I understand most students defiantly want to avoid Christmas present due to their lack of disposable income. However i'm going to give you a sneaky insight of how I make christmas presents or could be birthday's or whatever occasion, but for you're presents to look beautifully wrapped and much more cheaper than buying patterned christmas paper.

Firstly, Head to Poundland, forget the awful crappy thin wrapping paper, thats out of the window, I never want to see you using any of that again. Buy some mailing brown paper, it looks like that ^ and it's only a £1 for ten meters. Also some of this string while you're there. 

Secondly, Get some ribbon, you can buy this from all over but the cheapest will be places like, Wilko's, The Range, The Works, Hobby Craft, local markets, more high street theres also places like John Lewis, WH Smiths, Fenwicks. Have a look on Ebay or Amazon because they may have some good deals on ribbon. Also shops like Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, will have them in.  

Now, the tags I have brought them from Poundland in the past, if not again they will be sold in the place's I've mentioned above or you there's the post office but also you can make them yourself by cutting out a template and then punching the hole with a hole puncher. 

If, ribbon and the tags are getting a little to pricey than you want (even though they shouldn't come to that much) rip up some old cloths or go to a charity shop by some material sometimes charity shops sell curtains or bedding, and with the material you can make something like this. 

This year for present's (Birthday's) I did something like this. So I got the mailing paper and then brought some pattern card or paper, and created the bow myself. This is really easy to do and looks so lovely and unique when you're giving a present. With this all you have to do is cut out the shapes and put it together, I'll see if I can find a YouTube Tutorial because it's to hard to explain. 

These are also really easy to do, here you can see the lace looks really pretty again here, so just have a see what you have lying about. If you don't mind spending a little bit. Ikea do some lace curtains for £12 and you would defiantly be able to wrap a lot of presents with that because it's a lot of material. 

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80070763/

Here's just another little example of how to create your own bow. 

Some of these video's are every cheesy, just so you're warned.