Inexpensive Gift Wrap and Wrapping Station.

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

Today I am joining a fabulous group of ladies for the November Pinterest Challenge hosted by Cindy @ Countyroad407.

Since I am using rusty orange this year instead of red as my main color, my packages need to match my tree.  I chose some pretty earth tones for ribbons.

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 occassions.  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.

If you came over from Thistle Key Lane, welcome. I love her ideas for creating such pretty packages. Next, be sure to visit Laura @ Deco to Adore, I can’t wait to see how she makes all of her gifts special. Then, be sure to click on all the links below to see all the amazing gift-wrapping ideas everyone has to share.