Spice up a gift bag

There’s always a reason to give someone a present, be it a little treat for everyday life, a birthday or a family celebration. The tricky bit is usually the wrapping, not the contents. Fiddling about with wrapping paper for ages is usually a bit of a faff, but that’s what gift bags are for! Everyone’s familiar with them, but they’re not exactly very personalised. Boring patterns that don’t really appeal to you, or odd colours that don’t suit the occasion. We want to change that! We’ve come up with the idea of jazzing up a few gift bags with our self-adhesive films. Naturally, we don’t want to keep this brilliant idea to ourselves, so let your creativity run wild!

Choose a gift bag that you’d like to decorate. Then use the right software to create the appropriate strips. Important: Use self-adhesive films if they are to be applied to specific items. Flock or flex films are only used on textiles . These can now be plotted using DrawCut software and a Secabo cutting plotter. To do this, simply export your file into the software and click on the knife icon in the top bar, which is next to the apple icon. Then, in the window that opens, click on ‘Cut’ and finally on ‘Yes’. If the plotter does not start cutting straight away, it is because you are still in the blade’s movement mode. So press ‘OK’ on the cutting plotter. The machine should now start the cutting process. It’s best to select several colours – this will give the bag a more colourful look. You can do this by plotting several strips per colour. This allows you to vary the colours and gives you several strips to work with for your design.

Cover the coloured strips with a transfer film. The adhesive side of the film must face downwards, onto the self-adhesive film. Run the squeegee firmly over it so that you cannot see any air bubbles outside the letters. Here is an example of how it should look:

You can now cut out the individual strips. Once you have smoothed the transfer film down again with the squeegee, you can stick the strips onto the gift bag wherever you like. Now peel off the transfer film. The strip should then remain stuck to the bag.

The same process applies to text and other designs as well.

We offer our self-adhesive films in a wide range of colours at affordable prices. Not sure which colours you’d like because you don’t know exactly what they look like? No problem! Simply fill in a form in our shop to order our colour charts to be sent to your home. You can also find this form under Help & Service, ‘Order colour charts’. These are, of course, free of charge. Once you’ve received the colour charts, you’ll be able to see all our wide range of colours in real life. And the great thing is, once you’ve decided to order self-adhesive films, all you need to do is enter the colour code of your chosen colour (e.g. #6357) into the search bar in the shop, and you’ll be taken straight to the right film.

This means you can see what the films actually look like beforehand, making it easier to choose and order them quickly and affordably. Don’t miss out!