Hey Everyone

In between watching the Olympics today, I quickly whipped up a project for the Global Design Project and TGIF Challenges. The challenge at GDP is a pretty colour challenge and the one at TGIF is a technique challenge.

When I first started with Stampin’ Up! over 11 years ago, I remember making a gift bag out of an envelope. It was a really wow moment for me, so I decided to create one for the Decorated Envelope Challenge.

I took an everyday envelope and stuck the flap down. I then trimmed a smidge off the short sides of the envelope as I wanted to turn them in to the top and base of the gift bag. I put the envelope on my trimmer and scored the long sides at 3/4 ” and the short side at 1″. On this end where I scored at 1″ I took my scissors and cut slits where the long ends were scored up to the 1″ line. This created flaps. On the long ends of the envelope, I created gussets by enforcing the crease lines I had given them. Once the gusset lines has been reinforced, I then folded the base together and adhered with Tombow Glue. The envelope then had a flat base and could stand up on it’s own.

I had some off cut pieces of Night Of Navy Cardstock so I trimmed them and added a strip to the top and bottom of the bag. Night of Navy and Coastal Cabana stars were cut with the Christmas Trimmings Dies. I also cut some leafy embellishments in Coast Cabana and Polished Pink Cardstocks.

The twine was made with my Dark Polished Pink Blend and White Bakers Twine. I coloured the twine with the blend until I was happy with the coverage. I used my Postage Die Punch to punch out slits in to the sides of the bag so that the twine stayed in place.

A sentiment circle was punched with a retired circle punch and tied off with a piece of Linen Thread. The sentiment is from the matching stamp set to the dies – it’s called Tidings & Trimmings Stamp Set. One Basic Rhinestone was added for a bit of bling.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle