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Happy New Year

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-31T17:06:00+00:00

Wishing you a Happy 2012 from everyone at Creative Bag!

My girls and I made a lot of cake pops this holiday season and I loved displaying them on wooden serving trays. Pictured above are some of the cake pops we decorated with crush candy canes.

If you have never made cake pops before and want to try to make them yourself, I have a cake pop tutorial here!

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Holiday gift wrapping - last minute inspiration

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-23T15:23:17+00:00

My holiday gift wrapping is complete! and I thought that I'd share one last post with holiday packaging ideas!

I fell in love with these tin wine bottle containers when I was shopping for my tin gift card holders and metal pails. I can see these being reused for storage (I'd use them for my paint brushes) or regifted (again and again). To decorate my containers I used what I call "paper pops". I'm sure that you've seen these in stores but I like to…

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Holiday Wrapping with Tin Gift Card Holders and more

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-21T20:08:21+00:00

Here's some more gift wrapping inspiration using our tin gift card holders! You can use these metal containers for gift cards but they are also great to hold business cards, Mommy and family cards.

So of course, my decorated gift card containers have to match my handmade Christmas cards and the other gift wrapping projects that I have already shared with you. The graphics that I used to decorate the outside and insides of…

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Creative Canvas Gift Bags

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-18T16:22:07+00:00

Cotton fabric bags are a great gift wrapping option and are so easy to dress up with an iron on transfer. You can purchase ready made iron on transfers but I prefer to design my own so I usually buy the blank t-shirt iron on transfer sheets that you can print at home on an inkjet printer. I used the canvas bags pictured above to wrap gifts for my two great-nephews. The boys are both under 5 and I thought that canvas bags could be reused after the holidays to carry around favourite…

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Holiday Wrapping with Paper Bags

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-14T23:06:54+00:00

My Christmas cards are now all out in the mail and I am starting to work on wrapping my gifts.

As soon as I saw the Bitty Bags in the Toronto store I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them.
I selected the blue and white dotted bitty bags because they co-ordinated perfectly with the blue and white Divine Twine that I used on my Christmas cards. So here's what I'm doing with the bags once the gift has been…

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Bag Headers for Holiday Gift Giving

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-12-06T17:06:14+00:00

Here is an easy little packaging project for the holidays that I hope you will try it out. I love to create simple paper headers and attach them to clear plastic bags ... they are perfect for party loot bags and teacher/class gifts. In my examples, I used the lip-n-tape bags because I like that I can reopen the bags if I need to and they come in lots of different sizes.

I created another freebie for you (for personal use only) that you can download on…

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Decorating Clear Tin Pails for the Holidays

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-11-28T17:44:57+00:00

Hello! My name is Lorrie Everitt and I'm so excited to be guest blogging at Creative Bag. I look forward to sharing with you project ideas, tutorials, inspiration and the occasion {free} download! So let's get started with one of my favourite ways to "wrap up" a gift using a clear tin pail ...

Creative Bag has a great selection of tin containers. There are so many different shapes and sizes available that the hardest part…

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Christmas Apparel Boxes

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-11-16T16:03:05+00:00

The Holidays at the end of the year are probably the most memorable moments you’ve ever had growing up. Even though you’ll recall things like how snowy or cold the winter was, you’ll also include those special and unique moments you had visiting or being visited by friends and family.

With the arrival of guests often came the customary presentation or swapping of gifts, a moment often cherished by everyone not only on the receiving end but on the giving side as well.

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Cake Boxes

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-11-02T15:31:52+00:00

When reminiscing down the path of yesteryear, it’s hard not to flashback to certain birthdays and special events. These happy gatherings filled with joy and amusement almost always culminated with the presentation of carefully crafted confections, most often in the form of a cake.

With the cake always stealing the show, no attention was ever paid to its protector and safeguard, the CAKE BOX. Since the inception of the cake, only the cake box has been able to prevent the destruction of this delicate…

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All Hallows Eve

Creative Bag Admin — 2011-10-26T13:14:26+00:00

Halloween, the popular North American Holiday, is best known for children, and even adults, dressing up as ghosts, ghouls or goblins and roaming the streets, knocking on doors in search for sweets and treats. After a night thrills and chills, the spookiest night of the year often concludes with a trip to a haunted house or a gathering of witches, warlocks and werewolves dancing to some thrilling tunes.

Like many festive days, there’s a strong history and meaning behind it all, as Halloween was…

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