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Nashville Wraps Spring Packaging Made in the USA

Pretty Petals Collection

Spring has sprung at Nashville Wraps, and we have five new Green Way® paper shopping bag designs, all made here in the USA.

You can see all our Spring Collections online or request our Spring 2012 Catalog.

Pretty Petals

Ideal for gift shops and boutiques, our 100% Recycled Pretty Petals paper shopping bags will look great right through Mother’s Day. Printed on white kraft paper with a beautiful pink and green floral design, this… Read More

Giving Green a New Tradition

cookie-pail

All the buzz this Holiday Season seems to be about “green gifts.”  I even saw an article about this in our local electric company magazine. I really like the idea of giving gifts that don’t impact the environment and that also may be a little more personal than the item we run out and get at the last minute without too much thought as to what the recipient might really like or use. Honestly, these usually end up in the trash,… Read More

How to Make Tissue Paper Flowers

Tissue Paper Flower

Looking for a fun, easy and inexpensive way to dress up a package or store window display? Look no further than tissue paper flowers. They resemble a cross between a carnation and a peony when the ends are rounded. If you make pointed ends, you can create a chrysanthemum or dahlia look. Learn how to make these adorable tissue flowers in the video below.

Wedding and party planners love them, and they are darling at baby showers with Read More

New Green Way® Eco Shreds from Nashville Wraps

Eco Shred

With the holidays coming up, we want to help you be eco-friendly in your gift giving. That is why we are excited to introduce our new Eco Shreds, made from 100% recycled paper using 100% Green Hydropower. They are part of our Green Way® brand of natural, recycled and sustainable packaging products.

Available in our most popular colors, Eco Shred is an accordion design and works great in offering support to gift baskets and boxes. They come in… Read More

Christmas in July at Nashville Wraps

Santa Peppermint Twist Collection square

Christmas comes early in the retail business, and even earlier for gift packaging companies like Nashville Wraps.

Check out our nine new Holiday Collections!

For a sneak peek at Christmas in July, our new Santa Peppermint Twist & Festive Holiday Twist Collections are lighthearted fun with peppermints and polka dots. These paper shopping bags are made in the USA from 50% recycled white Kraft paper, along with 90% recycled gift wrap and 100% recycled tissue paper. This… Read More

New Recycled, Reusable Studio Plastic Shopping Bags

Studio Plastic Shopping bags

Here at Nashville Wraps, we are always striving to bring you new green packaging solutions for your business. I am excited to share with you more recycled and reusable bags that will help with those green initiatives.

Our new Studio Plastic Shopping Bags with soft loop handles are made in the USA from recycled Encore film. The recycled content ranges from 50%-100% recycled material depending on the designs, which include Sunflowers, Denim, Cityscape and Purple Heart.

They meet reusable… Read More

Saving Trees One Gift Bag at a Time

Gift`nGrow

Terri Martin wants to change the way people think about reusing gift bags. After digging through her used gift bag pile, she discovered they were neither made in the USA nor constructed of recycled material. That prompted Terri to start a business that made sense for the environment.

Gift ’n Grow offers eco-friendly, 100% recycled paper gift bags made in the USA. To encourage people to reuse the bags, inside each one is an I.D. code to help identify that… Read More

100% Recycled – 100% American – 100% Affordable!

BlueBirdBerriessquare

“Blue Birds singing a song, nothing but Blue Birds…”
At Nashville Wraps, we’re singing the popular Irving Berlin tune “Blue Skies” because our new 100% Recycled Blue Bird Berries Collection has been a big hit! It seems to resonate joy and hope with our customers. Many of our customers asked for songbirds on our packaging, and we listened. These Green Way® eco-friendly bags are perfect for Spring and Summer.

Easter & Wedding Packaging

Easter is a… Read More

Green Washing at Nashville Wraps?

Green Washing

Can you save 15% on car insurance? Is green washing at Nashville Wraps hard to believe? You betcha!

Recently, a comment came to my attention that posed an interesting question. Basically, the comment was, “How is it that Nashville Wraps is the ‘Leader in Eco-Friendly Packaging’ but you mail catalogs in a plastic bag?”

I just love questions like this because the answer may not be exactly what you would expect.

Not everyone gets a Nashville Wraps catalog

Nashville… Read More

A Sneak Peek of Green: Spring Packaging 2011

Candy Stripe Daisies crop

It’s so cold and snowy over half of the country right now, so let’s think about spring! Preview our new Spring Collections to be released in January. Made in the USA, they are all part of our Green Way® line of eco-friendly packaging. Coordinating packaging abounds: gift wrap, gift and shopping bags, reusable canvas bags, tissue paper and ribbons, as well as gourmet, nested and basket boxes.

Love bright colors? The Candy Stripe

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Additional Green Resources and Products

  • MCAD
  • Zing Green Products
  • All About the Future
  • Straight North
  • Squishy Press
  • Me and Goji
  • Dharma Merchant Services
  • Laptop Lunches
  • Promotional Product Soltutions
  • All Green Things
  • Wabnitz Editions
  • Jonah Coyote Design
  • Sustainable Chicago
  • Shaklee
  • Green America
  • Green Wise Bank Card
  • TerraSource Chocolates
  • Teragren
  • Let's Go Green
  • Sustainable is Good
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