Creative gift wrap

Stylish packaging for pens

There are some gifts that are just simple to wrap. Books or games, for example. Other presents, however, can pose a real challenge because their shape is simply not conducive to being wrapped with ease. Using edding markers as the gift in our example, we’ll show you how you can wrap long, narrow presents in attractive style.

Categories: Christmas
Gift packaging
Products: Paint markers
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

Cut out the black craft paper to a size to fit your gift. In our example, we’ve wrapped gloss paint markers. To create the loops, use the craft knife to fashion six evenly spaced horizontal slits on the paper. Leave a margin of about 1 cm to the left and the right.