2021 advent with Packly’s calendar. Find out how to cheer up the Christmas waiting time and promote your products.

This year, we would like to enrich your advent with Packly’s calendar. You may have noticed how companies have been using the advent calendar as a smart tool. In addition to being an engaging gift idea, it is a practical way to enclose many products in a single package. It’s a sort of mini-catalog, if you will. In fact, it is not uncommon for the sales of some items to take off, after consumers have tried a sample.

However, it takes a certain amount of creativity to put the idea into practice. Packly immediately got down to work for you. We are indeed happy to present our 2021 version of an advent calendar. The prototype is already finalized and optimized. Just customize it and use it to your liking. Sometimes we hear: “Well, but mine is a service company, not a product company”, even better! You can print cards with discount codes, tips and tricks, personalized advice and insert one per box until Christmas day, thus also obtaining a “gamification” effect.

Advent with Packly's calendar: the bottom and lid box
Advent with Packly’s calendar: the bottom and lid box

Advent with Packly’s calendar: the surprise tree

Let’s start with the base of our advent calendar. It is a bottom and lid box with double-walled tray. Nothing new so far. Packly’s creatives, however, wanted to play with volumes, with graphics, with carvings to create some sort of a board game: an exciting Christmas version of Monopoly. Let’s check it out.

Firstly, on the lid we find horizontal perforations that recall the different branch levels of a fir. Secondly, the graphics is a starry night over a snowy village at the foot of the mountains. You have already entered a dreamy mood, haven’t you? Well, that’s not all.

Close up on the cutouts with the small boxes
Close up on the cutouts with the small boxes

Thirdly, on the inside the shape of the Christmas tree unfolds through a pyramid of inserts. Each contains a small box to extract and open. Most importantly, the logo on the top of the boxes is already visible with the lid closed. These boxes replay the graphics of the houses we mentioned earlier, an interactive nativity scene we could say. The creativity of the boxes is unique, but properly designed to have the chance to use the green of the top and the blue of the bottom. , there is a box for every day separating us from Christmas, to accompany the advent with Packly’s calendar. At the base of the fir there are 4 cases in a different color, which could represent a vase, or some gifts already placed under the tree.

Close-up on the boxes for each day of the advent
Close-up on the boxes for each day of the advent

You can keep the dimensions that we have set, perhaps inputting small sweets, make-up samples, mini-jewels and printed cards. We have imagined them just as small windows, each of which contains for instance a wish or a new year’s purpose.

The advent calendar boxes may contain messages
The advent calendar boxes may contain messages

However, you can also make it bigger, depending on what the boxes will contain. Similarly, just add your logo and any special finishes, if you deem appropriate. The graphics can adapt to your own brand features, or you can use ours. For lovers of sharing, you can also pull out the boxes and give them to someone else. As a matter of fact, each of them is a perfectly fine gift box. Ingenious, right?

Advent with Packly's calendar: the animation
Advent with Packly’s calendar: the animation

Technical information on packaging

Box Model: Lid and bottom box 3/4
Size: 307x224x52mm
Printing Option: full color – CMYK
Material: SBS Cardboard 300 gsm

Box Model: Insert with customizable cutouts
Size: 307x224x47mm
Printing Option: full color – CMYK
Material: SBS Cardboard 300 gsm

Box Model: Tuck end box reverse tuck end
Size: 22x22x50mm
Printing Option: full color – CMYK
Material: SBS Cardboard 300 gsm

Box Model: Insert with customizable cutouts
Size: 305x222x14mm
Printing Option: full color – CMYK
Material: SBS Cardboard 300 gsm

Dieline and artwork for Packly's advent calendar
Dieline and artwork for Packly’s advent calendar

Conclusions

In conclusion, do you want to create a gift for customers, a branding or gamification tool to accompany the advent with an inspirational calendar? We’ve got news: Packly has already made it for you. If you prefer to do it yourself instead, start with our catalog. You can experiment as much as you want by creating prototypes, you can check the shareable 3D preview and ask us to print them. What are you waiting for? There are no minimum orders!