Make a Christmas Gift Bag For Sweeties With Me

#1 Stampin’ Up! UK Demonstrator Pootles – Make a Christmas Gift Bag For Sweeties With Me

Happy Monday Everyone! And Happy December!

Have you opened your advent calendars? Do you have one? We don’t this year. Well, Chris and I don’t, the boys do! But I’m having fun watching social media and seeing people open their beauty/foodie/lego calendars each day!

Anyway, I’m a little later sharing my video today than usual, but as I’ve been absent for the last week or two, not unexpected!

I’ve had a couple of very busy weeks, with ‘stuff’ taking me out of my home, which in turn, exacerbated my health issues and left me utterly exhausted. I’m not sure I’ve had as busy a time in recent years, let alone as in the month of November, but suffice it to say, my calendar is now actually completely empty right through until Christmas, bar doing our food shopping! So hopefully, that will allow me some time to recuperate, and get back to sharing more often!

But we also never know what’s going to happen that we can’t prepare for.

Sadly, last week, one of my sons was assaulted on his walk to school, so with that comes all the stresses and factors involved in escalating it. And then during the filming of this actual video, I was getting repeated calls from the same son. He’d been out with friends who then abandoned him with no way of getting home….

On the upside, I’ve managed to do almost all of my Christmas gift shopping – online has been great (I’m addicted to hunting down small/local businesses) as well as picking up a few bits and bobs while I’ve been out of the house!

Just got to wrap them now, and that (finally!) leads me on to today’s video!

A cute little gift bag, made from start to finish, fully on camera, and perfect for sweetie bags.

Unfortunately, the camera was zoomed in a little close at the start, but I do fix it, and yes, there are the multiple phone calls towards the end, but thankfully, it came out great! Well, I think so!

Anyway, as promised, fully formed measurements are below, and I hope you can make the bag too!

S x

• Paper – 12 x 12″ (30.5 x 30.5cm)
• Score on the FIRST side at 0.5, 2, 6.25, 7.75″ (1.5, 5, 16, 19.5cm)
• Score on the OTHER side at 1.5, 9.5″ (3.5, 24cm)

 

I hope you enjoyed this project, I absolutely adore what I do and spend many hours working on designs, new projects, new ideas and more.

I love to spoil all the people who shop with me, so every month I post out a handmade card, an exclusive newsletter and a product gift too.

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Sam Hammond Donald

#1 Stampin’ Up! UK Independent Demonstrator

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