The filler for gift boxes is a unique tool for giving a special status to a gift. Filling the free space of the box, it gives the gift aesthetic appeal. Let's look at how this material can be, combining practical and decorative functions.
Material Features
A filler for gifts is an important element of the design. Depending on its variety, it can not only decorate a present, but also fix its shape. Based on what material is taken as a basis, he can protect the object inside the box from shocks and mechanical damage until the present is handed to the addressee. At the same time, the raw material for filling the voids of the box may differ in density, type of texture, color or even shape.
Certain types of material are exclusively decorative promise. Some may indicate that the gift belongs to a particular holiday, other options are more restrained, due to which they are able to complement an expensive gift, crushing it to solidity. The width of the cut may be different.
To decorate a gift, you can not only buy ready-made, but also make it yourself using the available materials.
The convenience of the filler is its compatibility with various decorative elements. For example, some varieties look great along with pine cones, others harmonize with paper hearts, and others make up the appropriate duet with small Christmas decorations. Certain types of filler are used to create certain compositions.
Varieties
According to the type of material, the gift filler can be made from different raw materials. For example, it could be:
- paper (parchment, corrugated, kraft, office);
- decorative adhesive tape;
- thin spiral rain of short length;
- foil rain for decorating the Christmas tree;
- a scattering of pink petals;
- sisal, mesh or regular sugar bag;
- translucent organza or decorative napkins;
- film for packing flower bouquets;
- foil, silence, packing tape.
Each type of filler has its own characteristics. For example, thick paper fixes the gift well, and therefore the thing inside the box will not move spontaneously. Thin - good for lighter and smaller items. Craft is unique in that, for all its simplicity, it is precisely this that makes it possible to make even the simplest present expensive at the moment.
Organza is a transparent sequined fabric that holds the shape well. It does not need much to fill the free space of the box. The colors of this filler are varied, it differs in the degree of softness.
As for the most common packaging option, then it is paper that is in great demand when you make gifts. It can become a substrate and decoration of a gift, it can fill voids to fix the position of the present. To do this, you can combine colors by choosing shades of a related or contrasting scale.
However, when combining different colors for a more aesthetic look, you need to select a material of the same width.
What can be replaced?
Those who are not looking for simple solutions when making gifts, use wood chips or sawdust as a filler for boxes, as well as straw or fiber from palm leaves.Wood chips, of course, looks expensive, it is environmentally friendly, and therefore is considered one of the best options. However, she loses the paper filler on the wealth of colors and design range. Hay is an amateur choice, suitable for a limited type of gift.
Filling the void of a gift box with multicolored or monotonous confetti made with the help of a figured punch can also be an original solution. For example, it can be elements of a round shape, hearts or even openwork butterflies. To make them less hesitated, you can make them out of thick paper.
A colorful Christmas tinsel can be an excellent alternative to a rain filler. If desired, you can pick it up in one color, pick up items of different sizes or designs. In this case, it is not at all necessary to cut the tinsel into small pieces: after presenting the gift, it can become a decoration of the house.
For example, it is quite appropriate if the gift is presented to the addressee for Christmas or the celebration of the New Year.
Small boxes can also be an original filler. For example, with their help, you can make a special surprise gift by putting an expensive present in one box, and in the rest - funny baubles or souvenirs (candies). Alternatively, you can use for the filling and kinder surprises, if the one who is given, is a sweet tooth. Different boxes can be filling boxes or gift-boxes.
How to do it yourself?
Making a decorative filler for a gift box is easy. For this you need working materials and free time. If you need to do it quickly, preference should be given to organze filler. It does not need to be cut into small pieces, but it is enough to lay it at the bottom of the box, and then wrap the present itself with it. At will such registration can be decorated with a simple decor.
If you just want to make a paper filler, prepare the paper itself, a stationery knife, a metal ruler and a pencil for marking the required width.
Despite the fact that the allowable width of the shavings can be different, you should not be lazy, making it too wide. This not only makes the kind of filler more heavy, but also deprives the present of high status.
You can use for this craft or corrugated paper, black and white newspaper, scrapbooking paper. The corrugated filler is very light, crafting - it will allow you to give a certain position to the gift inside the box. To make the paper even, it is cut according to layouts, using a clerical knife. The resulting strips are mixed and crushed, forming a bulky filler.
If the cut strips of chips seem too simple, during the work you can cut them not with a clerical knife, but with scissors with a shaped edge. Depending on how the edge will be, the stripes will be different. For example, they can be wavy or zigzag.
In order to make a filler for a gift box from a regular sugar bag or mesh, it is necessary to disassemble it into separate threads. This will take some time, the very chips for packaging will turn out to be quite elastic, and therefore it will be possible to fill the space of the box with a fragile gift with it.
Like paper filler, it is also crushed when all loose threads are connected.
How to decorate?
If you want to further decorate the interior of the gift box, you can combine the fillers together. In addition, it can be supplemented with different elements of decor. For example, a black and white newspaper looks great with pine cones or scarlet hearts. The second type of decor can be stamped on a figured hole punch, using thin two-sided coated cardboard to create hearts.
Beautifully decorate the empty space of the gift box inside by stamping the shaped elements. This type of filler is good for the interior decoration of small gift packages. Another type of filling can be supplemented with beautiful decorative flowers and flower buds made of foamiran.
Sometimes a few curly foamiran leaves are enough to supplement the filler.
If the gift is filled with small boxes or bags for tiny surprises, you can decorate them with narrow ribbons for silver or gold. In addition, each box or pouch can be decorated with a beautiful clasp.
If this is a gift for a girl, you can use hair ties or small hair clips with a different design as a clasp.
By the way, if this is a small gift wrap for any symbolic gift to a girl, hair ties can be an excellent filler substitute. Having the skills of needlework, you can make them a decorative design in the form of roses, bows, flower buds or balls. Packing a gift for a boy can be done differently: in this case, kinder-surprises and small souvenirs are put on the bottom and in free space.
In conclusion, we invite you to watch a video from which you will learn as many as 20 options for making beautiful fillers for gifts.
