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Creative DIY Kraft Gift Wrapping Inspiration - part three
Monday, 9 December 2019
Kraft bags, boxes and wrapping paper are holiday favourite for many of our customers. And for DIY enthusiasts our kraft packaging products are a blank canvas just waiting to be embellished with personalized heart felt details.
In this third post, we are sharing more inspirational ideas using our kraft bags and boxes.
Simple star shapes, dots and "HO" lettering were added to this folding kraft box to create an overall print. The whimsical gift tag and our exclusive Merry Everything printed ribbon add to the "Santa" theme of the gift packaging.
Kraft bags and boxes where embellished with a stamp & black ink, white Sharpie paint markers and pieces of fresh cedar.
You can do this:
1. Stamp an image of a truck, van or car onto a flat folding box.
Tip - you can also stamp your image onto a piece of kraft wrapping paper and wrap it around the box.
2. Use a white paint marker to add some little details to your design. Here we added snowflakes and a couple of little elements to the truck.
3. Small pieces of fresh cedar were attached to the kraft paper using a few pieces of two-sided tape.
Finish off with ribbon. Here we tied a striped ribbon around the sides of the box.
The same technique with the stamped image was used on this gift bag but this time the small pieces of fresh cedar were added to the bag a little differently. A small slit was made into the bag so that the cedar could be inserted into the "trunk" of the truck. A few pieces of two-sided of tape were used to keep the cedar in place.
Here's a close up of how the cedar was inserted into the slit in the bag.
You will also noticed that we removed the original handles on the bag and replaced them with ribbon that added to our holiday theme.
One fun element that you can add to your gift bag and may not have thought about is to add a little hidden message to the inside of the bag. We added "ho ho ho" to this one but can add a message that is more personal. It's a fun gift wrapping detail for Secret Santa gifts.
Here's an idea if you are doing last minute gift wrapping and realise that you have run out of tissue paper. Punch two holes in the top of the bag as shown and insert a ribbon to close the bag and add a decorative element.
Got pom poms?! Why not add them to your holiday gift wrapping? Turn any deer head into Rudolph by simply gluing a small red pom pom.
We added our exclusive holiday stickers to kraft paper bags and gift card holders. We drew the wreaths using paint markers but you could also use stamps with a large wreath design if you are creating a more than a few of these for your small business.
Tip: Wreaths were drawn first on the gift card envelope and paper lunch bag before adding the stickers.
We also added baker's twine to the bag by punching two holes in the top. This is a great idea for prepacked baked goods at holiday markets so the contents will be contained until opened.
Add a little something extra to the top of the kraft paper lunch bag by cutting the top of the bag with scallop edged scissors as we did above.
These are the kraft paper bags and boxes that were used in this post - paper shoppers, paper lunch bags, gift bags, gift envelopes and folding boxes.
If you missed our last two blog posts with more creative DIY kraft gift wrapping inspiration, you can find them here and here. Stay tuned for one more post using kraft packaging products!
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Creative DIY Kraft Gift Wrapping Inspiration - part two!
Friday, 6 December 2019
Our everyday kraft paper bags and boxes are a customer favourite all year round.
Sources: paper shoppers, folding boxes, die cut handle bags, set up gift boxes, gift card envelopes.
During the holiday season you can turn these plain packaging products into some festive using just a few supplies like paint markers, twine and ribbon.
White Sharpie paint markers were used to draw on all of the bags and boxes in this post.
you can go all out and wrap your design around to cover every side!
In this example, we glued baker's twine around the bag and worked it into the overall design of the drawing for an unexpected detail.
One of the secrets to creating the designs on all of these projects is that we sketched out the lettering and larger elements using a white pencil before using the paint markers. After the paint has dried you can erased the pencil lines.
A very simple mistle toe graphic was repeated around this folding kraft box like a printed design. The lettering was added to the front of the box so twine could be wrapped around the box and tied at the top.
Snowflakes, evergreen branches and dots were mixed and matched on all of these kraft packaging products so that when they were all displayed together they would look like a "collection". Even the hand drawn designs on the ornaments co-ordinate with the gift wrapping!
The black and gold printed Starry Night tissue paper was used as inspiration for the graphic elements that were used in the design on this gift bag.
Ornaments make great gift toppers and double as another gift. The ornament has a holiday saying on our sample but you could easily create these with names and use them as a gift tag as well. We kept the drawings on this folding box very simple by just repeating snowflake like shapes in various sizes.
If you prefer to hand letter a design on the lid of a gift box, tie a ribbon around the side of the box like this sample.
Wrap up gift cards in one of these plain kraft gift card holders and then make it your own it with some simple graphics. Ribbon and a hand lettered ornament are the final touches.
Are you planning to add some DIY touches to our plain paper kraft bags and boxes in your holiday gift wrapping? If so, we'd love to see what you come up with! Tag us on Instagram using @creativebagco and hashtag #creativebaginspire .
Stay tuned because we have more DIY kraft gift wrapping inspiration to come!
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It's wrapping season! Creative DIY Kraft Gift Wrapping Inspiration
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Kraft packaging products are a customer favourite during the holiday season.
We've taken a number of our plain everyday kraft bags and boxes and using a few basic items like paint pens, ribbon and twine to turn them into creative holiday gift wrapping.
Sources: Photos by Heidi Lau Photography. "Naughty and Nice" Pose Cards by Love Lettering. Toy wood camera from Little Rose & Co.
Here's a great excuse to print some of the photos you have been storing on your phone or computer and customize your gift wrapping for someone special.
This magnetic gift box features a photo that is held in place using a striped ribbon and finished off with a fresh piece of cedar and decorative tape.
Here's a close up showing how the photo was sliced so that the ribbon could be inserted. Decorative washi tape is not extremely sticky so we used two sided tape to hold the cedar and washi tape in place.
Using a white paint marker a wreath design was drawn onto this paper shopper to create a "frame" for a photo.
The photo was cut out as a circle and attached to the bag using 3-D foam tape to give it a little more dimension.
Looking for an interesting way to package hostess gifts? These simple paper lunch bags are a sweet idea and can be created to look like home of your hostess.
To make your own village of houses you will need kraft paper lunch bags, a pencil, paint marker, a hole punch and twine. Fold the top of the bag as shown and punch two holes so that the twine can be added later.
We used a pencil to first sketch out an outline and then followed up with the paint marker to complete the house design.
Once the drawings are complete, the bags are ready to be filled and tied up using baker's twine as shown.
Find these paper shopping bags, magnetic closure gift boxes and paper lunch bags in our stores and online all year long.
Stay tuned for more holiday DIY gift wrapping inspiration using kraft packaging supplies.
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