Thursday, August 30, 2018

Gift boxes

Traditionally gift boxes are used to give presents on holidays; they are made from a firm paperboard or a corrugated fiberboard. These boxes usually consist of a base and a detachable lid and are made by using die cutting process to cut the board.

The box is then covered with a decorative paper. They can also be covered with other decorative material such as sequins, ribbons and gift tissue paper.

A gift presentation can go well beyond the wrapping paper, ribbons and bows you typically think of. The right gift box can keep your presents protect and concealed, and be impressive on all their own. Every gift has its appropriate gift box, i.e., its style, form and the size as well should be thought about.

In gift giving the first thing, the people tend to notice is the package of the present. For that reality, it is important to use decorative or perhaps a unique box. This will surely make an excellent impression towards the person to whom you are presenting the gift.

 And so it is going to bring extra excitement to the person. Because the impact you have made by a great looking gift box the particular person you gave it to is going to be very eager to open the gift.

A lot of people add a further effort by choosing the different and unique style of the gift boxes. These type of people use or make custom gift boxes to give it an extraordinary look and as explained above it provides excitement in gift giving.

Eco-friendly gift boxes

When you have to gift something to the beloved person you try to give something that is going to be useful to that person. Your gift can be even more useful if you give that present in an eco-friendly box. They can use those gift boxes to make many other things that can be used in the decoration of the house.

For instance, gift box made up of cardboard can be used to make flower vase, abstract wall hangings, photo frames, etc. Also when the environment-friendly gift boxes are thrown into the trash can they decompose easily hence causing no harm to the environment.

Uses of gift boxes

Gift boxes can be made out of different materials, others tend to be made of wood, aluminum, clear plastic and corrugated fiberboard. Soon after giving out gift boxes should one just throw them away? No, do not throw it away you can reuse it and place some other gift and give it away.

However gift containing is not its only use, you can use it in a lot of ways.  Following are some ways discussed

Storage

For small gift boxes can be used as good box for storing your precious jewelry pieces and also for your small hair accessories. You can make a divider for your box so that your jewelry and hair pieces do not get tangled and create a mess.

Home décor

Fancy gift boxes often are used by people as good decoration for their houses. You can remove parts of the gift boxes and make wall hangings or some other home decoration.

Work of art

Artist could very well make use of the boxes in their artworks and create beautiful work out of it. Or can even transform the boxes into something admirable.

Used for Childs enjoyment

If you have children you can give them these boxes and let them come up with some creative design. Cardboard boxes are often their favorite since it can be made into anything due to its versatile nature. Little girls like to make jewelry boxes and wardrobe for their dolls.

Organizer

You can make use of the large gift boxes as organizers for your important documents. You can make decorative journals out of it as well.

Photo frames

You can make photo frames from different beautiful gift boxes. Just dismantle the box of appropriate size, sketch the frame on it and then cut it out properly with the help of X-acto knife or a cutter.

You can make a gift box at home as well here is a DIY birthday gift box that you can make at home and impress the birthday boy or girl


Things required

Crepe paper in pink and yellow
Craft knife
Pencil
Bone folder
Fun paper
Glue
Straw
Pink jelly roll pen
Ruler
Scissors
Fringing scissors
Hot glue gun
Foam dots
Cover weight paper in pink and yellow

Process

Step 1: Cut two 3″ by 11″ strips of pink paper.

Step 2: Using the bone folder, score each strip .5″ from the edge of one long side.

Step 3: Cut tabs to the scored line, making each tab about .25″ wide.

Step 4: Crease the tabs, so they fold down.

Step 5: Roll each strip into a cylinder and use the glue pen to glue closed, overlapping the paper about .5″. Make sure that one cylinder is slightly larger than the other so that you can fit the smaller one snugly inside, the bigger one.

Step 6: Use the larger cylinder to trace a circle (it will be about 3.25″ in diameter) and cut it out. Cut out another larger circle (which will be about 4″ in diameter).

Step 7: Using the glue pen, attach the smaller circle to the top of the larger cylinder by gluing the circle on top of the folded tabs. This will become the top of the box. Use the same method to attach the larger circle to the smaller cylinder, which will become the bottom of the box. The bottom of the box will have a small lip so that it’s easy to pull the two apart.

Step 8: Fold a few lengths of pink crepe paper streamer in half and cut fringe into it with the fringing scissors.

Step 9: Use the glue pen to attach the fringe trim around the top piece of the box, along with its bottom and top edge.

Step 10: Fold the yellow streamer into a small stack and cut out a flame shape. Cut lengths of the straws, about 2.25″ each, and attach the flames in the top of the candles with the hot glue gun.
Step 11: Glue the candles onto the top of the box.

Step 12: Cut a small banner shape out of the yellow paper.

Step 13: Write a birthday message on the banner with the jelly roll pen.

Step 14: Attach the banner to the box with foam dots.

Our Services:-

Location: 99 Wall Street Suite #156 New York NY 10005 USA

Contact Number
1773 483 5844
800-604-1874

Email: support@kaypackaging.com

Visit us: https://www.kaypackaging.com/




No comments:

Post a Comment