More Gift Bags!

Happy Christmas Eve!  I hope that you have a wonderful holiday season with your loved ones.  I've been really busy with holiday crafts and hope that you've enjoyed the posts this month.  I love getting crafty inspiration from blogs, which is why I do this blog...hoping to "pay it forward" and inspire someone else out there.  The best gift to a blogger is to leave a comment, so if you've been reading and like what you've seen, please take a moment to comment!

I'm on a roll with these gift bags!  I love how easy it is to take a plain white gift bag and give it a personal touch.  This time I used Close To My Heart's Artiste cartridge and a coordinating stamp.  I cut a lot of the ornaments and then stamped them while still on the mat.

The stamp colors I used are also from CTMH (Cranberry and New England Ivy).

Then I chose some holdiay cardstock from my stash.  I inked around the edges of the cardstok with New England Ivy.  I cut 3 pieces of twine and inserted them through an eyelet I had put into the top of the bag.  Each ornament was tied to the twine and then adhered to the bag.

I found it better to go ahead and adhere the ornaments down instead of letting them hang.

Fill it with some holiday goodies, add a tag, and you're good to go!

The tag is from My Creative Time, a die called "Stitched Oval Die" which you can find HERE.

Hope you enjoyed this project.  I am really enjoying Artiste and the coordinting stamps.

If you have any questions or more specific instructions, feel free to leave a comment and I'll explain further!

Go be crafty!

Lori

Jazzed Up Gift Bag

I find that I buy a lot of stuff and then don't use it.  I think some may call that hoarding, but not me!  I found a stash of Kraft and white gift bags.  Whenever I want to use one I just hate how "plain" they are, so they sit.

Time to jazz up a gift bag!!!

I cut a piece of decorative red paper to fit nicely on the bag.  I inked around the edges with black ink.  Then using the Cricut Teresa Collins December 25th cartridge, I cut the tree image out at 4".  I added gold Stickles to the star to jazz it up even more!

Then I used the Stitched Oval Die from My Creative Time to cut the sentiment oval out from the leftover paper that I cut the tree from.  I used a Peachy Keen sentiment stamp to stamp "Merry Christmas" on the oval.

Assemble it all together and you have a jazzed up gift bag!  Add some holiday note cards, a fun pen, or even some holiday treats and it's a gift waiting for a new home!

Quick, simple, and using stuff from my stash!  I love it!

Lori

Quick Gift Bag

Here is another quick gift bag that I threw together.  I started with plain Kraft and white gift bags.  I pick these up at Big Lots or Hobby Lobby when they're on sale.  I like to keep these on hand, because you can decorate them for any occasion.

For this image I used the Imagine "Enjoy The Seasons" cartridge.  This tree can be found on page 22 of the handbook.  I cut it at 4.7 and used "auto-fill" to get 6 to a sheet of 12x12 white card stock.  I used the print and cut function.

Then I cut a piece of yellow paper that I had in my stash.  These rectangles were cut 4" x 6".  The printed image is mounted on the yellow image and then the entire thing is adhered to the gift bag.

Here are 2 of my gift bags.  They're not the fanciest gift bags I've ever seen, but they're OK!  They were quick to make.

Gift Bag

Today’s project is a QUICK one! I needed to get a couple of gift bags ready and I didn’t have much time. This was 30 minutes or less from the time I walked into the craft room to the time I walked out with the finished gift in hand! True Story!

**Again, I apologize…pictures with the cell phone aren’t great, but it’s the best I can do right now and I figured a post is better than none!**

Recipe:

• One plain gift bag


• Snowflake image from Cricut Imagine “Enjoy The Seasons”


• Background paper (green) from stash


• Sentiment stamps from CTMH (these stamps were part of my Art Philosophy bundle)


• Foam dot adhesive

I think the snowflake image was cut at 4.8. I started at 5.5 and then backed the size down until I could get 2 on my 8.5” x 11” cardstock!

Here is the finished product! Way better than handing them a plain, white bag, I think!

Hope you find some creative inspiration today! Have a great day!

Lori