Digi Choosday - Wednesdays - Gift Wrapping with Polkadoodles

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday I hope that your having a good week so far, I cant believe its the end of October already - my goodness time flies!

It's that time of the week when we launch a brand new 'Anything Goes' challenge over on the Polkadoodles Digi Choosday Blog so I hope you are going to join in and don't forget the amazing discount off all crafty printable downloads until midnight today!

The theme set for the DT this week is to create some gift wrapping so i decided to make a small gift bag for Christmas.  

I don't often make gift bags but this is such a simple one to create - even I could do it. For the base of the bag I used some red cardstock (about 160 GSM).  

These are the measurements and then score lines I made  started with 2 pieces of red card measuring

• 2 pieces of 8 1/4 x 11 red card

• Score along the 8 1/4 side at 4 1/2 & 7 3/4

• Score along the 11 side at 7 3/4

Fold and burnish the score lines and then you will need to cut along the bottom edge on both pieces for the corners of the bag before assembling it.  Sam Calcott has a great tutorial  that explains how the gift bag is made.  Here is the link  to the instructions.  I decided not to create the outer wrapper in the tutorial opting to decorate the bag simply and then use my eyelet tool to add eyelets to the top of bag to allow it to be closed with some pretty red ribbon

To decorate the bag I cut two pieces of patterned paper from the new Gingerbread Cookie collection from the Gingerbread Cookie Snow Day bundle.  From the red cardstock I have die cut a scalloped panel and then adhered one of the pre-coloured toppers from the Jingle Bells bundle to decorate the front of the bag.

The gift tag I have added is from the Sweet Gingerbread bundle, with a piece of simple twine through the hole at the top. 

To add a little sparkle I have added glitter glue to the Christmas tree baubles.

I hope that you like my card today and you'll enjoy the next cards I share from Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:Please note contains some Affiliate links at no cost to you if you purchasing using these.

Polkadoodles digital papers - Gingerbread Cookie - Snow Day Bundle

Polkadoodles digital gift tag- Gingerbread Cookie - Sweet Gingerbread Bundle

Polkadoodles digital topper - Gingerbread Cookie - Jingle Bells Bundle

Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles - Icicle Blue

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Wendy x