Easy Gift Wrap Technique
How easy is this beautiful simple Japanese gift wrap technique? It is so easy, but your friends and family don’t need to know! It looks so impressive but when you break it down, it is so simple.
If you read the earlier posts about other techniques, which you can find here ►Japanese Gift Wrap Techniques – How To DIY, and here ►More Japanese Gift Wrap Techniques with A Modern Twist, you will know that these gifts were for my granddaughter’s birthday.
Gift Wrap Technique For Baby Bottle Gift
Her mother was not particularly fond of dolls when she was a child. She preferred horses. Memphis is showing a maternal side and the last time she was over, she wanted to feed her baby doll. The only thing I had similar to a bottle was a small restaurant-style mustard squirt bottle! Pretending to feed her baby doll, she was delighted with that.
I remembered that my girls had those plastic milk bottles that gave the illusion of the baby doll drinking the milk. That is why I searched the local stores for one of these bottles that have disappearing milk.
To my surprise, they have a sippy cup that has orange juice in it! Isn’t this the cutest thing? Since I hadn’t seen her before her birthday, this little gift is wrapped, too. (We are an Amazon affiliate and we may receive a small percentage of any sales at no cost to you. Thanks for supporting this website!)
Tip * The box for this set was a little too big and to make it a little more secure in the roomy box, shredded paper is placed on either side of the gift. A piece of tissue paper folded, placed over the shredded paper, and the ends of the tissue tucked under, keep the shredded paper in place.
Another piece of paper, folded to size, placed on top of the shredded paper layer, and topped with the bottle gift, folds over the top of the gift. Tissue paper is such an inexpensive thing but when added to a gift, it makes it a little more special.
Click here for tips on how to fold tissue paper. ► How To Fold Tissue Paper.
Japanese Gift Wrap Technique
After placing your gift inside the box, along with tissue paper, and placing the lid on it, you need to place the box on the paper and cut the paper wide enough for both edges to overlap each other in the middle of the box. There is no need to fold either of the edges.
With your finger or a pencil, mark the length of the box on the gift wrap, lift the box, mark with your finger or pencil again. Repeat until you have added the depth of the box six times. Fold the paper over on the last mark and cut along the fold.
Lay the box, right side up in the middle of the gift wrap paper, and pull the ends up, overlapping with the top edge of the gift wrap paper in the middle of the box top. Place a piece of clear two-sided tape on the edge of the top piece of gift wrap. (You can see some of the pencil marks where I marked the depth of the box six times with pencil just below the box.)
Your box should look like this at this point. ↑
Folding The Ends
On one end of the box, pull the paper around the edge, pressing all the way to the edges of the box and crease along the edges. Hold the paper firmly against the edge, smooth the paper and crease along the diagonal edges, top and bottom. Repeat with the other end.
The folded triangular ends need to fold over the top of the box. Fold the loose end flap over the top of the first fold, as shown in this picture. (Typically, this would be folded to the inside and secured on the end.) Repeat this step with the opposite end.
Fold the top triangular end flaps over the top of the box. Secure each with two-sided tape on the underside so it is not visible. Be sure to crease all of your folds nicely.
Adding Contrasting Paper
Ah… and at this point, you should add your contrasting piece of paper. This could be gift wrapping paper or some other kind of fancy paper, textured paper, whatever you like. Since I was coordinating four individual gifts, I chose the dotted wrap again.
As you can see in the picture, I got ahead of myself and placed the strip under the first flaps! While that is not a huge error, more of it would have been visible if it were on the top of those two. Who’s to say what’s right or wrong anyway?
This strip is folded like the contrasting band in the first Japanese Gift Wrap post. I thought it added a little more interest to the package.
Remember, this strip should be on top of the two larger flaps. Then, two-sided tape added to the two smaller flaps and pressed firmly down over the contrasting strip will finish the wrapping.
Or if you did the same thing I did, secure both flaps on both ends with two-sided tape. Either way, don’t you love this gift wrap technique?
With these techniques, a simple ribbon and understated bow seems appropriate, don’t you think?
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