Daily home & garden tip: Wrap up gifts with scraps of paper

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giftwrap3.JPGThe OregonianUsing old holiday cards is one way to stretch wrapping paper.

How many times have you been wrapping a gift and found that the paper isn't quite large enough to go completely around it? Or maybe you've run out of whole sheets of wrapping paper, and have only a few scraps to work with? Or maybe you'd rather not buy gift wrap at all?

Check out the

Wrap Art

website, which is full of examples of creative wrappings, including a

section on using scraps

and found objects from around the house.

Or think about stitching together cloth bags for presents, using remnants from around the house.

-- Homes & Gardens staff

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