You don’t give friends handfuls of chocolate. No. You carefully lay them side by side in candy boxes and then dress them with a bow, or at least a smiley face drawn on with a
sharpie.
Fabric flowers have become one of my favorite
embellishments. Continuing with the
candy boxes, they are usually glossy and classy looking enough on their
own. Cut a ribbon out of felt and make a
felt flower to secure and decorate them with.
Obviously, you can do this with other boxes, and even brown paper
bags. I love using a simple covering and
then decorating it with other creative components.
I guess you could say that flowers of any kind (paper, real,
or fabric) aren’t really that creative.
There are still other options!
Wrap your candy boxes in word-search paper (preferably candy
themed). Fabric gift wrap is making
quite a debut in the gift-wrapping industry.
This is for several different reasons.
For one, it’s just plain cool.
For another, it is very durable.
You can find just as many fun pictures and designs on fabric as you can
on wrapping paper. There should be a
remnants section at any fabric store where you can buy small, leftover pieces
without having to spend large amounts of money on large amounts of cloth. Finally, fabric gift wrap is reusable, and
people like that! Consider finding a
piece of fabric that you and your best friend can use back and forth for the
rest of your lives.
Another one of my favorite types of gift wrap are doing a
weave with strips of paper or string.
Wrap the gift in construction and then find a tutorial online that will
show you how to do a weave with the materials overtop the packaging. If you don’t want to get as crazy as the
weave, you can do a pseudo-weave, or create your own designs, using Washitape. What did we ever do before Washi
tape??