Who even are we?
Get to know the family that owns Prestar and our family of employees that we are proud to employee. If you are one of our customers, your boxes are touched by each one of us in some way. And we’re grateful that you let us be a part of your brand.
What do you know about the people that make your gift card packaging? Probably not a lot. Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Taylor, Melanie, Anne, and Craig Chrisman. This truly is a family business!
We’re the Chrismans!
Prestar Packaging/Creative Carding is a family-owned small business right here in America. Prestar was started by Craig (far right) and his wife, Anne (second from right), 31 years ago. Craig is the genius brain behind our patented pop-up gift card boxes and gift card folders. Their son, Taylor (far left), and his wife, Melanie (second from left), are also part of the Prestar Team.
We love our amazing employees! We’d be lost without them!
This is the Prestar Team!
Every single box that you receive has been made by these guys right here, in Southwest Virginia. We would be nothing without our employees. Some of them have been with us for three decades! Here they are, pictured with an award we won last year.
Here’s Taylor and Mel holding our awesome VMA Coolest Thing in VA Award.
Speaking of Awards…
We won the Virginia Manufacturing Cup. Our patented and innovative Pop-up Gift Card Boxes have been crowned the “Coolest Thing Made In Virginia”.
Well would you look at that? Prestar Packaging/Creative Carding is an award winner!
Let’s Talk Sustainability
When you purchase from Creative Carding and Prestar Packaging, you can feel really good about knowing that you’re working with a company that proudly makes sustainability part of everything we do.
We only have one planet. We’ve got to protect it, right? What is Prestar Packaging doing to help preserve it for future generations?
WE PRIORITIZE SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Prestar Packaging is so proud to use 80% post-consumer paper products. This means that the majority of the materials that we use are already recycled materials.
We are so lucky to work with amazing vendors that are doing their part, too. From our chipboard to the papers we source, it was very important to find businesses that would provide us with sustainable materials, on top of being of amazing quality.
COMPLETE THE CYCLE
So our materials are sustainable. But what about the finished product?
We do make quality packaging that is full of repurposing possibilities. However, if you don’t save packaging, we hope you’ll be happy to hear that our products are not only recyclable, but compostable, too. Our paper-and-chipboard packaging makes great food for the garden! If you recycle and/or compost, we salute you for doing your part to complete the cycle. We’re proud to be a part of it.
WE REUSE PACKING MATERIALS
That’s right! We reuse cartons and inner packing materials whenever possible. We do have custom-sized cartons for shipping our gift cards, but when it comes to repacking them into larger cartons or saving small cartons to ship samples, we’re all about that. As long as it still gives maximum protection for the items we’re shipping to you, we’re reusing it! Honestly, it makes us feel really good to know we’re giving these materials a second life.
Sometimes, the packaging may look slightly used, but the boxes inside definitely won’t be!
Recycle at work
We make sure that there are plenty of recycling receptacles for our employees to use, but also bail any excess materials that result from our box manufacturing and send it to a paper company to reuse in their paper manufacturing process.
Waste not, want not, right?
When you purchase from Prestar Packaging and Creative Carding, you can feel really good about knowing that you’re working with a company that proudly makes sustainability part of everything we do.