Penguin Mini Gift Bag

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas. Obviously!

 In July's Small Die of the Month club set you'll get dies to make 3 super-cute character 'mugs'.  A reindeer, a penguin and the Father Christmas one I shared on my firt Clubs post, plus the froth for the top of the mug and the handle.  You'll also find a couple of cute extras like the scarf, snowflake and a teeny heart.  

In an earlier post I shared a simple 'wrapper' for a sachet of hot chocolate using the reindeer mug dies. This time I've used the adorable little penguin and made a sachet sized gfit bag.

I think these are perfect for sending 'warm wishes' to send as a little "Feel Better Soon" wish to someone feeling under the weather, or as a small Christmas gift, or even to hang on the tree when Christmas comes along

To make it I used a piece of thin card, printed with a digital design. I like using digis because I can crop, or just resize them to be perfect for my project.  You could also use a ready made patterned paper, or just make it in coloured card.

This bag is really simple and easy to adapt for whatever you want to put in it.  I've made a couple of very rough plans to show how it works.  You just need to adjust the measurements to make sure your item will fit inside.

The two 6cm sections are the front and back, so measure across your gift and adjust acordingly

The three 1cm sections relate to how 'thick' the gift is, so change those if necessary

The 2.5 section is where you add the glue to form the bag

The 1.5cm is the piece that is glued and tucked in at the bottom.

Dashed lines are fold lines

Red wedges should be cut off before sticking anything to make the overlaps neater

Punch holes and add ribbon to close thee bag 

The picture below shows the main dimensions  without the fold lines etc

 

These die sets are just fab, they go together really easily and are so cute

For the penguin you just need to cut the main body and the wings in black and the face and tummy in white, then add the extra bits you want.  The dies already have holes so the black shows through for the eyes, and the die cuts you make will have the marks on them for the features and to indicate where to add other pieces

I made a small error and forgot to add the handle to this one, oops! 

 I made a tag by printing the 'A Warm Wish for You' on card via the pc and bakcing in silver glitter card to make a tag and sealed the bag with some blue ribbon 

Materials

 

from Spellbinders;

July Small Die of the Month

 

Full 48 ColorWheel Cardstock Pack 8.5" x 11"

 

Other 

Snowflake digi printed onto thin white card

Blue Ribbon

hot chocolate sachet 

pc generated sentiment for tag 

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 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx