Easy DIY Confetti Gift Wrap (using things around your home)

This post will show you how to make DIY confetti gift wrap that’s so fabulous, they won’t even want to open it!

My philosophy behind gift wrapping (when I have the time) is to…make it so good that they hate to open it!

And this holiday season, I took that on as a challenge!

Get ready for a bunch of posts on some of the most fabulous, over-the-top (but easy) gift wrapping that you’ve ever seen.

This one today is one of my favorites.

Confetti is perfect for gift wrapping because it makes you think of celebration right?

It’s fun, it’s fabulous but it’s probably not the kind of thing that you want to pay for. Well, that’s fine, because you can DIY it.

Even better than DIY-ing it, you can DIY it from things around your home that you don’t have any other use for. So, in essence, upcycling!

When you finish, your beautiful final product will pair nicely with my free Modern & Glam Printable Christmas Gift Tags or my fabulous printable birthday gift tags.

Now, let’s get into this fun project!

For this DIY, you will need the following materials:

• A pre-wrapped gift
• A hole-puncher
• Stuff to hole punch:
  [Or buy pre-made confetti- I would choose something like this]
  • envelopes
  • greeting cards
  • magazines
  • postcards
  • cardstock
  • aluminum foil
  • kraft paper
• Baker’s Twine or Ribbon
• Hot Glue Gun

Step-by-Step
Confetti Gift Wrapping

Step 1: Start with a wrapped package

I recommend wrapping your gift with simple kraft paper or plain (non-glossy) gift wrap so that the confetti can be the star of the show.

I chose black kraft paper so that my confetti would stand out even more.

Step 2: Make the confetti

The meat and potatoes of this project!

I made my confetti using things I found in my stationery box and around the house as you can see in the picture below.

That included some thank you cards, a colored envelope and an aluminum foil ramekin.
I knew the foil would give me some shimmer. And I chose these thank you cards because I knew the red monochromatic color scheme and the gold foil lettering would provide a festive and 3-dimensional effect.

After I had gathered my materials, I watched Netflix while I hole-punched them into a little container.

Here, I could already tell that I liked the color combination.

I first tried to do this project with colored tissue paper and that was a fail! Lol.
It was too thin to hole punch, it was see-through, they didn’t have enough presence and with the glue, they stuck to everything. Blech.
You can maybe get away with it if you stack multiple sheets of tissue paper together.

Step 3: Hot glue confetti in the desired pattern

Now that your confetti is ready, arrange the confetti across the box to get a look that you like.

I chose a diagonal spread.

Get your hot glue up and running.

1. Add a little hot glue to a small section
2. Sprinkle the confetti over that section
3. Press down a little
4. Repeat section by section until you cover the desired area
5. Periodically, shake the excess confetti off and add more glue and confetti until you arrive at a look that you are satisfied with

When the glue cools and dries, gently remove all stray strands of hot glue.

Some other fun things to use with (or instead) of confetti are:

• fake snow
• glitter

Step 4: Embellish with Twine or Ribbon

When I got to this point, I felt like the whole thing was missing a certain je ne sais quoi, if you will.

So, I played around with some embellishments and lo and behold, my favorite metallic baker’s twine (which has yet to fail me!) was the perfect finishing touch for this gift.

Tie baker’s twine or ribbon around and across the confetti and….

Voila! You are done!

Doesn’t it look soooo good???

What do you think about this gift wrap design? Will you try it?

Happy Wrapping!