November 25, 2010
12 Days of Christmas Projects – Project #3
Christmas Project #3 -Box in a Bag!
Christmas Box in a Bag. Stamped Images © Stampin’ Up!
This will make your gift-giving so cute! These gift bags are perfect for bags of cookies, chocolates (I mention chocolate a fair bit, don’t I? LOL) or any other small gift.
I found the original project designed by a very creative lady – Diana Gibbs. All credit to her!
If you’d like to make the boxes as I have done today, here are the directions:
1) You will need:
- Cardstock
- Designer Series Paper
- Round Tab Punch
- Scallop Trim Punch
- Bone Folder
- Sticky Strip (or Tombow Glue)
- Ribbons
- Crop-a-dile (not pictured)
- Jumbo Eyelets (not pictured)
- Embellishments
Supplies for Box in a Bag Project.
2) Cut your cardstock to4 & 1/2″ x 4 & 1/2″.
- Score 1″ all around the edges – all four sides.
- Crease along all score lines
- Snip inwards on two sides opposite each other
Cut and score cardstock.
3) Apply Sticky Strip or Tombow Glue to the “square” parts of box:
Box in a Bag Base
4) Assemble the box by folding in the square parts:
Assemble box
5) Cut your Designer Series Paper to 5″ x 11″ and apply Sticky Strip to the long edge and one short edge:
Designer Series Paper
6) Peel off the Sticky Strip from the long edge and start to ‘wrap’ the DSP around the base of the box:
Wrapping DSP around Box
7) Keep going until you get to the short edge. Peel the Sticky Strip from the short edge and gently press down:
Wrapping DSP around box
Box in a Bag
8) You will now need to cut some cardstock to 1″ x 11″ and use your Scallop Trim punch to punch a border. Apply Sticky Strip to the back of the punched out border:
Scallop Trim
Scallop Trim with Sticky Strip
9) Peel off the Sticky Strip and adhere the Scallop Trim border to the outside of the base of the Bag:
Scallop Trim on base
10) Use the Round Tab punch to punch out two tabs. Apply Sticky Strip to the inside of both sides and then adhere to the top of the bag:
Round Tab punch
Round Tabs
11) Use the Crop-a-dile to punch holes in each round tab. Carefully push a Jumbo Eyelet in each hole and affix with the Crop-a-dile:
Jumbo Eyelets
12) Thread ribbon of your choice through the Jumbo Eyelets to close the Bag and then decorate with a Christmas tag:
Box in a Bag with Ribbon
13) To make the Tag embellishment of the smaller Box in a Bag, punch out two Scallop Squares and cut the top and bottom thre scallops off the corner:
Tag embellishment
14) Cut the longer strips in half, (discard the top and bottom triangles) and attach around the circle tag at the “corners”:
Tag with Scallop corners
15) This is the view of the back of the Tag. To make it look neater simply punch out a circle and cover the ‘messy’ back:
Back View of tag.
Back of Tag.
16) Here is the finished Box in a Bag! This is the smaller one which I made with the off-cut of Designer Series Paper from the first Box in a Bag! (Two for the price of one!! Woo hoo)
Finished (small) Box in a Bag
Here are the two finished projects for you:
Finished Box in a Bag project.
I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial and that you might even give it a go! These are super easy once you’ve made one – and they really do look lovely. You can make them in many sizes, just change the height of the Designer Series Paper to have a taller or shorter Box in a Bag!
Thankyou for Visiting and I hope you enjoyed your 3rd Christmas project. Stay tuned for Project 4!
