How to Customize Wrapping Paper

The wrapping of a gift can be as special as the treasure inside, and personalizing your wrapping paper will take your gift from great to super terrific. Customizing your wrapping paper can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be, but no matter the amount of effort, personalized wrapping paper will let the recipient know you took that extra step to make their event special. Here are a few ways for you to get started.

Things You'll Need

• A computer with Internet connection and printer
• A credit card
• Digital photo files to be used on your customized paper
• Photoshop software
• Dry glue stick
• Scissors
• Butcher block paper
• Solid colored gift wrap

Instructions

1. Go to the Picture Paper website for the easiest way to customize wrapping paper for your special event. Simply select your gift wrap style, upload your photo and you are on your way. This service does come for a price, but if it's a very special event, or for business purposes this is a fast way to make your mark.

2. For a more traditional text only personalization go to the Beau-coup website. Here you can choose your style, font and text to personalize your wrapping paper with a name or significant words. What better way to say "Marry Me," or "I love you Mary," than with a gift wrapped in customized paper. A more affordable alternative, you won't be disappointed with your result.

3. Keep in mind that the site Trixiepixgraphics is another alternative for photo paper and offers some cute suggestions and samples for how to make your wrapping paper fun and funny. Again, you provide and upload a photo file and they will do the rest. The standard order is 15 feet at nearly $40.00 a roll, so make the most of your customization.

4. Feeling creative? If you want to make your paper the "old school" way it's easy. Simply print out some fun photos of the intended gift recipient and use a dry glue stick to adhere the images on plain butcher block or even a solid colored gift wrap. For kids, you can download images of their favorite super hero or television star and create wrap using those images. They will love it.

5. For a business where small items are gift wrapped or gift bags may be used, invest in a custom stamp and spend an evening stamping your logo or image onto bags or paper to be used later. This is a fun way to make a plain brown gift bag something more special.

6. Go to my article, "How to Personalize Wrapping Paper using Photoshop" if you are computer literate and have the Photoshop software. This is a great way to highlight your photos and create paper without all the cutting and gluing.

Tips & Warnings

• Gather all your digital photos in one file folder so that you can find them easily when you are ready to order or work on your wrapping paper.

• Make sure your images meet resolution guidelines for online customized paper to be sure you are happy with the final result.