We recently had a
family party to celebrate 4 birthday’s. I needed gift bags for most of the
presents. If you’re a follower of my blog, you know that I enjoy recycling wall
calendars into gift bags. Every year I buy beautiful art and photo calendars
for my walls. For years I have saved them for the pictures, as I sorted through
them last week I was surprised to see how ancient some of them were.
I am constantly trying
different methods for constructing them, some have held up better than others. I’m
hoping to put together a tutorial, but as I’m always throwing thing together at
the last minute, I don’t have pictures to include and I’m sure they’d be
needed. Here are the latest bags I put together.
This was the simplest;
I needed a bag strong enough to hold a big book so I covered a cardboard box
using calendar pages and slices from a magazine page that matched the prints.
I also needed a bag
for the shag pillow; it needed to be wide to fit the pillow. A paper grocery
bag fit the task, just folded down the top to the right height and covered it
with a cute dog calendar and a piece of used birthday wrapping paper. I used my
decorative edged scissors to cut a strip to add on top of the calendar page as
it wasn’t quite tall enough.
The
last one was for a lightweight object, so I just used the calendar pages, calendars
with pages the weight of cardstock work best for bags. The pages weren’t quite
wide enough, so I pieced in some white glossy paper and covered it with a magazine
page too. For this bag I constructed the bottom out of a cereal box. On all the
bags I used some braided yarn for the handles.
the gift bags are as nice as the gifts they carry
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