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Summary: Learn how to cover an old coffee can for recycled gift wrapping in this free how-to video on gift wrapping using recycled and household items.
Karina Fraley is a safety expert and the official mom for mommywood.com. In addition to her work for Expert Village, she is also working on a documentary about food allergies, as well...read more
"Hi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and today I am showing you how to cover up this coffee can so that it becomes, magically, it becomes a really adorable gift wrapping for a gift. So we have our glue gun and our ribbon and you just go ahead, and you can start anywhere on the can, and just squeeze out a little bit of glue, a line of glue, just like that. And then you are just going to put your ribbon down, and hold it down. Then this is very easy, this is a very easy project. And you are going to go around, you are going to measure the length and then you are going to cut it. You are going to want to put a dot of glue every couple of inches to hold it down so that it doesn't slide around on you because other wise it will. You just squeeze out some glue, pull it nice and tight so that it's flat. Go all the way up to the edge. I would even go a little bit over the edge and you can cut it like that using your scissors and then you can squeeze out some more glue. And if you want to have a nice clean edge there go ahead and fold the ribbon under like that and glue it down. Hold it down for a couple of seconds. Okay, and so you just put it down like that and there you have your first row. "
eHow Article: Covering up a Coffee Can for Recycled Gift Wrapping