Goody Bags Assembled and Ready for the Party |
My older daughter recently celebrated her 7th birthday. For the goody bags for her party, I was very inspired by designs I saw in the 2011 Cricut Holidays magazine:
This magazine |
This issue contained several designs for using plain brown paper lunchbags and using them as holiday-themed goody bags. I basically just took the instructions for one of the designs and adapted the materials to fit a girl's birthday party theme. I used my Cricut Expression with 12x24 mat, Elegant Edges and Mini Monograms cartridges, Gypsy, Cricut cardstock, American Girl paper pack and butterfly/bee sticker embellishments, pink ribbon, Xyron sticker maker, hole punch, and foam adhesives. Fortunately (and this is rare for me), I had every bit of these supplies already on hand.
Other supplies that I used. The coffee is a "supply". |
First, I used the Elegant Edges and cut Book-Shift-<Swirl1> at 5-1/2" on plain cardstock. After folding the top edge of each bag down about 3", I used the decorative edge of this cut to trace the shape onto the edge of the bags. I then trimmed the bags along my trace-line to create a decorative edge. Yes, I know my hands are ugly; try to look at the bag.
Next, I used some striped paper from the American Girl paper pack, and used the Gypsy to set up the mat to cut 12 3-1/2" circles. I probably used Mini Monograms, but use whichever cartridge you already have that has a circle shape on it. Since the paper size is 12x12, I just put 2 sheets on the mat at the same time, so that I could cut out all 12 circles at once.
Next, I used white Cricut cardstock, in a 12x24 size. I used the Gypsy and Elegant Edges cartridge to set up the mat to fit 6 of the Frame-Shift-<Swirl1> at 4-1/2". Since I could only fit 6 frames on the mat, I had to cut this mat twice to get all 12 that I needed for the goody bags.
For the circle shapes in the center, I decided to use 4 different paper designs, so that the bags would not all be exactly the same. To add some stability, I used the Shadow feature of my circle cuts to cut coordinating shades of plain cardstock. They were all done at 2-1/4". Since I made 12 bags with 4 different paper patterns, I needed 3 circles of each paper/color. So I positioned the circles on the Gypsy mat in such a way that I could put the paper or cardstock on my mat in quadrants. I pre-trimmed the papers into 6x12 sizes and positioned it on the mat as shown in the photos. Then I only needed to cut the mat once to get all 12 circles.
My Cricut Expression with the base cardstock |
My Cricut Expression with the patterned papers |
Once all of my cuts were completed, I ran all the shapes through my Xyron EXCEPT for the colored cardstock circles. Once my shapes were all stickers, I adhered each small patterned circle onto a coordinating cardstock circle. To the paper bag, I adhered the striped circles first, followed by the white cardstock frame. Finally, I used double-sided foam tape to adhere the smaller circle to the center of the bag.
I then attached the sticker butterfly/bee embellishments to the center of each circle.
Once that process was complete for all 12 bags, I stuffed each one with confetti paper filler and the goodies. I then used a single hole punch to make 2 holes at the top of the bag, making sure to go through the flap and the top of the bag itself. I used pink ribbon to tie the bags closed. These bags were a big hit at the party, and were a nice, inexpensive (given that I already had these supplies on hand...probably left-over from previous projects) goody bag option that is a little different from the norm.
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