Packaging plays an important role for the buyer. There is printed information about the product: composition, expiration date. Often, pictures are printed on the labels with what is inside in order to interest the buyer. The type of food causes appetite - a long-known fact.
This is the tip of the iceberg. A wrapper is much more than just a cover. Half the success of a product depends on design. Therefore, well-known brands do not radically change the design of their products. The well-known chocolate "Russia - a generous soul" can be recognized from a thousand. This applies to chocolate bars "Mars", "Snickers". New varieties of treats appear, the design can be updated, but the developers always leave their product recognizable.
What is the reason for such conservatism? The fact is that pictures evoke certain associations. Chocolate, beloved since childhood, will be associated with something warm, pleasant. A sharp change in design will inevitably lead to a decline in sales. It doesn’t matter that there is a famous delicacy inside, people are more likely to buy the familiar than the new. The choice is always based on associations, it happens on a subconscious level.
DIY chocolate wrappers
A popular type of gift is a chocolate bar packed in a self-made wrapper. Chocolate is often used as gratitude for services in certain establishments. This is the most popular courtesy and can refer to:
- "Thank you";
- "thank you for your concern";
- "you are beautiful";
- "I'm sorry";
- "I like you";
- "I invite you on a date."
This is an incomplete list of what a gift of chocolate can mean. It is often difficult to distinguish one from the other. To be understood correctly, you can take care of the label in advance. You can write text on it. It can be a congratulation, words of love, gratitude or a request for forgiveness. People perceive gifts differently. Even for a nurse in a hospital, a chocolate bar with words written specifically for her will be a special gift.
Today, sites on the Internet offer to make a wrapper for chocolate with your own hands. For this, contact a specialized photo salon. They will select the design and appropriate paper. If you are good with Photoshop, have a color printer, buy paper for this purpose and make your own chocolate wrapper. There are programs that are ready to help with this online.
As for the rustling candy wrappers - you have to work hard. This paper is hard to find in an office supply store and is rarely available in a photo studio. It is better to contact specialized institutions. Their addresses will be prompted by any search engine on the Internet.
Design
If you are planning to launch your own line of sweets or chocolates, you should think about how to make a profitable design. This is half the success, especially at the beginning. Successful brands have bright eye-catching packaging. But it is not at all necessary to follow in their footsteps, drowning in a mass of similar colorful wrappers. If the products have a delicate, refined taste, choose bed colors in combination with noble brown or universal gray colors. Come up with a phrase that will describe the products, take care of the logo. Place bright photo products on the cover.
In order to make a nice gift from a chocolate bar, place a photo of a person on it, decorate it with a festive inscription. A wrapper for chocolate will immediately become a sign of attention, a postcard and a message. For a more organic gift, keep the design of the chocolate bar and just slightly change the usual inscriptions. This will require templates for printing, wrapping paper, a printer and a person who owns Photoshop. Contact a photo studio with an idea, the masters will do the work quickly and efficiently. Templates for printing can be downloaded on the Internet, fortunately, such things are freely available.
Please your loved ones with an individual gift, completely different from others. The chocolate wrapper will be kept as a commemorative postcard. Thus, you will make a pleasant gift and show a sign of attention to a particular person. Attention is what distinguishes an ordinary chocolate bar from a gift chosen with soul for a specific person.
A small sign of attention can sometimes cheer up for a long time and make a person smile. And if you attach a sweet gift to this sign of attention, then a positive charge of long-term action is simply provided!
I suggest for lovers of sweets to make a cute chocolate bar with pockets for tea or coffee. Such a present can be given to work colleagues, educators or teachers, a loved one with the words: “This is a small gift for a short break” or “Just like that, drink tea.” In any case, the person will be pleased.
To make such a chocolate bar, you will need: cardboard (you can use colored or any decorative paper), decorative paper for scrapbooking (you can use ordinary office paper by printing various patterns on it on a color printer), glue stick, ruler, scissors, various materials for decoration (rhinestones , beads, feathers, artificial/paper flowers, lace, etc.), a chocolate bar and three individually wrapped tea bags. By the way, if there are no sheets of cardboard at hand, then an office folder is perfect.
