Hello my crafty friends!
I hope you enjoyed your Christmas and holiday celebrations with your family and friends!
Now that the holiday gift giving season is winding down, I want to share an idea I have for saving the gift bags that are no longer able to be reused.
Once the gift bags are torn or part of the design are covered with old ‘To’ and ‘From’ stickers, they need to be given a new life.
I cut out a portion of the bag and put it on a card front. I also fussy cut a sweater image and added some foam tape on it and attached it over the same image on the paper.
Bits and pieces of left over Starfoam border stickers were used to accent the edges of this new card.
Another Christmas gift bag that was used several times and could have been tossed into the trash was used to create two other cards.
This well-used gift bag had large panels of Santa Clause and some holly sprigs. One of the Santa panels had a crease in it that I was unable to completely get out. (I ran it through my Platinum 6 embossing machine to flatten the crease a bit.)
I placed a strip of paper with a thank you sentiment stamped on it across the creased part of the panel. Problem solved!
A panel of a sprig of holly from the same gift bag was used to create another thank you card.
These two well used Christmas gift bags could have been tossed in the trash, but instead they were repurposed into greeting cards that can be used as a note card or a thank you card. Hopefully these cards will used to send a note of thanks to someone special.
I hope this encourages you to save a gift bag and turn it into a note card or a thank you card. It always feels good to repurpose something into something new!
I appreciate you visiting my blog. Wishing you a good crafting day!
~~Vickie~~
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