxes, you can pack a set of sweets or marshmallows, marshmallows or marmalade, cookies, dragees and gingerbread.

Don't want to mess with folding boxes? Then wrap the sweets in transparent cellophane, and then wrap in paper and decorate.

Secrets of custom packaging

Paper is not the only packaging material. The fabric packaging looks great. There is a special Japanese technique called furoshiki. It can be used to pack any gifts: boxes, toys, clothes.

How to wrap a gift in fabric?

1. Place the fabric on the table.

2. Put a gift in the middle of it.

3. Cover the gift with opposite ends of the fabric on both sides.

4. Tie the loose ends in a knot.

A short video will help you quickly master the technique of furoshiki.

More ideas for original packaging

Glass jars. They are suitable for small items: fruits, sweets, cosmetics, money.

Envelope. You can put a book, a set of discs, a box of chocolates, a photo, a stole and many other things in a large envelope.

Industrial Printed Paper... Newsprint, music paper, cards or magazines - anything will do, especially if you use your imagination.

How to decorate a do-it-yourself gift?

Wrapping a gift nicely and neatly or putting it in an original box is only half the battle. It is necessary to choose an original decoration for the gift. What could it be?

1. Bows. Ready-made or handmade, the latter is preferable.

3. Lace.

4. Jute cord.

6. Tinsel.

7. Contrast paper.

9. Stickers.

10. Drawings by hand.

11. Sweets.

12. Beads.

13. Small toys.

14. Fresh flowers.

15. Dried flowers - branches, leaves, berries, moss.

There are a lot of options for decorating gifts, it is impossible to describe even some of them in one article. But you can give several recommendations to make the gift look perfect:

1. Choose three to four decorative pieces, including ribbon, more looks clumsy.

2. By choosing paper and decorations in the same tone, you get an exquisite packaging option. Contrasting colors will make the packaging look vibrant.

3. It is better to choose one style for packaging - naive, ecological, sophisticated, retro or vintage. This will give the gift a certain mood.

In order to beautifully and originally pack a gift with your own hands, you need a little patience, accuracy and imagination, but the result will give you a lot of pleasant impressions!