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It is almost May and everyone knows that means Spring, the start of being outdoors more, and flower bed design. It also is the start of the gift giving season – Easter, Mother’s and Father’s day, graduations, and weddings.
To make giving a gift a bit easier, but still in eye-catching style I have come up with a few ideas on how you can easily “tweak” a plain gift-bag into something unique that will have the recipient squealing in delight – “for me ?”
You can buy plain white and colored shopping bags in bulk at craft stores like Michaels and AC Moore. They cost under $10 for a stack. I keep a bunch of white ones on hand as I can add anything to them without having to worry about an embellishment matching or not. For most of the ideas below you will need a hole punch, ribbons, beads, decorative paper, glue, brass fasteners, along with a few odds and ends.
Happy Gift-Giving!
Can you think of any other ways to decorate a gift bag?
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Thanks for sharing these great ideas!
Hi Ivy-
I love this kind of stuff and enjoy drawing the little colorful illustrations to help readers envision the ideas that are always swimming around in my head. I hope you have a great weekend.
I love this post. Perfect timing for Teacher Appreciation when I have to come up with something cute, special and that costs next to nothing for approximately 60 staff!
Hi Ann-
I knew there were more gift-giving events, but could not think of them all when writing the post. Teachers – forgot about them since my kids are grown – Thanks Anne
These are all wonderful ideas! I try to jazz up my bags, but haven’t been this creative! I think I’ll print this out and tape to the top of my bags & ribbon rubbermaid ;)
Great idea! Happy Friday,Happy Good Friday, Happy Earth Day, Happy Jelly Bean Day ( yes it’s actually jelly bean day)Hugs from Katherine. P.S have you entered my giveaway?
Hi Katherine-
It is a happy Friday all around!!
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