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DIY Wood Grain Faux Bois Wrapping Paper

Modified: Aug 31, 2024 · Published: Dec 11, 2012 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 5 Comments

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

DIY wood grain wrapping paper craft.
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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.

Materials:

  • brown Kraft paper on a roll
  • brown Kraft paper bags
  • wood graining tool
  • craft paint
  • acrylic glazing medium

How To Make DIY Faux Bois Wrapping Paper

I found this great little wood graining tool at Home Hardware. This is a great little tool, and here's how to use it to make wrapping paper.

wood graining tool

Start with some kraft paper, craft paint -I used silver and white, and acrylic glazing medium. 

how to make your own wood grain wrapping paper

Mix the craft paint with the glazing medium, 1 part paint to about 2 parts glazing medium.

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

Using the graining tool, slide it through the glaze, and rock it slightly to create the grain effect.

It takes a little getting used too, 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 it's drying time, so you have a while to play around with it. It you don't like it, paint over it again and keep trying.

how to use a wood grain painting tool on paper

You can do it on wrapping paper sheets, paper bags, or kraft paper gift bags. Truth in blogging, I did find it a little difficult to do a big sheet of wrapping paper, but with practise 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 easy to work with. I did one side of the bags, let it dry completely, and then did the other side.

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

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.

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

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.

diy faux bois wood grain wrapping paper

Jingle bells were a fun addition too.

wood grain wrapping paper tutorial

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. 😉

diy wood grain 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.

With packages this pretty, life really is a party!

You might also like our post on a Christmas Gift Wrapping Party here.

Be sure to check out our 5 Inexpensive DIY Party Decor Ideas, including using wrapping paper as a table runner.

5 Inexpensive DIY Party Decor Ideas: Use wrapping paper, washi tape, scrapbook paper, and vintage bottles to create your own party decor.

You also might like our Printable Christmas Gift Tags here.

Printable Christmas Gift Tags: these funny Christmas tags come in blue, black and white, red and green, or a colourful muliti-color set.

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  1. Sara K (@saigewisdom) says

    December 27, 2012 at 12:09 am

    I've fallen hard for wood grain wrapping paper and if I can't find some to buy, I may just have to follow your DIY and make my own. bravo!

  2. Jane Sampson says

    December 15, 2012 at 6:52 pm

    wow, how to dress up brown paper & make it look even more fab!! Thank you for this lovely inspiration...

  3. Amanda Cunningham says

    December 15, 2012 at 2:07 pm

    These are so beautiful, wonderful job!

  4. Kelly@lilypadcottage says

    December 13, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    I love this! So pretty.
    PS I have the same snowflake ornament - I used it for a stencil on my wrapping paper 🙂 looks beautiful how you used it.

  5. Suki says

    December 13, 2012 at 8:01 pm

    I freaking LOVE this!! This would make some awesome paper for cards!

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