Sugar sprinkle gift packaging

This is part one of a two blog tutorial series. I had it all in one, but it got over large and convoluted. So I’ve decided to pull this part out. I’ll post the second part over the weekend!

Basically I wanted to give away little sugar sprinkles packets to be included in gift packs I was making up. But do you think I could find them anywhere?! I searched high and low, but everything was either too large, or much too expensive.

So I came up with this idea!

Made out of transparent plastic sheets (the same as the ones they use on report covers and available in any office supply store), given a bit of a clean, cut to size and taped up; they’re super quick, very easy, and would make a great packaging option for any small gift.

Below is an image with all the materials you need to make up the sugar packets. The cute container is to put the sugar packets into.

To make them up, follow the step by step tutorial below:

1. Place a thin strip of double sided tape alone one of the long sides of your plastic square. Roll and stick together so that you’ve made a tube. Then place a piece of clear tape over the seam on the outside of the tube, trimming it neatly. This is to provide additional support as the packets can burst open otherwise.

2. Aligning the seam on the inside as shown, squeeze one end of the tube flat.

3. Using the washi tape, seal it closed. Cutting off the excess tape for a clean look.

4. Using a funnel, fill the tubes with your sugar sprinkles. Making sure to leave room at the top.

5. Then at 90 degrees to the bottom fold, repeat the steps above to crimp the end of the tube flat and to tape it up!

And voilà! You have a cute clear package, filled with sweet sugary decorations.

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Small paper bag advent calendar.

For Munchkin’s first Advent (we didn’t do one last year) I wanted something she could have a great time opening and, most likely, destroying in the process. So I came up with the concept of making up 24 little paper bags. Each a different design. We then filled them with little toys, Duplo and a couple of chocolates on surprise days.

I modified my Pretty Patterned Paper Bag template and print them out on 30 pieces of A4 printer paper. The larger bags need to be printed over two pieces and glued together. I then cut them out using an x-acto knife and glued them together using a Pritt stick (paper glue stick).

They’re quite easy and only took me a few hours in front of the television to put them together one evening. I’ve made the template available below in PDF form for you to print out and make up yourself! I hope your little ones have as much fun with this as Munchkin is having. She’s just demolished bag number one.

It’s been a couple of months since Munchkin’s first birthday and I’m finally getting around to sharing with you the Invitation Suite I designed for it. I created an Invitation and Thank You Notelet with matching envelopes and a Wrapping Paper/ Envelope Insert. The Geometric Bee Gift Box I created can be found here.

They’d make a really cute invite for many events, not just a first birthday. Or as personalised stationery.

It’s exceedingly easy to do. I’ve included both PDF and JPG files of all of the items. So you can either print off all the PDF files and write your text in by hand, or pull the JPG files into your favourite editing software to add your preferred text. Then print and cut them out, do a little assembly work and your done!

I decorated both the inside of my envelopes and my invitations with faux gold leaf to add a little something special.

I also printed the Wrapping paper/ Envelope Insert print on the reverse of my Thank you Envelope so it had the honeycomb print on the inside.

And whilst I ran out of time to make all of my Invitation Envelopes, I’ve included them in the suite for you. They’re lined with the Wrapping paper/ Envelope Insert print and also decorated with a little faux gold leaf.

Spending a little time adding the gold leaf really make the invites sparkle! The little bees were the most fiddly and time consuming, but I’m really happy with how they turned out. Read more

Kawaii Halloween Frankenstein Gift Box

As promised, here is the 2nd in my kawaii Halloween series. This time a cute little kawaii Frankenstein to go along with kawaii Ghosty! They make really cute little gift boxes.

The boxes go together just like Kawaii Ghosty but are a bit simpler as they’re a traditional rectangle.

You’ll need 3 pieces of A4 card stock, the thickest you can get through your printer (I used 200 gsm) and your choice of adhesive (I used a Pritt stick)

Then just print and cut out each of the pieces in the PDF template at the bottom of this post. Scoring and/or folding along the dotted lines.

As I’ve mentioned in posts before, we don’t really celebrate Halloween beyond making sure I have a packet of something to give to the one or two children who might turn up with their parents.

But I know that a large number of you lovely readers, and quite a few of my friends here in Switzerland, do celebrate it! So I decided to revisit my Kawaii Halloween Cupcake Toppers and to play with the design a little! I’ve come up with two designs (the other I’ll share with you next week) to make some easy gift boxes.

This gift box template could be used for Halloween, for a Ghoulish Birthday Party, or just as a gift box for your favourite Goth or Kawaii fan.

Each box comes to 130mm x 115mm and is 40mm deep. The inside compartment is (at it’s widest) 115mm x 80mm. They’re fairly large, but you can easily scale them down if you want something smaller. Just make sure to scale all the templates the same percentage.

To make this little Kawaii Ghosty, you just need to print out the three templates in the PDF file attached onto A4 card stock. Use the thickest you can get through your printer. I used 200gsm.
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Sugar sprinkle gift packaging

Small paper bag advent calendar.

Geometric Bee Invitation Suite

Kawaii Halloween Frankenstein Gift Box

Kawaii Halloween Ghosty Giftboxes