It was so fun making note cards in yesterday’s post with the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper that I was inspired to try something else with the same paper which led to this Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag.
It’s really very easy to make little gift or treat bags like this one. You can vary the measurements. This bag starts with a 12″ x 6″ piece of the Botanical Butterfly Designer Series Paper. With the paper placed in landscape position on the Stampin’ Trimmer or Simply Scored, score at 1″, 3 3/4″, 6 1/2″, and 9 1/4″. Turn the paper and score at 2″ which will form the bottom flaps of the bag so make sure you have the pattern going the way you want it! Then cut up on the scored lines from the bottom of the bag. I like to cut each score line at a slight angle on each side just to make it a little easier to fold in the flaps. Also, cut out the small little piece at the end of the paper at the bottom, as you see in the photo below. This is the inside pattern.
When you assemble the bag, it will first look like a box! If you wanted to, you could have it stay like this or even make a lid.
To make the bag, just pinch the top edges together while also pushing in on the sides. I punched two holes in the top and ran a ribbon through to tie in a bow. This is the Daffodil Delight 1/4″ Double-Stitched Ribbon.
To decorate the front of the bag (not that this beautiful paper needs very much embellishment), I punched a piece of Whisper White with the Starburst Punch and cut out a butterfly from the designer paper to pop up with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is stamped in Balmy Blue Ink from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set. This is one of those handy-to-have stamp sets with a ton of greetings. They are “itty bitty” but you can punch them or die cut them and fit them almost anywhere. I used the Classic Label Punch and glued the greeting at the bottom of the starburst. To set it off a little bit on the busy paper, I adhered two little Gold Metallic Pearls.
Just be sure to put your gift or treat inside before you tie it shut with the ribbon when you make this Easy Botanical Butterfly Mini Gift Bag.
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