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Read it now! Our new online magazine - Creative Packaging Inspiration for Creative Entrepreneurs.
Friday, 23 September 2016
Saturday September 24, 2016 is the Etsy Made in Canada Event. There will be pop up markets all over Canada on Saturday filled with local Etsy shop owners. I will be at the MaRS building in Toronto with the Etsy Made in Canada Toronto team. It will be a great day to check out local handmade goods and the creative entrepreneurs who made them.
I have a workshop at 3:30 with the 25 people who were able to sign up in advance for tickets to the free event.
We have many creative customers that will taking part in the Etsy Made in Canada Event all over Canada. At Creative Bag, we know that good packaging can help to sell products. So I teamed up with four local Etsy shop owners to create an online magazine filled with packaging inspiration for creative entrepreneurs. It's live now and I hope that you will check it out.
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new econo candy bags
Monday, 9 March 2015
We
are excited to announce the arrival of our exclusive new line of Creative Bag Econo Hard Bottom Candy Bags. Available
in packs of 100 (1000/case) in 5 different sizes. You can save up to 50% off the
cost of our regular flat bottom candy bags!
Our customers are so creative and we know that you will come up with lots more ideas for using these food safe bags to package lots of yummy treats.
These bags are also suitable for wedding and party favors.
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Packaging inspiration and free downloads for Easter sweets
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
In today's post I am going to share a few Easter packaging ideas and some more of my free printables that you can download. Easter candies and sweets are usually very colourful and for that reason, I prefer to package Easter treats in clear candy bags and boxes. I designed the bag headers and candy wrappers using a chalkboard background so that the colours in the packaging would not take away from the items being packaged inside.
The bag toppers are available in two sizes: 3.5" wide and 4" wide to fit some of our clear candy bags and clear cupcake bags. Our clear printed candy bags are available year round with assorted printed patterns - I especially like these headers with the Easter egg patterned bag (shown above middle).
I didn't have a real cupcake on hand when I was shooting these photos so I used a cupcake that was crafted using baker's twine and a styrofoam ball (see clear cupcake bag above on the right). These cupcake bags are a nice option if you are looking for something unique to package cupcakes. The best thing about these bags is that you can personalize them with custom headers to match your colours/theme. I also found that the cupcake holder insert makes it very easy to add ribbon to the outside of the bag.
Note: The back of these bag headers can be personalized with a chalk marker if you want to customize these packages yourself.
Note: The back of these bag headers can be personalized with a chalk marker if you want to customize these packages yourself.
It is so easy to add personalized wrappers to mini chocolate bars and I do it all of the time. I buy these mini chocolate bars at Costco because they are available all year long and are available in milk or dark chocolate. Our 2"x2"x2" clear boxes will hold 8 or 9 mini bars. A little sizzle on each side keep the chocolates from moving around. I often tie baker's twine around the boxes but this time I used ribbon that worked with my Easter theme.
I've shown you how to add the wrappers to the mini chocolate bars before on the blog but I'll repeat it again here because it's so simple.
1. Print the download for the wrappers on plain white text paper. Cut out the wrappers and add two pieces of two sided tape to the back top and bottom edges.
2. Attach the wrapper to the chocolate bars as shown above and you are done!
2. Attach the wrapper to the chocolate bars as shown above and you are done!
I added a chalkboard sticker to the bottom of the box - a nice option if you want to add a name or message to your packaging. Place the chalkboard sticker on the top of the box and use these as part of your table decor by placing one of these favors on everyone's plate for Easter dinner.
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Clearly yummy holiday packaging inspiration and a free download
Friday, 29 November 2013
Holiday packaging does not always have to hide your gift. Especially if you are wrapping something like beautifully decorated cookies or other yummy treats. We carry a variety of clear boxes and bags in lots of sizes that will make your holiday packaging projects a breeze.
Here's three clear gift wrapping ideas I'm going to be using this year ...
In this first sample, I packaged a snowman sugar cookie from Starbucks in one of our clear bags and tied the bag close with a clear twist tie topped off with a red ribbon bow. I like to give gift cards to friends and family for the holidays so I also packaged a Starbucks gift card inside a red striped pillow box. The pillow box was tied to the cookie packaging using red baker's twine. This would make a great gift idea for clients, staff and teachers.
This beautiful snowflake cookie from Cupid's Bakery was packaged inside of a clear bag that I embellished with a header that I made using our kraft wrapping paper, lace ribbon tape, baker's twine and chalkboard stickers. I cut the kraft wrapping paper using our wrapping paper cutter ... a great time saver if you plan to do a lot of gift wrapping this year! You can write on the chalkboard stickers using chalk markers!
Here's one more packaging idea using our clear boxes. The clear boxes come in many different of sizes. I filled one of the 2x2 clear boxes with some mini chocolates that I purchased at Costco. I created holiday wrappers to fit the mini chocolates and you can download them below if you would like to make these too. I used silver mylar sizzle in my box to keep the chocolates in place. Baker's twine adds a little colour to my packaging and is a good choice if you don't like to tie ribbon bows. I used a chalkboard sticker on the bottom of my box to use as a gift tag.
You can download my art for the holiday chocolate wrappers here. You will find directions for how to use the wrappers on the download. Many of the graphics used on the wrappers were from Luvly.co.
Luvly is a premium digital design marketplace, selling graphics, images and vectors. You can find everything from invitations to clip art to scrapbooking designs. It's my new favourite place to be to find graphics when I am short on time and don't have time to create my own art from scratch!
