What Kind Of Wrapper Are You?

[usnuzuloose]

I thought this might be fun to see what kind of wrapping paper you like. I like useing thick paper and I like the darker colors like dark blues and greens. I like using alot of silver with big bows. I am the kind of person who just loves looking at peoples different packages. Sometimes I get different ideas. So what kind of wrapper are you?

 

[AKL_Megs]

I bought black foil wrapping paper with gold snowflakes on it. We have a sort of "black" themed Christmas Tree, so it looks nice under the tree.

 

[almburr]

Well, before we had 5 kids I use to be a big wrapper. I would take the brown wrapping paper and do my own deisgns on them (using stamps, and freehand) then I would take the rafia(sp) ribbon.

Now I use matching papers, I prefer the dark colors, or the blue and silver. Sometimes I will use big gift bags and lots of paper.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I like Santa prints, and also Winter scenes for the kids. Colorful, vibrant, whimsical, and some retro.

For the adults, I like vibrant colors too, all shades of blue with snowflake prints. Solid colors with contrasting bows. Some fun prints.

 

[olwyngdh]

It completely depends on the gift and who it is for. For my DD8, most things are just whatever mixed paper with a bow. For my DD25 and my DH and other adults, I get a lot fancier with nicer bows, ribbons, decorations tucked into the bows, things like that.

I have to admit though, that there are a lot of times the nicer presents will be wrapped the simplest, with the crappiest paper, and the cheap, silly thing will get all the bells and whistles. This started when my DD25 was little and judged the gift by the wrapping She doesn't do that anymore, as she never knows from the paper (or the shape of the box!) what could be in it!

 

[ilovepcot]

Snow white paper and shiny gold bows.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Wow everyone has different ideas and I like them all. Very unique.

 

[Miss Peach]

Hi!

Over the last 5 or so years I have gone to the after Christmas sale at my local fabric store and bought yardage of Christmas fabrics. I have made it into various sized fabric bags, some with rick rack trim some with coordinated fabric cuffs, some plain. We reuse these every year for the family gift giving. We have a fairly large family, so I have lots of bags, and still need to make more.

I have also made tags from felt using my Sizzix machine.

I think it looks really pretty and it saves the landfill from the huge amount of wrapping paper we used to use every year.

Cathy

 

[olwyngdh]

Hi!

Over the last 5 or so years I have gone to the after Christmas sale at my local fabric store and bought yardage of Christmas fabrics. I have made it into various sized fabric bags, some with rick rack trim some with coordinated fabric cuffs, some plain. We reuse these every year for the family gift giving. We have a fairly large family, so I have lots of bags, and still need to make more.

I have also made tags from felt using my Sizzix machine.

I think it looks really pretty and it saves the landfill from the huge amount of wrapping paper we used to use every year.

Cathy

I have a girlfriend that does that, and sells some of them for extra Christmas money! I have bought a few, and they are great!!

 

[momof1princess]

i love patterned papers-disney, santa, winter, etc. i just LOVE wrapping paper. i have about 20 rolls. i'm not big on bows or ribbon. i usually just wrap the gift.

 

[Angelrose]

For my grandson I use Mickey gift wrap. For my granddaughter I use Tink wrapping paper.

For adults I use bright colors, mostly red with Christmas trees on it or blue with snowflakes on it.

 

[D L and K's Mom]

This year I am also using brown paper and raffea (sp?) or brown twine/string. I got some really real looking sprigs of greens and berries and put them on with some brown paper tags I cut with pinking shears. I think they look very county. Last year I used all solid paper and tied them with that star garland (silver and gold). I love wrapping!!

 

[luvmy3]

I love to use thick wrapping paper, the kind that is made from paperbags. I also use brown shipping paper and stamp it with Christmas stamps. Thats for our gifts to eachother and others, the Santa paper is always some cheap character paper. This year its Spongebob for my dses, and Tink for my dd.

 

[luvmy3]

This year I am also using brown paper and raffea (sp?) or brown twine/string. I got some really real looking sprigs of greens and berries and put them on with some brown paper tags I cut with pinking shears. I think they look very county. Last year I used all solid paper and tied them with that star garland (silver and gold). I love wrapping!!

I must have been typing when you posted, but that is such a coincidence because thats what I do. I use red and green rafia or homespun ribbon and stamp the plain paper. It is very country and it goes with my Christmas decor so I do it because it makes the gifts part of the decor when they are still under our tree.

This thread has me itching to get wrapping!!

 

[usnuzuloose]

Okay you guys are going to have me on the hunt after xmas sale for different things, I guess I need to ask for a sewing machine next year. Great job all. Keep the ideas coming. If you have photos to share feel free I love looking.

 

[hereyago]

regular wrapping paper, brown paper bags or that brown packing paper, even cartoon newspaper. or if the present if small enough or even just for the name tag, scan a picture of someone and use that as the wrapping paper or name tag. ( learned it from a Christmas ideas show)

 

[ksumn1]

I use all different types of wrapping paper. Under the tre now I have white background with green, red and pink dots with a green bow, one with a green background with whie and red candycanes with a green bow, green tink paper with a gold bow, red with white christmas trees and plain red with doggie and kitty stickers. I think I have 8 to 10 different types of wrap. Most are left from previous years. I bought 3 more rolls this year in a school fundraiser. Really girly lime green, pink, purple and red snowflakes and a similar color scheme with ornaments.

Can you tell that I love wrapping presents and colors?

 

[southern_redhead]

I have two different kinds. One is blue with gingerbread men, gumdrops, and candy canes on it. The other is red with different sized peppermint and spearmint discs on it. I got both at Walgreens it is thick enough to wrap well and you also can't see any box designs through it!

I also have a few bags that I got at Dollar General. There are red ones with gingerbread men, white ones with peppermints, and one that is a "collage" of things with some gingerbread men in it. My holiday decor and tree are gingerbread men/candy themed so I like to tie the wrapping paper in with it.

I haven't put them out yet, I just finished getting the tree up today but hopefully I can move a few up tonight before I go to bed. The kids will be so excited to see PRESENTS in the morning

ETA: I don't use bows anymore. I used to work in retail and learned to make really fancy, pretty bows. I used to do them on our presents at home but found that A) the kids don't care and B) when you have a bunch of presents under the tree and have to stack them the bows get squished anyway.

 

[Mermaid02]

I like all differents designs on my wrapping paper! I do prefer Innisbrook paper, it's thick and can cover the pictures, writing on any package.

We have several "Santa" papers, snowmen, Christmas star etc. I really love all kinds of wrappings- I'm not a bow maker but I buy these "pull" bows that look a little fancier than the regular bows.

 

[Kathi OD]

I buy whatever happens to catch my eye on the sales in the days after Christmas, so it varies from year to year. I try to use Santa/snowman paper for the little ones and something a little more "sophisticated" for the adults. Sometimes the adults get Santa/snowman paper too.