I know, it's only October but Christmas will be here before you know it. I'm getting a jump start on my Christmas crafting and making my own DIY Christmas gift bags. I've been playing with the new Platinum 6 machine from Spellbinders and a few Spellbinders dies. I paired a couple of Spellbinders dies with the Christmas Delivery collection by Carta Bella paper for this project. (There's a complete supply list at the end of this post.)
I created a video showing how these gift bags came together. It was really fun to play with so many different materials and have the steel ruled dies cut through them with ease.
The details on this bag add so much texture and interest to the stockings.
Since creating these two bags I've created several more. Now I have a few in my stash ready for the busy holiday season.
Have you started any holiday crafting projects? Hopefully you'll be inspired to create some DIY Christmas gift bags of your own.
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Happy Monday! Do you like Mondays or do you hate Mondays? Personally, I kind of like Mondays. I love getting back into a routine after the chaos of the weekend and it's also nice to send the kids off to school so I can get a few things accomplished.
This Monday is a particularly nice Monday. I spent part of last week at the Snap Conference in Salt Lake City Utah. I LOVE this conference and on this Monday I feel like my batteries have been recharged, I have clear goals in mind, and a specific to-do list to help me accomplish my goals. I'll have more details about this conference in an upcoming blog post. I'm so excited to share with you a few things I learned at the conference.
While I was at the conference I found a new amazing place to shop for crafting supplies and get the best deals!
Echo Park Paper recently released their Spring Idea Book. This book has the most adorable projects in it. Jen Gallacher has some amazing layouts and Holly from Ribbons and Glue has the most adorable baby gift idea. I have a couple of fun projects in this issue too.
One of my favorite things about the Echo Park Idea Books (other than the fact that they are FREE) is the photography. The photos are beautiful!
The second project I have in the Spring Idea book is a small paper mache box. I had so much fun decorating this box with flowers from the Spring Flower Die Set and little bit of glossy accents. By adding glossy accents the flowers have a little bit of dimension and shine. By adding dimensional adhesive
I added some dimension and texture to the gift box. I also added some stitching with my sewing machine
. I added the stitching before I attached the patterned paper pieces on the paper mache box.
Now, hop over to see the rest of the Echo Park Idea Book. Thanks for stopping by today!
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I thought that for Lets Talk Tuesday this week we'd shake things up creating a small gift with scrapbooking supplies. As a paper crafter I (probably like many of you) have accumulated quite a stash of paper crafting supplies. I like to put those supplies to good use whether it's on a scrapbooking page, a card, or a gift. This time, I created a cute gift bag for a teacher appreciation gift.
I think I'll fill this cute bag with a few treats and maybe a gift card for a cute teacher appreciation gift. Last year when I helped with a teacher appreciation dinner I created some cute water bottles for the entire staff at my kids school. You can find all the details to that HERE.
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and the Sunny Days Ahead collection
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. I had so much fun decorating this box with flowers from the Spring Flower Die Set
and little bit of glossy accents
. By adding glossy accents the flowers have a little bit of dimension and shine. By adding dimensional adhesive
I added some dimension and texture to the gift box. I also added some stitching with my sewing machine
. I added the stitching before I attached the patterned paper pieces on the paper mache box.
and a few elements from Carta Bella Paper's Soak Up the Sun collection
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so I started by cutting the pieces for that with some patterned paper, black cardstock
, and gray cardstock
and a manual die cut machine (Sizzix Big Shot)
using a circle cutter
. I embossed the smaller circle with the Cloud Embossing Folder
once again using a manual die cutting machine (Sizzix Big Shot).
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on the edge of the bag and trimmed the edge of the doily off the bag.