BE OUR VALENTINE!

The most romantic day of the year is almost around the corner. Whether you have a partner or not, you should let the Valentine’s atmosphere surround you.

We want you to make your Valentine’s gift nicer, that’s why we want to introduce all our accessories and gift boxes for this day of the year plenty of ‘amour’

If you are shy to tell him that you are head over heels for him… No worries! Our labels and gift boxes can do it for you!

I am sure there are lots of ‘Love Actually’ fans out here. The perfect film to watch wrapped in a blanket in a rainy day. Who don’t dream about being Keira Knightley in Love Actually and being surprised by a charming gentleman with a romantic wording? You don’t have to wait any longer...

  Look what we designed for you…"To me, you are perfect”.

We also have the gift box

In SelfPackaging we are ‘happy ending’ lovers , so we created your perfect ‘happy ending’…and they lived happily ever after (sigh…) It could be your perfect wedding favour!

If you are that kind of person who prefers spending time with your partner rather than giving presents... You know, a non-material girl... Take him to the countryside! A lovely day together must have a lovely meal. Put your lunch inside this picnic box plenty of love.

To gather all our Valentine’s Day items, we created a special tab for you on our website! Check what we prepared for the most romantic day of the year! Spread your love!

STAY CALM, WE HAVE BOXES FOR A CAKE POP

If some days ago we introduced the clear boxes for cake pops and our cake pop inserts for our popcorn boxes, today it's the time for the boxes for a single cake pop.

We wanted to design a box for cake pops to keep them individually, we started to think about it, tossing and turning all night, and finally the inspiration came to visit us. We got down to work and here is our final result.

A perfect gift for your wedding guests, baby showers or b-day parties!

The cake pop boxes come with a hole or without it, depending on how mysterious your cake pops will be: if you want to keep the secret until the last moment or if you want to let people know how your delicious cake pops look like.

You can’t be sad when you are holding a cake pop!!

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!!! 

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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BOXES FOR CAKE POPS: WORK IN PROGRESS

Today we bring you this kind of blog post where we explain you how we work in SelfPackaging, what is the procedure to introduce you a new lovely little gift box. In this case, it’s time for the Cake Pop box. 

What is a Cake Pop? Some of you may ask yourselves what it is. So, for all of you we want to dedicate this Cake Pop selection from Pinterest to you. Enjoy it ;)

Photo from These peas are hollow blog

 Photo from Michelle's dolce vita blog 

 Photo from Crafty Kim blog

 Photo from Evie and Mallow blog

 Photo from Entirely Sweet blog

Photo from Beautiful cake pictures blog

Photo from Beautiful cake pictures blog

Photo from Beautiful cake pictures blog

 Photo from A bull's eye view blog

What do you think about it? Sudden hunger? Looking forward to decorating a birthday table? Until now, in SelfPackaging our customers were the ones who designed a way to present the cake pops properly. As Nuria from The Cupcake Moment blog did; she was successful with our lidded box for cakes, ref. number: 2242:

If you want an original cake, Nuria is the one you are looking for… 

  

 However, this wasn’t enough for us… We want to give you a box for cake pops as soon as possible! So, we have gotten down to work! We are designing it and we want to show you what we have made… They are just prototypes, but we would like to know your opinion about them… 

  Firstly, we want to prepare a pair of cake pop stands. In the picture you can see our cake stand, we are trying to design a new one specially for cake pops, this is simply a trial. The idea will be making the base thicker to maintain the cake pop sticks upright and well held, in case a breeze comes to your party. 

As you can see, what they contain is not cake pops either… Do you want to know how we have made it? Cheap and attractive: pink marshmallows in the shape of a mushroom, stuck on a stick. To wrap them up, we have used our coloured tissue paper and Mireia, one of our design artists, has drawn little lines and dots… Thank you Mireia for your patience! Then, a little bit of kraft cord… and they are ready! Well, the fuchsia sateen ribbon as the final detail gives it the final touch.

 

One of the things we will also adapt for sure are our popcorn boxes (ref.2221) to make them suitable to contain cake pops. It will be as easy as adding into them a cake pop insert, optional of course, to let you decorate your ‘oh-so-lovely’ party table.

To make these fake cake pops we have used: delicious Happy Hippo chocolates from Kinder for the big one, and the classic round lollipops (Chupa Chups) for the small one. Here once again Mireia has given us her creativity.  

So… what do you think? That is not all folks! Far from it, we have a lot of ideas we want to carry out because we want to fulfil all the suggestions you have made us, but step by step… We will keep you updated.