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Party Inspiration: Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. Let's Eat.

Thursday, 20 July 2017



modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

Welcome to our Modern Wilderness Baby Shower. 

We teamed up with an amazing group of local entrepreneurs and makers to create a styled shoot filled with unique details that are sure to inspire. This is the first of three posts and today is all about our sweet table set up because honestly, who doesn't love a sweet table?!

The party colours were primarily black and white. It's a perfect palette for a gender neutral theme and you can add pops of colour with the food and flowers. As you will see, a few pink elements will be revealed during the party.

modern wilderness baby shower - sweet table | creativebag.com

 A modern wilderness themed nursery was the inspiration for the party. A few baby gifts were left unwrapped and incorporated into the party decor. The black and white striped play tent will make a wonderful gift. We placed it beside the sweet table so party gifts could be placed inside. Balloons and paper lanterns  are easy to set up, take up a lot of space and are available in colours to match almost any colour palette. 

modern wilderness baby shower cake | creativebag.com

Our adorable two tier cake was inspired by a handmade fox doll and the hand drawn graphics printed on a onesie. We added a striped paper straw to the acrylic love cake topper to add a pop of colour. 

The toy camera is a reminder to grab a real camera for the cake cutting.

modern wilderness baby shower cake | creativebag.com

The cake cutting reveals an ombre pink filling - a clue for guests that a little girl was on the way.

Find it here: Cake serving sets. Wrapping papers to cover books and to laminate for cake liners.

modern wilderness baby shower - sweet table details | creativebag.com

modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

Find it here: candy cups, chalkboards, paper straws, faux antler card holders, baker's twine, eat cake acrylic sign, gold foil edged gift boxes, round boxes, striped ribbon, printed napkins.

modern wilderness baby shower - flower details | creativebag.com

Our beautiful floral arrangements were created using our exclusive gold foil edge gift boxes. They were topped off with "eat cake" acrylic signs and an adorable felted bird. 

Our Mama-to-be above is wearing a teething necklace that is as practical as it is fashionable.

You can find more photos and details about our styled baby shower shoot in the current Mingle Magazine. We're pretty excited that our party is featured on the front cover so we are doing a giveaway on Instagram. The giveaway is going on until July 30, 2017 so hurry over and enter to win!!

modern wilderness baby shower and giveaway | creativebag.com

In our next post, we'll be sharing more details from the baby shower. So stay tuned.

Modern Wilderness Baby Shower Collaborative Team:





modern wilderness baby shower | creativebag.com

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Creative Pinspiration to do with the kids (vol 1)

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Creative Pinspiration to do with the kids


Summer is almost over and the beginning of a new year of school is just around the corner. If you are getting tired of hearing the kids say "there's nothing to do", why not take advantage of the last few weeks of summer and let them create something fun using some of our everydayproducts.

I've been pinning a number of creative ideas to do with the kids on our Pinterest boards lately. Here's some of my favourites along with the links to the projects.

Who knew you could do so many creative things with tissue paper and mason jars?!

colourful vases, lantern jars, patterned tissue paper jars, tissue paper sun catchers


Creative Pinspiration to do with the kids


Paper straws are not just for drinking. String paper straw "beads" onto baker's twine
 to create jewellery for younger children or a garland to hang artwork and pictures for a child's bedroom.

paper straw bracelets, paper straw garland, diy pixie sticks, paper straw frames


Creative Pinspiration to do with the kids


Gable boxes are not just for baked goods! Love how these ones were decorated and used as activity boxes for kids. 

And you've gotta love this simple idea using plain wrapping paper. Use white or kraft wrapping paper with crayons and markers. This idea would be also be adorable using
black wrapping paper and chalk markers . Check out my tutorial for writing on black wrapping paper with chalk markers here.

wedding box for the kids table, rainy day boxes, send a hug in the mail

Have you created or pinned any fun projects to do with the kids using our products?

Leave me a comment with a link to your project or pin! 


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summer entertaining inspiration

Monday, 27 July 2015


summer entertaining serving products | Creative Bag

Next to holiday entertaining, summertime is our favourite time of year to entertain family and friends. Whether you are planning to entertain outside on the deck, in the backyard or inside at home or the cottage, let us help you to make summer entertaining a breeze with our packaging and serving products!

candy cups | vintage glass milk bottles | serving scoops | paper straws | paper bags | popcorn containers | chalkboard signs | serving cones | wood skewers | push pop containers | candy bags | bakers twine | cupcake stand | wood serving trays



Our creative friend, Elle Daftarian, from Petite and Sweet has just launched her new online magazine called "She Entertains" and it's filled with summer party recipes and summer entertaining inspiration. You can read it (for free!) here.

She Entertains online magazine by Elle Daftarian

Have a wonderful week - the weather is going to be beautiful!



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day 5 - giveaways and party product specials ... let's get this party started!

Friday, 12 June 2015



day 5 - giveaways and party product specials | Creative Bag



Creative Bag has launched it's new and improved website and all week we have been celebrating with giveaways and product specials. 

So let's get this party started with this our fifth and last day of giveaways and product specials. 

Today's theme is P-A-R-T-Y.

day 5 - giveaways and party product specials | Creative Bag



Today's giveaway is a tote bag filled with the following goodies:

assorted favor and treat bags, assorted popcorn boxes and candy cups, baker's twine, a copy of Brit + Co Homemakers book, a $40 gift certificate from the Bake Sale and organic cotton candy from Lola's Cloud.


