Whatever the season or occasion, these gift-wrapping tips from two Denver experts help make the task easier and more enjoyable.

Easter Illingworth from The Artisan Center in Cherry Creek North recommended the following tips:

• For an easy options, use a hole punch on top of a plain brown paper bag and then feed ribbons through the holes to decorate and close the bag.

• If you don’t have a gift tag, make one from a folded piece of wrapping paper. Use your hole punch and attach ribbon or twine to tie it to the gift.

• Look for stone paper, a heavier stock known for durability and foldability. “I swear by stone paper. The cheap paper tears easily. Stone paper feels really nice and it’s stronger,” Illingworth said.

• If you don’t have a box, use a burrito wrap on soft items such as a rolled-up scarf or shirt.

• If your wrapping is too short, sometimes if you turn the box at a diagonal the paper will cover it.

• “If your paper is too short and doesn’t cover the box, you can tape a strip of wrapping paper to cover the gap,” said Illingworth. “Or use ribbons to fill in the gap.

• When using tissue paper in a box, lay one sheet folded going one way and another folded sheet going the other way to create a crisscross bed of tissue.

• Mix solid colored tissue paper with printed tissue paper.

• Use glitter glue or puff paint or cut out shapes to jazz up a gift.

Rosie Wiedenmayer, owner of The Paper Lady, recommended the following giftwapping tips:

• Embellish a gift or gift bag with another smaller gift by attaching a bookmark, a pen or other item to the larger gift.

• Wiedenmayer favors Caspari giftwrap, and the website offers elegant themes for tissue papers, ribbons, bows and gift tags, too. “It’s an old Southern company in Virginia,” she said. “It’s nice quality and they giant rolls of giftwrap with lots of continuous feet of paper.”

• Midori as another favorite giftwrap of Wiedenmayer. “It’s thick Japanese paper, almost like handmade paper. When using it for wrapping paper, I recommend using a packing tape because regular Scotch tape won’t hold it. Midori is always on trend with designs,” she said.

• The Paper Lady offers custom ribbons. “These personalized ribbons can be customized to add any message. Mine says, ‘A little something from Rosie’,” she said.

• Gift tags complete the look and often are available in designs to match wrapping papers.

• “A good hack is the gift bag. People ask for them daily. It’s easy, relatively effortless, more user-friendly and not as intimidating,” she said. “In this crazy busy fast-paced world we live in, everyone loves easy, especially when the presentation looks fabulous.”