Rucksack Giftbag

 

Change a plain normal giftbag into a rucksack giftbag

I love giving gifts and it's even better if you can dress the gift up. This time the gift I had was hiking related so I decided to try and change a normal giftbag into a rucksack.

I started off with a shop bought giftbag but you could make one from scratch - just follow my instructions on this blog page here.

I decorated my bag with some circle images to represent sew on badges, but depending on your recipient and the colour of your gift bag, you could decorate your bag with anything from unicorns to flowers to rockets! (See photo at bottom of blog)

The front pocket is ideal for the greeting card 😁

  

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Woof you anniversary

 

Use a Lili of the Valley downloaded digital image to make this circular anniversary card

I went to a craft fair this week and bought myself some stitched circle nesting dies. I needed to make an anniversary card so decided to use the circle dies to create frames for one central image. This is the card I came up with:

I've made some cards using Lili of the Valley digital downloads before and if you don't like colouring, you can purchase one of their full coloured images. This really makes it an easy card and after you have paid for the image and downloaded it, you can save it to your computer and use it many times.

I like digital images because it means I do not have to store paper decoupage sheets amongst my crafting supplies and can just print them as and when I need them - less storage and less creasing! Quite often you get several sizes or you can alter the size to make it suit what you need.

You can do the same frame idea with square, rectangle or heart nesting dies, just make sure the smaller one is used on the first layer that is glued to the image and the larger one on the second layer - just follow the steps below.

Some of my previous cards made using LOTV (Lili of the Valley) downloaded digital stamps can be found by clicking on these links - Fathers day easel card, Watch the Birdie card and Animal birthday cupcake card.

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Potting Shed

 

Make a really cool 3 dimensional card using some images from a crafting magazine

In the Papercraft Essentials magazine out at the moment (issue 225), there is a luxury paper pad called potting shed. I loved the images and needed to make a gardening greeting card, so I bought the magazine and here is my card:

You get lots of different images within this pack which also includes some backing paper, so you can follow my make but adjust it to your tastes by including different images.  I've also got tons of images and papers left to make more cards :)

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