Sometimes I kid myself that I can wrap gifts, ‘after all, its just wrapping yeah, how hard can it be?’ Then the hard work begins, and the ‘why did I not just do this in the shop?’ question pops up in between. After some time I start asking for help and when I don’t find any, the ‘hope you don’t mind’ speech follows when presenting it.
So one lucky day, I saw some guy wrapping a gift and I watched keenly. It was not until I heard him say: ‘yeah that’s how, easy huh,’ that I realized I had said out loud: ‘so that is how it is done?’ Oh well, I tried it today, 3rd march, 2013, with some variations and I was proud of myself. I was so proud that I decided to show how it is done, someone might benefit from it. It is so easy that I did it in less than five minutes. First time ever!!!
So Here It Goes.
Materials
- Wrapping sheet.
- Sellotape.
- A pair of scissors.
Steps
- Wrap the gift vertically leaving both ends open like this
- or horizontally like this.
- If wrapped vertically, make your accordion fold at either end or just one.
- If horizontal, accordion fold the remaining part.
- Use a thin strip of sellotape to hold down the middle for both vertical and horizontal.
- Pull both ends of the fold to meet at the middle and hold with sellotape.
- This is it horizontally.
- Vertical with folds on both ends.
- Vertical with folds on one end.
- To close off the end for this one above, fold in both ends to form a triangle like so.
- Fold in one of the triangles and sellotape the other above it like this.
- You could forget the second bit of sellotape and it would look like this.
- You could also forget about sellotaping the middle and do it on the side like this one.
- Or both ends.
Voila! You just wrapped your gift.
Hope I have helped someone. 🙂
If you want a wonderful DIY gift idea, check this post.
Ciao y’all.
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