Last Minute Gift Bags from Re-cycled Shopping Bags
Do you need a gift bag in a pinch?!! Did you miss calculate how many bags you would need and came up short? Do you really want to recycle an old gift bag, but think it's too ugly to put that well thought out gift into for that someone special?? We all have piles of these.....
If you don't have a pile of these, start keeping them for next year.
Are you in a pinch and need a nice gift bag? Well.....you come to the right place. I am going to show you how to throw together a quick solution by recycling the shopping bags from the gifts that you bought. Here's how....
Gather up your shopping bags, leftover wrapping paper, decorative papers and old greeting cards. Like the ones we talked about yesterday in my blog post Very Last Minute Gift Tags From Recycled Holiday Cards. Grab a glue stick, maybe some rubber cement and a pair of scissors. I also used my hot glue gun. We are going to transform those ugly shopping bags into something pretty and usable!
Here we go....
I covered the logo with a glittery piece of white paper and topped it off with the front of an old Christmas card that I had in my stash. |
I don't shop at Bloomies. Can't remember why I have this. But it is a great brown paper bag. |
Covered the Bloomies logo with a piece of red paper, added the front of an old Christmas card and cut little strips of burlap for the frame. Added a little piece of burlap tied off for the bow. |
Just bought killer eyeshadow for myself. |
Simply cut out this little piece of paper with my pinking shears from a flyer I got in the mail. |
Had to buy the Peppermint Bark!! The holidays aren't the same for us without it! |
Larger bags are better suited using decorative paper or wrapping paper. |
Something yummy came home from this delish restaurant here in town. |
Don't shop here either. I call this place "Needless Mark up." But hubby bought a Prindables Apple for his assistant and I gobbled up the awesome bag! |
Wine bag I had on hand. Ugly. Needs help. Besides, I don't want to give wine in this to anyone! |
I know you guys haven't had enough of this decorative advent paper. But had to use it because it changes the entire look of this bag. Now I can put something other than wine in the bag. |
Hubby bought something at a golf event. |
Piece of burlap topped with the front of a card. The ribbon was added to hide a few surface tears in the bag!! |
From a collectibles mall near my house. I do shop here. (wink) |
Simply glued down a piece of wrapping paper and added a note card made from some of that decorative advent paper. Topped off with a nice bow. |
Don't forget to come back tomorrow for my
Day 25...Last Day!
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Day 25...Last Day!
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25 Days of Christmas and Holiday Ideas and Gifts Series!!
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3 comments:
This is a great idea. I've never thought of redecorating those store bags.
Merry Christmas.
Awesome!! Now on the 26th, I want you to re-purpose all those gifts people would think about regifting! hehe
Beautiful and so creative, much nicer than anything you can buy in the stores!
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