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

Promarkers Used:

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

Wanda Girl - Born to Sparkle - Forced to Work with Polkadoodles

Hello and happy Sunday everyone...I hope that you are all enjoying the weekend.

I'm a little late posting today as we've been out on a lovely walk this morning down along the river bed, around 8Km with our local walking group so it was an early start at 7:45 to beat the heat of the sun....it was lovely and cool most of the time shaded by the bamboo along the river so really glad we made the effort.

Today on my blog I have something a little different to share with you.  

Not a card but a handy little linen/cloth gift bag that I've upcycled using the fabulous new Wanda Girl Collection by Polkadoodles 

For todays project I have used Wanda Girl Working to decorate a little bag

along with one of the fabulous sentiments from the collection.  The little bag was free and I have another project to share once I've finished it, using one of the linen shopping bags that you can reuse.

Its really easy to do - I simply printed the image and the sentiment as normal but onto copier paper and then used a small ball tool/stylus and some carbon paper to trace the image and the sentiment onto the bag.

Next I've simply coloured the image with acrylic paints!  I used one of my metallic Posca paint pens to colour the sentiment for a touch of sparkle.

Couldn't get much easier really - just think of the possibilities

I hope that you like my project today and you'll enjoy the next projects I share from the Wanda Girl collection by Polkadoodles.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Polkadoodles digital stamp - Wanda Girl - Working

Polkadoodles digital messages and quotes bundle

Acrylic paints

Posca Metallic Pen

carbon papers

                      

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x

Baking Ginger gift bag and card with Pink Gem Designs

Hello everyone - wishing you a wonderful Wednesday.  

I'm here today on my blog to share a gorgeous little gift bag and matching tag that I've made using the new Baking Ginger gift bag set by Pink Gem Designs.

This digital download set is available in the Etsy shop Baking Ginger and it's so sweet and perfect for those little gifts at Christmas

 
Anyone that know me will know I'm not normally a bag/box maker but this set was so easy to construct. I have to say I'm so pleased with the end result too -  I just need to master making some Gingerbread biscuits to go in the bag and then it'll be perfect to give to someone special this Christmas.

The gift bag set includes 3 separate printable sheets, a beautiful spotty paper, a sheet with tags and sentiment labels and the gift bag printable (you need to print this out twice for the front and back of the bag)

 

I chose to print out the bag pieces use a heavy weight paper (100GSM) but I think it would work equally well with a lightweight cardstock and this would make the bag a little more substantial too.

The only extra pieces I added was some small card rings around my handles and I have cut a peice of card to fit into the bottom of the bag too. 

I used some of my nesting circle dies to cut out the handle apertures and also used the same dies to cut out my hole reinforcers.

I used a strong wet glue to adhere the hole reinforcing rings to the inside of the gift bag before assembling the pieces.

I just added some very simple decoration with a nice ribbon and sequins and it really didn't need anything else.

The set comes with 2 different tags and lots of extra sentiment labels too, so rather than waste these I decided to create a little mini circular easel card too !

I used some baby pink Centura pearl cardstock and my favourite circular dies from Lisa Horton Crafts for my simple easel card and used the lovely paper that comes with the set for a layer behind my focal point.

The lacy edge circular die is from a Tonic die set and the lacy edge label die is from Spellbinders.  

I've had these in my crafty stash for ages so unfortunately can't remember the names. 

Just some simple snowflakes and sequins cute from the same card and paper were used to finish of this cute little card.

I really hope that you have enjoyed my sweet little gingerbread gift bag and card.

Hasta luego 👋 

Enjoy the rest of your day !

Card recipe:
Pink Gem Designs Baking Ginger gift set

Lisa Horton Crafts Nested Torn Edge circle dies

Distress Oxide ink - Kitsch Flamingo

Crafters Companion Snowflake die

Sequins

Ribbon

Bakers twine

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I would love if you could leave me a comment. 

Wendy x