Buying a gourmet wine gift basket can be expensive. You can easily make a beautiful, custom, personalized, gourmet wine gift basket cheaply. You can use champagne too.
Gift baskets are always popular and a great idea to give as a gift. People love to receive gift baskets. Making your own gourmet wine gift basket is cheap and easy. You can fill your gift basket with a variety of good wine or champagne and inexpensive items; you have lots of choices.
I've put together a few great ideas for making gourmet wine gift baskets, complete with instructions on how to make them. You can make inexpensive wine gift baskets or expensive wine gift baskets depending on your budget. You can easily customize each basket to your recipient.
You can add one or two bottles of expensive or inexpensive wine. You can save money on your wine purchases by going to a wine shop and asking to see the less expensive good wines or you can go to Costco for some great wine bargains, but still very good wines. The wine for your gift doesn't have to be expensive.
You can find many inexpensive items for use in making your gift baskets or filling your gift baskets, at 'dollar' stores, craft stores, party stores, discount outlets, flea markets, close-out stores, etc.
For wine gift containers you can use: any type of basket, wicker basket, straw basket, bucket, champagne bucket, antique trunk, hamper, Asian-style trunk, picnic basket, or seasonal container. Make sure it's sturdy enough.
For gift basket liner you can use: tissue paper, shredded paper, shredded newspaper, tea towels, dish towels, hand towels, kitchen towels, colored towels, colored napkins, placemats, or fabric pieces.
For gift basket filler you can use: shredded colored paper, straw, crumpled newspaper comics, a bed of wrapped chocolates or other wrapped candy.
For items in the container it'll depend on the specialty or theme of the gift basket - in this case a gourmet, wine gift basket. Here is a small random sampling of what you can include besides the wine.
Gift certificate for massage or spa visit, scented oils, scented massage oils, gift certificate to favorite store, gift certificate for restaurant, loofah, fragrant candle, matches to light candles, CD of nature sounds, favorite artist CD, DVD of newer release movie, handwritten poem, perfume, cologne, watch, framed photo, inspirational book, spa pillows, bath pillows, spa supplies, bath and body products, facial and body scrubs, handmade soaps, fragrant soaps, shampoos, hand and foot lotion or fluffy towel.
Fancy chocolates, boxed chocolates, chocolate Bars, giant candy, canned, chips, gourmet pretzels, gourmet nuts, gourmet pasta, gourmet olive oil, pre-food products, gourmet crackers, gourmet cheese wrapped bag - two or three different types of fruit, all foods you Like, Italian recipes, Mexican recipes or other ethnic recipes, glasses of wine or champagne glasses.
For gift basket you can network or tulle that I like to use cellophane wrap. You can buy it in large rolls. Find special packagingOutlet where you buy in bulk. Wire basket wrapped with tape. Wired fabric ribbon is best if you have it.
String: You can pre-packaged bows but the arc is easy and the best presentation when you can. Use a large or huge bow.
Assemble all your gift basket ideas, the tools you need, etc. Now line your selected gift container. Then the filler stuff in selected wine gift basket to give greater Amount for your items. Location, location, and arrange your selected items in stucco in the gift box. Place larger items in the back, smaller things first.
Fill the holes with more support or filler (shredded paper, easter gift">easter basket grass, wrapped chocolates, napkins or holiday napkins etc.) you can also use the 'flower' takes the artificial space to fill.
Place your cellophane or other wrap under the gift basket. Center>gift basket on the wrap. Bring the cellophane or other wrap over the top of the gift basket and tie it with ribbon and or a beautiful bow! Use ribbon and bows to match your theme colors.
Tuck a card in the ribbon and that's it!
You can find fabric or wired ribbon cheaply at Costco-- especially in the fall prior to Christmas but often throughout the year in some stores. You can shred paper in a paper shredder.
If you're going to need a lot of Cellophane you can purchase wholesale through the packaging specialty stores in the United States, but should be readily available at craft stores.
General advice: Try to use non-perishable items baskets, except fruit for fruit. U.S. packaged food just showed, because even packaged crackers and cookies can go to become obsolete in a few months.
You can flower filler 'up' at flea markets for pennies found. If you buy in bulk usually around a dollar.
Tips: It 'best not to use fragrant items in your wine gift basket. You can easily check out gourmet wine gift baskets on the Internet to see what typically goes in them.
Also there's nothing like learning how to make wine or other gift baskets from a video or DVD for making cheap and easy gift baskets. You can view it over and over again and share it with your children, other family members and friends. You can even charge for classes with your new-found knowledge and/or start a home based business. In any event, making a gourmet, custom, personalized wine gift basket is cheap and easy.