PicturePaper Custom Gift Wrap • 10/13/05
I stumbled across a company that provides a pretty fun and unique alternative to traditional giftwrapping paper. South River Trading Company
, a family owned business in Virginia for over 25 years, came up with the idea for gift wrap that you can customize with your OWN images over the internet and then order it directly from them.
This seems like a kind of fun idea to spice up your boring birthday and holiday wrapping paper. There is a step-by-step process on their website which involves first selecting one of over 100 basic wrapping paper templates that have blank spaces for the photos you are going to upload. Then you go ahead an upload the photos that you want to appear on your custom giftwrap paper.
They also let you do cropping of the photo so that the exact portion of the photo that you want will appear on the giftwrap. Then you just preview it to make sure it’s all ok and then order it right then and there!
Here’s some info from their about page on how the site came about:
During a recent holiday my children and I were enjoying each other’s company and searching for ways to stay connected as they prepared to disperse across the country following graduation. We conceived this idea for customized wrapping paper as a business we could all share, taking advantage of the Internet, working together although we were apart. The kids are contributing artwork, commercials, research and development and business activities, while the Dad, that’s me, prints and ships the paper.
This giftwrap idea seems like it might be a refreshing change for wrapping paper, especially for gifts to those relatives who like unusual surprises. Imagine the look on their face when they get gifts with your family’s picture all over them!
They have all sorts of different templates for different occasions including birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, baby showers, weddings and various other celebrations.
A six foot roll of the paper costs $14.95 and shipping is about $5 or so. You can visit their site at:
