Hand Decorated Gift Wrap and Gift Bags

What is a better way to personalize a gift than with hand decorated gift wrap or gift bags?

For bags:
At your local arts and crafts store you can purchase solid colored gift bags. You can get brown, craft paper colored bags or an array of other colors.
Decorate your bags with rubber stamps. Use different colored stamp pads to add color. Or color in the stamped pictures with colored pencils. You can even have your children join in the fun! If rubber stamps are too messy for the children, they can decorate the bags with stickers or color their own pictures onto them with colored pencils or crayons.

For wrap:
Purchase solid colored craft paper and decorate just the same as you did your bags.
However, the brown craft paper looks very nice if used plain and decorated with ribbons and bows to give them color.

If you have smaller gifts to wrap, you can cut open a paper bag and make sure the un-printed side is facing away from the gift. Decorate as you like.

If you have even smaller gifts to wrap, use a piece of construction paper to wrap it and then decorate as you like. A piece of computer paper would work just as well. 

Photo taken from yahoo.com.
 

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