When I saw these marbled playing cards at Ikea, I stopped dead in my tracks! At $2 a deck, the question wasn’t if I would buy them but how many I would buy. I was talked down to two, and was instantly brainstorming ways to craft with them.

For today’s DIY gift wrap project, I used less than one deck and cut them into triangles to form this geometric-marbled pattern. Pretty fun, right? You could easily swap in any paper instead of the cards, or even try another shape for a different geometric look.

• Pink wrapping paper
• Scissors
• Tape (regular and double-sided)
• Ruler
• Playing cards (these are from Ikea) or patterned paper

1. Wrap your gift using pink gift wrap.
2. On scrap paper, make a right-angle triangle template that fits as equally as possible onto your gift both horizontally and vertically. Depending on the dimensions of your gift, you should be able to get a triangle that is perfect (yay!), or almost perfect (squeeze/space it out a little and it won’t be noticeable). If really you can’t get a triangle that works, no worries: the top pattern will just have to be trimmed along the edge (or wrapped around to the sides) to fit. (For example: my box was 7 ½” wide by 10 ¾” long so my triangle template was about 1 7/8” by 1 7/8” by 2 5/8”)
3. Use the template to cut triangles out of the marbled playing cards/paper.
4. Lay the triangles out on the top of the gift and use double-stick tape to adhere.
5. Do the same for the sides and bottom of the gift.
6. It’s okay if the triangles don’t fit the gift perfectly! For the sides shown, I had to trim the triangles a bit along the bottom edges.

Happy crafting!