Treat Bag Tutorials- October Blog Series

TREATS, TREATS and MORE TREATS!!!
We love dressing up our Treat Bags to give to Friends and Family for Halloween and Fall! Today we are sharing 2 super cute and easy project ideas using Treat Bags from Crate Paper- After Dark Collection!

Crate Paper- After Dark Treat Bags

Halloween Treat Bag by Rhonda Merry  

To create this bag, take the flat treat bag and gusset the sides so that it will stand up.  To do this, fold up bottom about 3/4” and crease using a bone folder.  Open up bag and flatten bottom to stand bag upright and forming tabs on either side.  Fold tabs upwards and secure with adhesive.  Then run up the sides of bag to form corners. Fill with treats enough to allow a fold over top. Secure and add a tag topper. 

This tag was made with papers from Carte Bella’s Trick or Treat line by die cutting a label large enough to be framed by the bag and then layering it with a Halloween journal tag. Punch a hole at the top to add trims in which a few from my stash at home helped to fluff up the look and secured with some orange and black twine from LBH.  Add a glittery pumpkin from the Halloween Thickers and a few leaf sprigs using the Reverse Confetti Leafy Confetti Cuts and you are set to create a Spooktacular display of treats for Halloween.

I love the Gold Accents on these Treat Bag!!! 

Happy Fall Yall Treat Bag by Valerie Bishop

For this bag, I simply stamped my title between the glitter stripes. I cut a few leaves using my Silhouette Cameo and the b-side of the "Spooky" piece of Crate Paper. I liked the paper because it was a neutral color that allowed me to spray them with Spray Mists to give them some color. After the leaves dried from the spray mists, they curled up perfectly to look like real fallen leaves. I use some tiny pop dots under the center of each leaf to leave them curled but to give a little more lift off of the bag. I adhered the medium black and orange ribbon to frame the top and bottom of the bag.

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We hope you enjoyed our Treat Bag Tutorials today! You can find everything you need to create these treat bags at The Little Blue House!!

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Craft Market Paper Rosette Ribbon Tutorial

Hey there, it's Lindsey here with a quick tutorial using Crate Papers new line,  Craft market to make a fun paper rosette award style embellishment.

Gather your supplies....

Crate Paper-Craft market Pattern Paper (gold and pink glitter)

Crate Paper Craft Market Wood Hoops

Crate Paper Craft Market Chalkboard Stickers

Doodlebug Sprinkles Vellum- Bubblegum

White Pen- Sakura Gelly roll

Glossy Accents

Foam Tape

Step 1.  Using the pink and gold paper, cut approximately 7 stripes out.  I had the "V" pointed down and cut from the right hand, bottom side

Step 2.  Gather the 4 longer pieces, discard the shorter pieces.  Also cut 3/4 in strip of Doodlebug Vellum and add to the pieces. 

Step 3.  Dovetail all the pieces, I just eyeballed this with scissors.  

Step 4.  Trace the wooden loop and cut out.  Play with the lengths until you like what you see, The longest for mine was 4 inches and the shortest 3 inches.  

Step 5.  Write a sentiment on the chalkboard sticker.  I used a Sakura white gelly roll pen in my faux-calligraphy handwriting. TIP:  Don't be afraid to lightly pencil out the sentiment, once the pen has dried its very easy to go back and erase.   I let things over-dry, nothing frustrates me more than smeared pen.  ( As a lefty, I am too familiar with it)

Step 6.  Using glossy accents glue the wood hoop to the paper circle you cut out in step 4.

Step 7.  Add some foam tape behind the chalkboard sticker 

Step 8.  Place chalkboard sticker in the center-ish. 

Step 9.  Select arrow from the puffy stickers and cut in half.

Step 10.  Trim the excess ribbon off the pink rose and glue using glossy accents or hot glue.  Place the pieces from the arrow on either side.  

Step 11.  I added a few more words in my handwriting to finish it off.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, its a fun little piece to make with all the graduations coming up- it could be added to a card, put a pin on the back and have the grad wear it.... possibilities are endless!

Thanks for stopping by, all the products used are available at the Little Blue House!

Best wishes, Lindsey

"Happy, Happy Day" Layout Tutorial with Susan Tidwell

 

"HAPPY, HAPPY DAY" LAYOUT
Crate Paper- Craft Market

 

Hi everyone, Susan T. here with a layout tutorial for you using the lovely "Craft Market" papers from Crate Paper. 

 I love the soft hues of this collection and it suited my photos of the day our newest grandson came home and his 2-year-old brother finally got to meet him.

I used an easy watercolor technique on the background using the new Cracked Pistachio Distress Ink. This new color is beautiful and matches this paper line so well.

Take a medium-size acrylic block and smoosh (technical term!)
the ink pad on it and then spritz it with water until it beads up.

"Stamp" with the inked block randomly over the "Craftsman" paper. Press down harder if you want more coverage; press lightly to get a droplet effect. Repeat this until you have the desired coverage. So much easier than painting with a brush!

Here you can see that I started where my photos would be to practice first. It gets "patchier" toward the outer edges.

I added a torn strip of Doodlebug Bubble Gum Sprinkles Vellum by machine-stitching it over a few paper elements. This eliminated the need for adhesive which will show through the vellum.

Here you can see the envelope piece cut from the "Project w/ Gold" paper and a strip of the "Thrifty" paper
(I think that paper is my favorite of all the collection!)

I continued to layer cut and torn pieces of several of the papers ("Studio," "Inspired w/ Gold", and "Thrifty") and added stickers from the Journaling and Title Accent Sticker Sheet.  
After adding my photos I embellished with the Puffy Gold Stickers (stars, hearts and arrows).

In this photo you can see a portion of the Wood Veneer Hoop that I added over the larger photo to highlight my two cute little grandsons.  I loved that it looked like a real wooden hoop so I used it as is.  I also used one of the paper strips to fold over an American Craft Paper Straw to make a flag.  The polka dot strip came from Craft Market- Studio Paper at the very bottom of this photo is actually a barcode strip from one of the papers - I love that some manufacturers add these patterns and I use them frequently!

Here you can see one of the Wood Veneer Tags w/ Gold Glitter Accents. I added number stickers from the sticker sheet for the year, added a scrap of printed paper to cover the hole of the tag and embellished with another heart puffy sticker.  I used the Wood Veneer Circle w/ Gold Glitter Accents in the upper right corner of my layout, adding the date of the photos with a gold Uniball Signo pen.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and love these papers and embellishments as much as I do. It's a versatile, pretty paper collection and it's available now at The Little Blue House or
online here!


Susan Tidwell