April Suite Sampler #4-A Pretty Foil Bag

Hello there! The snow is melting and the creek is flowing! I think spring is finally here. Might get to take the outside Christmas decor down this weekend. I even noticed my daylilies are coming up. Yep, spring is here. :o)

I thought I'd share with you another project from the April Suite Samplings Kit. If you're not sure what that is, check out this post. The kit included a couple of the gold Striped Treat Bags. These are flat treat bags, but with a couple of score lines, it's pretty easy to make a gusseted, stand up style bag.

Start by scoring a line 3/4 of an inch in from each side and the bottom.

It's a good idea to then fold the bag along those lines in both directions. Then it's just a matter of opening up the bag and creasing along those folds.

Just pinch along the edges to crease them. The bottom corner will end up making these little triangles. You can use a glue dot or Tear & Tape to adhere them to the bottom of the bag.

Voila! You have a gusseted bag! Once the bag is filled, fold over the top and add your decor. For my bag I cut a 2 x 6 piece of DSP and a 1 1/2 x 5 1/2 piece of vellum. They were both banner punched and then folded about 2 inches down from the top and simply laid over the top of the bag. I didn't even glue the vellum to the DSP. The library clip is holding it all together. Some simple stamping and fussy cutting, along with some sequin trim finishes up the tag. I used the Sweet & Sassy heart dies to cut out my heart, but you could easily fussy cut that out.

What do you think? Are you enjoying these projects? I hope so. I've been perusing through the new catalog and picking out which suites I love the best and what items to put together with them to make up next year's kits. So many super-awesome choices! It's gonna be hard narrowing things down. I do have June's picked out and most of the details figured out. Can't wait to share it with you. Remember, there won't be a kit in May due to most of the DSP retiring. I will announce the June kit as soon as I am able to.

I will be back with at least one more project using the April kit. If I have time, I will show more because I have a LOT of paper and supplies still left from this kit. Just not sure I'm going to have time to make more goodies before April is gone. I would love to know where time flies to. If anyone finds out, could you please let me know? Thanks.

Till next time...
God's love and blessings!

Hostess Code Bonus: Please use this month's Hostess Code when you place an order. It will allow me to pick up some goodies to share with you when I send out your Thank You gift at the end of the month. (If you check the "Do No Contact" button when you order, I cannot legally contact you in any way, which means I cannot send you a Thank You gift or any extra goodies. :o(  )

April Suite Sampler #3.

Hello there! I am back with some more ideas to use the April Suite Sampling Kit. This time I'm going to share 2 cards with you. The first one is a great way to show off both sides of some Designer Series Paper that you love. Sometimes I hate using DSP because I love both sides and I don't want to glue down one side and not be able to see it. This way you get to see both.

To make this card, I cut a piece of DSP 4 x 6. Since the sheets of DSP are cut to 6 x 12, it was simply a matter of cutting off a 4 inch piece. I then tore the paper by hand about 5 inches down. I glued smaller piece to the bottom of the card front and then flipped it over and glued the larger piece on top. By cutting the paper at 6 inches your bottom piece should be large enough for the top to overlap it and not have any gaps for the card base to show through.

The sentiment was stamped onto Whisper White and then punched out with a 1 3/4 inch circle punch and mounted on one of the larger gold circles included in the kit. That was adhered with dimensionals. In the picture below, you can see that I glued some of the mini sequins included in the kit between the flowers on the larger piece of DSP. They co-ordinate well with the gold foil circle.

For the inside I stamped some Whisper White with one of the flowers in the stamp set and some leaves. To get a bit of a watercolored look, I inked up the stamp and then sprayed it lightly with some water before stamping onto the cardstock. Super simple. I did create a mask to go over the flower before I stamped the leaves.

My second card showcases one of the other floral patterns in this kit, but on the envelope flap. The card highlights the various stamps in the set. I love that you can get this multi-colored stamped look super easily. I simply started by stamping the sentiment, and then stamped the various leaves and flowers around it. Most of them are just ink straight from the pad, but the little flower and what I think are berries were inked up with Stampin' Write markers so I could get the various colors. 

I little strip of DSP and some shimmery ribbon complete the card.

To cover the envelope flap, I traced the flap onto the DSP and fussy-cut it out. I glued it on with Tombow Multi Adhesive as I wanted to make sure I got the adhesive all the way to the edge. 

One last thing before I go: this stamp set and the coordinating DSP on the retiring list. So, if you didn't order the April Suite Sampler, but you would like to make these projects, you will want to get an order in for them as soon as possible. 

I will be back later with some other projects using some of my favorite retiring products. Gotta use 'em while I can! 

Till next time...

God's love and blessings!

Hostess Code Bonus: Please use this month's Hostess Code when you place an order. It will allow me to pick up some goodies to share with you when I send out your Thank You gift at the end of the month. (If you check the "Do No Contact" button when you order, I cannot legally contact you in any way, which means I cannot send you a Thank You gift or any extra goodies. :o(  )