Frugal Finds Friday: Creative Gift Wrap

“Good things come in small packages” or so the old saying goes. I would venture to change it to “the best things come in homemade gift wrap.”

When you wrap a gift with creativity and ingenuity, you can save money while adding your own personal touch to the gift. I tapped my Twitter microblogging network to bring you ideas for creating your own wrapping. Combining their ideas with my own, here’s what we came up with:

• Tin Foil — Emboss flowers and words in your tin foil wrap with a ball point pen.
• Tissue Paper — You can stamp, draw on, fold, fluff and crinkle to make many fun wrappings with tissue paper, white or colored. With a little clever folding and tying in the middle, you can add colorful tissue flowers to the top.
• Brown Paper Bags — Same as tissue, just brown. Color, stamp, or draw on. Tie with raffia, straw, or twine for a fun organic look. Brown paper bags also look nice painted with stripes or dots.
• Pool/Tote Bag — Use part of the gift as the wrap itself.
• Basket — Group items and tie with a ribbon. This method works well with food gifts.
• Kitchen Towel — Wrap towel around kitchen tools and tie with ribbon or string. The revival of the flour towel provides the perfect weight for dual use as gift wrap.
• Receiving Blanket — Tie a thin blanket around baby items for a cozy baby gift.
• Garage Sale Wrapping Paper — Pick up fun papers at garage sales. People are always clearing out their old stock. Head to the stationery aisles of stores going out of business. Cards and gift wrap always seem to be plentiful on the sale racks.
• Cloth — Wrap present in pretty printed cloth and tie with ribbon. Even a new pillowcase might make a fun covering for a larger gift.
• Comics/Newspaper — And, then there is the old standby: newspaper or comics with a colorful bow.

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