Whether you are a subscription box company, an individual artisan, event planner or just someone who loves giving clever presents to friends and family, a custom holiday gift box might be what you’re looking for this upcoming season. Let’s explore the exciting ways to employ custom holiday gift boxes as a way to get the magical feeling of gift-giving started from shipping to arrival and every stop along the way!
Make Custom Packaging a Part of the Gift
Seasonal packing brings forth an opportunity to let your style shine, and those with a business can make a stellar impression with personalized logo boxes. The benefits of customized seasonal packaging are seemingly endless!
Not everyone has time to wrap packages. Those sending personal gifts often wrap the item in festive paper—only to have to cover it with plain brown paper or an additional box for shipping. Let the box itself serve as wrapping paper with a reusable box that the recipient can in turn use again for their gifting needs!
For businesses, small and large, themed season shipping or gift wrap boxes can make a serious branding statement. Recipients are excited to receive their goods or a gift in a lovely box, and can potentially reuse them as gift boxes later!
Things to Consider When Designing Custom Gift Boxes
There are no hard and fast rules concerning what you can put on your boxes, but our designers have a few design tips for printing and decorative patterns.
Looking for a little more inspiration? Check out our inspiration page for ideas on how you can standout with custom packaging!
Color Variations: Keep in mind that ink prints differently on traditional kraft (brown) corrugate than they appear on a computer screen or white corrugate. We have a handy color chart that shows what each color looks like on our boxes to guide you. Additionally, it’s important to keep in mind that colors can vary slightly from screen to print.
Simple is Better: If you have a complex design with lots of fine print or use a busy decorative pattern, the details could get lost during printing. Keep text and color variations to a minimum when possible, so it remains consistent with your message while working well with the cardboard medium. Remember, with DIYPack, you can customize the interior of the box as well, giving you more space to add special elements!
High Resolution Printing: Box printing requires a higher level of pixel resolution than computer screens for crystal clear image results. We recommend using images with a resolution of 300ppi or higher to avoid distorting the image when sizing for best results!
Multiple Box Styles & Uses for All Your Gifting Needs
Whether you want to ship small packages, medium sized ones, or need boxes large enough to ship multiple items, there’s a shape and size for your needs. If you cannot find what you need in our main catalog, you can enter your own dimensions for a custom size!
Create Sustainable Gift Boxes that are Reusable & Recyclable
Did you know that holiday gift bows and ribbons aren’t recyclable? While they are reusable—many still end up in trash bins at the end of the holiday season. Additionally, placing a gift in a box to wrap in another layer of paper is time consuming and uses a lot of materials. A decorative gift box is a box and wrapping paper in one!
When you design a custom gift box for your loved ones, you can also include messages and photos to personalize the box, which your recipient will want to keep to store their gift or other mementoes in! Our mailer boxes are perfect for long-term use as they’re double walled on three sides for durability, and their roll end front tuck design keeps the box securely closed without additional tape or adhesive.
Even if you don’t design a gift box custom to the gift’s recipient, decorative boxes can be reused multiple times for more gifts or storage. Printed decorative boxes also cut down on time spent wrapping, meaning more time to enjoy the holidays with your loved ones! Lastly, printed corrugated gift boxes are easy to recycle in your normal cardboard and paper product recycling bins or drop-off.
How DIYPack Helps You Get Started Achieving Holiday Packaging Goals
DIYPack is a custom packaging design company that serves as a direct manufacturer of box supplies with no minimum order required. We offer a short turnaround time and instant quotes in addition to assisting clients at every step of the design process. Between all of our customizable stock designs and sizes, you’re sure to find the right packaging to present your personal gifts or promote your business all year long. Get started today!
