Personalized Gift Baskets

by mothersday009

Personalized gift baskets are fun to prepare and to receive.  When you put together personalized gift baskets for friends or family, they know that you’ve taken the time to consider their personality and their interests.  Here are a few tips to help you create personalized gift baskets. 

1. Decide on a theme.  Creating baskets around themes helps focus your shopping.  If you decide to create a sports gift basket, for instance, you can concentrate on buying sports theme gifts to go in the basket.
2. Buy the items.   Purchase all the items that will fill your gift basket. 
3. Purchase container or basket.  You should be creative when deciding on the container that will hold your gift items.  A small decorative garbage can makes a nice container for a gift of towels, washcloths, soap dish, and toothbrush holder.  Consider using a flower pot for a gift basket filled with gardening tools, gloves, seeds, and knee pad.
4.  Gather packaging materials.  You’ll need tissue paper and shredded paper to fill the bottom of your container.  Glue dots are useful for holding gift items in place in the container.   Also, you’ll need either cellophane to package your gift basket.  You can buy the cellophane on a roll or cellophane bags.  Don’t forget to buy ribbon to top off your gift basket.
5. Put the basket together.  Fill the bottom of your container with tissue paper.  Then put some shredded paper over the tissue paper.  Arrange the gift items in the basket on top of the shredded paper.  Place them so the taller items are in the middle and the smaller items are in the front of the basket.  Use glue dots if necessary.  Place the gift basket in a gift basket bag or wrap with cellophane.  Put the bow on.

The recipient of the gift basket will be happy that you made something special just for them.

July 14th, 2009 by Yolanda D. Young | Posted in Gift ideas | (0)