Monday, September 22, 2014

forest bordered goodie bags.

I have a lot to show you this morning, so without any of the usual chatter, lemme show you how to make these:

forest border goodie bags

I made treat bags to show off lawn fawn's new snow day collection.  It's the regular goodie bag, but I combined it with the forest border to give it an extra special look.

forest border goodie bags

You could just cut a forest border, and tuck it inside, but seamless is so much nicer...

forest border goodie bags


So let's get to the tutorial!

forest border goodie bags


In case you can't read the type on the pictures, I'll repeat it: cut 2 goodie bag pieces.

forest border goodie bags


On each piece, try to find the straightest portion of the forest border die, and cut just below the handle. We want that thing off!

forest border goodie bags

OFF.

forest border goodie bags

The trickiest part: don't assemble the bag yet! Hold the front of the bag, with the forest border and pinch it to the side. Make a pencil mark where you will want the edges to line up. Do this for each side!

forest border goodie bags


Once each side has a pencil marking, you can line it all up and send it through your machine.

forest border goodie bags

All ready to be assembled!

forest border goodie bags

Trim off whatever is extra when you fold in the sides and there you have a very pretty looking holiday box!

You can stop here and it looks fantastic. I added some strips of patterned paper to the inside for an extra pop:

forest border goodie bags

I hope you like it!

Check out the lawn fawn blog for more snow day collection inspiration - click!

♥.

13 comments:

  1. So cool! I love how you even decorated the sides!

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  2. So cute and clever!! Those goodie bags look so neat with the tree border! Thanks for sharing how you made the bags!! :)

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  3. These are gorgeous! I can't wait to play with my new goodies!

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  4. Great tutorial! I love the height of these and the white bottoms, so sweet!

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  5. Absolutely love what you did with the goodie bag die! Thank you so much for showing us how you did it!

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  6. These are so cute! I love how you used the tree border die!

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  7. Fabulous tutorial, Elena! These look amazing!

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  8. Very cute gift bags. What a wonderful idea of cutting the bag with the tree die and than adding the colorful winter paper. You are a true paper engineer.

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  9. This is so awesome, Elena! You're so creative :-)) I need to try this out!

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  10. This is lovely! Thank you for the great tutorial!

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  11. I love the goody bag, but you really took it to another level!

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  12. These border dies are so cute with your treat bags, Elena! Love them!

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  13. Great tutorial. Love the goodie bags you created.

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