There is Beauty in Simpicity

Good Morning

Alice here with my Monday morning Blog.

Materials Used:

A5 Peony Stamp Set
Black Memento Ink
Copic Markers
White Card

• To make the gift bag, I cut the card into the appropriate sizes and scored and folded where appropriate.
• Before assembling the bag, I stamped the Peony flower 3 times across the top of the front and back of the gift bag using a masking technique.
• I coloured with copic markers then fussy cut out along the top edge of the card, keeping the remainder of the flowers attached.
• I felt the front of the bag was very plain, so I embossed a sheet of white card and stuck it on before I did the next step.
• I stamped I stamped 5 more Peonies and coloured them in with copics and fussy cut them out.  I also stamped and coloured an assortment of leaves and fussy cut.
• I joined all the pieces of the gift back together and made it up.  
• I punched  2 holes in the front and back of the gift back to attach the ribbon.
• I arranged the 4 of the remaining coloured peonies along the front of the back raising them with foam pads.  Evenly attached the leaves evenly around the raised peonies with some glue.
• Finally cut out a die shaped tag, embossed it with the same embossing folder.  Coloured the tag with Oxide Ink, the stamped a sentiment from my stash.  Added the final Peony to the front of the tag.  Finally punched a hole, threaded some ribbon through and attached to the bag.