Book Contest: Win a Copy of Wrapped with Style
January 9, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Home & Living
Three winners will receive a copy of the newly released book, Wrapped with Style, by Leslie Carola.
Learn more about the book by reading my review (with inside book images) and the author interview.
To enter:
Leave a comment on this post telling me about a time when you received a gift you thought was wrapped in a special way. If you can’t think of anything, just tell me why you’d like to win this book.
Enter once, but you may earn a second entry by blogging about this contest or leaving the link on Twitter. Just come back here and leave a link in a separate comment.
Enter by end of day on January 19. Three winners will be randomly selected and announced on January 20. Please check your spam filters as winners will have three days to respond to my email.
Good luck!
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I have a great friend that always takes pride in wrapping gifts. I need some guidance – that is why this book would be great.
My daughter always wraps gifts so beautifully, I would like to surprise her sometime with my creation!
I have a friend who’s very creative and I’m always amazed at how marvelously her gifts are wrapped. I can follow instructions and it would be fun to surprise everyone with some delightful wrapping in the future.
I have had some beautiful items come wrapped and not wanted to open them- I need to relearn the tricks becuase I do the rush method and hide the ugly part
I’ve always been envious of people who can wrap beautiful presents. Mine are always less than what they should be. I need help. Please count me in. Thanks!!
I’m not a good wrapper, but would love to be more creative and learn techniques to improve my skills at it. thanks! Looks like a great book!
I need this because i am just not very good at wrapping presents.
I hope I win the book.
When I was a kid, my parents gave me a birthstone ring for Christmas but it was wrapped inside a whole bunch of other presents that got progressively smaller as you opened them.
I enjoy wrapping beautiful Gifts. I would like some inspiration from this book.
I need to find new ways to be creative.
Every gift I ever received from my mom was beautifully and thoughtfully wrapped. She used to tell me that wrapping a gift was a way of showing respect and care for the recipient.
my new dryer had a tarp wth a bow on it on the porch
This would help me wrap gifts as I usually just put it in a bag. But I remember a wedding gift I received and how wonderfully it was wrapped that I wrote my thank you note to the giver just raving about the wrapping and a bit on the gift.
I would love to win this book to help me be more creative with gift wrapping. The presentation of the gift is just as important as the gift itself. My sister in law is creative and comes up with the most delightful ways of wrapping gifts. I can’t compare to her creativity and would really love some guidance.
Thanks so much for this giveaway.
I think the way a gift is presented can be just as special as the gift itself. I’d love a copy of this book for some inspiration.
gkstratos@yahoo.com
I want to win so people will remember the gift I give them because it was wrapped special
My sister is an amazing gift-wrapper. She uses all sorts of materials to make her packages, beautiful, amusing, and creative. She even sometimes wraps with craft paper and does an entire watercolor on the package. I am so envious of her talents.
I just subscribed.Please add my name in this drawing.
I’m gift wrapping impaired! I could really use this book. I’ve gotten lots of beautifully wrapped gifts over the years.
I love to wrap presents and put fancy bows, leaves, flowers, and ribbons on them. I’m all about any book that would teach me more:-)
I got a gift bag one time that was hand stamped, and had a small bouquet of small flowers on the side, it was beautiful!
When I was 18, I’m 45 now, my best friend named Craig, really didn’t have enough money to buy me a Christmas gift. I told him not to get me anything as his friendship was the best gift he could give.
Well, on Christmas Day, he came over to my parents and gave me the most beautifully wrapped gift. It was a heavier foil paper and he had pleated it in spots and on different angels and also made a built in card out of the same paper.
This present meant more to me than anything else I got that year because of the time he had put into wrapping it for me. I still have it and I’m now 45
you see
he had wrapped an empty box for me!
I will forever cherish that gift.
Thanks
I love to wrap gifts!! I received many shower gifts years ago wrapped in towels and blankets. I try to do something artistic and unforgettable with gifts I wrap.
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My favorite gift wrap was my children drew pictures on a grocery sack and they wrapped their presents in it for me. That was the best! Thank you!
my sister always was the wrapper in the family, every package was meticulously done and always had trinkets on it
Thanks for this great giveaway! I can’t think of any wrapping stories at the moment, but i would love to win this book because I’m always looking for new and innovative ways of wrapping presents. Sometimes i think the way that a gift is presented is just about as important as the gift itself. Thanks again!
bronw bag /with the kids drawings on them
My mom always puts lots of stickers and bows on my gifts.
kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
I would love to win this book to give me ideas for creating exciting gift wrappings.
I admire anyone who can wrap gifts elegantly-I am all thumbs and just make a mess!
I loe surprising my family and friends with uniquly wrapped gifts…they always say, “Presentation is Everything!”
I want to win because part of my New Years resolution is to be more crafty/creative, and I think this will help!
This would be great for my mom. When I was younger, she hated how much time it took to wrap all the presents at Christmas vs. how quickly they were torn apart and left the tree looking empty.
She started making us re-wrap our gifts so that the tree looked nice for the rest of the holiday. She’d sit with a roll of tape and we’d have to open everything very carefully from one end.
If we wanted the present right away, we’d have to set it aside and we’d hand her the empty box to slide back into the paper and she’d re-tape it.
My friends would come over after Christmas and ask why we hadn’t opened all our gifts yet.
I want to learn how to wrap to look more fancy.
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I would love to win this book.
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
I would love to read this book to find new ways of being creative. This would be an awesome addition to my library!
I usually go to my favorite shop and spend hours sitting with them while they wrap my gifts and wrap other’s gifts. They are so nice, it would be great if I could wrap on my own!
LilithSilvermane(at)gmail(dot)com
My favorite wrapped gifts are the ones my young children wrap for me. Its not how it looks but the love put into it.
texasgirl(at) rocketmail (dot) com
This book has ME written all over it!!! I’m known as the Queen of Gift Wrapping by all my family and friends because I wrap presents so beautifully and perfectly!! I would love to learn new and differents ways to gift wrap! Thank you for this great contest!
My mother always wraps gift so special, with pretty bows and handmade tags. My gifts usually look like the dog wrapped it!
smchester at gmail dot com
I remember getting my engagment ring on my 30th birthday…in a GIANT box…I honestly thought it was a new winter coat…and silly me…after many boxes later…got what I really wanted! (and he even got me a winter coat…later on)
What a wonderful book. I love wrapping gift in very unique ways. My husband proposed to me with my ring hanging on the back of the red ribbon around a white bear’s neck! Please enter me in your fantastic book giveaway drawing. Many thanks,
Cindi
I like wrapping gifts with themes that suit the recipient.
Looks like a great book. I’ve always liked the gifts I’ve received that have been wrapped in fabric. Thanks for the chance.
I love realy putting a little extra in the wrapping of a gift. I think it makes people feel very special. I think this book would be great inspiration for more beautiful and delightful ways of presenting gifts.
My wife’s family has been presenting their gifts in homemade cloth bags (which they reuse) since 1999, when my wife tired of one-use wrapping paper. She makes two main styles of bags. But sometimes we use tins or baskets, and are open to other ideas.
I rarely received or gave gifts growing up, so I never really learned how to wrap. Now that I have a family of my own, I would like to share this book with my sweet, young children so we all can learn how to wrap gifts.
You know Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree?- that;s what my wrapping is like. I really could use some help and this book sounds great.