creative recycled newspaper (just make sure your gift isn't dried fish variety or this new paper wrap won't work), best bet, use the comic section part or the classifieds sections

personalized photo gift tag (it can be a photo of yourself, or some select photos you captured this year)

The designer channeled her inner grade-schooler by sandwiching colorful wax shavings between layers of tissue paper (three on the top and three on the bottom) and ironing them until the wax melted.

make your own prints, instantly say your greetings and notes as well

wrapped in white paper with simple earth toned strings (like abaca or paper twine), simple elegance

enclose gifts in special wrapping paper covered in impressions made with a square rubber stamp

in japan, the art of wrapping gifts in cloth is called furoshiki, and it's brilliantly eco-friendly. besides, the wrap itself is a gift bonus