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Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag

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Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag

If you want a little autumn treat for someone or maybe for Thanksgiving dinner favors, this little Gilded Autumn 2-4-6-8 Fall Treat Bag would meet your needs! These little 2-4-6-8 bags, as we like to call them, are really easy to make out of cardstock or designer paper and then you can decorate them for any occasion. You can make them taller too with a larger piece of paper.

For this treat bag, you just need half a sheet of paper, 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ if using cardstock or cut designer paper to this size. I used the pretty Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper with gold and copper foil accents, which makes it extra special. If you want a taller bag, then cut it more than 5 1/2″.

Score at 2″, 4″, 6″ and 8″. Turn and score at 1 1/2″ (or 2″). These will be the bottom flaps so pay attention to the pattern on your paper, watching which way it is going so it doesn’t end up upside down. Cut the bottom flaps up to the score line. Cut off that very small 1/2″ piece on the end. See the photo below. (This isn’t the paper I used, and it is taller, but you can get the scoring and cutting idea.)

2 4 6 8 Box Inside Scoring

Assemble the box, putting adhesive on that 1/2″ piece on the side. Then pay attention to where the seam is and try to have that face the back. Fold in the bottom flaps, trying to make the front of the bag look nice with a flap fold, not the edge.

Now all you have to do is decorate the front of the bag. You can even leave it open at the top if you prefer or if you want to put maybe a cello bag of treats inside. But if you want to close the top, just pinch in the sides of the bag and push the top together. Punch holes for ribbon or add a clip of some kind to keep it closed. Be sure to put the treat in first!

For this little Gilded Autumn bag, I die cut a piece of Gold Foil using the Tasteful Labels Dies. Out of the designer paper with pumpkins and gourds all over it, I cut out a pumpkin, a gourd, and a teeny tiny pumpkin! I love that paper! I adhered the large pumpkin and gourd onto the Gold Foil circle with Stampin’ Seal+. After stamping and cutting out the greeting, from the Itty Bitty Greetings Stamp Set, I adhered that at the bottom of the pumpkin and gourd, then popped up the tiny pumpkin with a Mini Dimensional just at the very top so that it would partially layer over the greeting.

To finish off the treat bag, I used my old Cropodile to punch two small holes in the top of the bag and I tied a piece of Braided Linen Trim at the top. You could use some other ribbon as well.

This 2-4-6-8 pattern is so versatile and so easy to make! Try it for whatever occasion you want. Halloween is coming up so that would be fun!

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Easy Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Gift Bag

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Easy Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Gift Bag

Almost every year I have been making one variation or another of a Rudolph gift bag so here is my Easy Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Gift Bag! Usually, I have decorated a kraft shopping bag like in this popular post HERE. Another year I made a smaller 2-4-6-8 bag to look like Rudolph HERE.

This is a similar bag, but a little larger that you make with half a sheet of 12″ x 12″ paper. It’s good to have at least the assortments of each color family of 12″ x 12″ paper on hand because even if we don’t use this size paper real often, sometimes you need a large piece for a project.

Start with a 6″ x 12″ piece of Soft Suede Cardstock or whatever color of brown that you like. Score at 4″, 5 3/4″, 9 3/4″, and 11 1/2″. Turn the paper so the short edge is at the top and score at 1 3/4″. This will make the bottom flaps of the bag. Cut those short bottom tabs up to the 1 3/4″ score line. Cut off the little 1/2″ tab on the bottom. Fold on all the score lines and crease well with the Bone Folder. Adhere the tab on the end to the other side to assemble the bag. Then adhere the flaps on the bottom. I used the Tear & Tape Adhesive. (There’s a piece of white cardstock underneath just for the photo.)

Gift Bag Diagram

Before you completely assemble the box, fold on all the score lines and SEE how it is going to go together. See which area will be the front. I found it was easier to glue on the pieces while the bag was still flat, but either way works since it is so simple!

I used a 2″ Circle Punch for the Red Glimmer Nose, a 1″ Circle Punch for the white part of the eyes and a 3/4″ Circle Punch (retired) for the black. You can use whatever punches or dies you have according to what sizes and look you want your Rudolph to have! Just glue them on to make your reindeer’s face.

For the antlers I used the Sprig Punch. I punched out 3 of the sprigs out of the Whisper White Thick Cardstock since I wanted them sticking up over the top of the bag and thought the Thick Cardstock would be a little stronger. One of the sprigs I cut apart and added one piece to each sprig. I colored all the sprigs with my Stampin’ Blends, two of them with the Light Crumb Cake and one with Soft Suede just to make it a little interesting and adhered the darker piece to the full sprig.

Just fill a cello bag with treats and tie with a ribbon! Put it inside the Easy Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer Gift Bag and you’ve got a fun gift for someone!