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How to gift wrap your gifts like a professional

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Why you need to get serious about gift wrapping

Presentation is important when giving a gift. Just as good presentation makes food more appetising, so great gift wrappings make receiving your gift more exciting. Ever been given a gift unwrapped? What a non-event!

Going the extra mile to wrap your gift well transforms the experience. The effort invested is evident. The recipient feels more special. There's some drama and anticipation. The gift seems more exciting - no matter what it is.

Bad gift wrap spoils a fantastic gift; great gift wrap makes a bad gift better.

You too can gift wrap like a professional

Improve presentation and save time and money by learning professional gift wrapping techniques

Imagine wrapping gifts all day, every day. You would get pretty good at it. Learn all the short-cuts. Perfect your methods. Then reuse those methods over again. Here you can learn the techniques used by the team at retailer of gifts for her, pressies4princesses.

Basic technique for wrapping a rectangular gift

For absolutely beginners the easiest shape to wrap

Starting with sizing your paper, this guide assumes no prior knowledge. Elementary gift wrapping in pictures!

How to gift wrap a cylinder or tube

Not the scrunched 'cracker' method!

When wrapping cylindrical shapes, many resort to the 'Christmas cracker' technique. Here's a better looking alternative that will wow the recipient.

Gift wrapping a bottle

The neat way to gift wrap a bottle

A neat and tidy way to wrap a bottle without using a gift box or bag. Again, no Christmas cracker ends - pro's just don't do that!

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How to Wrap a Gift Like a Professional
The real professionals - who wrap thousands of gifts a month - show you how to do it properly in this 40 picture, step-by-step tutorial. Handy printable PDF format!

Gift wrapping videos

Can't follow the pictures? Watch the movie instead!

How to Wrap a Gift : How to Make Homemade Gift Wrapping Paper
by expertvillage | video info

30 ratings | 25,205 views
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I'm a 36 year old manager of UK gift retailer pressies4princesses with two children living in the a quaint village in the UK, just outside London. more »

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