Birthday Gift Bag

Three of the children in my preschool class will be turning 4 years old this week.  This is the gift bag I made for Katherine, whose birthday we will celebrate today.  I started with a white gift bag that I purchased at the craft store.  I cut a piece of card stock to fold over the top - so she can't peek in until she gets home!  I used the modern label punch to cut out a section to fit over the handles.  I was just going to make the banner, then decided to stamp some flowers on the bag to coordinate with the Designer Series Paper I used in the banner.

This is a close up of the banner.  I used the Bow Builder punch to make the bow.  (The number 4 was cut using a retired Bigz Die.)

This is the card that I will put inside the bag with a few goodies for the Birthday Girl.  I thought I was being clever this summer when I made enough of these candle cards for my entire class.  But now I wish I would have waited and used colors that coordinated with the bag.  I made the candles using scraps of retired paper - so I didn't have any left to decorate the gift bag.  Oh well, I'm sure Katherine won't notice!

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Thanks for stopping by!

Kathy

One More Gift Tag and Bag

Here is one last gift bag I made for the baby shower I recently attended.  I teach preschool at my church and it is our pastor's wife who is having a baby.  I wanted to give a gift of books from my class, and since my classroom is decorated in an owl theme, I knew I had tp make an owl gift bag.  I saw the idea on Pinterest, of course! (Kay Kalthoff)  I had all the kids sign the back of the bag and then I made another punch art owl as a tag to let the pastor and his wife know the gift was from my class.

Below is a photo of the back of the bag and a close up of the tag.

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Kathy

Cute Gift Bag!

This was the "3D" project we made at my stamp club classes in December.  It is a cute gift bag that will hold a full sized card on the front.  Why tuck a beautiful handcrafted card away inside the bag, when you can display it for everyone to see, and dress up a plain bag at the same time?!

First we used Stars Decorative Mask to stamp the star background on a plain gift bag.  The we used the Confetti Stars Punch and the Word Window Punch to make the holder for the card.   Below is a close up of the card we made.

Products used to make this card are:

Cardstock: Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Whisper White
Ink: Lost Lagoon
Designer Series Paper: All is Calm
Stamp Set: Festival of Trees
Accessories: Lost Lagoon ribbon, Circles Framelits, Decorative Dots Embossing Folder, Tree punch, Frosted Sequins, pearls


As my club members were making their cards, I was loving the design more and more........and so I ended up making another 20+  to send out to family and friends.  Here is how some of them looked using different ink, paper, and ribbon combinations.

And after all my club members made their cards, and I made my 25 or so there was still this many embellishments left over:

And right now these embellishments are part of the YEAR END CLOSEOUT SALE.

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Thanks for stopping by!

Kathy