I love making homemade cards and gifts as they really make the gift more personal. To add a more unique touch it’s nice to present the gift that is beautifully wrapped. Making homemade paper or pretty gift bags are a wonderful way to make that gift all the more prettier.
I always find that I can never find the perfect sized gift bag when I want one, so I have started making my own gift bags. They are easy to make using newspaper, brown paper, crafting paper or any scraps of wrapping paper.
To make these pretty gift bags you will need:
- Ruler
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Paper of your choice (20cmx20cm) you can use any size depending on how big you want the bag.
- Glue
- Motifs- flowers, buttons,stickers
- Glue Dots
- Ribbon
To make a small gift bags:
1. Place the paper right side facing down and draw a 1 cm margin .
2. Fold the paper on this line this will be the top of the gift bag.
3. Draw a vertical centre fold line.
4. Fold first the right side so that it overlaps the centrefold pencil line by 1 cm and then the
left side so it also overlaps the centrefold line by 1 cm.
5. Glue the left and right sides where they overlap over each other.
6. Turn the paper so that the top of the bag is furthest away from you and make a horizontal fold 4 cm from the bottom edge. (This fold must not exceed the width of the bad)Make a crease to mark the fold.
7. Lift the folded part so it’s standing up horizontal.
8. This is a little tricky, but open up the folded part and fold the right and left sides of the paper so that they almost meet at the centre fold line as shown in picture. Form a crease so that the paper lays flat like a diamond shape.
9. Fold the bottom edge so that it slightly overlaps the horizontal center line and stick them down. Now fold the top edge so that it too overlaps the horizontal central line and stick it down.
10. Fold in the right and left side margins of the gift bag and crease firmly to form sides. Shape the gift bag on the creases.
11. Fold over 4 cm on the top edge of the gift back to form a flap.Using a single hole punch or a sharp pencil made two holes approx 1 cm from top edge on either side of centre fold line for ribbon to be threaded. Thread the ribbon through the holes and tie a bow.
12. To make handles do not fold the top, mark two holes approx 1 cm from each outer edge and punch holes. Thread a ribbon and knot each side to make two handles.
13. Alternatively just add a glue dot to seal the flap once you have filled your gift bag.
I was sent a collection of papers, motifs, ribbons and glue by Craft Merrily to create anything I liked using some of the contents from the craft box.This post is part of the Monthly Bostik craft challenge.
KLF
This is so cute and I didn't even know that you could make your own gift bags from paper alone
rhian westbury
These would have come in super handy at Christmas when I had some awkward shaped things to wrap! You have more patience than I do though x
Samantha Donnelly
What a great idea I have never thought about making my own bags before x
angela hamilton 2014
I can see me making my own gift bags from now on, These look so much better than the generic shop bought ones. Thank you for this post! xx
Helen @ Fuss Free Flavours
These are lovely Nayna, really good idea to make you own, I usually stick paper on to those posh shop carrier bag.
Unknown
What a great idea! This would be such a fan thing to make with kids
Lindy
so so clever! I never would have thought to make a bag. That's probably why I'm not a very good crafter!
Unknown
I have genuinely always wondered how they make these bags and now I know! These look nicer than the ones I buy from the card shop so think I'll start buying pretty paper instead!
Nadine Hill
These look shop bought! Great tutorial.
Heather Haigh
Those are really pretty and gift bags can be so expensive. I must have a go.
GG
These are lovely and so easy to make. I usually struggle to find the bags I want in pretty prints or something appropriate for a man. Thanks for the really good step by step. GG
Lucy D
I can never find the right size gift bag, so I am totally bookmarking this!
Unknown
These are so cute! I've seen videos of people making these and really wanted to try! this tutorial looks great!!
Unknown
These are super cute, I wish I had your talent for making things x
Jen Walshaw
Oh I adore these and have pinned them. Perfect
Ana De-Jesus
Aw these gift bags are so cute!I love the top left and bottom left bags I can see myself using them the most.
Emma White
Aw what a fab idea we are always running out of wrapping paper and I think these are much better
Ickle Pickle
These are so great – how lovely to make them yourself. You have made it look really easy – thank you. Kaz x
Jibberjabberuk
I have a whole stash of scrapbooking papers I could use for this. My daughter would love to make some for her friends.
Unknown
this is so cute and creative! Love it! Next time I need a gift bag, I will do it myself.
Dominika
Unknown
These are brilliant, I am definitely going to bookmark this as I can never find the right size bags, and always end up wrapping gifts last minute!
LeilaB
This is so cool.
Elizabeth
What a lovely idea! We have so much coloured paper we should do something like this. Super!
mummy24
wow these look really good!
Ashleigh
Unknown
This is so creative and clever. I am not good at such things at all.
Heart2Art
These are brilliant and they seem really simple to make. I will have to make some instead of relying on shop bought ones.
Home Cooked food
Very crafty , it comes handy when you don't have anything and rush to the store.
Life-As-Mum
Such a great idea making home made gift bags! So creative.
Unknown
What a fabulous idea! I absolutely love the idea of trying these out, I have some important dates coming up soon and they would be ideal! Thank you x
Daniella
What a great idea, so simple to make and would save such a lot of money on buying individual gift bags.
Heidi Roberts
These are really pretty. You do have a lot of patience though!
Penny P.S. and A Residence
So easy when you know how! Love these, and the paper you chose.
Kara
such a lovely idea and they look so simple to make too
Unknown
These are so cute who knew things like these would be so easy to make yourself – thank you for sharing 🙂
Janice
So pretty and your tutorial is excellent!
Emma
They are gorgeous, what a lovely craft.
Fuzzy Little Balrog
These look great, I will be trying this out to accompany homemade Birthday gifts 🙂
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