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GraphicRiver’s 25 Ultimate Christmas Gift Hacks

Posted: 21 Nov 2013 07:43 PM PST

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If you've spent enough time on the web for work this year, you'll know an average search for print templates and stock vectors can bring up more duds than diamonds. Thankfully there’s GraphicRiver, the community-powered site that serves up premium and affordable design files you'll actually want to use. And right now, it’s packed full of beautiful Christmas creative you can customise in ways you never thought possible.

Now that we're approaching the holidays, the GraphicRiver gift is about to keep giving with awesome project ideas for Christmas presents and decorations sprinkled amongst the 9 to 5 stuff. To get you going, we've scoured over 170,000+ inspiring GraphicRiver graphic files to curate our 25 Ultimate Christmas Gift Hacks.

With a bit of Adobe know-how, a printer, or a customised product from the likes of Cafe Press or Zazzle.com, you'll be set for Christmas gift victory without the labour-intensive internet searches.

1. This year, deliver the motherland in a Zazzle.com jumbo tote bag printed with 1 of 12 illustrated Santa Claus vectors.

2. Go nuts filling this Christmas Gift Box Gingerbread House with all kinds of home made cookies in all kinds of flavours, provided they're ginger of course.

3. Buck the slogan tee trend and make friends a gift they'll actually want to wear with this Day of the Dead Skull Vector Set.

4. Curate your favourite festive stories and carols, or go wild with inventive Christmas characters and subplots of your own using this 18-page Christmas Tale Book print template.

5. What do bicycles have to do with Christmas? Not much, but they are a big decor trend so impress your stylish pals with Bicycle printed throw cushions and ride the kudos wave.

6. Foodie friends will drool over Christmas themed printed aprons. Match one from Cafe Press with a kooky Christmas Teeth character print.

7. Friends not into eggnog? Make your own tea blend or drinkable concoction, then package it up with this editable A4 Tea Box packaging template.

8. Say no to matching reindeer sweaters. This year the only way to sloth around the Christmas tree is in a customised onesie adorned in festive forest critters.

9. Bask in the adoration of little sisters and nieces with a personalised Paper Doll With Clothes Set. Bring in to life on a printable magnetic or sticker sheets and brace yourself for ever-lasting love.

10. Friends ditching you for a white Christmas London style? Send them off with a Bus in a Box stuffed with their favourite treats from home.

11. There's all sorts of wall art hanging around these day, but honestly does it get any cuter than this? Gift your own vinyl decal featuring this adorable Christmas Multicultural Kids Tree vector.

12. Sick of Santa bombed gift wrapping? Take your wrapping paper on a conceptual journey with this isometric pattern of triangles, airplanes and clouds.

13. Some ugly sweaters are so ugly they deserve to be celebrated. De-mothball yours and recruit fellow perpetrators with a purpose built Ugly Sweater party flyer.

14. Skateboarding is a traditional Christmas activity, right? Maybe just for some, making this Early Bird print plus Zazzle.com blank skate deck a total blast of a gift idea for the right person.

15. Got a pack of li’l monsters on your gift list? Please the critters with the Character And Monster Creation Kit, perfect for a story or colouring-in book printed through Blurb.com.

16. For the home brewers among you, spoil your cronies with your finest DIY craft beer branded with a Vintage Beer Label vector. Beery Christmas!

17. Modern life killing your Christmas vibe? Get back into the spirit with 50s and 60s Retro Holidays Greeting Cards in 15 layered vectors.

18. Hot cocoa is guaranteed to taste better in a custom printed ceramic mug starring a Girl in Reindeer Costume or Kids in Santa Claus Costume design.

19. Got a family of sweet tooths on your list? Bake an impossibly delicious cake and deliver a slice to each sugar lover in this Cake Packaging Gift box packaging template.

20. Chart your family's proliferation with a Vintage Style Family Tree. Bonus, come Christmas dinner time, you'll be well up to speed with who's who in the zoo.

21. How to entertain the troops at your Christmas party? Celebrate the year of the selfie with a DIY photo booth using the Hats and Glasses for Photo Booth Props set.

22. Christmas crackers are old hat. Instead, treat your Christmas dinner guests with Reindeer Holiday Gift Boxes stuffed with hand picked treats and trinkets.

23. Give Santa enough rope and he'll light up the Christmas tree in a flash. Add in Mr Nutcracker for twice the ornamental fun.

24. While the grown ups compare their tech toys, keep the little ones entertained by turning these cute Animal Vectors into easy jigsaws for the kids.

25. "I hate receiving a great bottle of red for Christmas." Said no one ever. Go for gifting gold with a personalised Wine and Liquor Gift Box filled with your people's favourite drop.