Mark the gift wrap with your pencil so you know where to cut. Next, pull up the other edges of the paper to see if they can cover the box's height.

U.S. paper mills hope to take advantage of the "Amazon effect" this holiday season and recycle a glut of used cardboard boxes into new paper products.

To sharpen your gift box folding skills with regular paper, check out how to fold a paper gift box.

Wrapping paper is recyclable some of the time. Here's how to figure out whether your gift wrap can be recycled—plus, how to make greener wrapping choices.

Sophie Liard, an expert gift wrapper and author of "The Folding Lady," demonstrates and explains a variety of gift wrapping techniques in 11 levels of difficulty, from the easiest to most complex ...