How to make a beautiful gift bag with your own hands

Want to pack a nice souvenir? Make a gift bag with your own hands. In it, any thing will look exquisite, like a woman in a chic dress. It is not difficult to execute such a product. It's enough even for an ordinary album sheet, newsprint or wallpaper, as well as some free time.

What will be required

If you decide to make a gift package yourself, you need to prepare the following:

• Sheets of paper (packing, newspaper, magazine, design, wallpaper or Whatman).
• Template (schematic, sweep or pattern).
• Pencil, ruler.
• Scissors, knife.
• A ballpoint pen (non-writing) or other similar object for performing neat fold lines.
• Glue.
• Hole puncher.
• Satin ribbons, braid, cord for pens (if they are provided in the scheme).
• Decorative elements (flowers, hearts, stickers, lace, etc.).

From these available materials, which you definitely have in your home, you can perform a beautiful thing that is difficult to distinguish from the purchased one.

How to make a gift bag with your own hands

Whichever shape and size of the package you choose, it should be done like this:

1. Prepare the template. It can be printed on the right scale. If you have the size of the scheme is more than A4 format, make part of the blank on several album sheets, which you then glue. The second option - print in a firm that produces large-scale images. You can draw a diagram yourself or disassemble an unnecessary purchase package.
2. Attach the template to the decorative paper sheet and circle the outlines. Auxiliary lines of folds can also be made with a thin pencil.
3. Cut out the workpiece.
4. Swipe along the fold lines with a non-writing ballpoint pen from the front and the underside. This operation in printing is called "scoring". It allows you to evenly fold a dense sheet of paper or cardboard without zaminov and cracks.
5. Begin to fold the bag and stitch the seams. Do this from the side, turning to the bottom and the top edge.
6. If the package includes knobs in the form of ribbons or ribbons, punch holes and insert the cord. Do not forget to tie the knots on the tips and gently treat them over the flame so that they do not crumble.
7. Inside the package, put a rectangle of cardboard or white paper for the strength of the bottom.
8. Decorate the package. This can be done before folding, for example, if you need to glue complex elements or draw something with a brush.

Quick way of making

If you want to make a gift package yourself, but there is no time to search for a sweep, print out templates, you can simplify the technology and choose one of the following ways:

1. If you have a good eye, fold the usual album sheet in half, leaving about a centimeter to glue. Join in this place. From the fold lines at an equal distance, make two new folds, thus forming the sides of the package. Glue the bottom and the inner edge of the upper edge. Make the rope handles and decor as described above.
2. If you are not sure that you can do everything by sight, take the box of the appropriate size as the basis. Wrap it with paper, gluing all the seams. Remove the box and modify the package.

These two methods allow you to do everything quickly, but a complex form here is not obtained.

Gift bags with your own hands: schemes

If you decide to do the packaging by template, you can use the options shown below. The first scheme will be a form with a folding fastener in the form of a triangle on top . It must enter the slot that must be made along the line indicated on the left large rectangle. Orange highlighted vertical fold lines of the sides.

Scheme # 2 will help to make the packaging a few other proportions, which is also closed with a paper "tongue" that is threaded into the slot. This element can be decorated with a bow, button, or simply fixed with a sticker for reliability, so that the package does not open.

The third diagram shows an almost normal package that can be made using a box, as discussed in the previous section. But in this version, the pens are already provided in the design. This is convenient, since you will not need a punch or ribbon. However, you need to take a paper of higher density, so that the knobs do not bend, or do not take the package for them if there is something heavy inside.

Here you can make such gift bags with your own hands easily and quickly.

How to decorate a package

Even the most common form and paper can be decorated so that a simple box or package will turn into a full-fledged souvenir. The methods of work can be:

1. Glue flowers made from paper, fabric or other lightweight materials.
2. To make an openwork decor in the technique of quilling.
3. Create a personalization on the computer in the graphics editor (you can with the photo of the person who will give the gift) and print it. Add the package already from the finished layout.
4. Apply the pattern on the stencils.
5. Perform the application.
6. Use stickers, laces, shreds, inscriptions.

Decorate your gift bags with your own hands. The photos in this article will help you with the ideas. There can be many options.

Package in scrapbooking technique

Initially, this kind of creative activity is the creation of memorable albums with photos using scraps of colored paper, newspapers, magazines. Now it is used in the production of postcards, souvenirs, packaging.

Typical features are glued labels, stripes, ribbons, butterflies, flowers made from paper, and from fabric and lace. Such packages will look very nice and romantic.

You saw that it's not difficult to make a gift bag with your own hands. Choose ideas, create an original decor. Remember, packaging is already half the gift.