gift wrapping inspiration for a bridal shower

Gift wrapping is the most important part of gift giving to me. Even if I give a gift card or cash, I always try to spend a little extra time with the gift wrapping. 

 I like to mix everyday basic supplies with bold graphic elements and a few unexpected elements. Follow along and I'll show you how I recently gift wrapped some items for a bridal shower.

1. Start with a plain brown paper bag with handles. Use a bold black and white striped ribbon to tie a bunch of handmade crepe paper flowers to the handle. 

2. Use pretty wrapping paper like this one with the gold confetti pattern and add the same black and white striped ribbon to finish. Not very good at tying bows? Then don't make a bow. Cut the ribbon ends to look professional.

3. I actually don't like using wrapping paper to wrap gifts, so I took the vintage serving utensils out of their original boxes and repackaged them in these burlap bags. The vintage forks and cake server were hand stamped by a local artisan and I simply tied them onto kraft cardboard using a thinner ribbon and placed them inside the bag.

4. Add a card. I love how this gold foil card from Prose and Fawns Paperie co-ordinates with the gold confetti wrapping paper that I designed for Creative Bag. I think that this card would be sweet framed as a piece of art.

5. Put everything inside the bag and add two pieces of fluffed green tissue paper to finish.

I created my crepe paper flowers but you could also use silk flowers. If you are interested in making your own paper flowers you will find lots of flower making inspiration on my Pinterest board.