The basis of the chocolate bar is a cardboard rectangle 22 cm wide and 17-18 cm high. In the middle of the rectangle, draw vertical lines with a pencil with a distance of 2 cm and bend the rectangle inward along them. You should end up with something like a cover. Then we proceed to the manufacture of pockets for chocolate and tea.
For a pocket for chocolate, we cut out a rectangle 10 * 12 cm in size from cardboard, on three sides (from the sides and bottom) we make two folds 1 cm wide each. We make cuts on the folds (see figure) and glue the side folds with the bottom ones.
For tea pockets, cut three rectangles 14 cm high and 9 cm wide each. We bend the edges, stepping back 1 cm. Then we divide the rectangle into 2 parts (6 and 8 cm each) and fold. We round the upper edges of the greater part, and cut centimeter folds from the lower (smaller) one. We glue the lower part to the folds from the upper part - the pocket is ready.
We decorate our pockets and the base of the chocolate bar with decorative paper (lace, clippings, drawings) as your imagination tells you (or the photo below). Then we glue our pockets to the base: on one side we glue a pocket for chocolate from below, on the other - three pockets for tea (they must be glued one on top of the other starting from the top).
We finally decorate the chocolate bar both inside and out, if desired, glue the ribbon ties (they hold well on double-sided tape).
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Such a chocolate box can become not only a nice little gift, but also easily replace a cash envelope for a celebration, if you put not tea, but a folded bill into the tea pockets.
Dare, create - do something nice for yourself and others!
Such small chocolates in the spirit of our favorite chewing gums from the 90s will incredibly delight your soul mate! Making such surprises is very simple, for which you only need:
small chocolates
plain paper
color printer
scissors
glue stick
How to do:
1. Download the template or find a picture on the Internet yourself, or do it in Photoshop, by the way, you can add another photo of your beloved (beloved) and print it on a color printer.
2. We take small even chocolates. In this case, the author has "bird's milk". In Ukrainian sweets shops they sell such small chocolates with letters, they are called "Azbuka".
3. Remove the wrapper from the chocolate and paste your own!
4. You can decorate the box beautifully by gluing it like this, and put, for example, your loved one in a car or bag.
5. You can beautifully tie chocolates with a ribbon and put them in the car or in the pockets of your loved one. Or hide it in the drawer of his desktop - such a find, believe me, will be a huge and very pleasant surprise!
Templates:
For today you will need:
Chocolate bars 3.5x3.5 cm (18 pcs.)
- scrap paper 3 sheets 30x30 cm (I have Webster's Pages here)
- scrap decor (chipboard, flowers, cameos)
1. To begin with, I prepared a wrapper. Since my sister is a hairdresser-make-up artist, the theme of the pictures and wishes is appropriate. If I'm not mistaken, these square small chocolate bars are made in the same size - 3.5 x 3.5 cm. Based on this, the size of my wrapper turned out to be 3 x 9 cm. I drew the wrappers themselves in illustrator. But you can find a lot of beautiful free pictures on the net.
2. On a draft for myself, I drew the location of the wrappers. In the corners there will be wrappers with pictures, and in the remaining squares - with wishes.
3. I decided on the box from the very beginning - this is my plotter box template. Only I reduced its height to 1.5 cm. Inside the size of the box is 11x11 cm, the side is 1.5 cm. To create such a box, you can use.
TA-dah! Well, isn't it beautiful! Here I got 18 chocolates in two rows. The bottom row of wrappers duplicates the top one. Lid for a box of the simplest design, 14x14 cm in size and 1.5 cm high.
A chocolate wrap makes a strong impression on someone who buys chocolate. It has been proven that it is she who becomes the decisive argument in favor of buying one or another bar, and not the taste or quality of chocolate. More than a dozen marketers and designers are working on the attractiveness of the wrapper, understanding how the chocolate cover is a fundamental issue.
