Inventive Gift Wrapping Ideas:

Wrapping with Brown Paper Bag

Make beautiful presents using materials around the house with simple and creative gift wrapping ideas and techniques.

In this video series, decorating whiz, Amy Snively, demonstrates how to use materials around the house to wrap presents. Watch as she uses basic items to create beautiful presents.

Learn how to take a simple gift and turn it into a lovely present that will make you look like you went to a lot of trouble by wrapping with common items like paper bag.

Things you'll need:

• Brown paper bag
• Colored tape
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• String/ twine/ yarn/ ribbon
• Piece of cardstock / colored card paper
• Circle punch (like a scrapbooking circle punch)
• Tissue paper

To start, Amy does stripes on both sides of the bag using blue masking tape. This is so easy and fun to do.

In the next video she will make the finishing touches, and add some tissue paper.

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