Beaded Boo Bag

This decorated boo bag is the perfect way to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters or to give to a child to carry around so she can collect her own.

Materials:

• White paper gift bag with handles (8” wide x 10” tall)
• Orange cardstock 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”
• Lime green cardstock, 6” x 8”
• Large jack o’lantern rubber stamp and black stamp pad (or print a black and white drawing of a jack o’lantern onto your orange cardstock)
• Kreinik #16 Braid 051F, 053F
• Kreinik 1/16” Ribbon in 052F
• 4” x 6” Treasure Tape
• 1-inch Treasure Tape.
• Diamond Beadlets
• Shallow pan or tray

Steps:

1. If needed, stamp the jack o’lantern image onto your orange cardstock or print from your home computer.
    
2. Remove the 4” x 6” Treasure Tape from its white backing and lay, centered, on top of your orange cardstock. Remove the red liner to expose the top sticky part.
    
3. Use the orange braid to outline the pumpkin.
    
4. Use the green braid to outline the eyes, nose, and mouth of the jack o’lantern, and to create leafy tendrils next to the stem. Use our photograph as a guide.
    
5. Write the word “Boo” using the 1/16” Ribbon
    
6. Lay your card in a shallow pan and cover remaining sticky areas with Diamond Beadlets.
    
7. Using Treasure Tape, adhere the decorated orange cardstock to the front of your green cardstock. Then attach this to the white bag.

Kreinik threads available through needlework stores or www.kreinik.com.