Inspiring Packaging Gift Box Designs For The Holiday Season
There is something magical about the end of every year. It brings several festivals together for people belonging to different spheres of life. No matter how chaotic our lives are throughout the year, it gives us a reason to get together, enjoy good food and each other’s company. It is the time when family members, friends and acquaintances exchange gifts. It leads to an economic boom globally; markets as almost everyone is looking for products and services within their financial budgets for their loved ones. As a result, the packaging and printing industry flourishes as well. Most business entities order holiday gift packaging for their seasonal products popular during the holiday season. They ensure the products are packages according to the festivity requirements to grab the eye of the audience.
The packaging industry dealing with cardboard printed boxes has so much to offer during this season to their clients. These companies come up with holiday-inspired retail packaging solutions. This packaging is vivid, lively and reflects the happiness of the season. This article will jumpstart to our clients and the readers interested in revamping or exploring the holiday packaging options for their products. We assure you that our customized choices in packaging will impress our defined target demographic and increase your returns. Help your customers benefit from the impeccable packaging you offer for this festivity season and get rid of the hassle of getting items wrapped up. Start exploring the endless pool of holiday-inspired cardboard-based printed boxes at ClipnBox, to stand apart from the competition this year. So, let’s get started;
1. Color-themed Printed Cardboard Boxes
Using the festivity colors like red, white, and metallic tones (gold, silver, rose gold, etc.) It is one of the classic ways to revamp product packaging. Despite being an old technique, it is still trending because these colors are associated with several events like Christmas, new year, Hanukkah, etc. The moment customers look at the custom retail boxes sitting on the shelves or seeing on the online portals, they know that their favorite brands have offered something special for them and automatically check it out. They can present these boxes to their loved ones and know that the gift will be loved and cherished. We never fail to select the right tones for the festivity season. We use the Pantone system to identify the correct tones and shades, never to get our colors wrong. However, holiday-inspired packaging is not reserved for end-of-the-year events. It also includes events like valentine's and Halloween, etc. During the Halloween season, printing and packaging companies like ClipnBox get creative and enjoy crafting custom dispenser boxes with custom die-cutting shapes like web, ghost, pumpkin, etc.
2. Rigid Boxes
Ever since the rigid boxes have caught the attention of product manufacturers and marketers, the retail couture game has changed. These boxes help achieve customer loyalty, prestigious positioning, influencing, positive brand experience, memorable unboxing, etc. Several materials, including wood, high-grade paper, leather, etc., make up their external layer. Rigid packaging has a durable and sturdy structure that protects the items inside from dangerous elements and impacts.
These boxes last for many years and still sustain their exotic looks. But this is not where customization options end. We experiment with innovative layouts for holiday-inspired themes in boxes like; sleeve and tray, snap-lock gable boxes, book-style rigid boxes, etc., window patching in custom shapes like a snowflake, snowman, and Christmas tree uplift the look of the boxes to the next level. We add a personal touch to these packages by adding greeting cards, balloons, and fairy lights to the rigid box packaging for an unforgettable unboxing experience. We know that not all business entities can invest in this packaging. But the clever ones save more by ordering a limited number of boxes for a limited period. This kind of packaging uses the best material, supreme printing and packaging services, and elegant finishes and accessories to create timeless packaging tools that customers can enjoy for many years.
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3. Customized Box Inserts
Many times, e-businesses and brick and mortar companies offer multiple products in holiday gift packaging. They select the top three bestselling products to provide to their customers in luxury packaging boxes. Customers are waiting for attractive deals during this time and are delighted when their favorite brands offer great deals in high-end packaging boxes. But to keep these items safe and prevent them from bumping into each other, the packaging companies need to design the box interiors carefully as well. Many use the box inserts to reduce product movement in packaging making it safer for them. The box inserts are customized according to the packaging theme. If signature colors are used, then these inserts are covered in rich fabric, suede, or leather in similar colors. ClipnBox offers inserts made from traditional cardboard, recycled cardboard, foam, etc. Some businesses use custom printed cardboard inserts for their items to win the hearts of their customers.
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4. Story-Based Packaging
One trend on the rise this year in retail packaging options is story-telling packaging for holidays. The products have identified their demographic target and associated characters like superheroes with it. After every few months, they print a new story on cardboard packaging. But, with the holiday season around the corner, every customer is waiting for a bonus story. Initially, this trend was popular for kids’ related items. But, post-COVID, it has become popular even in the adult product section as it provides entertainment for all. Many businesses use their packaging to encourage people to share their happiness with the less privileged. They also print numbers of welfare organizations where donations can be made. A good story is a great way to capture the customers’ attention and make them pay attention to the small details like mindful recycling and other related issues during the festive season.
5. Customized Mailers and Subscription Boxes
Let us face the reality that the holiday season for many is the perfect time for a staycation for many. It is the time of the year when most people want to enjoy spending quality time with their family members, friends, etc. But at the end of the day, they also use these days to restore their energy and peace. Because of this reason, it is the perfect time to schedule the delivery of those subscription boxes. Several companies want their customers to feel special and cherish these days and deliver goodies in customized mailer boxes. It is so much fun receiving holiday-inspired printed packaging boxes than the boring white or brown ones. It almost feels like receiving celebrations via mail. Even the generic brown subscription boxes can be revamped using shredded red paper or by adding a custom printed sleeve in red on these boxes. Options like these will look festive and add to the protective layer of the boxes.
