Want to pack a souvenir beautifully? Make a DIY gift bag. In it, any thing will look exquisite, like a woman in a chic dress. Perform such a product is easy. Even a regular album sheet, newsprint, or the rest of the wallpaper is enough, as well as some free time.
What is required
If you decide to make a gift bag with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:
- Sheets of paper (packaging, newspaper, magazine, designer, wallpaper or whatman paper).
- Template (chart, scan or sample).
- Pencil, ruler.
- Scissors, knife.
- A ballpoint pen (non-writing) or other similar object for making accurate 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.).
Of these available materials that you definitely have at home, you can accomplish a beautiful thing that is difficult to distinguish from the purchase.
How to make a DIY gift bag
Whatever shape and size of packaging you choose, you need to do it like this:
- Prepare the template. It can be printed to the desired scale. If your size of the scheme turns out to be larger than A4 format, make parts of the blank on several landscape sheets, which you then glue. The second option is to print it in a company that produces large-sized images. You can draw a diagram yourself or make out an unnecessary purchase package.
- Attach the template to a sheet of decorative paper and circle the contours. The auxiliary fold lines can also be made with a thin pencil.
- Cut the workpiece.
- Draw along the fold lines with a non-writing ballpoint pen on the front and back sides. This operation in printing is called "scoring". It allows you to evenly fold a thick sheet of paper or cardboard without jamming or cracks.
- Start folding the bag and glue the seams. Do this from the side, going to the bottom and top edge.
- If the package contains handles in the form of ribbons or ribbons, punch holes in the hole and insert the cord. Do not forget to tie knots at the ends and carefully process them over the flame so that they do not crumble.
- Put a rectangle of cardboard or white paper inside the bag for durability of the bottom.
- Decorate the package. This can be done even before folding, for example, if you need to glue complex elements or draw something with a brush.
Fast manufacturing method
If you want to make a gift bag with your own hands, but don’t have time to search for patterns, print patterns, you can simplify the technology and choose one of the following methods:
- If you have a good eye, fold the usual album sheet in half, leaving about a centimeter for gluing. Connect 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 border of the upper edge. Make rope handles and decor as described above.
- If you are not sure that you can do everything by eye, take as a basis a box of a suitable size. 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 you can’t get a complex shape here.
DIY gift bags: schemes
If you decide to make packaging according to the template, you can use the options shown below. The first scheme will be a form in which a flip-fastener in the form of a triangle is located on top . It should go into the slot, which must be done along the line indicated on the left large rectangle. Orange indicates the vertical fold lines of the sides.
Scheme No. 2 will help make the packaging a few other proportions, which is also closed with a paper "tongue" threaded into the slot. This element can be decorated with a bow, a button, or simply fixed with a sticker for reliability so that the bag does not open.
The third diagram shows an almost ordinary package that can be made using the box, as discussed in the previous section. But in this version, the handles are already provided for in the design. This is convenient, since no hole punch or ribbon is required. However, you need to take paper of a higher density so that the handles do not bend, or not to take a bag for them, if something heavy is inside.
You can make such paper gift bags with your own hands quickly and easily.
How to decorate the packaging
Even the most ordinary form and paper can be decorated so that a simple box or bag will turn into a full souvenir. Methods of work may be as follows:
- Glue flowers made from paper, fabric or other lightweight materials.
- Make openwork decor using quilling technique.
- Create a personal design on a computer in a graphics editor (you can use the photo of the person to whom you will present the gift) and print it. Fold the package from the finished layout.
- Apply the pattern on the stencils.
- Run the application.
- Use stickers, lace, shreds, labels.
Decorate gift bags with your own hands. The photos in this article will help you with ideas. There may be many options.
Scrapbooking bag
Initially, this type of creative activity is the creation of commemorative albums with photographs using clippings of colored paper, newspapers, magazines. Now used in the manufacture of postcards, souvenirs, packaging.
The characteristic features are glued labels, strips, ribbons, butterflies, flowers made from paper, as well as from fabric and lace. Such packages will look very cute and romantic.
You saw that making a gift bag with your own hands is not difficult at all. Choose ideas, create original decor. Remember, packaging is already half the present.