The write up concentrates on how designer gift hampers for Christmas UK are made. The product whether it is an exotic collection of fruits or a pack of paints or crayons or an antique jewelry set or a home décor product cannot be marketed by retail companies without the appropriate packaging. Attractive packaging adds goodwill to the product. A food item needs to be garnished attractively for the customer to get tempted to order the particular item from the restaurant’s menu. Gift hampers play the similar role. You can make a designer basket yourself.
5 steps to make a super duper designer basket all by yourself
- Choose the right size of basket
Empty and pain baskets are available in the wholesale market. You can select the right type of basket to suit the occasion. You would want to gift a bouquet of flowers or you may want to gift a collection of home-made wines and champagnes’. You may want to gift an exotic array of chocolates. Depending on your need, you need to buy a couple of baskets. Nude colors like skin brown or shades of cream and pink ones are to be selected.
- Fill the basket with a natural mesh
This is to hold the article. Say for example if you are gifting your loved one with dolls made out of ceramic or porcelain, the possibility of the dolls breaking up are quite high. In order to hold the article in a good shape you fill the basket with natural mesh, may be made out hay. Or you could wrap the inner circumference of the basket with a polythene plastic having bubbles all over.
- Start arranging the articles
Whether you want to keep an exotic bouquet of flowers, or assorted chocolates or jewelry items, keep arranging the products. In case you have fillers in between, i.e. empty spaces in between cover it up with chocolates or toffees. Other confectionary items like fruit bars or jelly bars can also be used to fill the gaps. You can add confetti or spray snow to the gift basket. When your friend opens the basket, the confetti powder sprays all over him/her.
- Decorate the handle
You can decorate the handle with a satin ribbon or colored gift paper or with a designer cloth filled with chumkis and pearls. Any decorative stuff would do. Or you can have a color paper and stick artificial flowers on the paper and stick it along the rim of the basket.
- Final touch: Once you are done with decorating the handle of the basket, wrap the entire basket with a thin transparent plastic sheet and stick a personalized greeting card. You need to write the wordings to suit the occasion. Your designer gift hamper basket is now ready with the gift packed. So did you know how gift hampers are made?