If you have already decided on the choice of a gift, the only thing left is to pack your present beautifully and effectively. What to do if the gift is a book? What kind of packaging will be up to you. Perhaps it will be completely transparent or matte, covering the title of the book, making it a surprise, or, conversely, underlining the contents. There are a huge number of options for the original packaging of books with gift paper.
Necessary materials
For beautiful packaging, you will need paper, double-sided tape, all kinds of ribbons and accessories, scissors. You can use adhesive tape, glue, and a stapler to fix the package. But nevertheless, the most convenient will be double-sided tape, which is not only practical, but also leaves no traces, which is a big advantage when creating packaging for a printed publication. In addition, when working with him, scissors will not be needed, because he easily tears his hands, which allows him to be used without extra effort.
Probably the most difficult thing is to choose a combination of ribbons and paper. If the experience in gift wrapping is small, you can peep the combination of color and texture in the design of wallpaper, clothes, various accessories. Paper, like ribbons, can be different in texture and color.
A fashionable direction in design packaging is the use of kraft paper or imitation of a newspaper.
How to pack?
A good idea for packing a book would be its theme. For example, your friend dreams of traveling. A good gift for him will be an atlas or a guide to one of the countries. For presentation packaging use geographic map. Gently wrapping the book, tie it with a bright ribbon. A pocket compass can be glued as an optional accessory.
An exciting detective can be presented in a package similar to a tuxedo. Black and white is a classic color combination. In this case, wrap the book with white silk paper - it will be a shirt. With thicker velvet-like paper, create something that looks like a jacket or tailcoat. Two triangular parts will be able to imitate the sides of the jacket. From folded in several layers of bright ribbon of red, an elegant bow will be obtained. A book packed in Agent Costume 007 will look gorgeous.
Aunt, mom, grandmother a cookbook as a gift can be wrapped in the form of a nesting doll. To do this, use 2 types of bright paper. Sister a volume of poems can be decorated in craft with written lines of great poets. Decorating the book with a beautiful ribbon, complete the design.
Have you prepared as a gift several volumes of classics of world literature? It will take several types of paper by the number of books in the gift. Use design cunning: it is better to use paper of the same color, but different tones and textures.
Such a combination will fit perfectly in the package. For a common binder, packing tapes are needed. A large assortment of ribbons is on sale: thin, wide, simple and complex, bright and neutral, in different colors and shades. So, the choice is made, and you can begin directly to the creative process.
Step-by-step instruction
We cut out a rectangle the size of the book from paper so that our gift is completely covered with paper, and on top there is a small part equal to about 1 centimeter. It is more convenient to do this using the gift item itself, so you don’t even need a ruler. We lay the book on the whole sheet, combine the edges and make a notch. Cut the paper measured across the width of the book to the full length necessary for wrapping on all sides.
A free centimeter edge will be lapped with double-sided tape. To do this, on one side of our blank we glue a piece of duct tape at the very edge of the paper. Adhesive tape on the second side does not need to be peeled off immediately along the entire length, but only to free a small area from the protective film. After the details of the paper are connected, pull the protective second adhesive side of the adhesive tape by the strip.
Before final gluing, it is necessary to properly tighten 2 sides of the paper so that the paper tightly “hugs” the book, and there are no extra folds. We fix the result.
Now that the books are wrapped in paper, it’s the turn of the tapes that will connect all the books into a single whole. The combination of tapes of various thickness, color, texture will look original. You can make them interweave, it all depends on your desire and imagination. For weaving, it is enough to arrange several ribbons in the vertical and horizontal direction, laying them under each other. We connect the tape with tape, which will avoid the most difficult stage.
Creating a bow or knot usually causes difficulties for everyone and rarely succeeds. Such a connection makes it easy, quick and, most importantly, to connect these ribbons very beautifully without tails.
It remains to choose a suitable beautiful accessory and decorate our gift. For example, it can be an elegant bunch of flowers or a chic satin bow. You can use any small parts of the workpiece. These can be beads or buttons of various sizes, ribbons and threads, knitted or paper details. Using a collage of personal photos or notes with congratulations and wishes will give the gift an incredible effect.
See how to pack a book as a present in the next video.
