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Understanding Recycling Symbols

Understanding Recycling Symbols

As sustainability becomes a priority, understanding recycling symbols is crucial for both businesses and consumers. These symbols help identify how different packaging materials, including envelopes, should be disposed of responsibly.

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How to make an envelope – A step by step guide

How to make an envelope – A step by step guide

Creating your own envelopes is a simple and fun DIY project! Whether you need an envelope for a greeting card, invitation, or a unique touch for a handmade note, this guide will show you how to make an envelope using materials like white paper, coloured card, scissors, double sided tape or glue, card blanks, and a ruler.

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Choosing the Right Packaging for Vinted Sellers

Choosing the Right Packaging for Vinted Sellers

If you’re a Vinted seller, choosing the right packaging can make a significant difference in protecting your items, impressing your buyers, and streamlining your shipping process. From durable mailers to eco-friendly options, using high quality materials ensures your items arrive safely
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Christmas opening times

Christmas opening times

It's that time of year again where we shut down for Christmas! Our last day for dispatch is Monday 23rd December and we will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2025. Orders can still be placed on our websites during the Christmas period as normal
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A Comprehensive Guide to FSC Grades in Sustainable Packaging

A Comprehensive Guide to FSC Grades in Sustainable Packaging

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification is an essential benchmark for sustainable forestry practices. It ensures that the materials used in products are sourced responsibly while protecting biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.
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Chinese New Year Red Envelopes

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Chinese New Year Red Envelopes

Chinese New Year is one of the largest celebrations in the world and with that comes lots of red envelopes. To celebrate the New Lunar Year in Chinese culture, it is tradition to gift bright red envelopes to family and friends. The envelopes are filled with money and symbolise good luck, prosperity and good wishes for the year ahead. Chinese red envelopes are generally rectangular in shape as this is to represent a shield that symbolises protection.

What is the animal for Chinese New Year 2025?

2025 is the year of the Snake and falls on Wednesday 29th January 2025. It will last around 16 days in total and come to a conclusion on the 13th February 2025.

What is put in Chinese red envelopes?

It is a tradition for red envelopes to be gifted containing money to children and single people. They are also typically given at other special occasions such as birthdays and Chinese weddings. The amount gifted to the recipient usually ends with an even digit as amounts ending with an odd value tend to be given at funerals. It is important that the notes enclosed are clean and crisp and you should avoid enclosing coins or an amount that contains the number '4' as this is considered bad luck.

Why red envelopes?

Chinese Red Envelopes, also known as Hong Bao envelopes are a traditional method for giving gifts during the Chinese new year. In Chinese culture the colour red symbolises good luck, happiness and is a symbol to ward off evil spirits. It has been a long standing tradition that children receive red envelopes containing money from their parents, grand parents and others. It is also important that you never open the envelope in front of the person that gave you it. The size of the envelope also can vary from small, to accommodate folded banknotes, to a larger sized red envelope which can accommodate banknotes as well as a written personal note.

Where can you buy red envelopes?

We stock a wide range of red Chinese new year envelopes that are perfect as use for gifting family members. From small red gift tag envelopes to larger C5 red envelopes, we have an option to suit all needs. We also offer printed Chinese new year envelopes with your own design printed in white, black or gold ink.

Chinese Gift Envelopes