Sunday, December 5, 2010

Last night, it was the end of year crop for the group I usually go at Megans - Better Scrapbooking. So, it was decided, after giving me only 2 days notice, that we would do a gift share between the group.
2 days! That's all the notice I got - Thursday,Megan sent me a email, and Thursday I was at home with a sick child, and NO chance of getting out. So I had to think.

I re-discovered these little gift bags I had purchased a couple of years ago:

 






Plain white gift bags that I managed to score for only 50c each (ladies, you are worth every penny of that!)
I covered one side in some Christmas paper, although I did have to redo one as I stuck the paper upside down! and used my new SU ornament punch and made some little gift tags - that was easy, I just folded the paper in half, and punched the shape with the paper slightly lower than the fold (does that make sense?)....



....and threaded some gold thread through a small punched hole for attaching to the bag.


I went out on Friday night to the mall and got some handcream, a emery board, a facecloth, and some candy canes - it's not Christmas unless you have a candy cane!  :)
I wrapped some Jingle Bell ribbon around the candy cane...













..and popped it all in the bags...



























....6x bags for 6x lovely, creative ladies.


Anyway, until next time

Jamey

5 comments:

  1. Wow Jamey, you put together amazing gifts and gift bags in such a short time. I bet the ladies were really pleased with them.

    Mandy

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  2. Hi Jamey, me again....I can't find an email link for you, could you email me your email addie via my blog.

    Thank you

    M

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  3. what a cheap skate - 50c bags...lol. But really I can talk, my gift was packaged as nicely but my candy cane reindeers looked a tad better than your's...hahahaha!!!. It was a really good night, it was great catch up night. Thanks for making it special everyone.

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  4. typo "wasn't" packaged as nicely....

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  5. Hi Jamey

    What a fantastic idea to jazz up a plain paper bag. They look great.

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