Add a little special something to your pressie for that special someone.

Garden of Delights

Styling: Chantal LaPointe | Photography: Bruno Petrozza | WRAPPING PAPER, botanical and animal MOTIFS, DeSerres, deserres.ca. RIBBON, Club Tissus, clubtissus.com.

• Wrap with plain gift wrap.
• Carefully cut out botanical images. (Check stationary shops for floral-motif wrapping paper.)
• Place on gift so that the decoration extends beyond the edge of the package; secure with double-sided adhesive tape.

Fab Fabric

Styling: Chantal LaPointe | Photography: Bruno Petrozza | TISSUE AND RIBBON, Club Tissus, clubtissus.com.

• Wrap gifts in fabric remnants; secure with fabric glue, and tie with grosgrain ribbon.
• Alternately, bundle the cloth furoshiki-style and secure with a bow.
• Add acorns and cinnamon sticks, using a hot glue gun.
• For the cedar wreath, weave together a mini cedar garland with green thread; shape the garland into a circle and tie with thread. Place wreath on gift and loop red grosgrain ribbon through top and bottom. Secure ribbon with heavy-duty tape at the back.

Gifts of Nature

Styling: Chantal LaPointe | Photography: Bruno Petrozza | KRAFT PAPER, BOXES, DeSerres, deserres.ca. DYMO MACHINE, Michaels, michaels.com. STRING, WASHI RIBBON, Scrapbook Centrale, scrapbookcentraleblog.blogspot.com.

• Wrap gifts with Kraft paper.
• Draw shapes (we’ve drawn a mason jar and car) on the gift with a fine-tipped black marker.
• Cut flowers and twigs of fir and berries; secure to paper with Washi tape, Dymo embossing labels or thin ribbon.