NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: 2014 WILL BE AN AMAZING YEAR!

Christmas is over!  We really miss its Christmas trees, lights, family gatherings, gifts… All we have been waiting during a year…. Ciao! Everything has gone once more!

And now… Go for a new year! We didn’t like the number 13… Plenty of bad vibes! Now it's time to start a new year, so we will start listing our New Year resolutions. Sometimes they are hard to accomplish or we loose some of them on the way… But one should believe in oneself! Go team go! This 2014 will be amazing!

Tuesday, 9am, SelfPackaging headquarters. Back from vacation. Meeting!

Boss: This year we have to give it all! 

SelfPackaging team: Sir, Yes Sir! In fact, we already have some ideas… 

We have listed them below, let’s see your opinion! 

1.NEW!! Boxes for a single cake pop

It is almost ready! Box for a single cake pop! They are so cute, you would kiss them! Without or with a hole to let people with a sweet tooth see the cake pop. What do you think? Coming soon…

2. Another newness! HUUUGE boxes for cakes:

Did you want huuuge boxes? There you go… or there you will go soon! Huge boxes for cakes with a base and micro-channel cardboard lid to make them more resistant. The body is made of card to give them a touch of color!

3. Supernew!! Patterned accessories

We're going to have patterned labels! We're looking for textures, motives and inspiration… We are already working on it!

More? Do you want to know more? Boxes with nice wordings on them, special editions, patterned ribbons, new colours and… a basic and low-cost line which will be your first choice if you're looking for cheap and high quality boxes in lovely colors.

Are you going to stay with us this year?

Christmas Markets we love: Frankfurt and Heidelberg

We are back!! And we have a lot of things to show you. Every year we visit some Christmas markets to look for some inspiration and discover other traditions from other countries. If last year was the UK, this year we flew to Germany -Frankfurt and Heidelberg-.

Heidelberg (Germany)

There, we were inspired by the German traditions; Glühwein (or in other word: mulled wine) and sausages were our favs. We also discovered lovely gingerbread hearts and figures, marzipan sweets, waffles and pretzels.

These were the sweet stuff but we also found out handmade objects not to eat: honey candles, handmade nutcrackers (it reminds me the Christmas tale), cute teddy bears and tiny houses to decorate your home. We enjoyed the magic of these two cities and we have no complaints about the cold, it was quite nice.

We also pass by Frankenstein's castle… so creepy! We preferred not to stay close and we took no pictures… just in case :S

We want to thank our friends Rodolfo Box and Vera Kühn for being so nice with the SelfPackaging team. Hope to see you soon in Barcelona.

MAKE YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS CRACKERS

Christmas gatherings are the trending topic these days. Prepare all your festive food but leave a space for your DIY creations. What about handmade Christmas crackers?

Here is  a tutorial to make them, just a few guidelines, your imagination will do the rest! ;)

First of all what we need is:

- Tissue paper

- Three empty toilet rolls

- Confetti

- Balloons

- Sweets

- Washi tapes

- Christmas felt pendants

- Buttons

- Thin hemp cord

 Take the three empty toilet rolls and place them in a row on the centre of the tissue paper and roll them around it.

Just pull out one toilet roll, just a little to leave a gap between the two empty toilet rolls. Twist the tissue paper and push it in.

 
 Take a piece of thin hemp cord and tight up your Christmas cracker. Then, remove the toilet roll and put your mini-gifts inside. Here is where your creativity wakes up. Depends on the addressee, the stuff into the cracker will be different. But if you don’t know what the addressee likes, it’d better put some party items into it (a paper hat or crown or handwriting jokes) or if you want to sweeten your dinner choose some sweets: chocolate coins, lollipops…

Do exactly the same at the other side. And that’s all! Easy and quick! You have no excuse not to have your Christmas crackers on your plate in your Christmas dinners. Decoration is up to you... We chose washi tapes and Christmas felt pendants! What is your choice?

Ta-daaaaaah!!! 

It's time to read! Discover SelfPackaging books!

How many of you know that in SelfPackaging we have books about packaging design? 
Hands up! Mmm... Not many, I'm afraid

The thing is we have five books published. Among them we can find the best sellers Structural Packaging, Structural Displays and Structural greetings. The first of them, 'the original', has been translated into lots of languages from  English to Chinese or Italian... and it has been a hit.

Structural Packaging has sold 100,000 copies around the world!

The other two are more specific. Structural Displays contains a lot of display designs: table displays, stand displays or all the displays you can imagine.

Structural Displays

The last one, Strcutural Greetings, which is the one we would like to talk about today is an original compilation of cards 

Structural Greetings or how to say something in an original way.

If you are a design lover, this is a perfect Christmas gift for you!!!

Tutorial: original gift box

We can’t wait any longer! We want to introduce our latest design! A new gift box!

All the orders placed between Oct. 23rd and 29th, will receive a bonus gift! Five units of our new gift box! It's not even in our catalogue yet, but it will be added soon. What do you think??

While we are preparing the assembly video, here is a tutorial to show you how to make it! It's easy!

   

First of all, this is what you will receive (no double-sided adhesive tape required for the assembly):

- 5 elongated pieces in turquoise

- 5 elongated pieces in fuchsia

It's so easy! You just need to insert into each other, as shown, alternating the colours:

Repeat the procedure successively, a fuchsia piece, then a turquoise one, until we have this nice peacock tail

Once all the pieces are put together in place for one of the sides, we turn the ‘fan’

Next, we start fitting the other sides to each other, starting from the right-hand one and placing each one after the other, as shown, always from the bottom:

Keep going on with the process, piece by piece:

And our gift box is ready! A tidy little surprise to delight everybody… Ta-dah!

Are you ready for Halloween?

Halloween atmosphere has just landed in our studio. Some pumpkins, spider webs and wicked witch laughs are surrounding us. That’s why we have decided to get down to work to create some Halloween tutorials. But first things first, we need some inspiration before designing. Here some useful ideas to decorate your home on Halloween.

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