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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Adding Color

In this second video, Amy demonstrates how to add some color to your gift wrap using tissue paper.

Now that the bag is ready, you can put your gift inside. To add color to your gift wrapping you'll need to use some tissue paper that will pop out the top and add some drama to the gift wrap.

To do so, place your gift in the center of the tissue paper, bring up the short ends, and loosely gather all other ends because you want it to have nice pointies coming out the top of the bag.

To finish, tie the twine around the neck of the bag, just make sure you don't have any unsightly folds.

You can stop right here, or you can add some cute embellishments to your gift. In the next video, Amy will show you how to make cute little buttons to hang from the twine.

Embellishments

In this video you'll learn how to take your gift wrapping to the next level by adding some cute embellishments.

To add embellishments to the bag, Amy adds a bow and makes shoelace bow. You can add as many bows as you like, just make sure the knots are all aligned.

Then she uses a scrapbooking circle punch to punch circles and with a regular punch hole she punches two little holes in each one, just like a button you would find on your shirt.

The next step is to thread through the holes. Each one of the strands will get its own button. Arrange them to the height that you want and then tie the end of the twine so that the button doesn't slide off.