Happy wrapping!
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5 pretty diy favor packaging ideas using our 8oz gusset clear bags and free download for bag headers
Friday, 23 August 2013
Beautiful baked goods and sweet treats always make wonderful wedding and party favors and the best way to package them is in clear bags or boxes. So with that in mind, I used our 8oz gusset clear bags and came up with five different packaging projects to inspire you.
If you like the bag headers that I designed for a couple of the projects, you can download them for free for your wedding or party favors. You'll find the downloads at the end of this post.
Decorated cookies can be quickly packaged in our clear gusset bags. The bags should be folded over at the top before adding the folded header to keep the cookies fresher longer.
Note: The bag can be cut shorter if it is too long for your cookies. The header should always cover most of the empty bag space as shown in the photo above.
Paper straws are not just for drinking! Use cut paper straws to decorate our bamboo skewers
and start making your own candy kabobs! Add my folded paper headers the bags using two staples. Or if you want to add an extra little touch of colour, try punching two holes through the header and bag and use ribbon or baker's twine to tie together.
Use custom stickers and our clear bags to repackage large colourful lollipops. If you can't find a sticker shape to suit your packaging needs, you can create your own size and shape of stickers using full page sticker sheets and paper punch shapes.
Note: if the bag is too long for what you are packaging, work out the length that best fits by testing with one bag and then cut the rest of the bags before you start to fill them.
Who doesn't love cakepops?! These adorable little treats make great favors and whether you want to package them so that they can stand up on their own (like my samples) or so that they can be displayed in a container our the 8oz gusset clear bag are the perfect size. I covered plain white lollipop sticks with paper straws before packaging mine. Add a custom tag or flag to match your event theme.
The mini chalkboard signs on this project could also be added to a custom bag header. Write guest names on each chalkboard sign and you eliminate the need for additional escort cards.
Inspired to make some of these yourself? I hope so!
The downloads for the two bag headers can be found here:
Happy packaging!
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Chinese Take Out Boxes and Customer Inspiration from Jacquee of "I Sugar Coat It"
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
I love Mondays.
I know that a lot of people don't like Mondays but I do because it is the day that I'm at the Toronto store. I get so excited when I walk around the store and get to see all of the amazing new products that have arrived on the shelves. This week the staff were setting up an incredible display featuring many of our new kraft, burlap and lace products. They are still loading many new products onto the website and I will share them with you in another post. If you are planning a vintage or rustic themed wedding or party this summer you have to visit our stores soon.
The other reason that I love Mondays is that when I'm in the store I get to talk to many of our customers and see what products they are loading into their shopping carts. This week I noticed a number of people with our Chinese take out boxes in their carts.
Chinese take out boxes are always a popular product at this time of year as many brides like to use these for wedding favors and packaging for sweet tables. We have the traditional white take out boxes in a variety of different sizes ...
and we also carry a number of unique takeout boxes as well. The clear and kraft take out boxes (shown in the top photo) are two of my favourite take out boxes to decorate for wedding and party favors. Our Chinese take out boxes are also available in many different colours and patterns and you can see them all on our website here.
I especially love to see what our customers have been doing with our products and I was blown away this week when I received an email from one of our very talented customers - Jacquee from "I Sugar Coat It". Jacquee packages and photographs her beautiful sweets in our products and I just have to share some of my favourites with you today.
This beautiful cake was created for a friend's bridal shower and was cleverly packaged in one of our new Parisian collection bakery boxes.
I love Jacquee's photography. You really want to have a (big) slice of that cake! The cake stand in this picture is from our new Rosanne line of dessert servingware. I over heard a customer the other week say that this area of our Toronto store was her "happy place" and I have to agree.
Check out how Jacquee packaged her macarons in our macron boxes. I love the way that she added her logo to the tiffany blue macaron box.
Again, the photography for these sweet treats is both beautiful and yummy! The patterned paper behind the macarons is from our new Dahlia Collection.
And one last photo from Jacquee's blog that I just had to share. I pinned this picture of her strawberry glazed mini doughnuts as soon as I saw it. I loved the use of the paper straws, the colours and the way the doughnuts were styled. But what I loved the most is that these mini treats are lactose-free!! I'm lactose intolerant and so I'm always on the look out for lactose-free recipes - especially desserts. I can't wait to try this recipe out. I just need to find an excuse to make them and present them like this on the paper straws ... maybe for a late night treat at the cottage this summer!
Jacquee's blog is a chronicle of her successes (and failures) as she explores sugar in all it's forms. She has lots of great recipes and I love how she shares her stories on her blog.I hope that you will pop over to check out Jacquee's website. Tell her Lorrie sent you over!
If you are looking for more inspiration for your
packaging projects please check out and follow our Creative Bag Pinterestboards. I am adding new pins daily and always on the look out for new ideas
using our products!
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Wedding favors using candy bags and free download for thank you tags
Friday, 22 March 2013
My last post featured a number or our food safe candy bags. Today I wanted to show you one more candy bag that would be perfect as a wedding favor.
I filled this candy bag with heart shaped candies in colours to co-ordinate with the pink swirls on the bag. I tied the bag close with a couple of pieces of ribbon and added a thank you tag using white paper twine. If you are making hundreds of favors for a wedding (or party) and doing it yourself ... this is a perfect diy project.
Want to use my thank you tags for your special day? You can download my art below but just remember that it is for your personal use only (no commerical use).
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