It’s so easy to make your own birthday gift bag with half a sheet of designer paper! Why not make your own with paper, greetings, and embellishments that express your sentiments and are appropriate for the gift and the recipient? You just need paper, a scoring tool, scissors and adhesive to make the bag.
Cut a piece of cardstock or designer series paper in half, 6″ x 12″. Then score with the Stampin’ Trimmer or the Simply Scored. Put the paper in longways and score at 1 3/4″. Turn the paper so it is going sideways and score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. The area below that 1 3/4″ score line will be the bottom of the box so check the paper pattern if it has one so the design is going in the correct direction. Fold and crease all the score lines. Cut up on those bottom score lines, up to the 1 3/4″ score line to form the bottom flaps. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab.
To make the birthday gift bag, I used the Broadway Bound Specialty Designer Series Paper. Just put a strong adhesive, like, Tear & Tape, on that narrow tab on the right side, then assemble the bag. Fold the bottom flaps in and add some adhesive to close the bottom of the bag.
To decorate the bag, I cut a banner for the front of Lovely Lipstick Cardstock. The greeting is stamped from the Detailed With Love Stamp Set. I punched it out with the 1 1/2″ Circle Punch, made a layer with the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch of Lemon Lime Twist, and then layered those on Gold Foil punched with the Starburst Punch.
That’s all there is to it! Put your gift inside with some tissue paper, and if you want to make your own crinkled paper, just cut thin strips of cardstock and crinkle them up by hand or with a paper crimper.
Although this Broadway Bound paper is NOT on the designer paper sale, Buy 3 Get 1 Free, lots of other very nice papers are during July so be sure to check that out!
