How to wrap those awkwardly shaped presents like a pro

It's a week before Christmas and if you're feeling the stress of the holidays, we've got plenty of last-minute ideas to make life a little easier, from turkey to dessert to decorating, our experts have you covered today, but

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first. the gift, i love it but it can be frustrating especially if the gift is unusually

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with tips on how to make your

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ping a success no matter what gift designer Sarah Gunn both laughing and laughing I love gift wrapping for me is the part funny because you did all your shopping you beat the traffic at the mall now you're home with a glass of wine you can have a little fun wrapping until you get some

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and you think what am i supposed to do with this you know?

There are some gifts you get for people that aren't in a box that's just right, so I still like to wrap them. I'm strictly a no-bought-on-a-bag type of house and I don't do it right, no I don't. 't and if you do that's fine I won't judge you but I'll give you an alternative you see today yes so you're going to run out of salt. I'm going to wrap this little stuffing here. I would have thrown this in a bag but anyway when they arrive today not not today so you have a piece of paper that's big enough to wrap your item yeah ok then you're going to move that item out of the way and that's it I started this for all of us, but if you have, I'll show you a trick you don't have to do. do this property and you'll have paper that's just a solid color on the inside and you don't want to see that when you're done what you can do is take the top two inches and just fold it under so that I'm not going to see that kind of boring on the interior, especially if you have that grid in there or something. you're going to take your bottom and you're going to want to keep in mind how big your object is yeah and you're going to take it right here we're going to tape it first yeah I've got some tape on there for you okay go ahead and stick yours glue it from the top almost to the bottom you don't need to go all the way and you don't need to cover it all ok it will be nice and sturdy you'll want to use a heavy paper for this so i know you still don't know how he's going to like it yet to this bag the bottom is what the top is that's the next part we're going to do the bottom right now so it's going to take a bit and fold it either way now how much fold do you want it to be about the width of his balls so that's good that's good okay, you're going to fold that up and then you're going to open it up, guys, because you're going to open it up like this. come on so this is the fun part you're going to take a corner you're done one side fold it ok to the middle like that like that ok yeah do the same w to the other side ok oh my god this is so easy thank you omg I didn't just climb into my bed yeah and then you're going to oh I'm already in the morning this is the other thing that's great about this if you're the type of person who wants all your

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wrapped in wrappers to be look the same I'm all the same wrapping paper yeah if you're making your own bag you'll make it right when you make your bag out of whatever you got it should be thanks Sara so those are really really fun that was a empowering moment for me now i'm talking about bags that's what i call them not a very fancy name but they look very fancy so in front of us here you can see we have one

shaped

like a dog bone and one shaped of gingerbread house, so these bags are really, really fun.

I recommend using craft paper for this project. Okay, you have a craft paper. These are really fun patterns. I actually picked them up on eBay and you cut out two shapes of the same thing so my trick for this is when you're making your shape you cut one out and then you're going to lay it face up on top of the other one that you're going to trace and that's going to be face up down so that when the courts align, yeah, no Don't do it that way, unless you're perfect, they're not, they're not, they're not going to be okay, are they? my ways I actually have the item in there just to make sure just as I'm starting yeah and then to get it going all you need is double sided tape and you want to start in a couple of different sections so much the better. which stapler I was going to use, you want to do that side and then just line it up nice and smooth it into place near the top and then you're going to slide your item in nice nice and then you're going to finish sealing all the way with your tape double sided and you end up i won't do the rest yeah cylinder these are tricky it's a l Lots of gifts come in shape but look what you can make it's so easy to do so the trick is i started one here, the trick is to cut a piece of paper yeah so i'll show you here and this. the box isn't as good inside here but that's why I like to reuse and rewrap you want the paper to come up a little more than half a little more than the center ok I'm going to start and you i want to finish ok i'll do it backwards so this will be interesting ok you can see it starts with the bottom layer not the top yes you're going to lay it down and then you're going to stick your fingers in there this is so much easier when you face it it's not gonna lie and you're just gonna bury it carefully oh you're gonna like miss almost yes people fold it like fanning it actually looks perfect and i'll get it going a little bit then move it there we go ok so you just sew one to the inside and just smooth it out as you go ok a good newbie can be a beginner nailing a beginner bit and just work all the way in and then the center may not be in the center in the center yes more beautiful and that's why they created pretty ribbons and bows yes come on please there you go i think just keep finishing that ok then at the end you put a big fat bow to cover them all da thanks, we're done, ok, so now is there more you want to show us? we talked about it yeah sure it's a puppy obviously right no sometimes it's ok for a gift to be obvious and yeah i want to wrap it it's fun when someone comes down it might not be anything in a truck you know what they receive. but they still appreciate the effort.

I used a stapler for this one. Oh, you're just a staple that some grads with washi tape and you're done. It looks incredible. I just want to see what you'd do with this my friend so this is your gift from me yeah and you're wrapping it because that's the kind of friend I am but you're such a giver how would you wrap that? Okay, okay, this is your challenge, okay, this is my challenge. to make it more interesting and i mean while i'm doing this actually if the police papers and the handkerchief are all hallmark oh really fun festive patterns ok and wish oh this is beautiful wrap it with this oh listen i kinda thought i You were going to challenge something, oh, and I can't prepare my friend, throw a little tassel there.

I know when you call that big meeting and everyone can do that yeah that looks so beautiful Sarah does it thank you