Pillow Box Gift Bag

Hello, and welcome! 

I thought I was finished with Christmas projects – but I was wrong!  

Today I’ve made a gift bag using a pillow box as a base, inspired by a video on Helen Griffin’s channel.  I believe Helen used a punch board to make her project – but as I had a package of pillow boxes to hand, I decided to use those. (And after I'd made my tutorial, I saw that Angie Kennedy Judah got there before me too!)

 Here's what I did.

This was also a way of using up the scraps and odds and ends that I’ve accumulated through the season.  I sometimes have a session of die-cutting or punching where I just cut a lot of elements and then put them into a bag for later use. I do the same thing if I’m stamping and colouring images (like the snowman) so that I’ve got a stock of items ready to go.  They all came in very handy for this little gift bag!

If you don’t have a bag of bits handy, you could easily glue a strip of decorative paper around the middle of the box/bag.  Or tie a ribbon round it.  

Product List

Very Vanilla 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon

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Kraft Pillow Boxes

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Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies

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Old Olive Linen Thread

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Gotta Lotta Bottle

Hello and welcome to my blog.
Today I'm sharing how I made this neat little gift bag.  The festive season will be upon us almost before we know it, and of course, birthdays happen all year round, so it's useful to have some gift bags or boxes handy.  This bag can be made up ahead of time and stored flat, which is convenient.

Here's the cutting/folding diagram - 

And here's the tutorial.

Oh, and in case you were curious, oil in the bottle is a combination of yang-ylang, lavender, and rose essential oils in a carrier oil.  It smells WONDERFUL!  

Thanks for visiting - hope to see you again soon!

Crafty Hugs

Keren

PS - Don't forget that the new Autumn/Winter mini catalogue goes live on 1 September and my customers will be getting their copy through the post direct from me.    Get in touch with your SU Demonstrator for your copy!

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In the bag!

Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog!

Have you had a good look at the new catalogue yet?  One of my favourite "new" products is  the Gift Bag Punch Board.  It's such an easy way to wrap small gifts and make them look professional.  The bags cost a lot to buy in the shops so having the means to make them quickly and inexpensively is a real boon.

The board offers the means to make bags in three sizes (Small, Medium and Large) but with a bit of thought you can quite easily make an Extra Large size - still not enormous but easily big enough to hold a pack of notelets with plenty of room left over.  I used paper from the new Backgrounds DSP (Neutrals) and I cut two pieces 7 1/2 inches by 6 inches for this size.

Here's how I did it -

Easy-peasy!  Please leave a comment if you enjoyed this project - I love hearing from you.  See you again soon!

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It's in the bag!

Hello everyone.

As promised, today I'm sharing what I'm taking to the SU regional event for swaps.  I spotted this sweet little bag on Pinterest (by Sylvie) and had to make my own version.  

I love that it folds flat so I could make a lot of them in advance.  The ones I made for swaps didn't have handles and were made from card rather than paper (I was using up the supplies that are retiring) and I decorated them with the Butterflies die-cuts and stamps from the Butterfly Basics and Banner Banter sets (both of which will still be available in the new catalogue from June 2 - whew!)

Here's the tutorial - 

I thought it might be helpful if you could see a diagram of the scoring pattern , so here it is-

I hope you'll try this one and that you enjoy making it.  Please let me know if you do.

See you soon!