I have a friend who gives beautifully wrapped packages, the kind where the outside of the gift is as fun as the inside. I love pretty gift wrap but I’m often totally lazy and end up throwing a gift in a bag. Can you relate? This week Tate was invited to a birthday party and I was inspired to do something cute with the outside of the gift. I love the way this duct tape gift wrap turned out and had to share it with you.
I first wrapped the gift box in white wrapping paper. Want a little trick? Buy cheap wrapping paper and use the plain white inside instead of the outer print. Just make sure the wrapping paper doesn’t have marking lines on it {most cheap wrapping paper doesn’t}.
To add the duct tape embellishment, I crossed duct tape over the package in two directions, similar to what you would do with ribbon. {I love this neon zig zag/chevron print!}
To make the petals of the flower, I tore pieces of duct tape and folded them into thirds.
I made five pieces like that and used a little hot glue to attach them together in a flower shape and hold them in place on top of the gift.
I folded a piece of duct tape onto itself so there were no more sticky sides and then cut a circle with a large hole punch for the center of the flower. I hot glued it in place on top of the flower.
The final touch was a little monogram. I traced one of Tate’s little alphabet letters onto a sheet of duct tape, cut it out, and stuck it on the package.
The present looked so cute! This duct tape gift wrap might replace my toss-in-a-gift-bag approach to wrapping {wink}!
Jen says
What a great idea to wrap gifts! I am one of the ones who throws it in a bag, how boring. I need to start getting more creative like this!!
barb says
That is a cute idea and I love the way it turned out. I bet it was the cutest gift there.
Tonia L says
I am going to have to get some duct tape! This is such a cute idea!!
southernscraps says
Cute, cute, cute! I love all the fun duct tape patterns but couldn’t think of a practical way to use them. This is it!
Natalie K. says
Randi this is so creative and pretty! Love it!
Amy* says
This is so great! I have to mail a gift today and wanted to use Hello Kitty Duct tape to dress it up without using the entire roll. This is perfect 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing!
Amy*
Courtney says
This is so fun! I LOVE it! I would love if you would share this at my Crazy Cute Party happening right now! I’ve got a totally awesome giveaway that you could win just for linking up! Come on over! ;D