Forest Green Gift Wrap Paper Roll, Red and Gold Christmas Wrapping Sheets, Holiday Present Wrap

Frank only owns clothes in three colors, and all of them are dark. So when his wife Marlene asked him to hide her anniversary gift somewhere clever, he chose the deep forest green wrap printed with red poinsettias, holly leaves, gold stars and tiny red berries, because it looked exactly like the inside of his garage. He wrapped a small box of jewelry with great care, tucked it into the hedge by the porch for safekeeping and congratulated himself on a perfect hiding place.

Two days later he could not find it. The green paper melted into the bushes, the red flowers looked like the real ones that bloom beside the porch, and the gold stars mimicked sun through the leaves. Frank searched with a flashlight at midnight. He apologized to the hedge. Marlene watched from the window with her arms folded and a smile she was trying very hard to hide, since she had spotted the box on day one and was waiting to see how long it would take him.

He found it in March, in a flowerpot, with a few pine needles on top. The jewelry was fine. The paper, thanks to its water-resistant surface, looked brand new. The lesson is that a deep green wrap with red and gold in the print feels rich and seasonal in every room, and, if you are Frank, in the shrubs. It is scratch-resistant, flexible and sturdy enough to fold around corners without cracking. Buy it for gifts you want to look important, and keep a map handy for the ones you hide.

Dark forest green, close to the shade of a spruce at dusk, is the ground. Red poinsettias, green holly with gold edges, tiny red berry clusters and gold starbursts sit across it in a loose scatter. The color combination is the old holiday trio, but the dark base keeps it grown-up rather than cartoonish. The pine-bough photo shows red berries dropping across a wrapped box exactly like they were growing there. Gold stars sit in the gaps and catch light when you walk past. Matte keeps it moody, satin lifts the gold. Sheets come in three sizes, with a surface that shrugs off a splash of cocoa.

Forest green turns a cookbook into a family heirloom, a pot of homemade jam into a vintage, and a pair of garden gloves into something from a very expensive hardware store. Red berries on the box do half the decorating, so a single strand of natural twine finishes the job. If the recipient also has a real pine wreath on the door, the gift will match the porch, and they will assume you planned that too. Leave the gift tag off and let the red berries sign it.

• Sheet sizes: 29" x 20", 29" x 72" and 29" x 144"
• Finish: choose Matte or Satin
• Scratch- and water-resistant 100% paper
• Flexible, durable paper that resists tearing and cracking when folded or creased
• Printed with GreenGuard UL Certified, water-based inks
• Recyclable, with no shrink wrap
• Assembled in the USA from globally sourced parts
• AKA: Forest Green Gift Wrap Paper Roll, Red and Gold Christmas Wrapping Sheets, Holiday Present Wrap