Party Gift Bags

Hi, Its S and K here

It’s raining, grey, cold and miserable here on this April Wednesday morning. I thought it was supposed to be spring!

Anyway has promised here is a step by step on how we made the gift bags for Miss Ks birthday party.

The bags started life as plain white and came in a pack of five for £2.50 from the Range. 

We finally got to play with our Distress Oxides.  The colours we used were:-

Picked Rasberry

Cracked Pistachio

Salty Ocean

Seedless Preserves

But this technique works with any combination of colours.  The nice thing about the Distress Oxides is that they colours don't seem to muddy when they overlay, unlike other types of ink. 

The first thing we did was to splodge the first ink on to the craft mat and then spritz with water from the mister bottle.

Miss K used a couple of sprtiz

The water then beads on top.

Next we then picked up the ink directly from the mat with the bag.  Changing the position of the bag each time to build up a random pattern.

We did this for each colour.

We then die cut a heart shape and the Unicorn from "Believe in Unicorns" by Visible Image was stamped in Black Memento.  The hearts edges were inked with one colour of the Distress Oxides.  The hearts were fixed to the front of the bags using 3D Pinflair glue.

Each bag was finished off with pink and white hearts tissue paper £.99p from the Range, and some metallic ribbon to hold on the label.  The label was stamped  with the saying "Anything is possible if you Believe"

The bags were then filled with crafting goodies for the girls.

We had a lot of fun doing these.

See you next time S and K