Gretchen Barron: Wrapping It Up for the Holidays -- Day One -- Frosty Bag

I had my Wrapping It Up for the Holiday's Class today so now I can show you the adorable projects that we made! In fact, I'll be showing you a few of the projects each day for the next several days so be sure and stop by again tomorrow and see what I have to share. Look at this adorable Frosty Bag! Can you believe how stinkin cut he is? This is a variation on the Frosty Card that I showed you the other day. Click here to view the original post and a Tutorial Link. I have again modified some of the ideas that were inspired by Elizabeth Terrell.

These little Genie bags are so quick and easy to make. If you haven't tried them you really need to. You will be amazed. The base of the bag is a lunch sack. Yep, a simple lunch sack. I used a white one but you can easily just use the plain ole' brown ones -- you know the ones that come in a pack of 100 for your kids lunches!

I cut the Real Red front and back just a bit wider than the sack I was using. I cut the sack down to 5" tall and cut my two cardstock pieces at 7" and used the Wide Oval Punch to make the handle openings. Attach the front and back to the lunch sack using Sticky Strip. Then it's time to decorate!

For this Frosty, I turned the Top Note Die on it's side so his face is wider and not so tall, although I did set the hat a little higher on his head to give room for his face to shine through. I just think he is so darned cute. You can follow the Tutorial on my previous link for most of the details so I'm not going to elaborate much here. I used Elizabeth's wonderful idea of giving Frosty a little friend, the little bird from the Birds & Blooms Sizzlet's Die set (a Stampin' Up! Exclusive Die). I glittered up one of the Little Felt Flurries snowflakes (using a 2-way glue pen and Dazzling Diamonds Glitter), added a couple of fern die cuts (sorry they are not Stampin' Up!) and then attached the little bird using a small silver brad to connect everything to his hat. His little front wing covers up the brad quite nicely! You can see the detail of the bird and snowflake embellishment better on this close-up. You can also see here how I did his eyes -- I put SNAIL adhesive on the top and dimensionals on the bottom to give them a bit of depth as they stand away from his face just a bit on the bottom edge. Anyway, I am in love with Frosty and I hope you have enjoyed seeing him as well. Give him a try!

I'm offering several card sets in my online store that would make great gifts or stocking-stuffers for just about anyone. There are sets of Frosty cards, Monogramed Note Cards, Note Cards for Red Hat Ladies and some beautiful Inspirational Note Cards with Scripture. You can check them out here or by clicking on the link on the left side-bar. Orders placed by December 18th should arrive in time for Christmas! Just let me know if there's anything you would like!