Inexpensive Gift Wrap & Wrapping Station

Inexpensive Gift Wrap & Wrapping Station.  I love a pretty tree with beautifully wrapped and coordinating packages.  However, I really don’t like to spend a fortune on my wrapping.  So I always look for a way to make my package beautiful and special but on a budget.

I love to change up the color of my tree each year and I like to have my packages match the color scheme.  This picture shows that I was using rust and plaid for my colors that year.

This was so easy to do with some Dollar Tree boxes and a spool of rusty satin ribbon.  These boxes come several to a package and can be found anywhere.  You get an assortment of sizes for $1.99, so you can find something for almost any clothing item.  The rusty-colored satin ribbon came from PaperMart and cost $7.99 for 50 yds. of  1 1/2″ ribbon.  I had some silver and gold wrap in my stash,so that also coordinated with a roll of brown butcher paper that I had.  This means each present is wrapped for pennies.

With lots of packages, I love having a wrapping station.  Our upstairs landing is really large (11ft. wide), so there is plenty of room for me to set up a 4ft. work table next to the railing and it doesn’t interfere with going up or down the stairs.  Find a corner or spot somewhere in your home and create a temporary small work area for your wrapping.  It will save you tons of time and energy.  You can really mass-produce wrapping in a hurry.

 

I have all my ribbons, tape, and tags at easy reach.  This year I am using all white gift bags with my white boxes, but I do have a stash for other occasions.  I get all the bags out and put them in one spot along with tissue.

 Under the table I have my two gift wrap storage boxes.   One is full of Christmas wrap and one is full of other occasion wrap and ribbon.  I normally store these under the guest bed and just pull them out whenever I need to wrap a present.

My packages look pretty, but they don’t take a ton of time to wrap or cost an arm and a leg.  Find some pretty ribbon and maybe even some brown bags and paper and create some pretty gifts of your own.  Inexpensive Gift Wrap & Wrapping Station is a Holiday time saver.