It’s my turn to show a Project of the Week here at The House That Stamps Built blog and I’m going to show you how to decorate a plain gift bag. We held my twins’ birthday party this weekend and their uncle gave them gifts in these cute little plain kraft bags. I snagged one as it was perfect for my project. Here are the supplies you’ll need to create your own:
-Gift bag (whatever size you want)
-card stock and coordinating papers
-dies and white card stock for your focal panel
-stamps (I used Repeat Impressions’ “Noel“, “Pointsettia” “Hello” and “Thanks” I am also showing “Christmas” but didn’t end up using it.”
I started by creating my paper layers. I NEVER measure, so I thought I show you how I make my cuts. I lay my piece of card stock on top of my gift bag and make sure I have the border I wanted showing around the outside.
Then I use a pencil to make a mark on the two sides that need to be cut. You can see my pencil line just above the bottom of the gift bag. Then I use my paper trimmer to cut along those two lines. It leaves you with the perfect size paper and no measuring needed!
I did the same thing with my patterned paper: lay it on the already cut piece of card stock and mark where I want to cut with a pencil.
After all my layers were cut and adhered together, I moved on to stamping. I die cut my label, stamped “Noel” and colored in the poinsettia.
I also cut a small label to use for my tag, stamped “Poinsettia” and colored it in. I added gold paint pen to the center to make it pop.
On the back, I stamped the ‘for’ from “Thanks” and ‘you’ from “Hello“.
And here is my gift bag all assembled. I used pop dots to pop up my sentiment panel and tied on my tag with a scrap piece of ribbon and some twine.
I hope I’ve inspired you to create your own gift bags. Thanks for checking out my Project of the Week.
Heather
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