Gift box filler is a unique tool to give a gift a special status. Filling the free space of the box, it gives the present an aesthetic appeal. Let's look at what this material can be, combining practical and decorative functions.
Material Features
Gift filling is an important design element. Depending on its variety, it can not only decorate the present, but also fix its shape. Based on what material is taken as the basis, it can protect the item inside the box from shock and mechanical damage until the present is handed to the addressee. In this case, the raw materials for filling the voids of the box may differ in density, type of texture, color or even shape.
Certain types of material carry an exclusively decorative message. Some may indicate that the presentation belongs to a certain holiday, other options are more restrained, due to which they can complement an expensive gift, giving it solidity. Moreover, the width of the cut may be different.
To design a gift, you can not only buy a finished one, but also make it yourself using improvised materials.
The convenience of the filler is its compatibility with various decorative elements. For example, some varieties look great coupled with pine cones, others harmonize with paper hearts, while others make up an appropriate duet with small Christmas toys. Certain types of filler are used to create specific compositions.
Varieties
According to the type of material, the filler for gifts can be made of different raw materials. For example, it could be:
- paper (parchment, corrugated, craft, office);
- decorative tape;
- thin spiral rain of short length;
- foil rain to decorate the Christmas tree;
- a scattering of pink petals;
- sisal, net or regular bag for sugar;
- translucent organza or decorative napkins;
- film for packing flower bouquets;
- foil, quiet, packing tape.
Each type of filler has its own characteristics. For example, thick paper holds the gift well, and therefore the thing inside the box will not spontaneously move. Thin - good for lighter and smaller items. Craft - is unique in that for all its simplicity, it is it that allows you to make even the simplest present expensive at the moment.
Organza is a transparent fabric with sparkles, well-kept shape. It does not need much to fill the free space of the box. The color solutions of this filler are diverse, it differs in the degree of softness.
As for the most common packaging option, it is paper that is in great demand when making gifts. It can become the substrate and decoration of the gift, it can fill the voids to fix the position of the presentation. To do this, you can combine colors by choosing shades of a related or contrasting gamut.
However, when combining different colors for a more aesthetic look, you need to select material of the same width.
What can be replaced?
Those who are not looking for simple solutions when making gifts use wood shavings or sawdust as a filler for the boxes, as well as straw or fiber from palm leaves. Wood shavings certainly look expensive, they are environmentally friendly, and therefore considered one of the best options. However, it loses to the paper filler in the richness of color solutions and the assortment of design. Hay is an amateur choice for a limited type of gift.
An original solution may also be filling the voids of the gift box with multi-colored or plain confetti made using a figured hole punch. For example, it can be round-shaped elements, hearts or even openwork butterflies. So that they crumple less, you can make them from thick paper.
A colorful alternative to rain filler can be colorful Christmas tinsel. If you wish, you can pick it up in one color, pick up elements of different sizes or designs. At the same time, it is not necessary to cut tinsel into small pieces: after giving a gift, it can become a decoration at home.
For example, it is quite appropriate if the gift is presented to the addressee for Christmas or New Year's celebration.
Small boxes can also become an original filler. For example, with their help, you can make a special surprise gift by putting an expensive present in one box and funny trinkets or souvenirs (sweets) in the rest. Alternatively, you can use kinder surprises for filling, if the person you give is sweet tooth. Different boxes can become filling boxes or gifts-boxes.
How to do it yourself?
Making a decorative filler for a gift box yourself is easy. This requires working raw materials and free time. If you need to do this quickly, you should give preference to an organza filler. It does not need to be cut into small pieces, but it is enough to lay it on the bottom of the box, and then wrap the present itself with it. If desired, this design can be decorated with simple decor.
If you want to make a paper filler, they prepare the paper itself, a stationery knife, a metal ruler and a pencil for marking the required width.
Despite the fact that the permissible width of shop chips can be different, do not be lazy, making it too wide.This not only aggravates the appearance of the filler itself, but also deprives the present of high status.
You can use kraft or corrugated paper, a black-and-white newspaper, scrapbooking paper for this. Corrugated filler turns out to be very light, craft - will give a gift inside the box a certain position. To make the paper even, it is cut according to the markings, using an office knife. The resulting strips are mixed and crushed, forming a bulky filler.
If the cut strips of shavings seem too simple, during the work you can cut them not with a clerical knife, but with scissors with a curly edge. Depending on what the region will be, the stripes will also differ. For example, they can be wavy or zigzag.
In order to make a filler for a box with a gift from a regular sugar bag or net, you need to disassemble it into separate threads. This will take some time, but the shavings for packaging itself are quite elastic, and therefore it can fill the space of the box with a fragile gift.
Like paper filler, it is also creased when all loose threads are joined.
How to decorate?
If you want to further decorate the interior of the gift box, you can combine the fillers with each other. In addition, it can be supplemented with various decorative elements. For example, a black and white newspaper looks great together with pine cones or scarlet hearts. The second type of decor can be stamped on a figured hole punch using thin coated double-sided cardboard to create hearts.
You can beautifully decorate the empty space of a gift box inside by stamping curly elements. This type of filler is good for interior decoration of small gift wraps. A different type of filling can be supplemented with beautiful decorative flowers and flower buds made of foamiran.
Sometimes, to supplement the filler, several curly foamiran leaves are enough.
If the gift is filled with small boxes or bags for tiny surprises, you can decorate them with narrow ribbons in 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 elastic or small hair clips with a different design as a fastener.
By the way, if this is a small gift wrapping for any symbolic gift for a girl, hair bands can be an excellent substitute for a filler. Having the skills of needlework, you can make them decorative in the form of roses, bows, flower buds or balls. You can pack a gift for a boy in a different way: in this case, Kinder surprises and small souvenirs are put on the bottom and in free space.
In conclusion, we suggest you watch a video from which you will learn as many as 20 options for making beautiful gift-wrapping fillers.
