Rucksack Giftbag

 

Change a plain normal giftbag into a rucksack giftbag

I love giving gifts and it's even better if you can dress the gift up. This time the gift I had was hiking related so I decided to try and change a normal giftbag into a rucksack.

I started off with a shop bought giftbag but you could make one from scratch - just follow my instructions on this blog page here.

I decorated my bag with some circle images to represent sew on badges, but depending on your recipient and the colour of your gift bag, you could decorate your bag with anything from unicorns to flowers to rockets! (See photo at bottom of blog)

The front pocket is ideal for the greeting card 😁

  

Follow the below link to find out how the giftbag was made

Tea Cup Gift Holder

 

Use some pretty decorative card to make a holder for a tea cup gift package

This week I thought I'd make a wrapper so you can gift a tea cup filled with homemade biscuits and a few individually wrapped tea bags. It makes a brilliant little gift for someone feeling under the weather, having a bad time at the moment or just needs a little gift to say hello. :)

You can buy some really pretty and fairly inexpensive cups and you can fill it with hot chocolate sachets, sweets or whatever your friend may like.

Follow the below link to find out how the wrapper was made:

Parcel Bow

 

Make a beautiful paper bow to decorate your gift

I love decorating my gift parcels, so this week I thought I'd try and make a bow.

I've made this bow out of a piece of A4 printer paper that I printed some Christmas patterns onto, but you could use some wrapping paper - just as long as it's not too thick. If it was too thick, the paper wouldn't curl as well. This particular print was part of a digital scrapbooking kit I purchased from Nitwit Collections - click here to be taken to the website.

I've used Tombow multi liquid glue to hold the bow together. It's my favourite glue as it sticks almost anything together. You could use staples, hot glue gun or double sided tape. It needs to be a really strong glue to ensure your bow does not uncurl!

Follow the below link to find out how the bow was made

Snowman Gift Wrapper

 

Create this gift wrapper in the shape of a snowman to hold a small gift or some chocolate or sweets.

This cute little character is made from mainly white card with a few scraps of coloured card and some random buttons. I thought it made a lovely wrapping solution for a small gift. It's another one of those items I remembered seeing online or in a magazine somewhere and have always wanted to make one. I think he turned out really well and is very cute.

 
If you don't have random buttons or some of the dies I have used to decorate him, then just use what you have in your craft stash. Why not add snowflakes instead of the buttons or holly leaves?

 
You could add the recipients name to a tag coming out of his hat band and use them as name places for your Christmas table.

Follow the below link to find out how the gift wrapper was made

Christmas Gift Pocket

 

Make a simple cute pocket for gifts out of a piece of 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper

How cute is this little gift pocket? It is made from just one sheet of 12 x 12 inch scrapbooking card and only requires minimal folding.

They can be made to hold your gifts or maybe make a batch of them for table gifts. I also made one out of a piece of 6 x 6 inch paper and added a piece of string so it can hang on my Christmas tree - this one is super cute and I'll attach a photo to the bottom of this blog page.

Follow the below link to find out how the gift pocket was made

Scandinavian Woven Heart bag

 

Make a gift bag from a couple of strips of coloured paper

I've always wanted to make one of these - they facinate me as it forms a bag from two pieces of paper woven together.

I've made mine from patterned 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper but you can get a similar size bag just using A4 paper. You want to use paper rather than card as anything too thick will be harder to weave. It's a little fiddly to weave but just remember its not under and over but through and around - I hope to explain this better with photo's - just see the instructions below. 

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Santa's Giftbag

 

How to make a giftbag using We R Memory Keepers gift bag punch board

This week I needed to make some giftbags for some chocolate gifts for my work colleagues. I used the We R Memory Keepers Gift Bag Punch Board but I've added some instructions at the bottom of the blog for those of you who do not have this tool, so you can make the same thing but with a guillotine with a score blade.

The giftbag is all dressed up like Santa and is quite a good size - 15 cm high by 8 cm wide by 5 cm deep (not including handles). The main body and handles are made out of one sheet of A4 card which most of us have in our stash. I guess you could also make a snowman giftbag but make it white with black buttons for coal and a stripy scarf instead of Santa's collar.

Follow the below link to find out how the giftbag was made

3D Poinsettia

 

A very easy flower to make that can be used to decorate gifts and cards

I like to use craft paper to wrap my Christmas gifts and then decorate them with things I've made rather than using ribbon and pre-bought bows. I wondered if it would be possible to make a poinsettia from craft items I had in my stash. I was very pleased with the end result, so this week I show you how you can also make them.

I used a 4 cm (excluding stem) by 2 . 5 cm leaf shape die to cut the petals, however you could cut them by hand - an egg sort of shape but with a bit more of a point at the narrowest end. My overall flower measures about 8 cm, however you could use bigger or smaller leaf dies to get different sized flowers.

At the end of the blog I show you some examples of what I have decorated with my poinsettias.

Follow the below link to find out how they were made 

Drawer giftbag

 

Make this lovely giftbox that has two drawers for your gifts

This cute giftbag/box is made from card and has two drawers plus a gap above where you could add a small bag of sweets. The drawers push through from either side and the internal dimension of each drawer is 7 cm by 5 . 5 cm by 2 . 4 cm deep.

This is quite simple to make but just double check each measurement before you make the cut or crease. I've made the main drawers from thicker white card and the outside decorative papers are from Stampin Up's 12x12 designer papers. You could use coloured card for the drawers and even make them without Christmas papers for other occasions.

Follow the below link to find out how the giftbag was made

Rucksack giftbag

Use Stampin Up's 'All Dressed Up' dies to create a more masculine giftbag

This is quite a small giftbag - perfect for a giftcard or a few favourite sweets. I bought this die after seeing beautiful girly bags that other people had made but I wanted to do something a little different. So I tried to see if there was a way of giving this girly bag a more masculine look to make the die more versatile. So here is my rucksack with a little pocket for a message card.

The finished giftbag is about 9 cm tall, 8 . 5 cm wide at the base tapering to 5 . 5 cm at the top with a depth of 2 . 5 cm. It would be a fab little bag for a gift card, little notes or a few of their favourite sweets. You could make them as favour bags or for any occaision. I made another one for a going back to school bag - scroll down to the bottom to see this one.

Follow the below link to find out how the card was made

Gift bag made from 12 x 12 scrapbooking card

Gift bag - instructions to make your own

Hello again :)  Hope you've all had a good week.  I had a massive panic this week when I had to wrap some gifts but hadn't got a gift bag and I really wanted my friend to feel special on her special day.

So I got my 12 x 12 scrapbooking card out and worked out how to make one!  What do you think?  I was rather pleased with it and so was my friend (and her kitten - who decided to play in it! - there's some cute photo's at the end of this make).

The finished size of gift bag is quite generous at 19.5cm wide by 10cm deep and 23cm high (not including the handles).  Because you've made it yourself, you can make it in whatever colour or pattern paper you have - Christmas, Birthday, Easter or even Wedding.

Follow the below link to find out how to make it.