The day you present your little one or the event before he or she is born are always emotional events shared with family and friends. Days with everyone pampering the baby and bearing gifts. For a baby shower, a table is set and decorated, cute cakes are baked and little favours are prepared to thank the guests. Little gifts to give them at the end of the party, to thank everyone who came to the celebration and brought gifts and good wishes.
Every party has a theme and for our baby shower we are going to use flowers and plants, their seeds in particular, for the party favours. Everyone loves plants and seeds as gifts make an original present as opposed to the classic chocolates or sweets.
We are going to use one of our smallest boxes to keep the seeds, together with one of the new customisable labels. On it, we will write a message with a double entendre: “We planted our seed a few months ago. Plant yours! Thank you for coming.”
These labels are great, because you can make your own design, upload it on our website and we’ll send them to you in print. You can see the different shapes and sizes of the new labels here.
A super post in collaboration with Esencia Gráfica.
Materials:
- Square customised label (ref. I-ES7_PRINT)
- If you want to use our design, download it here
- Size M matchboxes (ref: 2285)
- Fine hemp string (ref: E-CD5)
- White cardboard daisy (ref: I-SC4_10)
- Plant and flower seeds
- Tissue paper (ref. E-SC1)
- Glue stick
- Scissors (E-HE5)
STEP BY STEP:
1. First we choose the shape of the label we want. Out of the four, we will use the square one for this occasion.
2. First we choose the number of units and size we need, as well as the colour of the label.
3. Next, we upload the image or design. It must be a .JPG, .GIF, .PNG o .TIFF file with a 300dpi resolution and under 1MB.
If you don’t have a design ready, you can also design the text you want to print using the design tool. Then, we finalise the online purchase and in a few days we’ll receive them at home.
4. To prepare the box for the seeds, we assemble the box first. If you need help, here is the assembly video.
5. Next, we cut out some tissue paper and place it inside the box.
6. Now it’s time to place the seeds on top of the paper and fold it.
7. Once the box is closed, we fold the white paper flowers in half. Like this, we can stick them to the top and side of the box.
8. We tie a string or ribbon around the box, leaving the two ends at the top.
9. Using one of the ends of the string, we thread it through the whole in one of the labels we have customised ourselves and tie a little bow.
On our label you can read the sentence: “We planted our seed a few months ago. Plant yours! Thank you for coming.” next to a pretty white paper flower.
Everything ready, our matchboxes have become seed boxes to convince the guests at our baby shower to start a little garden or fill their balcony with lovely flowers.