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Summary: Learn how to wrap gifts using 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 make gift wrapping using recycled items from around the house. And then we are just going to go around one more time with the red. I think I am going to do, I am going to do most of it, I think I am going to do two rows of red and then one of this other one that says Happy Holidays. It just depends on how much ribbon I have. So you go ahead and put that down like that and try to have your seam at the same place, you know don't start wrapping over here if you have finished there. And pull it tight, kind of measure about where you are going to be, but then go back and put some dots of glue around so that your ribbon doesn't slide. Okay, and just pull it nice and tight again and when you get to the edge you take your scissors, I cut it a little over so that you can fold it under and have a nice clean seam, some more glue dots there and then a line across there. Go ahead and hold it down and then just cut pretty clean, and then you are just going to want to fold this under and hold it down for a second while it glues down. And it looks like I am going to need one more row of red and fortunately I have just enough to do that."
eHow Article: Wrapping a Coffee Can for Recycled Gift Wrapping