Merry Christmas Gift Bag

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Saturday edition of the Blog.

Well, it's only a week until Christmas. I finished all my cards and the last of them went in the mail today. I started wrapping gifts today and I realized I needed a couple of small bags for some little gifts. I recently purchased the Gift Bag Punch Board and decided to use it today for my gift bag project. The dies for my project are the Merry Christmas Notecard and the Elegant Angel Ornament.

Let's get started with some details on what I did to alter the bag I just made. If you don't have the Punch Board, here is a link to tutorials to make one using a scoreboard and another link to make one just by folding the cardstock.

My Bag: started with white cardstock measuring 6" x 11" and then followed the instructions on the punch board for a medium bag. The bag size ended up at 4 11/16" high and 3 1/8" wide. I also punched the holes at the top in order to run my ribbon through for bag closure.

There are a number of ways to add your ribbon. You could just punch holes on both sides and make ribbon handles. Or use cardstock and a brad and make a single handle running from side to side.

For decorating the bag I kept it simple. The Merry Christmas Notecard die is so pretty and decorative that I didn't need anything else.  Here is a close-up so you can see the detail on this die.

 

I used red cardstock for a layering panel and it measures 4 1/16" x 3". I finished off this bag with my 1/8" red striped ribbon.

My 2nd Bag: I started with white cardstock measuring 6" x 10" and then followed the instructions on the punch board for a small bag. The bag size ended up at 4 11/16" high and 2 5/8" wide. I also punched the holes at the top in order to run my ribbon through for bag closure.

For decorating this bag I used the elegant angel ornament die, merry Christmas ribbon (for the stars) and the expressions joy dies.

 

 

I used blue patterned paper for the layering panel and it measures 4" x 2 1/2". I finished off this bag with my 3/8" navy ribbon. The angel was adhered with dimensional foam tape and the joy word and stars with Ranger multi-matte medium.

 

Well, that's it for me for this week. I hope I have inspired you to look at your dies for other uses besides card making. See you next week!

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday Bell and Holly Leaves

Hi, Vladka here!

Woho, time for Christmas cards already. New CottageCutz dies arrived and you have to check it, they are great. To warm up, I create this simple card:

Basics:

White card base: 4 1/4 x 6 inches (cut 4 1/4 x 12 inches, fold in half)

Additional piece of white cardstock and some white and red cardstock to cut out the die cuts 

Other Supplies:

CottageCutz Dies: Listed Below

Distress Ink:  Aged Mahogany, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss

Other: Scissors, Paper trimmer, Sizzix machine, Scor-buddy, blending tool

Cut the Holiday Bell and Berries out of red cardstock and Holly and Merry Christmas Ribbon out of white cardstock.

Color the Holly leaves with differnet green ink and use blending tool for that. Distress the edges with darker green distress ink. Curl the edges of all the leaves.

Distress also the edges of Holiday Bell and Berries with Aged Mahogany distress ink.

Cut off the ribbon part of the Merry Christmas Ribbon die cut and use just Merry Christmas part:

Now glue Bell and Holly leaves together as shown on the photo:

To finish the card, flick some droplets of gold shimmer spray and let it dry. Card is now finished.

I hope you like this card. Have fun creating. And don't forget, fifth CottageCutz challenge is waiting for you. This time theme is BIRTHDAY CARD. You can linked your project here. And please, use only Scrapping Cottage dies.