Lunch Bag Gift Bag

March 2009 Workshop Project.

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This cute and versatile Gift Bag is using an ordinary brown lunch bag.

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Directions are as follows:

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Step 1. Cut the top of the bag off so the bag is 7 inches long.

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Step 2. Put red line tape across the top of the bag, front and back.

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Step 3. One side of the bottom of the bag is always in the 'up' position. When you smooth it down it will almost always be shorter than the front side of the bag. This is OK, but you need to be careful how you put the rest of the project together.

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Step 4. Put red line tape across the bottom of the bag. This is where you need to be careful that you put the tape across the bottom of the front and across the bottom of the back flap you just folded down.

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Step 4. Cut a piece of Card Stock 8 1/2 x 11 in half so you have 2 pieces 8 1/2 x 5 1/2. One is for the front and one is for the back. DO NOT ATTACH TO THE SACK YET.

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Step 5. Cut your designer paper to match your card stock, embellish, then attach to the piece of card stock that will be the front of your gift bag.

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Step 6. Attach the front piece to the lunch bag by removing the red line tape and gluing up the rest of the sack with a glue stick. There will only be 2 pieces of tape on the front of the sack. One at the top and one at the bottom. The front of the sack will be the side that is longer at the bottom when the 'bottom' of the bag is folded over.

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Step 7. Turn the bag over, remove the red line tape, run the glue stick over the back of the sack then CAREFULLY line up the bottom of the card stock for the back with the bottom of the card stock for the front. DO NOT line it up with the bottom of the sack. This will cause your gift bag to 'lean' to the back and possibly fall over.

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top it off with a Big Shot Top Note and a 3x3 gift card to coordinate with your occasion.

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Again, I can make a detail of all instructions with pictures if that works for you better. Without your input, I will continue to give directions as you see them.

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Thanks for looking and Happy Easter!