Create Your Own Gift – Tips To Create Unique Gift Pack

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Creating a gift pack is not an easy job for amateur gift packers. Here’s a small guideline to guide you into choosing the correct material for the correct occasion.
Identify the occasion on which the gift is to be packed?

A. Wedding – Weddings in India are larger than life occasions, as such nothing is too much or too less. A packing can be either very subtle and sophisticated or very elaborate and bright depending on the taste of the giver and the receiver. Popular colours for traditional Indian weddings are gold, red, maroon, orange, fuchsia pink, etc. whereas silver, light pink, off-white, bronze etc. are associated with contemporary or modern weddings.
B. Baby Showers, Announcements & Birthdays - Blue and Pink are the 2 colours that are most popularly associated with any baby occasion. However, colours like lilac, lemon yellow, lime green, red, orange etc. can also be used for innovation.
C. House Warmings – Nothing in particular is associated with house warmings in general. However, things which signify good luck like Om, kalash, sathiya, parrots, etc. can be used along with traditional ...
... Indian colours or flowers and crystals along with western colour combinations.
D. Anniversaries & Birthdays – One can use anything that appeals for birthdays & anniversaries unless it’s a 25th or 50th Anniversary or Birthday for which the apt colours are:
25th Anniversary or Birthday - Silver
50th Anniversary or Birthday – Gold
E. Festivals – Though one can use any auspicious colour for festivals, certain colours are very closely associated with particular festivals:

• Lohri – Orange, Green and other earth colours
• Valentine – Red
• Holi - All bright colours
• Teej -Yellow, Green
• Rakhi – Any Auspicious colour
• Navratri – Any Auspicious colour
• Karwa Chauth – Red, Maroon, Gold
• Diwali - Gold, Silver
• Christmas – Red, Green, White
• Eid – Green

Before you start packing your gift please plan what you want to do and what effect you want to create. Keeping these things in mind please make sure that you have all the right packaging tools and stationery. For a look at what all you can use please check:

• Stationery & Packaging Tools
• Wires
Also keep in mind that you can add a more personal touch to your gift by using various crafts like quilling, punch craft, embossing etc. For a better idea of what all you can choose from please have a look at

• Craft Materials

Step 1.

Choose a base

What kind of a base do you want to use to keep your gift in? When you plan to give a gift in what do you plan to keep the gift in?

• Platters & Trays
• Baskets
• Boxes

If the gift has to go as it is then it has to be wrapped and/or put in a gift bag, in which case one has to choose the correct wrapping sheet and gift bag.

• Paper
• Gift Bags

One might also be planning to give cash or gift certificates in which case an envelope will be needed.

• Envelopes

Step 2.

Choose the right accessory

Once you have chosen what you want to keep your gift in or the paper you want to wrap it in, the 2nd step is to choose the correct decoration for the gift. Depending on the occasion and theme of the packing one can choose a single kind of accessory or mix and match stuff from the following categories:

• Baby Announcements, Baby Showers & Children Birthdays
• Beads
• Birds
• Flowers
• Indian Accessories
• Western Accessories

Step 3.

Selection of Fillers & Ribbons

After choosing your decorations you need to choose some kind of a filler, or ribbons to give your gift a finished look. Make a selection from among the following categories:

• Ribbons & Laces
• Fillers
• Wires

Hope this guideline helps you. In case of any other query please feel free to get in touch with us. For more packing ideas visit www.wrapchic.in