Gift Wrapping Without Paper

 Apron wrap

The inspiration for gift wrapping without paper came from two sources I came across this week:

The wrap artist John Boak whose work re-defined gift wrapping for me.

And the book by Tina Seelig What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World, the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, 

Accordion and book wrap

where she presents different methods to get more creative, widen the boundaries of our thoughts, notice opportunities and get much more out of life than we think is possible.

T-shirt wrap

Here are some examples of gift wrapping without paper.

1.      Apron wrap

2.      Accordion and book wrap

3.      Buttoned shirt wrap

4.      T-shirt wrap

I would love to hear your thoughts,

Till next time,

Yamayka.

Buttoned shirt wrap

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Make Your Own Gift Wrapping Paper

Homemade Gift Wrapping Paper

One of the best tricks I use in order to get a creative gift wrapping, is to make the wrapping paper itself.

This homemade paper that I’m going to talk about today can be reused again and again because cellotape can be easily removed from it. 

Here are some layouts I've made...What is you're favorite layout???

Layout-Black

Layout-Blue Sky

Layout-Upside Down-Orange

Layout-Orange

Layout-Happy Blue

Layout-Upside Down-Green

layout-red

The technique is quite easy:

All you need is: a  magazine, Scissors, glue , Tissue paperand cellophane.

I 'm using scissors to cut out some images from the magazine, then placing them on a tissue paper which is used as a background. Attaching each piece using UHU stick and adding a cellophane to wrap the present.

 Placing The Cellophane Above The Collage 

Homemade Gift Wrapping Paper

Homemade Gift Wrapping Paper

Collage making is such a fun! Let me know what you think of this gift wrapping idea, and if you try it I'd love to see!

Yamayka xxx

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