DIY Wood Grain Faux Bois Wrapping Paper

DIY Wood Grain Faux Bois Wrapping Paper: make your own wrapping paper and gift bags with a special wood grain painting tool -full tutorial.

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What better to go with our woodland Christmas theme than wood grain faux bois wrapping paper?  This DIY faux bois wrapping paper is easy to make, and looks so good!  Great for Christmas or anytime of year.

We love making pretty packages for Christmas. Check out our Christmas wrapping party here. You might also like our DIY Paper Feathers.

Materials:

• brown kraft paper on a roll and brown brown paper bags -We wanted used brown paper for our base, but what paper is a great option too. This method worked great on paper gift bags too.
• wood graining tool -This is essential for this project. I found mine at the local hardware store -Home Hardware if you're in Canada. Look for them on-line. They come in different sizes and designs.
• craft paint -We used metalics for Christmas, but this would look great with brown or black paint oo.
• acrylic glazing medium -This product helps keep your paint from drying too quickly and makes it easier to work with for a project like this.

How To Make DIY Faux Bois Wrapping Paper

1. Start with some kraft paper, craft paint -I used silver and white, and acrylic glazing medium. Mix the craft paint with the glazing medium, 1 part paint to about 2 parts glazing medium.

2. Paint this mixture all over the paper in a thick-ish coat.

3. Using the graining tool, slide it through the glaze, and rock it slightly to create the grain effect as you move down the paper in lines.

It takes a little getting used to, there is definitely a little learning curve! But keep experimenting until you get a look you're happy with, and once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy, honest. 😉

The glaze in the paint extends its drying time, so you have a while to play around with it. If you don't like it, paint over it again and keep trying.

You can do it on wrapping paper sheets, paper bags, or kraft paper gift bags.

Top Tips: Truth in blogging, I did find it a little difficult to do a big sheet of wrapping paper, but with practice it gets easier. I found it was drying before I finished the whole sheet, but I just had to add the glaze-paint mixture a bit more thickly and work in sections. The little gift bags are much easier to work with. I did one side of the bags, let it dry completely, and then did the other side.

Once the paint dried, I gathered up some simple woodland embellishments, like twine, snowflakes, feathers, pine cones, tinsel, some twigs painted silver, and some great wood grain ribbon from Walmart.

I really like the mix of the rustic with the silver sheen and sparkle for Christmas. I also used some wood veneer business cards that I stamped and wrote on for gift tags.

Jingle bells were a fun addition too.

This package is wrapped in white paper, and then just has a band of the wood grain paper -great way to add the wood grain detail, and not use up too much of the precious paper. 😉

With packages this pretty, life really is a party!

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