Personalize all of your gifts with these decorative wrapping, trim, tag, and card ideas that show you really care. Fully illustrated, full-color Christmas, birthday, wedding, and all-occasion gift projects allow you to add your own creative touches to your presents. See how to incorporate each recipient's hobbies and interests into their wrapping. Common everyday items, such as craft paper, mail tags, and found objects, turn ordinary gifts into cherished mementos that won't soon be forgotten. The author lives in Brigham City, UT. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK.
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Once you've poured your creativity into producing a wonderful gift, you can't just use store-bought wrapping--you have to conjure up some glorious packaging to make your presentation truly memorable. And when it's the thought that counts, classy wrapping can make even the most mundane of presents seem like something really special; in fact, sometimes the package becomes a gift in itself.
This idea-filled guide demonstrates wonderful ways to turn all sorts of papers (butcher, specialty, handmade, foil, watercolor, even pretty mass-produced gift wrap), fabrics, paints, and trimmings (ribbons, wire, pipe cleaners, rickrack, natural materials, assorted found objects) into unusual and inventive packaging. Sometimes the supplies make the look with little other involvement needed: simple coppery tissue paper tied with metallic ribbon and bedecked with a satin rose, for instance. Other times the paper itself is the field for creativity--a whole chapter is devoted to painting, texturing, stamping, and even stitching to make eye-catching papers. Still other packages boast imaginative gift tags and package toppers, such as wooden fish, beaded snowflakes, Christmas light bulbs, and a scarf wrapped around glittery white paper adorned with three buttons to suggest a snowman. Directions are good and photos are clear and colorful. It may be more time-consuming to create your own wrappings, but Jill Williams Grover shows us that it's certainly worthwhile. --Amy Handy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Jill Grover works as an Interior Designer and is the author of Scary Scenes for Halloween. She lives with her family in Northern Utah.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Few new ideas,
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This review is from: Handmade Giftwrap, Bows, Cards & Tags (Hardcover)
Sorry, but I do not agree with the reviews of the other two customers (I chose the book due to these comments!). I received this title last week and I want to sent it back now. I do no find new ideas there. Morever, the instructons are not clear (so beginners, avoid it!) I have bought other books with line-drawings (or photos) explaining the techniques. This book has no more than 6 (perhaps fewer?) line-drawings. There's a part of the book, the one of stamping, that is more interesting than the others, but naturally, I have not bought the book for just one chapter. It does not worth it. I have other books as "Card Crafting", "Greeting Cards with Priscilla Presley", Origami, which are really useful.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
In a word, this book STINKS,
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This review is from: Handmade Giftwrap, Bows, Cards & Tags (Paperback)
I should've heeded the advice of other reviewers. "Beginners" nothing! This book is wonderful if you have a degree in commercial arts, apparently as much money to spend on gift wrap as the gift, and near infinite time to spend wrapping the presents.The book opens with three pages on how to wrap an ordinary rectangular gift in ordinary fashion. After that, you're on your own for instructions as this book whizzes by at the speed of light! It shows you pretty pictures and offers perhaps four sentences each on how to duplicate them. One gift actually suggestes pliars and wire cutters to wrap thick wire around the present. How is the recipient supposed to OPEN the darn thing?! There are two good projects described in here, and I'll describe them both. Get a paint pen and write the recipient's name on an old fashioned large Christmas bulb. Wrap pipe cleaner around the metal end of the bulb and make a curly-q out of it. Looks cute! Second project: Just make the curly-q's out of the pipe cleaner in lots of colors. If you have extensive resources of money, time, patience, and nothing better to do than spend several hours wrapping one present, this book is for you... in which case I've got a lovely mint condition used copy waiting for you. But if you're looking for clever ideas for gift wrap and some solid instructions, pass up this book in favor of its monetary equivilent in wrapping supplies to experiment with on your own.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book is great!,
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This review is from: Handmade Giftwrap, Bows, Cards & Tags (Paperback)
I can't believe people gave 1 and 2 stars to this book! I own the hardcover edition - it was a bit pricey, but after browsing through it a few times in a bookstore I decided I wanted it for my birthday present - it's so good! There are a lot of great ideas in the book. They are also inspiring - by looking at the photos I get many ideas of my own. And not all the projects there are difficult to make as some reviewers said. I own about a dozen books on gift wrapping and gift giving and this one is definitely among the top five.
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