I made these personalized sugar cube wrappers to go along with a bridal shower gift for my friend Debbie. I bought Debbie’s sugar bowl and creamer from her registry (very pretty btw) and filled it with personalized wrapped sugar cubes in her pink and orange wedding colors with her soon-to-be married name: Ten Eyck (yep, there’s a space).

Personalized wrapped sugar cubes would also make a great DIY birthday or Christmas gift along with handmade fabric teabags for loose tea.

For the sides of the sugar cube wrapper I used a super cool free font called Aierbazzi to make personalized bouquets. Each letter in Aierbazzi is a plant, and when you type a word it puts the next plant right on top of the previous one, creating a unique bouquet for your words and phrases. This bottom plant on the sugar cube wrapper says “Debbie and Tony” and the top one says “Love Kathy.”

When you fold the sugar cube wrapper, the plants wrap around the sugar cube showing their wedding date on the bottom.

For Debbie’s new married last name I used the free Ostrich Sans font from the League of Moveable Type – those guys are so generous to give away such cool fonts.

This was my second DIY take on Debbie’s shower gift. I’d first planned on decorating sugar cubes with royal icing like these. But then I saw these personalized sugar cube wrappers by Alejandra from Always Order Dessert. Hooray! This would be perfect. Alejandra used tape to wrap her sugar cubes but by looking at her suggested pictures of vintage European and American sugar wrapper on flickr I experimented and figured out how to fold and wrap the sugar cubes without tape {see step-by-step folding instructions and printable PDF template below}.

WANNA MAKE IT? Free printable personalized sugar cube wrapper template, step-by-step tutorial instructions and supply list –>

Supplies for making personalized sugar cube wrappers:

• Kathy’s free personalized sugar cube wrapper printable template – this free template says “SUGAR” rather than “TEN EYCK” – just use Adobe Illustrator to edit the file (or contact me to help create your own personalized printable sugar cube wrapper PDF for a nominal charge)
• Free fonts – Aierbazzi and Ostrich Sans
• 1/2″ Square Sugar Cubes (I used Domino brand)
• White paper – get the thinnest paper you can get, it’s easier to fold (if you print at FedEx Office choose their thin 24# laser paper). It would also be fun to try sugar cube wrappers with clear vellum
• Self-healing mat, rotary cutter and clear plastic ruler (or Paper Trimmer)
• Computerand printer

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How to make and fold sugar cube wrappers

Cut out my free sugar cube wrapper template and cut out using a self-healing mat, rotary cutter and clear plastic ruler (or Paper Trimmer). {NOTE: The photos say TEN EYCK but the free template says SUGAR – just use Adobe Illustrator to edit the file or contact me to help create your own personalized printable sugar cube wrapper PDF for a nominal charge).

Place the “empty” side of the sugar cube wrapper on your left. Flip the sugar cube wrapper face down onto your table.

Place two 1/2″ sugar cubes on the sugar cube wrapper one inch from the left. I use my well-worn self-healing mat as a quick 1″ guide.

Fold the top edge and crease. The sugar cube wrapper should meet the top of the sugar cube.

Fold the bottom edge and crease. The sugar cube wrapper should meet the top of the sugar cube.

Fold the left side of the sugar cube wrapper and crease, making tiny triangles on each side.

Fold the right side of the sugar cube wrapper and crease.

Fold the left side and crease.

Place it on your table and fold the left and right sides onto the top of the sugar cubes to make a triangle point.

Fold the triangle point up and crease.

Now you’re ready to fold the other side of the sugar cube wrapper. Fold the other side of the sugar cube wrapper up and crease with two tiny triangles on the left and right, just like you did on the other side.

Fold the right side of the sugar cube wrapper.

Fold the left side of the sugar cube wrapper.

OK, now read this step before you do it. Put the sugar cubes on your table with the open end towards you.

Using both hands, crease it so that it is slightly folded in. You don’t want to create a triangle like you did last time – this is more like an isosceles trapezoid and most of the design should still appear.

It should look like this.

Now slip the triangle end into the isosceles trapezoid end and fiddle with it until it’s flat.

Like this.

Did you make it? Please post a comment and let me know how this craft idea works for you. And share your own photos at the MerrimentDesign.com Facebook page, “I made it!” flickr photo gallery or tweet a picture to @merrimentdesign. Craft and pass it on!

COPYRIGHT NOTE: You’re more than welcome to use free pattern and how to step-by-step tutorial for your own personal use. Contact me for any commercial use – this includes etsy sellers.

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