Baby Briefcase-Packed&Perked Up

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Baby Briefcase: Packed & Perked Up with Added-Value Gifts and Wrap Delight customers with a NEW idea -- a Baby Briefcase (baby paperwork organizer) packed with added value gifts from your own inventory. Parents love the novel and practical baby paperwork organizer, and buyers are impressed with the total presentation. It’s a great stand-alone gift that gets even better with a high-style wrap-up. Supplies: • Baby Briefcase • Knit Cap • Pad’ems (disposable changing pads) • Bib’ems (disposable bibs) • Baby nail care set • Fleece blanket • Baby washcloths • Foam strips for the base • Lavender polka dot cello • Tissue paper • Ribbon • Boxed, wrapped gift, or weighted box • Cardboard back support
	Step One: Preparing the Base for Tiered Product Placement Remove all the files from the organizer. Cut two or more stair-stepped strips of foam to fit the length and width of the file base. Wrap the strips in tissue, and then place the strips into the bottom of the file organizer. Set one or more files on the bottom strip of covered foam, and one or more files on the second stair-stepped strip. All of the files should now be returned to the organizer.
	Step Two: Placing Products in Tiered Rows Fold back the cardboard header of the knitted cap package and hang it over one of the lower organizer pockets of file box. Repeat the procedure for the washcloths, hanging the header over a higher dividing pocket. Place the package of Pad’ems next to the washcloths in the same pocket. Put a package of Bib’ems on the next tier behind the Pad’ems. Next, fold back the header of the baby nail care set and hang it over a file. Use other stair-stepped files (built higher by the original stair-stepped base on which the files were placed), to hold additional items, such as the babysitter list, or other products of your choice. Do not over pack!!! The organizer should not bulge with gifts. (If you wish to create additional and consecutively higher rows of tiered products, press a rope of shred into one or more files, adding more shred as needed to achieve the desired height.)
	Step Three: Building a Tall and Stable Back To achieve height and provide a stable point to support shrinkwrap or cello wrap, the Baby Briefcase will need a piece of supporting cardboard. In this design, a sturdy strip of heavy cardboard was folded into an inexpensive lightweight fleece blanket. Half of the folded blanket was draped over the open, extended file organizer flap, with the remainder (holding the tall cardboard strip) placed behind the file organizer. To build a sturdier base that will prevent the tall, narrow organizer from toppling to or fro, place a boxed and wrapped gift behind the organizer. Use a narrow strip of cello tape to secure the box to the file organizer, if needed.
	Step Four: Shrinkwrapping the Organizer -- keeping the pliable side flaps straight. Place the gift-wrapped box and packed Baby Briefcase (file organizer) inside a shrinkbag, trimmed to no more than three inches wider than the file organizer. Tie the bag at the top of the packed gift, pulling all excess film BEHIND the gift. In this design, the cardboard backer does not extend across the full width of the open, extended file flap. To prevent the pliable sides of the flap from bending under the strain of the shrinkwrap, hold each flap in place as heat is applied to shrink the film. Start applying the heat around the base of the gift; then use a sweeping motion to shrink the film in the lower back of the packed gift. Next, position the heat gun below the bottom edge of one side of the gift. Use an upward flow of the heated air to shrink the lower side of the gift. Shrinkwrap the lower front of the gift. Now, hold one corner of the extended file flap, keeping it straight. Carefully apply heat to the upper back, side and front of the gift. DO NOT ALLOW THE HEAT TO BURN YOUR FINGERS!! Keep the flow of the heated air just below your fingertips. Move your fingers to continue shrinking the top corners. If necessary, place the corner between two square of cardboard, adjusting the placement of the cardboard pieces as needed until the pliable sides of the file organizer are totally straight within the finished shrink. Repeat the procedure on the opposite side, shrinking the upper portion of the front, side and back of the gift unit.
	Step Five: Adding The High-Styled Cello Plume Strip-wrap the shrinkwapped gift unit. Fold and square off a piece of matching cello. Fold the cut square into a triangle, and then fold this triangle again into a smaller triangle. Cut all the edges of the folded triangle so that all the layers are now single units of triangular pieces. Divide the units into three equal and stacked groups. With the tip of the first set of triangles pointed away from you, grab the tip on the lower left side of the triangle, lift it up and spiral-twist it in a counterclockwise motion. Repeat the step on the right side. The triangle should now resemble the shape of a cone. Place a heavy object on this folded set of triangles. Make two more folded triangles identical to the first. Fold two pieces of colored tissue following the same steps used to make the cello plumes. Combine all three folded sets of triangles together. Place one tissue plume on each side of the cello plume. Tie or wire all of the gathered plumes tightly together, about two inches above the pointed bases. Tie or wire the plumes in front of the gathered neck of cello on the gift unit. Finish with a 2-loop bow of teal iridescent ribbon, topped with a 2-loop lavender organza bow.
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