How to Personalize Your Own Candy Wrapper
Chocolate candy bars are a perennial favorite with all ages, and that's why they make the perfect takeaway for every type of special event, from weddings to classroom parties to trade shows. Covering regular chocolate candy bars with personalized candy wrappers elevates even a simple Hershey bar into special and memorable treat. While you could order preprinted, personalized candy wrappers from a printing or promotions company, making your own personalized candy wrappers is less expensive and gives you more creative control. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Chocolate candy bar
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Decorative paper or gift wrap
- Cardstock (in a coordinating color)
- Scissors
- Large crafting paper punch
- Double-sided clear tape
- Computer (optional)
- Printer (optional)
Instructions
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Carefully remove the printed wrapper from your chocolate candy bar. Smooth it out until it lays flat on a table. Measure the height and width of the wrapper. This will give you the size you need to make your personalized candy wrappers.
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Determine how many chocolate candy bars you will be covering. Using a ruler, a pencil and the measurements from Step 1, create a template for your personalized candy bar wrappers out of card stock. Use this template to cut your wrappers out of decorative paper or gift wrap.
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Determine how big you want the label for your personalized candy wrapper to be. You will make the wrapper labels out of card stock.
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Using Microsoft Word, create a page of labels for your candy bars. In Microsoft Word 2007, click "Insert" and select the "Shapes" icon on the toolbar to insert the shape you'd like the label to be onto the page. Click on the edge of the shape until you see a small cross. When you see the cross, click and drag the object until it is the desired size. (It needs to be small enough to fit onto the face of the candy bar wrapper.) Copy this object across the page until the page is filled.
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Click on the "Text Box" icon on the toolbar (Microsoft Office 2007) to insert a text box inside the shapes you've created. Type the text for the wrapper labels. You can try different fonts, font sizes and colors until you settle on a pleasing design. Using the "Insert" menu, you can also insert images or logos onto your templates.
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Copy and paste (using the "Edit" menu) the finished design into each label, so you have a full page of completed labels.
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Print your document out on the cardstock, and use scissors to neatly cut out the labels. Alternatively, you can print only the text and use a large craft punch to cut out the labels in the desired shape. If you do not have a computer or printer available, you can use a craft punch to cut out the labels and then hand write the text onto each label.
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Remove the regular printed labels from each chocolate bar, leaving only the silver aluminum wrap. Wrap the decorative paper wrappers you cut out in Step 2 around your chocolate candy bars, and use double-sided craft tape to secure them in place. Apply double-sided tape to the back of your labels and apply them to the front-center of the chocolate bar wrapper. Continue until all of the candy bars are finished.
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