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Woven paper gift topper

I‘m pretty chuffed with these woven paper gift toppers. They are a sinch to make and look really great with recycled newspaper wrap.

Woven gift topper

The idea originated from this woven yarn gift topper which you can see at giverslog.com and from this image which comes from the book More Last Minute Knitted Gifts.

Woven gift topper

How-to
♥ Cut some strips of colored paper. Mine were 0.5cm wide. They need to be long enough to wrap around your gift. If you have a paper shredder then this might make the job even quicker!
♥ Line up your vertical strips on a table top…you can use a bit of sticky tape at one end to hold them in place while you weave away.
♥ Weave the horizontal strips into the vertical strips.
♥ Using a bit of sticky tape secure to your gift. Job done!

I also made a rainbow gift topper….no surprise there then!

Woven gift topper

Happy Monday everyone!

86 thoughts on “Woven paper gift topper

  1. So beautiful! Your rainbow topper is gorgeous. I love your blog so much! I read MANY blogs but yours is by far the most inspiring. 🙂

  2. i love this neat crea beautiful idea of yours.
    it must be fun to got such a awesome beautiful wrapped gift, think i will lay it wrapped more days because of the wrapping;-D
    to enjoy it some more days and then … the other suprise of the inside gift as well.
    thank you for sharing this idea and the great tute;-D

  3. Thank you everyone…yeah I really like them…even if I do say so myself! I think cos they are easy peasy and just made from paper and a bit of sticky tape 🙂

    Thanks Vanessa….very kind of you…blushing slightly…haha

  4. genius! these are absolutely adorable… what a quick and beautiful way to add pizzazz to some recycled gift wrap! looooove it!!!

  5. Thanks! Donaville I know where you are coming from but they are very quick to make so no sweat 🙂

    Thanks for sharing Ann…always wanted to try paper quilling…one day!

  6. This is awesome! I’ve tried some woven stuff before, but this is amazing. I didn’t really make it a gift topper this time, but I pasted it on a white piece of paper and it looked great with it! I love craft stuff. I’ve been trying your crafts since I got Internet, but I didn’t know I can comment. I thought you needed an account or something. Anyway, this is great!

  7. Hi Koby,

    Glad you managed to figure the commenting bit out. I think most blogs allow you to comment without registering which is pretty cool. Glad you enjoyed the project….you’ll have to email me a photo. Happy crafting! 🙂

  8. Beautiful! I’m definitely doing this to save money at Christmas! My question is, what do you do with the strips on the bottom of the package?

  9. Hi Jill,

    I just tapes the strips neatly where they met together….hope this makes sense. I figured if it was at the bottom of the gift it didn’t really matter too much. in theory you could weave the bottom as well…would be quite tricky though!

  10. its fantastic!!.. also I would like to know how to do this box (made with newspaper)….. thank you so much!!!

  11. Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment Carol Anne…the site no longer exists so guess your message got through.

    Have a nice Easter ^_^

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  13. Hi Anna,

    I’m really sorry but due to camera shyness and lack of time I generally don’t do video tutorials. Let me know what you are struggling with specifically and I will try to help. ^_^

  14. Stumble on your blog by chance and how i feel lucky to find this wrap idea. Totally will wrapp my farewel gift with this. Thank youuuu 🙂

  15. Will definitely be using this on Christmas gifts. I love upcycling giftwrap ideas! I think I will try red and green for some, graduated shades of blue for others.

  16. i love this idea, and decided to add on to it by cutting the pieces of paper using those decorative craft scissors that cut in designs. harder to weave but the end result is so cool!!

  17. Nice to mete you! You are incredible ! Thanks for your site or blog I loved visit this and I really was emotionated ! You are incredible

  18. i love this idea, and decided to add on to it by cutting the pieces of paper using those decorative craft scissors that cut in designs.

  19. Well written article on woven paper gift topper. I found many interesting thing from this article. Thanks for sharing this good article.

  20. after learning this, My family always come to me to help wrap their gift thanks it made my importance on my family and gave me the respect

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