6. Custom Printed Sleeves
Sometimes the businesses do not have the budget to revamp the looks of the products altogether. In such scenarios, we at ClipnBox offer them the option of custom printed sleeves. They are wrapped around the items and come in several sizes and shapes as required by the company. Our packaging professionals have created wonders using the meshing technique on these sleeves and adding 3D floral art. The custom printed sleeves offer an additional area for the printing and packaging companies to work on. Most companies add beautiful contrasting colors to get their attention and use mesmerizing finishes to look inspiring. Other companies choose to print ingredient detail on them. The best part about these sleeves is clients can add more than one sleeve to the same packaging option.
7. Personalized Stickers
Customizing the printed cardboard boxes requires using appropriate resources. Things not to overlook are the holiday sales and discount deals that several brands on their versatile products offer. We have several clients that are operating as powerful brands in the online and offline retail worlds. These brands have diversified items, each packaged according to their requirements. When these brands offer discount deals to their customers during the holiday season, they often order discount stickers in bulk from us. If they order customized packaging, it will cost them a lot. So, they design seasonal discount stickers in red or neon colors with discount percentages mentioned on them. It helps easily mark their discounted products on the shelf, and the stickers are easy to use throughout the year. Almost all finishes, including embossing, debossing, foil stamping, etc., can be applied to these stickers.
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8. Double Side Printed Custom Cardboard Boxes
There is enough space on any box to include a personalized message. Innovative companies make the most use of this space during the holiday season to greet their customers and bond with them. Some companies use the inner space of the lids to print customized messages that can also include discount codes for their customers; others use this space to attach a small envelope and a holiday greeting card. Although this space is ideal for printing car instructions, storage instructions, ingredients lists, etc., it can be converted into the most exciting space holding additional benefits for the customers in the holiday season. Customers who receive such surprises are delighted by the packaging add-ons, and it cements their brand loyalty.
9. Green Packaging for Holidays
Yes, it is the festive season, but it is also when almost everyone gets gifts for themselves, their family, and friends. These gifts come in packaging of all sorts and add to the litter produced on the planet annually. This litter is swallowing up the land, water, and living creatures, including humans living on earth. There is a dire need to reduce littering to extreme levels. On the brighter side, several business entities operating online and offline understand the significance of this issue and are stepping up to switch to sustainable packaging solutions. At ClipnBox, we offer green and minimal packaging solutions for our clients who are mindful of the pollution and littering problems. We help them customize packaging paper of different grades using branding elements like symbols, logos, brand names, etc. Instead of boxes, these companies use this wrapping paper for packaging their items like cardigans, etc. To seal these packages, they use custom-printed stickers. Lesser materials reduced the cost of the orders and drastically reduced trash. We encourage all our clients to employ our services and create memorable and eco-friendly custom packaging boxes.
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10. Die cuts and Window Patches
We are sure our readers must have seen packaging boxes, which allow the customers to touch the products through the windows in the box. Especially the toy boxes and electronic devices come in such boxes. The window that allows the customers to touch and experience the products can be given creative shapes in the case of other products. These windows are called die cuts in the packaging and retail jargon. They add to the packaging appeals. In another variation, these windows are covered by transparent plastic sheets to look at the product but not touch it. Such windows are referred to as window patches in the packaging and retail industry. Adding these windows augments the excitement of the customers as they can look at what they are buying. Custom shapes like snowflakes look amazing on the candy boxes. Snowman-shaped window patches look awesome on marshmallow boxes; similarly, Santa’s cap looks impressive on red custom candy boxes. Corporate objectives of holiday-inspired packaging
a) Customer Convenience
It is vital to remember that the holiday season is a stressful time for the customers. Most individuals are shipping and looking for items that they can get at better deals. The last thing modern customers want to do is waste their energies getting the gift wrapped. The business entities operating online and offline use this to their benefit by offering mesmerizing cardboard-based packaging tools. Customers prefer the companies that provide them with simplified gifting solutions so that they don’t have to make multiple stops for one product. Great packaging boxes are considered a valuable addition to the products, making the customers pay more for them willingly.
b) Customer Acceptability
Today’s customers are mindful of what they select as products. They think about the usage, the benefits, and how their gifts can benefit the recipients. Therefore, even the items that were not available in holiday-inspired gift boxes a few years ago are currently available in this packaging type. Significant discounts are available on versatile product types that are offered as bundle deals during the holiday season. In many cases, the holiday-inspired packaging makes the customers think about these items as gifts and not the other way around. Suitable packaging adds more relevance to the gift items.
c) Brand Recollection
We realize that the holiday season is when the sales peak for any retailer. Therefore, every product and service tries to sell itself and make a memorable impression on the customers’ minds. But it is not an easy task. The multiple selling channels online are adding to the overwhelming feeling that the customers are experiencing. But, it does not mean that one gets scared and does not participate in the happenings. The real thrill comes from giving the competition a hard time. Yes, one might not have done well during the entire year, but their improved packaging can suddenly change their game in seasonal marketing. Their product may become the most favorite suddenly because of the way it is packaged and marketed. New or holiday-inspired packaging allows the audience and the brands to interact and build a relationship. The vivid, exciting, and happy packaging elements make the audience reach out for your products and check out their validity in their lives. This activity helps them remember the branding elements of your products, like the logo and the brand name along with the product. The entire process helps imprint a memory in the customers’ minds allowing them to recall the brand when they see it next time. So, make sure your packaging is engaging enough to position your brand on the top of the mind of your target audience.
