By now you’ve seen the variety of wrapping paper we offer at Paper Source. From quirky themes to classic prints, we have a wide range of wraps that are designed by our team in Chicago. Although the end result looks effortlessly beautiful, the design process is a lot of work that starts almost a year in advance! Below, we’re going to show just some of the steps our new wraps have gone through before they’re perfected and finished!

We love our new Holiday Bears wrapping paper. They’re playful and fun, and perfect for kids (of all ages). You might be surprised to know that this wrap originated from our Wall Art Calendar. In fact, our calendars are the first things we design (we’re already working on 2016 calendars) and often decide which themes we carry to other products. The bears started as a calendar page and were then re-designed to have a holiday feel for wrap. In the end, we loved the new look so much we changed it on the calendar, too!

Foxes are some of our favorite critters, so it seemed natural that we would update our everyday wrap and include them in our holiday assortment! The Holiday Foxes wrapping paper ended up bright and modern, but it went through several stages to get there! As Karen, our Art Director, says,

“We started out with the idea of making our everyday foxes into a holiday theme. We added the bodies to make them more life-like, and made sure to add cozy accessories like hats and scarves to make them even cuter. Between the second and third rounds, you can see we made changes to the background color and the scarves, to make them clearer. In the fourth round we added Santa hats and presents to some of them to bring in the holiday theme. But the fifth round was when we really went for it; we added Santa costumes, reindeer antlers and candy canes. We switched the background color to give it a cooler feel and we are very happy with how it turned out!”

The Pine Cones wrap is a classic holiday look. We wanted to add a fresh, but still traditional, theme to our wraps this year, and are in love with this design (so much we used it on many other things, too!). We added in bright bursts of red berries, and more green, to evoke a sense of real greenery on the wrap. Changing the background from Paper Bag made the color pop even more!

One of the most fun and unique things to design this year was our Ugly Sweater wrap! It’s such a playful motif, and there was a lot of room to have fun with design! When we started, the sweater shapes varied, and the pattern was scattered. We decided to clean up the design by spacing the sweaters out evenly. The next step (as seen in round 3), was to make the sweater shapes uniform to make the page less busy. And finally, we changed the background color to something nontraditional, bright and fun! Here’s another fun fact: The patterns in our sweaters use a lot of artwork from other Paper Source designs (check out the owls and tree lights in the last round)! If you love our Ugly Sweaters as much as we do, check out the other fun things we used them on!

We’re so proud of our wrap designs, and we hope you enjoyed this peek into our process!

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