Wonderful Wraps: Make Your Gifts Mean Even More

By Marie Browning

Book Overview

Transform a gift into an extraordinary expression of friendship or love with handmade packaging. Filled with gorgeous photographs, how-tos, and patterns, this inspiring resource offers dozens of inventive ideas that use d?coupage, faux painting, gold leafing, block printing, rubber stamping, and more. Make and decorate a wide range of boxes and envelope pouches, a paper purse, traditional Christmas crackers, gift bags, and more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402703449
• ISBN13: 9781402703447
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Wraps is Wonderful!

Who can resist a beautifully wrapped gift? One that lets you know as soon as you see it that it is special! Marie Browning's Book "Wonderful Wrap" is the consumate guide to gift wrapping. Not as simple as it sounds, wrapping must take into account the size, shape and occasion. Marie's book gives great direction for making and decorating packages, materials (like fabric paint, glass beads, raffia and wire clips) finishing touches, ideas for embellishing gifts and over a dozen gift box/container patterns. Plus, just seeing the beautiful samples are an inspiration to create wonderful wraps for all your gifts. (Marie Browning has several other creative and inspiring books - but this one is especially gorgeous!)