5 Secrets For Elegant Gift Wrapping For Valentines Day

Just because it's Valentines Day doesn't mean your elegant gift wrapping has to be red, pink and white. Valentines Day is your opportunity to break out of the box and declare your love in any color you like. I probably wouldn't wrap a gift in black though.

Here are 5 secrets for elegant gift wrapping:

 

via A Gift Wrapped Life

1) Don't be cheap with the ribbon.  Splurge and buy ribbon made out of satin, velvet or grosgrain. Make it wider than you usually do. It should be at least 1.5" wide. That immediately says elegant. You can sometimes pick it up at the Michael's  $1.00 rack at the front of the store. Or buy it from a fabric store.  It may cost you $3.00 per yard, but that's still cheaper than the Valentines Day card.

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 2) Shake things up with color. You don't have to buy the printed Valentines Day paper. It often looks cheap anyway. Besides, what are you going to do with the rest of it?  Save it until next year?

Instead, buy a nice solid paper that can be used again for another occasion. Use a nice colored ribbon to go along with it. If you stick with solid paper and real ribbon, you really can't mess it up.

 

Whimsy  Wrap

3) Try an elegant patterned paper. You'll often find individual sheets of printed paper hanging over a rack in nicer stationery stores.  You'll find paper with interesting textures, colors and designs.

You can also get some newsprint and decorate it yourself with stamps or small paint brushes. You can make polka dot paper by dipping a new pencil eraser into acrylic paint and stamping it onto your paper. Use a color that will match the nice ribbon you bought.

 

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4) Use real or fake  flowers to decorate your gift. Read "How to Gift Wrap Using Fresh Flowers" and "How To Gift Wrap Using Fake Flowers."

 

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5) Go neutral in your gift wrapping. Note how elegant this camel colored satin ribbon looks on the ivory paper. What could be simpler and more beautiful?

 

Do you think Valentines Day wrapping must be red, white or pink? Why? 

Mimi

Comments

[Angela @ The Not So Functional Housewife]

Beautiful gift wrapping!

Thanks for sharing!

[Mimi]

Angela, Glad you liked the Valentines Day gift wrapping ideas. The white boxes with the wide red ribbon are my favorite.

[Dana @ Cooking At Cafe D]

Wonderful tips.
Pinned em!

~ Dana
Cooking at Cafe D

[Mimi]

Dana, I'm happy you found the post helpful. Thanks for pinning.

[Mary]

Hi Mimi,

What lovely wrapping! Hmmm...for Valentine's Day...I guess I am a traditionalist and like to see red and white wrapping, red ribbon, roses, etc.

You have a lovely blog! So glad I visited.

Love,
Mary

[Jenny]

These are gorgeous! My Grandma was always the Queen of beautifully wrapped presents. Me- not so much! Thanks for the ideas.

[Mimi]

Mary, My favorite is actually the white box with the red ribbon, so I guess I'm a bit of a traditionalist too. a tiny bit.

[Mimi]

Jenny, One of my first jobs was as a gift wrapper at a department store. No one trained me. I was just "thrown to the wolves." Thank God gift wrapping is a skill that can be learned.