September's Swap

The month of September was a Thank You themed swap. So I made these little gift bags using the SU top note die and put together a little manicure set. The tag I put on the bag says "Mani" Thanks. In the bags I put a little nail clipper, pink nail polish, and a pink nail file. I wanted to find a small bottle of nail polish remover and add some cotton balls but they didn't have the color to go along with the "pink" theme I was going with.

I used SU's top note die and the chalk it up stamp set. 

Footloose Swap Item

For one of my swap items, I made a little bag using the retired footloose paper pack from CTMH. I used the stamp sets surfs up, kick back, and the footloose workshop set. I then filled them with gummy candies that are in the shape of sliced lemons and I put a Crystal Light packet in each of them. I also found cute flip flop key chains that I attached to the handle.

Here are the instructions for creating the gift bag: 

Cut your card stock to 10 1/4 x 4 1/4

 

Score the bottom at 1in. 

 

Then turn paper and score at 1in. and 4 5/8.

 

Then turn again and score at 1in. and 4 5/8.

 

 

Fold on all score lines and cut the lower left corn square completely out. Then cut all bottom score lines to the top score lines. Where the X's are shown, that's where you place the adhesive. 

Then you fold and put the box together. 

Set a side and cut your designer paper to 3 1/2 x 3 (that's for the front of the bag). For the handle cut at 5/8 x 9 1/2. If you'd like a shorter handle just cut it shorter than the 9 1/2. 

Attach the designer paper to the front of your bag. Then take your strip of paper for your handle and attach it to the sides of your bag using brads.

And your done! Now you can add stamps and embellishments :) Hope you enjoy! Thank you Chic n scratch for the tutorial. 

Baseball Bags

A friend and I made these cute bags for our sons baseball team. We filled the bag with goodies that you might take to a ball game. We found popcorn boxes from a seller on Etsy along with the peanut bags. Only for the peanut bags we didn't fill them with peanuts because one of the kids is allergic to them, so we filled them with the candy circus peanuts. It all turned out so cute!