Spice Up Your Birthday Gift with These Ribbon and Wrapping Tips

I love giving gifts any time of the year but with the holidays right around the corner I thought we could all use some tips to jazz up our gifts. 
And, while we are talking gifts, my birthday is right around the corner...just in case you were wondering ;)

Giving presents to people is about more than increasing their opinion of you. If you give a person a truly heartfelt gift, then it is a token of appreciation that shows how much you value another individual. Giving presents such as birthday gifts can be highly symbolic in that respect, if, of course, a good amount of thought and consideration has been put into said gift! It's not all about the actual gift either; how you present the gift to the other person is almost as important. With that in mind, here are some ribbon and wrapping tips to really spice up your birthday gift.

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Make a Large and Splashy Impression

You can make a large and splashy impression with how you choose to tie your ribbon around your gift. Take some wired ribbon and then tie it around the present to create a basic bow. Then, tie three additional bows around the first one's knot, and make sure that the loops are then facing in all kinds of different directions. Basically, you will create an 8-point asterisk of sorts. Not only will this be something spectacular and unique to look at, but it will also give you a chance to mix both patterns and colors of ribbons for even more amazing effects.

Attempt a One-Loop Bow

You can also try something totally different and rare when you work with ribbons for gift wrapping purposes. If you are sick and tired of the standard bows, you should definitely try this alternative way of wrapping your present. First, wrap your ribbon all the way around the gift box, and then tie it just one time so that there are actually two loose ends that you can work with. Now, form a loop out of one end while wrapping the opposite end around it, just like you would do when forming a regular bow! Finally, you can pull the ribbon through so that you are left with only a single loop.

Use Twists in Succession

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Sometimes when you are wrapping gifts, it can be very helpful to perform a certain twist on a traditional way of trying ribbons on gift boxes. What you want to do is tie a simple and basic ribbon all around your gift box. Then, you can finish it off with a fast knot on the top. This will be in place of the usual bow. Then, you have the luxury of actually lining up several of these knots all in a row, either just straight across or diagonally. These are the best ways in which you can spice up your birthday gift with these ribbon-wrapping tips.

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A ribbon just isn't for your hair; it can also provide beautiful ornamentation and visual appeal on any present that you wrap. And that's what really counts when you are wrapping presents: Making them appear attractive to the eye, so that the person receiving the present has something to really look at. Follow these tips above, and the next present you wrap will have that wow effect.

I have managed to grab a few Christmas gifts already and I am dying to wrap them up beautifully!  Now, if I can just get Mister on board with putting the tree up already...