Video: Adding Gift Wrapping Accents

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Adding accents to your gift wrapping makes all the difference to make it stand out. Watch this free video clip and see how a gift wrapping expert chooses the best newspaper pages for wrapping a present and uses other supplies to accent pieces of those pages.

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And now we are going to take our wrapped box, wrapped in funny papers to the next level. It's not really as cute as we want it to be. So we need a wide stripe of a bright color. Now the trick is you need to find something that's going to fit all the way around your box. Now of course if you have to tape two pieces of paper together that's not the end of the world. I've got a piece of tissue paper here and if I put this box in the center of this piece of tissue paper it doesn't reach. So what I'm going to do it on the diagonal from corner to corner here is the right size for me. So I'm going to fold it kind of creatively and this is going to add opacity to it as well which is nice. Really strengthens the color when it's more opaque. Whoops, and then it's still too wide so I'm going to fold this in half and now we've got a strong, bold, pretty stripe that we can put on our box. And plenty on the other side for us to overlap and securely fasten with a little bit of tape. Let's arrange it so that the tape is going to be hidden at the bottom of the box. We don't want any poking out the side and marring our lovely creation. There you go. Next step, making it shine.

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Adding Gift Wrapping Accents

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