Your gift will be even more soulful if you wrap it in paper decorated with your own hand! This collection contains 10 ways to decorate wrapping paper.
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If before the holidays stock up on a roll of ordinary kraft paper (it can be bought at art or handicraft stores quite inexpensively), then the issue of gift wrapping will be resolved! And to make wrapped gifts look especially cute and sincere, paper can be decorated. This collection contains various ideas for decorating wrapping paper and packaging from it.
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1. Paper painted with potato stamps
One of the easiest ways to decorate paper is to apply stamps to it. And one of the easiest ways to make stamps with your own hands is to cut them from potato tubers! You will need several potatoes, a knife, paint, a foam pad with a stand into which the stamp will be immersed, and the paper itself. Cut each tuber in half and cut out the dies on the flat side of the shape you need. Place the paint on a small pillow, immerse stamps into it and make drawings to your taste.
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2. Paper painted with foam stamps on a sticky roller
In this way, you can decorate the paper with strips of repeating patterns, for example, of Christmas trees. The main role here is played by a sticky roller, which is usually used to clean clothes from wool and dust. You also need a foamiran, scissors or a breadboard knife, a wooden stick, a rope, a ink pad and paint, plus the paper itself.
Cut the fir trees from the foam, make dots on them with the end of the stick, stick it on the roller (since the roller is sticky, no glue is needed) and add a rope that will symbolize snowdrifts and hills. Place paint on the pad. Roll the roller over the pad so that it is completely covered in paint, and then transfer the drawing onto the paper with it.
By sticking smaller Christmas trees on the lid of a plastic bottle, you can get a stamp for decoration, for example, a postcard or an envelope.
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3. Dotted paper
This is probably the easiest way to decorate paper. The eraser on the back of a simple pencil plays the role of the stamp. Immerse the eraser in the ink pad and dot it.
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4. Paper decorated with colored tape
Another easy way to decorate wrapping paper is with colored tape. Take several types of adhesive tape, harmoniously combined with each other, and stick the adhesive tape on paper. You can make strips, cells, snowflakes, inscriptions, abstract drawings ...
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5. Paper decorated with lines of text
This idea only seems difficult to implement. But in fact, it is not difficult to realize it, and it is not at all necessary to possess the talent of a calligrapher. It is good that the lines - for example, with New Year's greetings and wishes - are even. To do this, it is better to draw paper before work on a ruler with a pencil. The second component of success is a felt-tip pen or a liner that writes well. Do not try to print letters - write as you usually write, filling lines the entire surface of the paper: it will turn out beautifully. Then erase the markup with an eraser.
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6. Paper decorated with pompoms
Another simple and cute way to decorate paper is to use mini pompoms. These can usually be bought at handicraft stores. First wrap the gift with paper, and then glue the pompons.
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7. Packaging decorated with sprigs of needles or larch
You can add a small living branch of spruce, fir, pine or larch to the wrapped gift. First wrap the gift with paper, then glue the twig, for example, with hot glue. Additionally, you can make snow by spraying white paint on the packaging with a brush.
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8. Kraft paper packaging decorated with applique
Such decoration would require unnecessary newspapers or book pages, small bells and snowflakes. Cut out the pages of the applique - for example, Christmas trees, stick it on a wrapped gift, add bells and snowflakes.
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9. Packaging decorated with garlands of paper lanterns
Wrapping a gift with simple kraft paper, use a garland of paper lanterns instead of lace or ribbon. For her, stick on a cord or a thick thread flashlights from colored paper.
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10. Paper decorated with drawings
If you like to draw, then paper can be decorated with drawings - both thematic, for example, stars, balls or lights, and abstract - stripes, strokes and so on.
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