Gift wrap with the wow factor

Design decorative wrapping paper and gift tags

It’s never too early to think about Advent and Christmas. Right now, there’s still enough time for you to get your advent decorations, cards and gift wrap ready. Mini wooden discs, decorated using edding’s acrylic 3D double liner, make brilliant gift tags or Advent decorations. The double liner, a flexible tube with acrylic paste and two different nozzles, creates effects that are simply stunning. You can also add a really personal touch to gift wrap and conjure up little works of art in no time at all. The different acrylic products are available in up to 26 opaque colours and can be used for both finer details and larger areas.

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

Step-by-step

Step 1

For the design, we’ve used fine and broad acrylic markers, as well as the acrylic 3D double liner in a range of colours. Before you start colouring, the acrylic markers must be activated as follows: shake the marker with the cap on until the mixing ball can be heard inside the pen. Next, carefully pump the marker up and down until ink appears in the tip. Test the marker out on a piece of scrap paper.

Step 2

If the surface of the wooden disc is very rough, first smooth it down a bit with the sandpaper before getting started. Use a pencil to sketch out your chosen pattern before grabbing the gold-coloured double liner and going over the motif. To do so, remove the cap from the thin nozzle and gently squeeze the tube.

Step 3

Let the gold-coloured paint dry thoroughly. Now it’s the turn of red: the double liner’s fine nozzle is perfect for adding delicate red dots to the branch. Leave to dry before making a hole in the wood and hanging the tag using a ribbon.

Step 4

If you fancy it, you can also colour in the base of the wooden disc using mild mint, before continuing your design with the double liner.

Step 5

edding acrylic markers are also great for adding unique designs to gift wrap. You can add designs to the paper either before or after wrapping the gift, in whatever way you like. We’ve used the acrylic marker in classy mauve in our example.

Step 6

There’s no shortage of ideas for patterns and motifs, so just let your imagination run wild! The colours of the acrylic markers are opaque, allowing you to create expressive effects on both dark and coloured paper.