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Today I’d like to share some pictures of gift bags that I recently made. This years Christmas card has a holly theme and I found the perfect gift bags in John Lewis BUT when I tried to order them online they had sold out of the size I needed. {sob}. After a plea for help, my dear friend Lynn (Garden Pinks) pointed me to a tutorial that had printed gift bags. The tutorial was excellent but the bags themselves were not quite to my style, so as Tricia Morris would say, I made it my own, and here are the results.
Medium/Large Gift Bag. Christmas Holly 2011
From the tutorial I took the basic measurements and tried them out on paper, learned how it all went together then went to design some papers. Opened Craft Artist from Serif but in my own collection of digi kits I didn’t have any holly. Luckily my computer was online at the time, and after scrolling through lists of elements, I discovered that there was a digikit available that had THE most perfect holly. DH helped me download and install ‘Yuletide Joy’ digi kit and I put some papers and images together to make the bag.
After a play, I also worked out how to make a smaller gift bag from a single sheet of A4 card. I redesigned my layout to work in that format. I worked out where the scorelines would be so I could place my main image (holly) in the right place and in the later bags I’ve also added a seasonal greeting. LOVE LOVE the versatility of Craft Artist, there are plenty of projects that you can print out or just add background papers too. Once you get going though, the only limit really is your imagination.
Medium/Large and small Gift Bags. Christmas Holly 2011
Craft Artist is ideal for crafters of all levels and is really easy to use, great if you don’t have much room to craft in.
Not got Craft Artist yet? You so need it, if pennies are tight there is a free version of a cut down version of the software available and there are also some free digikits too. Treat yourself to a craft room on your computer, the embellishments and papers in the digikits are stunning, best of all you can use them over and over again, and you don’t need to find shelf space for all the stash 
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Really wish there was more light so I could film a video tutorial of how to make these. Autumn/winter in the UK though is very low light and I need very bright sunny day AND all the lights on to get something worth watching. Made lots of notes along the way, so there will be a video tutorial of this when the light allows.
Hope you like them and give Craft Artist a try, it’s so much fun.
Best wishes and thanks for reading
Billie
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Love your gift bags and that holly is so life like. The recipients of these bags with their gift will treasure them as you have obviously put a great deal of thought and effort into them. Lovely
So glad to be of assistance Billie
Hugs
Lynn xx
Hi Lynn
Thanks, I was playing with the concept you sent me and was really pleased with how they turned out. Will try and send you an email asap. Been poorley since the weekend, oops.
hugs
Billie x