Star Gift Bag

This week I got playing with the Gift Bag punch board to refresh my memory.  It's amazing how rusty you get when you don't use something for a while.
I had already made some Valentine gift bags but I wanted to see if I could make something else. I saw a gift bag with a star top and was challenged to see if I could make that.

I used the retired Fancy Frost Specialty DSP from the last Occasions catalogue. Because this paper is white on white i.e. white with white embossing in it, I coloured it with Delightful Dijon.  This was done by applying the ink pad directly to the paper, using long strokes in one direction.

Starting with a 7 by 10" piece of this coloured card stock, the gift bag punch board was used to punch and score it.  The basic difference from the punching and scoring for a regular gift bag is that the front and back are not punched.  Only the sides are punched all the way across the paper.  Hope that explanation is as clear as mud.

Lace edge trim was inserted through the punched holes and tied into a bow.

Embellishments were made using the Succulents framelits. The smaller gold glimmer flowers were adhered directly to the end of the ribbon- one on the front, and one on the back with the ribbon in between.

The other Very Vanilla ones were adhered using glue does at various levels on a scored fold.

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Ink: Delightful Dijon

Papers: Very Vanilla, Frost Specialty DSP, Gold Glimmer

Accessories: Gift bag punch board, 3/8" Very Vanilla scallop edge trim, Succulents framelits, glue dots

Large Gift Bag Using Gift Bag Punch Board

Yesterday it was the Watercolor Wings stamp set.  Today the gift bag punch board.  The video from Stampin' Up made it look so easy.  But it took me 5 tries to get it right.  So, when I made this one I used retired materials in case I goofed it up again.  And what do you know?  I got it right!

Here's the video from Stampin' Up:



I made the large gift bag, so I used a 12" by 12"  piece of retired DSP in Calypso Coral.  After scoring and punching, I cut 3" off the top, reversed the pattern and adhered it back onto the lower section.

A piece of gold sequin ribbon was applied to cover the seam.

I didn't use the board to punch holes for a ribbon, opting the punch 2 holes using the hand held punch.  Thick Baker's twine in Tangerine Tango and white was used for the handles.

On the front, a 2" Whisper White strip was punched with the Triple Punch at both ends.  I used the "Summer Silhouette" stamp set to create a collage in Pear Pizzazz, Calypso Coral, and Pale plum.  This was adhered to the front of the bag.

For the tag, I used the stamp set "Merry Everything" and stamped the sentiment in Calypso Coral.  It was punched using the coordinating Note Tag Punch.  A hole was punched using the 1/8" hand held punch, and it was attached to the bag with a piece of Whisper White Baker's twine.

"Thanks" an expressions natural element was glued to the bottom using tombo adhesive.

The flower was an after thought.  I couldn't make up my mind whether a white flower or a calypso coral flower would look the best, so I made one of each.  I opted for the white flower.  Both were made with the Fun Flower die, now retired.

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