Special Spring Gift Bags

Sometimes the best part of a gift is the wrapping. These Special Spring Gift Bags will spruce up any homemade gift with their avian-inspired design. In fact, these DIY gift bags look so good, you could leave them empty and your recipient would still love receiving the bag. You'll love all of the crafty elements that go into creating these tags and bags. Crafts for spring don't get more eye-pleasing than these DIY gift bags.

Materials:

• Jacquard Products Idye
• Gift tags
• Paper Towels
• Jacquard's Lumiere in Metallic Silver
• Brush
• StazOn inks
• Script and Bird Stamp
• Neopaque paint
• Paper lunch bags
• Canvas/Cardboard for handles

Instructions:

1. Dip dye the tags in the mixture.
    
2. Jacquard' Products Idye comes in machine washable friendly packets but can be dissolved in hot water and used for other surfaces such as paper.
   
   
    
3. Mix everything up in a gallon sized baggie that can be zipped up and stays fairly mess free. Dip the tags into the mixture and let them dry on paper towels for a few minutes.
   
   
    
4. Once dry, dry brush them with Jacquard's Lumiere in Metallic Silver to give them extra sheen. Adding paint to the tags also makes them more durable.
   
   
    
5. Use StazOn inks with script font stamp and little bird stamp to stamp toward the bottom of the tags.
   
   
    
6. Dry brushing some Neopaque paint around the edges of the tags adds a finishing touch.
   
   
    
7. Add tags to plain lunch sacks with the tops rolled down cuff-style. Add some lace trim and a little sparkly embellishment to the tag. Handles were created using paper punches and fluted paper from Canvas Corp.
    
8. Stuff with shredded kraft paper.