More hot tips from gift wrap guru Jane Means, who advises on an easy way to make your Christmas gifts sparkle. For festive gifts add some sparkle by adding glitter decorations or inexpensive baubles (ensuring they are shatterproof!). This will immediately lift the gift and if you’re not an expert wrapper it will detract the
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Gift Wrap guru Jane Means has some handy hints for personalising your own paper If you’re trying to impress a friend or important client, you can make your own personalised paper with a printer. Just type out your message on a PC and print. For bigger sheets a printer can do large photocopies or print
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Give boxes the luxurious touch by pleating brown paper (available from East of India) and using double sided tape for a professional touch (available at Jane Means). To pleat the paper you make small folds in the paper (ensuring they are straight) and add some sticky tape to the reverse to avoid the paper stretching
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When wrapping flowers or fresh produce – as with the artichoke pictured here – use brown paper (available from East of India) and finish with 2 shades of wired ribbon to give a luxurious finish (available at Jane Means). You will only need approx. 50cm per length of ribbon.
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For an Autumnal finish add in sticks and feathers to your gifts collected on country walks (or available at CB Imports), using brown paper (available at East of India) with raffia or twine (available at Burgon and Ball). This is also a suitable style when wrapping gifts for men. A stunning theme for Halloween and
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Giftwrap guru Jane Means gives hot tips for wrapping wedding gifts: For wedding gifts wrap your item in a subtle tissue, wallpaper remnant or lightly scented drawer liners and cover with netting which is available from haberdashery departments at John Lewis and Dunelm. Finish the gift with some rich satin ribbon with romantic embellishments or
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