Unique DIY wrap
Everyone has a chance to present a gift that will be remembered by the addressee for a lifetime. Do-it-yourself chocolate, and even with the author's design, is a great idea for any holiday. The design of chocolate packaging depends on a flight of fancy and a bit of skill. It is available to everyone and will be able to fit any celebration budget.
Such creativity is very easy to carry out at home. The easiest way is to simply buy a chocolate bar and carefully remove the wrapper from it. It is better to work with disposable cellophane gloves so that there are no fingerprints on the chocolate. Unfold the package so that the paper or foil does not tear.
The next step in creating a unique chocolate wrapper is to take measurements from the old packaging. The old packaging is applied to the cardboard, circled with a pencil or marker. Why cardboard? Because in this way a durable template will appear, which, unlike thin paper, can be used repeatedly. When unfolding the bar, pay attention to how the chocolate wrapper was wrapped. Behind this type, a novice chocolate designer will have to act.
Then a beautiful thick paper is used. A template is applied, the required area is measured, and carefully cut out. A chocolate wrapper is applied to the bar. Glue and a thin brush should be ready. The packaging is folded and glued in the right places. So you need to leave the product for a few minutes so that the paper can stick well.
Now an unlimited design flight of thought comes into play.
If there is a desire to give a unique chocolate bar to a loved one, a joint photo is taken that is suitable in size and glued to the “face” of the tile.
Tie the chocolate on top with a ribbon, add a bow. You can give such chocolate not only to your soul mate, but also to a married couple by attaching their joint photo.
Packaging for chocolate in its execution does not necessarily need needlework. If you have the skill to work with the Photoshop program, the scope of design activities is even richer. Anything can be placed on the wrapper. You can print a lot of wrappers for all occasions, delighting your family and friends with miracle chocolates.
Back to zmistu DIY chocolate
With your own hands, not only the wrapper is easily made, but also the tile itself. What is needed for this?
To prepare the first recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- cocoa powder - 5 tbsp. l.;
- fatty butter - 2 tbsp. l.;
- cane sugar or honey - 1 tbsp. l.
The more cocoa powder, the darker the chocolate will be. The more butter you use, the more chocolate you get. The butter is cut into pieces, placed in a saucepan and sent to a slow fire. When the oil comes to a boil, cocoa powder and cane sugar (honey) are added to it.
The resulting mixture should be thick and remain on low heat for 2-5 minutes. Remove from heat, pour into a mold, let the mass cool slightly, then send it to the freezer. After a few hours, the chocolate is ready.
After such a master class, you can take up the preparation of milk chocolate with your own hands. Required Ingredients:
- 1 tsp cane sugar;
- 2 tbsp. l. fatty milk;
- 4-5 art. l. cocoa powder;
- 50-70 grams of fatty butter.
Also, as in the first case, fatty oil is cut into small pieces and put on fire, do not bring to a boil. A mass is prepared from milk, sugar and cocoa powder, mixed until smooth, while the milk should be warm.
Next, the mass is mixed with almost boiling butter. The new mass is cooked on fire for up to 3 minutes, but it should be stirred regularly to prevent burning. After that, the mixture is removed from the heat and poured into molds, sent to the refrigerator.
A variety of fillings for chocolate will be appropriate if the tastes and preferences of the recipient are known. It will be unpleasant if the chocolate, which was prepared with difficulty and perseverance, does not please the one who receives it. If preferences are unknown, pure milk chocolate is the best choice, as it is the most popular and sure-fire type of sweet.
Anything can be used as supplements. There is chocolate with the addition of sea salt, chili pepper and many other unusual flavor combinations. There are also more canonical types: nut mixture, raisins, chopped dried apricots, candied fruits, caramel, fragrant mild spices. The addition is made when the chocolate is removed from the stove. This must be done before it goes to the refrigerator or hardens.
To please loved ones, you do not need to look for a reason. A sweet tooth lives in every person, who is happy even with a small bar of chocolate, not to mention the author's dessert made by oneself.
