Creative Paper Gift Wrapping Ideas for Every Occasion

The art of gift wrapping is not just a holiday tradition. It has a long historic background, which has been in practice since ancient origins. Gift wrapping, mostly perceived as an afterthought, plays a crucial role in presenting a purposeful gesture. 

Using unique gift wrap can transform an ordinary item into an astoundingly pleasant experience, expressing care and attention to detail with a thoughtful presentation. Whether you own a gift shop, or you are an eco-conscious individual, mastering the art of wrapping paper can elevate your gift giving game. Read this blog to find gift wrapping ideas you will love!

Creative Gift Wrapping Ideas to Give A ritzy Appeal to the Presents 

Here are some creative ways to wrap the gifts with the help of wrapping paper sheets. These unorthodox ways of gift wrapping would definitely make the gift wrapping more playful. The creative and innovative gift-wrapping ideas are briefly discussed below: 

Brown Paper 

Wrap your gifts with brown paper to add a rustic touch to the premium presents. A classic brown paper can never go wrong while wrapping a gift, as it gives a timeless appeal to the delicately presented gifts. The wrapping paper used is plain kraft, which is a highly recyclable, reusable, and compostable material. 

Using brown kraft paper to wrap your gifts adds to the exclusivity of the packed gift items. Premium brown wrapping paper gives a touch of elegance to the gift presentation. Kraft paper increases the perceived value of the packed gifts by making the gift presentation look highly exclusive and sleek. 

Foil Wrapped Paper

Use radiating and beaming foil wrapped paper to make the gift packaging highly appropriate for the festive season. Amplify the joy of the blissful celebratory occasions with the eye catching glitzy gift presentation, enticing the receivers attention instantly. 

Exquisite shimmery foiled wrapping paper makes the gift presentation even more irresistible for the receivers, causing them to can't help but unwrap and unbox the gift packaging instantly. 

Old Newspapers or Magazines

Repurposing old newspapers to be used as gift wrapping is a very thoughtful and creative idea to give a vintage look to the packed gifts. Using newspapers as a gift wrapping is a highly sustainable approach, as it serves to reduce the paper waste. It involves reusing the old newspapers, providing an easy and simple approach to the eco conscious customers to go green. 

Wrapping the gifts with the newspapers is a cost effective idea to present the gifts in a haute way, and provide elegant gift presentation. But be mindful of one thing while using newspapers for gift wrapping: the paper must contain all the happy news, fun stuff like comics, horoscopes, etc. 

Old Maps

Wrapping the gifts with the old maps is another very convenient, effortless, and easy way to add a classic vintage charm to the gift presentation. The premium gift products wrapped up in old maps would immediately entice the recipient's attention, if that person happens to have a passion for travelling. 

This eccentric and creative gift presentation would remind the receiver that life is a journey, and it is too boring without exchanging the gifts to your dearest ones. 

Vintage Music Sheets 

Using vintage music sheets is a very thoughtful and peculiar way to present gifts at any happy occasion. Gift items wrapped up neatly and delicately with old music sheets give a suave and ritzy appeal to the premium items packed. These gifts with haute appeal would enhance the festive charm to your gifts. 

Parcel packaging papers.

With the rapidly growing trend in the ecommerce business, people prefer online shopping, and keep receiving all sorts of parcels on a regular basis. So, it is a wise greener approach to reuse the parcel packaging papers as gift wraps. 

Children’s Artwork 

Wrap your valued gift products with the children's original creative artwork to give a sweet, personal touch, and to add sentimental value to the gifts. It would effortlessly bring a smile on anybody’s face receiving it. Reusing the valued and highly creative drawings of the children’s drawings, holds deep emotional connection. It would provide a heartwarming feeling to the gift receivers. 

Old Wallpapers 

Use leftover scraps for durable, stylish gift wrap. Refurbish the beloved wallpapers in your room to revive nostalgia. It would have an immense sentimental value not only for you but also build an emotional connection with the receivers. It would not only upcycle the old wallpaper, which had no purpose left anyway, other than going in a trash can. 

Old Book Pages

Bringing the old, useless, torn, separated pages from the old books would give a highly intellectual feel to the delicately and thoughtfully wrapped gifts. Also, using the crossword puzzles to elegantly wrap the gifts would boost the customers' receiving experience by giving a shock value to the customers. 

Adding Finesse with Enticing Addons 

Here are four unique ways you can utilize addons to wrap gifts in style: 

1. Finishing addons such as bows, ribbons, stickers, pine cones, stamps, and upcycled postcards can improve the wrapping of your gifts. And you can also keep the valued gift items in place and intact by tying securely with cord or twines. 
2. Ensure eco friendly approach in gift presentation by making a fine use of recycled and reused embellishments, decorative accessories like pine cones, old postcards, origami artwork, flowers, beads, sea shells, shelled nuts, dried leaves, etc. 
3. Make your plain wrapping gift papers stand out by using stamps, stickers, gift tags, etc. to create enticing designs on plain kraft paper. Elevate your plain wrapping paper with stamps. It's a very simple method requiring minimal effort yet a very effective one. 
4. You can also elevate the plain and minimal gift wrapping by adding dried flowers, leaves with beautiful fall tones. Give a finished minimal natural look to the presents by twining the gift packages with ribbons or cords, giving a rustic appeal.

Wrapping Up 

Gift wrapping is more than just a decorative activity, it’s a creative and thoughtful way to add value to the gifts. Whether you are looking for sustainable choices, or striving to explore various peculiar, unconventional, and highly creative gift presentation ideas, you have plenty of options.

With each wrap, you’re creating a unique experience for the recipient even before they get to unbox the gifts. Add innovation to your gift presenting skills using wrapping paper, the primary source of joy for the gift recipients. 

Contact us at sales@oxopackaging.com.au to get more out of the box ideas to enhance your gift presentation.