Owl Christmas Bag

Marianne here today with a little Christmas bag for you. I know it is still Summer but as we are nearer to Christmas than we are to last Christmas it is never too early to start your Christmas makes. This is a lovely rustic bag with lots of different textures.

You will need

Little Claire A4 diecut sheet We 3 ships

Bag to decorate

Burlap paper

Memory Box precious stockings die

Red card

Gold glitter card

Owl ribbon

Red raffia

1 Remove the owl diecut from sheet and mount onto red card. Cut a piece of burlap paper to fit the width of your bag but leaving a gap at the bottom of the bag. Cut a piece of ribbon the width of the bag.

2 Attach burlap paper to the front of the bag. Attach ribbon to the top of the bag.

3 cut three pieces of raffia slightly longer than the width of your bag. attach two pieces across the bag. Tie a bow around the raffia with the third piece. Attach the owl image over the raffia ensuring you have room for the stockings,

4  Die cut the stockings from red card and the stocking tops from gold glitter card. Make up the stockings and attach to the bottom of the image.

You can see more details of products used on my blog.

Friday blog project - use those scraps

Marianne here with you today to show you how to create a colourful card using those scraps of paper which usually end up in the bin. I now keep a pile of the strips I think would be useful on my desk to use as a background. 

You will need

Either Silhouette Stamp Do All The Things or Silhouette die cut

Shaped card blank

Paper strips

Co-ordinating flowers

Pearls

1 Stamp the image using Memento Tuxedo Black ink or use the silhouette die cut.

2 Play around with the paper strips until you are happy with the arrangement. Don't cover the whole card blank and make the edges at different heights and widths. Attach to card blank and trim any overhanging pieces to shape of card blank.

3 Attach image.

4 Layer up flowers and attach to card and add pearls.