Boxes and Bags

Also at Stamp Club last night, we made two make-and-take projects with very different feels from the same stamp set, Autumn Apparitions from the Holiday Mini.

First, we made this adorable genie bag, perfect for Halloween party favors:

These are simple to make – start with a plain lunch bag (I used a white bag for this project) and cut off the top (as much as you’d like to fit your treats). 

Then cut two pieces of cardstock slightly larger than the bag and adhere one to the front and the other to the back.  For this bag, I cut my cardstock to the standard card size (5 1/2 X 4 1/4) so that I could get four from each piece of 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock.

That’s really all there is to it – you can embellish the front (and back if you’d like) with whatever design you’d like.  The nice part is that these bags will lie flat even after they are decorated which makes them easy to store and transport.

With the same stamp set, we also made this 2-5-7-10 box from a piece of 8 1/2 X 11 cardstock:

There is also a great tutorial on these boxes on SplitCoastStampers (did I mention that’s my favorite stamping website?) by Jenn Balcer.  I met Jenn last year at Stampin’ Up! Leadership in Houston – what a wonderful girl!  And a VERY talented stamper as well… 🙂

For this box, I also wanted to showcase a the matching Autumn Leaves wheel and work a little bit with masking.  These boxes are perfect for filling with little treats as a small gift – with the holidays coming up, these are an easy and inexpensive way to create something special and heartfelt.