You may remember when I posted about the upcycled gift bag that I made for a baby shower gift recently. It was actually a design that could be used for most any gift and this one is much the same.
My friend, Sharon loves all things coastal, but isn’t really keen on the traditional blue and green color schemes, so for her birthday I decided to make a sailboat gift bag with some non-traditional colors.
Once again, I pulled out one of my large bags. This time a traditional brown bag. I dug through my scrapbook papers and found some lovely plaid, starburst and print papers.
Initially I did a Google search for images of a sailboat line drawing that I thought I could trace. After looking them over, I couldn’t find what I had in mind so I just looked at a drawing for ideas and created the pieces from scratch. They’re all pretty basic shapes, so it was easy.
Just for fun I printed the name of the ship on the orange plaid paper that would be used for the hull and the mast.
I added cute brass star-shaped brads to the pennant shaped flags at the top of the mast.
And check out the words on this fun paper that I used for the waves. Rusty orange print to coordinate with the other papers, and words like surf, wave, tide and cool!
And here’s the finished product – full view of the bag. Added an orange plaid tag and bright yellow tissue paper to complete the look.
What do you think? Can you give me ideas for other gift bag designs? I may just make your suggested creation.
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