Essential Packaging Store July Newsletter!

Hello again! So excited to share our new July newsletter with you! Not only are there some fab new products but some really terrific ideas to inspire you!

Here's a little taste - this is a really quick, easy and beautiful way to use our lace patterned tape-

The Latest Trend in Wedding Favor & Invites - Yellow & Silver!

Hello all!
I just wanted to share some photos of a new display the Staff did in the Store recently. This is a very popular color combination that we've seen brides choosing lately, yellow and silver.

The yellow really adds some life to the sometimes dullness of silvers or greys. In the giftbox sample above, we added a tissue flower to the lid - they're simple to make, cost effective and look fabulous!

Here's a cute wrapping idea for a wedding gift - place the items in several different sized boxes and stack them like a wedding cake! Enhance each "layer" with ribbon in the bride's colors. These stacked boxes also make great centerpieces for bridal or baby showers and anniversaries.

Carry the wedding colors into the invitations as well as the favors - here we created an elegant invite using our Envelopments paper and Pocketfolds, with satin ribbon and a diamond ribbon slide.

Take care and we'll see you soon!

Essential Packaging Store May Newsletter!

Hey everyone! The new May newsletter is now up on our website! Click here to take a look.
Here's a sneak peak at one of our new ribbon projects-

Wedding Wednesday - Fresh New Colors!

Hello again! Hard to believe it's a new year already! Well, one of my resolutions was to get better organized but it looks like I'm already a week behind getting back to my blog...:)oh, well...I guess I'm still a work in progress!

Anyways, I thought I'd start off by showing you a little sneak peak at some of the new colours that we will be featuring for weddings this year. With many new colors making their debuts, we'll start with this fresh combination - coral and tropical green.

All of us at the Store are in LOVE with these fab new colours! They're so fresh and fun, perfect for any spring or summer wedding (or any other celebration for that matter). And such a natural combination with white.

Something we've been doing quite a lot of lately is banding - here we used strips of matching giftwrap, wrapped around the favour box (this is a 4 truffle box), added some coral sheer ribbon (this is a 5/8" wide ribbon) and then topped it all off with some of our sticky blings - YUM!!

And what do love even more than sticky blings? Why bling ribbon slides, of course!! Our white 2 truffle favor box gets extra special treatment with a sheer coral ribbon on top (5/8" wide ribbon), lucite green satin ribbon (5/8" wide as well), and a beautiful heart shaped ribbon slide!

Here is the same combination of ribbons as above but this time we added them to our

2" x 2" x 2" cube box with separate lid. This favour box would look fantastic at the reception to help add some colour to the table decor.

Lastly, this is our larger 3 1/2" x 3 1/2" x 3" gift box with coral and lucite satin ribbons and sticky pearl blings. This box would make an ideal presentation box for bridal party gifts.

I'll be featuring new colours in the upcoming weeks as our stock rolls in so stay tuned!

Thanks and take care!

Anna

Happy Holidays!!

We hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas! We certainly did at the Store and now we're glad to be on our holiday break! We'll be back at work on Tuesday, January 4th and I'll resume my blog posts then as well.

Until then, have a safe a happy new year!

Cookie Packaging!

Hi everyone! I know I've been a bit tardy with my blog posts but the Store's been hoppin' lately, not sure why though *jingle bells, jingle bells* Anyways, I'm here now! With the holiday baking season upon us, here's a quick and cute cookie packaging idea-

We recently starting carrying these glassine / waxed cookie bags at the Store and they've really been a hit, especially for cookies. But since they are a bit plain, we wanted to bump up the cute factor!

So, we turned to Martha. Not literally of course but I love these new punches from Martha Stewart Crafts that this seemed like a great opportunity to try them out (any excuse, right?) The bags punched quite nicely and it does makes the bags look much fancier.

For the little tags, we used some holiday stamps and a tag shaped punch (all from Stampin' Up).

Then we folded over the top of the bag and tied the gingham ribbon around the whole bag. We also used some 1/8"double faced satin ribbon to tie on the tags.

And there you have it - easy, cute and (I'm pretty sure!) much appreciated gift for your friends, neighbours and co-workers!

I'll be doing more cookie wrapping posts so be sure to check back! Thanks!

Stamped Cookie Boxes!

The holidays are a great time to give gifts of baking - who wouldn't appreciate a beautiful box of home baked yummies. right? Here's an easy way to spruce up your cookie boxes so they're ready for filling and giving!

For our samples, we used our 4" x 4" x 4" folding gift boxes in natural kraft and red, baker's twine in assorted colours to co-ordinate with our boxes (boxes and twine are available at the Essential Packaging Store), snowflake stamps and ink pad (we used Stampin' Up products but you can use any brand of stamps and ink).

For something a little different, we chose to stamp the inside of the gift box lid. We also lined the gift box with parchment paper to help prevent stains from the butter in the cookies. We then placed our delicious homemade cookies (or they can be store bought, we won't judge!) into the gift box.

For a simple finish to our cookie box, we wrapped the baker's twine around the the box a few times and added a small gift tag to the front.

Here's the natural kraft cookie box - for this one, we chose to stamp the outside as well as the inside lid. Once again, we wrapped the baker's twine around the cookie box and added the gift tag.

This is a really easy way to stylishly present your holiday gifts of baking! These would make great gifts for friends, neighbors, teachers and coaches.

Remember to visit our website for more holiday projects and ideas!

Thanks and we hope to see you again soon!