Gift wrapping ideas for Christmas

Design your own wrapping paper with a unique, personal touch

You’ve bought your presents for Christmas. All that remains is to wrap them beautifully before placing them under the tree. Yet finding creative wrapping paper can be easier said than done when off-the-shelf paper is often unimaginative, tacky or simply not appropriate to the gift. Luckily, it’s easy to design your own wrapping paper. Your friends and family will be thrilled to receive a lovingly wrapped, personal gift. The sky’s the limit when it comes to your gift wrapping design: Christmas greetings in calligraphy, stars, angels, snowflakes or decorative bows are all easy to create with edding gloss paint markers. The opaque, paint-like ink offers lasting results on smooth, light and dark surfaces. The versatile markers are available in up to 18 lustrous colours, including white and a range of metallic shades. A selection of stroke widths is also available.

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

Step-by-step

Step 1

Before you start designing your gift packaging, activate the edding gloss paint marker by following the instructions. We then recommend testing out the words you want to write on a piece of paper. That way, you can decide which style you like best. You can work with rounded or square letters, cursive lettering or block capitals. We labelled the pink package using the black edding 780 gloss paint marker and emphasised individual letters by adding white shadows (using the edding 751).

Step 2

The black gift features a large, hand-drawn bow. We added this and a matching hand-drawn gift tag using the silver gloss paint marker.

Step 3

For this gift, we used silver wrapping paper and added a cascade of white snowflakes. To do this, we used the white edding 780, which has an extra-fine tip. There are no limits to your imagination when it comes to designing your gift wrapping paper!