Cute Gift Bag

A co-worker of mine is getting married in a couple weeks and I wanted to give her a small gift. Unfortunately, I didn't have any (last minute) NEW cute ideas for a gift so it was the same one as seen here. I know not very imaginative but it is personalized and she seemed to love it!!

The part I was stressing about was the gift bag. Since I was bringing it into work, I wanted it to look GOOD so everyone would enjoy it!!! I keep a couple extra white gift bags on hand so, in a pinch, they can be used for any occasion. I started with the printed wedding paper at the bottom of the bag, then added the green paper at the top.... then what to embellish with??? Easy peasy, make paper flowers from the scraps!!! BINGO!! I used the process shown here to make the paper flowers at the top of the bag. VERY EASY!!! She did a great job of showing the process.


Put some Dollar Store "gems" in the middle for a little bling!
Pretty cute! Only took about 15 minutes to finish!

Enjoy, thanks for looking.
Have a great day
Cathy

Birthday Gift Bag

For my mother-in-law's birthday I wanted to make a FUN gift bag. She turned 81 last week and thought it would be great to make her a special gift bag for her gifts.

Started with a white bag from Michaels (I have a stash of them in my craft room for just this occassion). Then worked with different "matching" papers to make it look festive.


Finally added the buttons to hide ribbon ends and they are just my favorite embellishment! I like to add them to almost everything I create.
Made a matching envelope for her (handcrafted) card too, but, in my haste forgot to take a picture! Bummer!

Thanks for looking, and have a great day!

Cathy

Quick Baby Gift Bag

I needed a quick gift bag for a friend who is having a baby. Luckily I keep a stash of plain white gift bags to be easily decorated. I knew that my friend was having a boy so that made the color selection easy.
With some of the scraps I made a matching envelope, so cute.


I stamped CELEBRATE in 2 shades of blue to give a shadow effect. Unfortunately I couldn't find my congratulations stamps, so had to use the celebrate. I think it turned out pretty good. Buttons are my favorite embellishment, they are pretty cute with the polka dots on the paper.

Thanks for looking.
Have a great day.

Thank you Gift bags

I made a couple gift bags for my kids' teachers. They were pretty basic but were a big hit with the ladies. I think I like the pink one with the vertical stripes better. Not really sure why, but then again, I like the yellow flowers on the other bag too!! Guess I like them both!!
The white part is kinda plain, I wasn't really sure what to do there, so left it just white. Maybe I should have used my sponges to ink around the edges of the paper. I'll try that next time.
Thanks for looking.

Masculine Gift Bag

This is a gift bag I created for a friend of my husband. I never seem to have enough masculine things on hand!! Most of my crafts are geared toward females and kids, not sure why!



This is a bag from Michaels, always stock up when they are on sale 3/$1.00. Then made 5 at the same time so I don't have any excuses any more! It was pretty easy to make, so I should have made 5 in pinks too.
Enjoy!