Video: Window Tote Gift Bag: Handles

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After cutting a window in your gift bag the next step is to create handles for it and attach them. Watch this free video clip and see how a gift wrapping expert does it.

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We're almost done making our little window gift tote out of a piece of typing paper and a page protector, a plastic page protector, or a piece of transparency asitate. We're going to go back to our box now. We use that to hold it in place while we tape our sides. Just makes it easier to make sure that the tote maintains its shape. Now you can get all crazy and hide this tape, in fact, you know, you might want to. I'm not going to this time. Or, you can even use double stick tape and run it along the inside. Oops, I did that on the wrong side. You want your flap to go toward the back of the bad instead of toward where your window is. There we go. Fantastic. I'm just going to crisp up this edge a little bit. Give it a pinch so that it will stand up, making little adjustments. Now we're ready to add some handles using a, this is a eighth inch hole punch. You can use a standard quarter inch hole punch if you like. I'm just going to make four little holes. And I've got some twine here for my handle. I'm going to thread it through the back, through the front, around the front, our the back again, and normally I have my little knot on the inside of the tote, but this time I'm going to make a little bow on the outside of the handle, just to show you another option. Oops, we need to lengthen that. And, we're going to just tie this in a square knot and then make our bow. That makes the bow not come undone. Cute. Give that a little trim. Adds a little bit of personality. It's slightly different way of doing it. Then you've got, when you're holding your little handles, you've got a little bow at the top. I just think that darling.

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Window Tote Gift Bag: Handles

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