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December 21, 2011 by Mariel

Fold Your Own Gift Bag! (she: Helena)

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 My name is Helena and I live in Vallentuna (Sweden) with my husband, my two daughters and two cats in a house built in the 1940’s. I’m a graphical designer and I’ve had my own company Bildbiten for ten years now. I love to create things – I crochet, knit, paint, sew and do a lot of paper craft. I also enjoy home decorating. You can find me at Craft & Creativity.

Gift bags are very useful, but when you need them, you’re always out of them. And they’re quite expensive.

Then it struck me. It must be possible to make gift bags yourself. Especially when you already have everything you need at home – pretty paper, string and glue. I simply took a gift bag that I had at home and disassembled it. I did a bit of moderation of the size and made a PDF template which your are welcome to download for personal use.

The dimensions are adapted to fit on an A4 sheet, because I imagine that’s the most common size of paper. However, this is a fairly small (but cute) gift bag, 9 cm high and 11.5 cm high. If you want a bigger bag, then simply scale to desired size.

Click picture to enlarge, then click on it again to double the size.

And if you have a cat who loves strings, well then you have to watch your gift bags … 🙂

~ Helena

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  1. Carey805 says

    December 21, 2011 at 2:44 pm

    Awesome! Thank you.

  2. Jessica Yoder-Jones says

    July 9, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    Thank you very much! Very easy to make with the wonderful instructions. Thank you also for the template

  3. Mary says

    May 25, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Love these! Thanks for the template! I will definitely be making these and will also have to hide them from my “ribbon obsessed cat!

  4. Glenda M says

    August 8, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    Thanks so much. I found you via Pinterest and I have needed this for a while. Great to find such an easy tutorial. Very handy indeed. Thanks for sharing.

  5. Diane H says

    February 22, 2014 at 3:38 am

    Fantastic. Thank You! I have been looking for something like this.

  6. Marina Ribacki says

    March 19, 2014 at 7:50 pm

    So cute and so easy! I’ll make this when I have again fancy paper, haha. Kisses.

  7. Shonda says

    September 15, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Awesome. This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much for sharing.

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