It's my turn again today at the Cutters Creek blog! I decided on this fun & easy project that's great for any time of year.
With Christmas rapidly approaching and teacher gifts finally
completed, I realized I needed some gift bags to pop them in. Scor Pal
to the rescue! You can use your Scor Pal to make nearly any size bag
you want, and I can show you how.
Based on the size of
my gift, I decided to make a bag 6" wide by 2.5" deep. (Sorry, I can't
show the actual gifts yet, since they are being given Thursday &
Friday and I don't want to spoil the surprise, just in case!) So, it's
easy to figure out how much paper you need based on the size of the bag,
plus a 1/2" - 1" flap for adhering. Just add up all of the sides: 6 +
2.5 + 6 + 2.5 = 17. Since this is larger than 12 inches, I know I will
need 2 sheets of cardstock. I will need a flap on each piece to attach
them, and I choose a 1/2" flap, so I will need 2 sheets cut to 9" x 12".
The 12" is height plus bottom, so lay your cardstock on the Scor Pal
vertically, like this:
Next, score the cardstock for the 2 side measurements and flap.
When you have scored both lines, your cardstock should look like this:
Next,
you will rotate your cardstock one turn (90 degrees). It doesn't matter
which way you turn it, as long as you do both sheets of cardstock the
same way. When you are done, the cardstock will look like this:
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| This corner piece I have scribbled through gets removed completely. |
Next, you will cut the flaps for the bottom of the bag:
The arrows I drew in show where pieces are cut to make the flaps. Note
that the piece we cut completely out in the previous step is next to a
bottom flap. Next, we need to attach the two pieces of cardstock and
assemble the bottom of the bag.
Lay your cardstock so the fold of the skinny side flap is a "mountain"
fold. Put your adhesive on the top side of this skinny flap on both
pieces of cardstock. Now adhere the flap on the first piece of
cardstock to the "inside" of the second piece of cardstock. Then adhere
the flap on the second piece of cardstock to the inside of the first
piece of cardstock.
Next
you will put adhesive on the "outside" of the smaller side flaps, and
fold over one of the larger side flaps on top of them. Set it flat on
the table and push down the smaller flaps from the inside of the bag to
make sure they are adhered.
Finally,
you will put adhesive on the "inside" of the final flap and adhere it
to the rest of the bottom. Your bag is now finished. If you are going
to want to put a topper on your bag, you can use your fingers to crease
the small sides in half partway down the sides of the bag.
Now, on to the fun part - making the bag pretty! Here is how mine turned out:
I opted for a simple topper since my paper had a pretty design. The
6"x6" paper pads in the store are perfect for this! I just folded mine
in half. I wanted to make my bag reusable, so rather than permanently
attach the topper, I wanted to tie it on. I held my folded topper over
the folded bag and punched 2 holes through all of the layers at once. I
used eyelets from my stash to reinforce the holes in the topper only.
Since my paper had a pretty design, I left it alone and just traced over some of the design elements with my Copic Spica pens.
I
also traced over some of the stamped elements on this tag with the
Copic Spics pens. I reinforced the hole in the tag with another
eyelet. I threaded twine through the holes in the bag & topper,
then through the tag and tied it in a shoestring bow. Easy to open and
easy to reuse!
The following products to make this are available in the Cutters Creek store:
Other materials used:
- cardstock in coordinating color(s)
- Cricut Artiste cartridge (for tag)
- stamps of your choice (for tag)
- eyelets and punch (I used a Crop-a-dile)
