Design your own wrapping paper with gift tags

Start off with a concept sketch of your design. To identify which space you should use for your illustration, proceed as follows: Place the gift on the paper as though you were going to wrap it. Now carefully fold the wrapping paper upwards on all four edges. You can now make out the shape of a rectangle from the slight crease in the paper. This is the space for your illustration.

Draw three baubles with a pencil using paper circle stencils. A compass may damage the wrapping paper. Consequently, use a somewhat stronger paper for drawing on and cutting out. Alternatively, you can also use appropriately sized glasses as a stencil.

Then draw your illustrations one by one on the wrapping paper. I used the Pitt Artist Pen fineliner 1.5 in white 101 for this.

Now place your gift on the paper again as described in step 1 and wrap it. A little ribbon around it, and then that’s it!

Moira Schweiger lives and works as a graphic designer in Nuremberg. After completing her studies in communication design in 2007, Moira worked as an art director at several web agencies. In 2010, she founded MOIRA STYLES and has since been supporting her own customers as well as agencies with a wide range of communication and design projects. She also began working with hand lettering at this time as a means of expressing her love of typography through small, emotive, handcrafted works of arts. Moira also shares this passion for modern calligraphy and hand lettering in workshops throughout Germany. Read more