Ideas of how to pack a bottle as a gift

August 23, 2017 handmadebase

A bottle of good wine, expensive cognac orchampagne is a great gift for any holiday or event, especially for men. If friends invite you to a party, bringing a bottle of quality alcoholic beverage is considered good manners. Of course, rarely does anyone pay serious attention to gift wrapping of wine, and in vain! Interesting ideas on how to wrap a bottle will help you make a gift original and memorable.

How to pack a bottle in paper

The first thing that comes to mind is to pack ita bottle of wine in gift paper, fortunately now there is a very wide choice of patterns, textures and density of wrapping paper. From paper you can make a very beautiful, elegant and stylish wrapper for wine, which you will even feel sorry to tear.We suggest you familiarize yourself with several ways of gift wrapping bottles. Bottle wrapping made of paper with serpentine fringe.Standard version of bottle packaging in paperYou can diversify it with long curls on the neck of the bottle. Such wrapping will look harmonious as a gift for the New Year holidays, as the twisted fringe resembles serpentine.Place the bottle on the wrapping paper, cut offstrip of the appropriate width. Cut a long fringe at the end of the paper. In principle, this step can be skipped, making the top in the form of an envelope or a bag. Wrap the paper around the bottle, secure the side with small pieces of tape. At the bottom of the bottle, crumple the paper inward and secure with tape.Gather the long fringe into a ponytail and tie it with a pretty ribbon or braid.Using the sharp side of a pair of scissors, iron each strip of fringe to create a serpentine look.How to pack a bottle in a napkin orcorrugated paper Take a napkin or strip of paper and wrap it around the neck of the bottle, secure it with tape. Then cut a wider strip of paper, wrap the bottle so as to cover the place where the tape is attached to the paper on the neck. The bottom can be left open. The side can be glued with tape or wrapped with decorative tape, ribbon or cord. Try to make the joint of the two layers of paper almost invisible. The bottle can be decorated with New Year's toys, live or artificial flowers.A similar option for packing a bottle in two sheets of paper suggests some similarity with a jar of jam under a paper napkin.The difference from the first method is that you first need to wrap the main part of the bottle, and only then the neck. How to make beautiful bottle packaging in the form ofvases with flowers A rather unusual way to gift wrap a bottle is to make it look like a vase with flowers. Regular “mailing” wrapping paper looks very stylish, especially in combination with a tourniquet or twine. Just wrap the bottle in paper, secure it with small pieces of tape, and you can leave the bottom of the bottle open. Tie a beautiful bow from a ribbon or wind a couple of turns of twine. Write your wishes, and between the paper and the bottle on top, put pine branches, some simple small flowers or leaves. It looks simple, elegant and, at the same time, very cute.More interesting ideas on how to wrap a bottle in paper:

Gift wrapping a bottle made from sweater sleeves

If you have an old sweater or unwantedknitted sweater, don't rush to throw them away! The sleeves of knitted items can be turned into cozy, warm gift wraps for bottles, which are very suitable for winter holidays.Take an unnecessary knitted item with sleevesremained in decent condition. Wash the sweater, cut off any pellets with a special machine, if any. Put the bottle into the sleeve so that the cuff is at the level of the neck. Cut off the sleeve a couple of cm below the bottom of the bottle. Make sure that the knitting does not unravel, it is advisable to pick up the yarn and sew it with a thread. The bottom for such a knitted cover can be cut out of thick fabric and sewn on, or you can simply gather the edge of the cut sleeve with threads and pull it together in the middle. Tie a ribbon or braid on the neck with cuffs, decorate with beads or buttons. You can also knit such a gift wrap with your own hands.

How to pack a bottle in a man's shirt sleeve

In the same way, you can use not onlyknitted sweater sleeves, but also men's shirts with cuffs! In combination with a tie or bow tie, such an extravagant bottle packaging will definitely remain in your memory for a long time. An ideal gift solution for your beloved man or colleagues, and a bow tie or tie can also be an additional (or main) gift.And making such packaging is even easier than fromsweaters, since in this case you don’t need to worry about the knitting not unraveling. The process is exactly the same. Find an unnecessary shirt, clean and with intact sleeves. Put the bottle in the sleeve, preferably so that the cuff completely covers the neck of the bottle. Cut off the sleeve just below the bottom line, sew on a bottom made of fabric or just sew the edges. You can simply cut off the cuff with a button and fasten it around the bottle.

Bottle packing in sock

Why not?A long golf and a sock (preferably new and definitely clean) can become a very original gift wrapping for a bottle for young and humorous friends! Just put the sock on the bottle - and that's it!

Other original options how to pack a bottle as a gift

You can sew a gift bottle cover fromany fabric - jeans, felt, fur, linen, etc. The top of the bag can be tied with a ribbon or pulled together with laces, and the fabric can be decorated with beads, seed beads or buttons, laying out a thematic pattern for the holiday. You don't even have to sew the fabric gift wrap. Just wrap it tightly around the bottle and tie it with a ribbon at the neck. Give with joy and pleasure!