Gift Wrap Suggestions

Figure A Figure B

If you have purchased or made a gift and now need to wrap it, here are a few suggestions that might help:

If using some of the more expensive single sheet gift wrapping paper, it is usually beautiful enough that it does not need much further embellishment. In this case, do not cover the pretty paper with a large fancy bow. Use some of the gossamer sheer ribbon for wrapping around the package and for the bow (figure A). The package will look beautifully wrapped, and the ribbon will enhance rather than cover up or detract from the pretty paper.
If not having any appropriate paper is your immediate problem, resort to the old newspaper trick but with a flourish. Try stamping designs with bold-faced stamps or some of the new Duet stamps that print an off-register design. Use bright colors , and wrap with an appropriately colored ribbon.
If you do not have rubber stamps, you can draw your own design with wide tipped markers or watercolor pens. Draw and color in simple designs or patterns such as flowers, geometric shapes, then outline them off register with black or other dark colored pens (figure B).
When all else fails, draw basic designs or shapes all over the paper with Krylon gold, copper or silver pens--or use all three.

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Carol Duvall Show : Episode CDS-868
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•	Floral Paper Sculpture

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