It's Wrapping Season: Edible Gift Topper Inspiration

Friday 30 November 2018

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Edible gift toppers are a sweet and easy way to dress up your gift wrapping. We teamed up with Bake Sale Toronto to decorate some of our gift bags and boxes using their holiday baked goods and our everyday bakery packaging.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Snowman cookies and macarons were packaged in bakery boxes and tied onto the handles of our Cabin Life gift bags

Continue reading for the DIY instructions.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto



edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Ugly sweater cookies and cake pops were packaged in bakery boxes and attached with ribbons to our buffalo plaid and gold foil gift boxes. 

Continue reading for the DIY instructions.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto



edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

 Here's a few more ideas for creating edible gift toppers using macarons and bakery boxes.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Now onto the DIY details so that you can recreate these yourself!

You can turn any of our bakery boxes into hanging gift toppers (or ornaments!) by simply punching a hole on two sides ....

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

 Supplies: bakery boxes, hole punch, baker's twine, scissors
Step 1. Punch a hole into two sides and flaps of the box.
Step 2. Close the flaps on the top of the box and add the baker's twine as shown. 
Tip: A twist tie was attached to the baker's twine to make it easier to pull the twine through the holes.
Step 3. Tie a knot close to the top of the box. Make sure that you leave yourself enough twine to be able to tie onto the handles of the gift bag and finish with a bow 


If you want to add a hand lettered message to bakery boxes with windows do it while the boxes are flat. Once you have completed the lettering you can punch the holes and start to fold and set up the boxes. 

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Tip: We used white Sharpie paint markers on the windows of the bakery boxes.


 Here's how we attached small bakery boxes to gift boxes using just ribbon.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

This technique will work with any folding box when the top and bottom flats are on the same side of the box. 

1. Simply feed a ribbon through the bakery box when the top and bottom flaps are open. 
2. Close the flap on one end of the bakery box and continue to tie the ribbon onto the gift box. Note: At this point you should be able to slide the bakery box along the ribbon to position it on top of the gift box
3. Slip a macaron into the open end of the bakery box and close the flap to finish.


 The technique above will not work for our scallop window cookie boxes so here's what we did ...

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

1. Use an Xacto knife to cut a slit a little wider than your ribbon into the bottom flap as shown above.
2. Feed the ribbon through the bakery box while the top and bottom flaps are open. 
3. Tie the ribbon/bakery box onto the top of a gift box.
4. We covered a piece of cardboard with buffalo plaid wrapping paper and inserted it into the bakery box to give the Bake Sale Toronto's ugly sweater cookie a festive backdrop inside the cookie box.It also make it easier to slide the cookie into the gift box and hid the ribbon.
5. Close the flap to finish. You can easily position the bakery box on the gift box by gently sliding it along the ribbon.

edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

Stay tuned ... next time we'll show you how we packaged Bake Sale Toronto's adorable holiday themed cupcakes for gift giving!



edible gift topper inspiration for holiday gift wrapping | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


It's Wrapping Season: Sweet Hostess Gift Wrapping Inspiration

Thursday 29 November 2018


Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

It’s wrapping season and for the next few weeks we are going to show you some creative gift wrapping ideas for everyone on your holiday list!

Have you been invited to a holiday party? Looking for some hostess gift ideas? We teamed up with Bake Sale Toronto to create some edible hostess gift ideas that we think you are going to want to recreate.

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


Keep it simple with a glass container and gingerbread cookies. We filled the container with coarse sugar and tucked the cookies inside. Tie a festive ribbon like this one around the container and finish with a bow. Get creative and add a hand lettered chalkboard to the container …

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


… or purchase a sweet hand made Posecard like this one from Love Lettering. 

Gift Wrapping Tip: Add the ribbon to the glass container before you fill it with coarse sugar.

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


Disposable wood trays are a cost-effective option for holiday entertaining and hostess gift packaging. This clear top wood tray/box was filled with jam thumbprints, chocolate chip shortbread, candy cane drops and star shortbread cookies from Bake Sale Toronto and would make a great hostess gift!

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


We created a protective tray liner by laminating buffalo plaid wrapping paper so that the cookies would have a festive backdrop.

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto

White Sharpie paint markers were used to add a hand lettered message to the acrylic top. Add your own message or copy ours by tracing the lettering printable in the download at the end of this post.

Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto



Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto


Gift Wrapping Tip: If you want to add a ribbon to the box like we did - make sure to position your lettering on the acrylic top to include space for the ribbon.








Stay tuned for more sweet gift wrapping ideas!



Sweet hostess gift wrapping inspiration | Creative Bag and Bake Sale Toronto










Merry and Bright Gift Wrapping and Entertaining Inspiration

Sunday 4 November 2018

merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag

It's wrapping season! And to celebrate we've just published our new Holiday 2018 Creative Living online magazine. It's filled with inspiration for holiday gift wrapping, entertaining and much more using our products.

Here's a few of the ideas and products that you will find inside:


merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag

merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag

merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag


merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag

merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag


merry and bright gift wrapping and entertaining inspiration | Creative Bag