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 love wrapping gifts – half of the excitement I get out of the holidays is the wrapping! I love finding new paper and ribbon, and adding little ornaments to give gifts that extra special touch. It makes opening them that much more fun for the recipient too! I’d love a few more creative ideas to add to my repertoire.
I love making things beautiful (as in wrapping up gifts so that they become surprises!) and always welcome any ideas on how to do this – that’s why I’d love to win this book!
Last year, on my birthday, I unfolded the petals of a giant daisy to find a CD inside.
My family loves to tease me about my terrible wrapping. I would love to surprise everyone with nicely wrapped presents this year.
I always get comments on my beautiful wrap. I would love to add bows and ribbons, but I need to practice a bit more on that. This book would be excellent for me.
I love ecofriendly wrap ideas and crafts! My favorite gift wrap was newspaper from china!
i’m terrible at gift wrapping, i could really use this!
I remember watching my mom wrap Christmas presents one year and had pipecleaner elves and bows and everything. I now always think of those presents every time I wrap my own kids’ gifts.
I love to wrap gifts..this would give me some new ideas
For her 14th birthday, my sister received her own personal, private phone (Dad paid to have it connected). The chosen physical phone itself was disassembled, and each part wraped in newspaper and stuffed with more wadded newspaper into a really large box. There was also three months’ payments in quarters, each tucked into newspaper. It took her about half an hour to sort out the paper, count the money, and assemble her phone, but of course she was thrilled.
One year I asked for a Home Depot gift card for my birthday – because I wanted to buy some paint for my bedroom. I received the gift card – in a paint can that had been covered in scrapbook paper and with a card that was made out of a Behr paint chip! Loved it!
I have a friend who is such a creative gift wrapper. She makes her own gift wrap from brown paper bags, newspaper or white drawing paper. She draws on them and puts stickers and glitter. She puts flowers and plants on the bows too. I hope I win this book I would love to read it and get ideas.
I love giving gifts.
My sister would love this. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
I would like to win this book, because I am always looking for new ways to wrap gifts. I used to work in a toy store, so I know how to wrap all kinds of odd shaped things. lol
I’d like to win this book because I want to wrap my gifts in q unique style
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
I would love to find out about new ways and ways I never thought of to wrap gifts!
It was a piece of jewlery from my husband wrapped in tissue paper in an empty ceral box. I had no idea, what was inside
Baskets are great for holding gifts! Thanks!
My mother in law wraps beautifully. She cut out along the area trees were on a sheet of wrapping paper and superimposed it over a winter scene. Always fun to see how she wraps.
My gifts never look the greatest. Could really use some help. Please enter me, thank you
I once had a friend that wrapped presents like cones it looked very pretty.
I received a gift wrapped in lottery cards so it was double present! fun!
wrapping a gift in a lovely scarf makes a wearable wrapping
I would love to win this book. My sister-in-law always wraps her presents in wonderful designs and style.Well if i won this book, i think i could finally out do her.She would be so shocked,,lol
enter me
I am terrible at gift wrapping. I’d like to win this to give me new ideas and maybe some tips too!
My favorite was a decoutage of mcdonald’s hot apple pie wrappers.
My brother-in-law does all the wrapping in his family. This would be a great gift for him.
my daughter’s godparents always put somehintg unique on the ribbons on her presents. For instance, one year they put mini ornaments on the gifts
I would love to win this cause to learn to wrap creatively. Thanks for the chance to win.
i’d like to win because i would love to learn new ways to gift wrap
The only thing I can think of is that my dad at Christmas time always wrapped the presents so there was no way we could guess what it was. He’d put a brick in a big box containing a necklace. Or roll up a shirt and shove it in a tiny box.
I have always hated wrapping presents. But, I am very creative and love to make gifts. This would be an excellent way for me to turn a chore in to a creative endeavor. Thank you for the chance to win.
I love to read so much! I would love to read this book. Wrapping idea, I often buy tea towels or bath towels to wrap special gifts in…boring but I suck at wrapping.
When I was a little girl, I’d snoop till I found gifts that were stored before wrapping. In order to foil my attempts at snooping and revealing gifts, my older sis started wrapping gifts in unique ways that I couldn’t take apart easily and that didn’t give me a clue to what was inside. As an adult she continues to wrap things beautifully to the point that the box is sometimes the gift. I’d love to be able to wrap things in such as way that she would love the outside of the gift as much as the inside, just as she does for everyone.
I would love to read about creative ways to wrap special presents. I wrap the same old boring ways.
Gift for sister
This book looks so interesting; I would love to win so that I could wrap things to look a lot nicer! Thanks for the chance!
My wrapped presents never turn out the way I imagine they will…could really use this book
My dad used to get our gifts wrapped in the aluminum paint cans that was fun.
When I was a kid I thought comic paper wrapping was cool. Time to get more creative.
I need this book, I am a terrible wrapper
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I used to take so much care wrapping gifts, but now I could use some help. This book looks like fun.
my friends gift always are great
We like to wrap!
Ii WOULD LIKE TO WIN THIS BOOK BECAUSE I AM CLUELESS ON HOWTO WRAP A PRESENT.
i HAVE SPENT TO MUCH MONEY ON GIFT BAGS & WOULD LOVE TO LEARN HOW TO MAKE MY OWN. PLUS, I OFTEN COOK COOKIES & TREATS FOR PEOPLE & WISH I KNEW A PRETTY WAY TO PACKAGE THEM AS GIFTS BESIDES TIN FOIL!
My sister wrapped this beautiful book in a gorgeous vintage scarf.
When my spouse said he’d “Santa” wrap the gifts I was grateful until I saw that all he did was tie a plastic bag around the various gifts.
My sister and her husband used to own a fabric shop and I really liked how they used to use all kinds of ribbons on their packages.