How to Decorate Gift Bags for Christmas
Homemade gifts can take a considerable amount of time to craft, especially if you have a long list of family and friends you want to give gifts. Make homemade gift bags to present store-bought gifts to make the gift giving more personal while still saving yourself a lot of time. Use a single design layout to decorate all of your gift bags, saving yourself a lot of time trying to think of designs for each of the gift bags.
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Things You'll Need
- Plain brown paper gift backs
- Snowflake stamps of varying size
- White ink pad
- Sheet of plain printer paper
- Scissors
- Green card stock
- Pencil
- Ornament stickers
- Foam dots
- Ribbon
Instructions
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Use the snowflake stamps and white ink pad to create a stamped background on the front of all the bags. Stamp the snowflake images onto the bag repeatedly in any pattern you like. Set the bag aside to dry. The white ink may take longer to dry than a dark ink would because the ink sits on top of the paper to make it visible.
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Fold the white piece of printer paper in half hot dog bun style and cut a Christmas tree like you did in elementary school. You can make the tree a simple triangle or you can make the layered look.
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Trace the tree pattern onto the green card stock. You will need one Christmas tree for each bag. Cut all the trees out. A simple triangle tree will be easiest if you have a lot of gift bags to make.
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Decorate each tree with ornament stickers. Ornament stickers can be found at craft stores around Christmas time and on clearance right after Christmas if you want to think ahead for next year.
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Tie a ribbon in a small bow. To get the best shaped bow make two loops with the ribbon and tie the loops in a knot. This technique will give you the traditional bow shape rather than the bow shape you get when you tie your shoelaces.
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Attach a bow to the top of each tree with a foam dot. Cut foam dots in half if they are too big to fit behind the knot of the bow.
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Attach each Christmas tree to the front of a gift bag with foam dots.
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