Patterned Spring Bags by Tobi

Hello there! It's Tobi here with some cute gift bags for Easter and/or spring. 

We don't celebrate Easter, especially since moving to China, but we usually give little gifts of our favourite candy (mini-eggs) or baked treats to each other! My boys love getting these kind of presents, so I thought I'd make a cute little bag to conceal the contents.... 

I assembled my supplies and got a colour-scheme going. This is usually the way I jump-start my creativity if I don't have any ideas - which was the case today. Colours are inspiring to me and I can usually work quickly after choosing a scheme. 

I coloured an image that will serve as one of the elements on the bag. I made the colours muted intentionally so that the image can be used on top of any bag - regardless of colour.

Here are the bags, one for each of the people in my family!  

I kept the design elements the same but just changed the colour of the bag! It's a really easy way to personalize a design without a complete re-design! 

Supplies: 

Black Chevron bags

Hot Pink Chevron Bags

Teal Chevron Bags

Charcoal Baker's Twine

Sticker Stitches - Black

Valentine Lunchbox Cards by Samantha

Hello! Samantha here today with some Valentine lunchbox cards. My boys love it when I slip little notes in their lunchboxes, but only if they're a bit silly, so I make them lunchbox cards with jokes on them. 

For these notes, I created little envelopes (they measure 2 1/2" x 3 1/2") from patterned paper. Instead using the envelopes the long way, I flip them the tall way to create a pocket. I decorated the the envelopes with stickers from Valentine Labels by the Dozen, Valentine Stickers by the Dozen, and Planner Icon Stickers. 

I printed the jokes out and attached them to the outside of the envelope. I put the punchlines on a tag that pulls out of the envelope with a little delicious Twinery baker's twine. 

These Valentine lunchbox cards are such a simple way to let your kiddos know you're thinking of them even when they're at school.  

Supplies used in this project: 
Valentine Labels by the Dozen 
Valentine Stickers by the Dozen
Planner Icon Stickers
Charcoal Baker's Twine 
Marvy Le Plume Red 
Black Medium Punched Pieces

SRM & The Twinery

Oh my!  All this week The Twinery blog has been featuring projects by their design team and I'm loving all of these projects.  Just need to share!   I'll be doing some "FLASH" blog posts over the next few days.

First up is Tiffany with a fabulous birthday project using SRM's glassine bags, birthday borders and Twinery twine.  Simply delicious! 

Stay tuned for more Twinery Design Team projects featured on the SRM Facebook.