Bake Sale creates fresh from scratch treats using the best quality ingredients. They bake a variety of delectable desserts from moist cupcakes heaped with thick buttercream icing to rich decadent brownies and melt in your mouth cookies. They also design beautiful wedding, shower and birthday cakes to help celebrate your special events.

day 5 - giveaways and special promotions | Creative Bag


Lola's Cloud is a Toronto-based company, whose purpose is to provide delicious and organic cotton floss for parties, weddings or special events. The winner of today's draw will receive some organic cotton candy surprise bags.


day 5 - giveaways and special promotions | Creative Bag


Our product specials of the day are a few of our favourite sweet table party items. These products are all 30% off today only online and in our stores while quantities last:

paper straws





Did you know that you have until Sunday June 14th to enter all five of the giveaways?!

Day 1
Day 2

Day 3


Day 4

We will be selecting and contacting all of our daily winners on Monday June 14, 2015. Once all of our winners have responded we will announce the names of the five lucky on our blog - hopefully on Tuesday! Good luck everyone and remember to enter each daily draw for more chances to win.




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Rustic Woodland Sweet Table on YouTube

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Rustic Outdoor Party on YouTube | Petite & Sweet and Creative Bag
Petite & Sweet has just released another YouTube video on their Petite and Sweet TV channel. As I have already told you before, we are working with Elle Daftarian on the YouTube video series. 

The rustic woodland theme has been one of my favourite themes for a wedding, party or special event for a very long time. It's comfortable and you can dress it up or dress it down with your details. I think that you will be inspired by all of the projects that Elle and her team created for this video.

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

So many great ideas ... don't you agree?! Here's some of the details and product information ...

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Elle's signature drink recipe for iced hot chocolate can be found on the Petite & Sweet blog. Our square 8oz mason jars and birch bark straws are perfect for this rustic outdoor theme. We just received a new assortment of mason jar mugs and beverage containers that are perfect for an outdoor rustic party.

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

The s'more bar is genius. I love how Elle used homemade marshmallows and you can find her recipe for making these here. Watch the video to find out more about how to recreate one of these yourself. Burlap table runners can be found here.

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Our paper bags were used for so many projects in the video. Simply mist the bags with a little bit of water and while the paper is still damp you can crinkle the bags to fit tightly around jars. Use the same technique for the favor bags. Elle filled these bags with popcorn and nuts - yum!

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Our wood slice medallions are inexpensive and easy to incorporate into so many projects . Here you can see they were used as escort cards with cutlery bundles and as food labels on the s'more bar.  We do sell custom napkins, but if you want a more casual diy look, you can make your own using our custom stamps and permanent ink on plain napkins. Find these glass containers and more here.

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

Here's a couple more unique ideas on the video. Use jute twine and mini clothes pegs  with birch branches to create a photo display. This idea could be recreated for a wedding - hang escort cards to start and ask guests to replace their card with a polaroid photo of themself. Vintage books are used to hold a display of graham crackers ... use waxed paper in between the pages to make the book a little more "food safe".

Rustic Outdoor Party ideas | Petite & Sweet | Creative Bag

I have always liked the idea of serving bite size portions at a sweet table. These cookie and milk "shooters" are adorable! Follow these links for glass containers, birch bark paper straws and striped paper straws. Our mini metal buckets can be spray painted if you don't like the rustic finish. Use a regular sized cupcake liner inside the bucket and add a mini cupcake. Use mini clothes pegs to add a tag to each bucket if you want to use these as favors. 

Here's the video ... I hope that you will "Like" it! 



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5 pretty diy favor packaging ideas using our 8oz gusset clear bags and free download for bag headers

Friday, 23 August 2013

pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
Beautiful baked goods and sweet treats always make wonderful wedding and party favors and the best way to package them is in clear bags or boxes. So with that in mind, I used our 8oz gusset clear bags and came up with five different packaging projects to inspire you. 

If you like the bag headers that I designed for a couple of the projects, you can download them for free for your wedding or party favors. You'll find the downloads at the end of this post.

pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
Decorated cookies can be quickly packaged in our clear gusset bags. The bags should be folded over at the top before adding the folded header to keep the cookies fresher longer.

Note: The bag can be cut shorter if it is too long for your cookies. The header should always cover most of the empty bag space as shown in the photo above.

pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
Paper straws are not just for drinking! Use cut paper straws to decorate our bamboo skewers
 and start making your own candy kabobs!  Add my folded paper headers the bags using two staples. Or if you want to add an extra little touch of colour, try punching two holes through the header and bag and use ribbon or baker's twine to tie together. 
pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
Use custom stickers and our clear bags to repackage large colourful lollipops. If you can't find a sticker shape to suit your packaging needs, you can create your own size and shape of stickers using full page sticker sheets and paper punch shapes. 

Note: if the bag is too long for what you are packaging, work out the length that best fits by testing with one bag and then cut the rest of the bags before you start to fill them.

pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
Who doesn't love cakepops?! These adorable little treats make great favors and whether you want to package them so that they can stand up on their own (like my samples) or so that they can be displayed in a container our the 8oz gusset clear bag are the perfect size. I covered plain white lollipop sticks with paper straws before packaging mine. Add a custom tag or flag to match your event theme. 
pretty packaging for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
The mini chalkboard signs on this project could also be added to a custom bag header. Write guest names on each chalkboard sign and you eliminate the need for additional escort cards. 

Inspired to make some of these yourself? I hope so! 
The downloads for the two bag headers can be found here:

free download! pretty packaging bag headers for favors by Lorrie Everitt of Creative Bag using 8oz gusset clear bags
1. black & white 
2. black & white with green

Happy packaging!



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Paper straw frames

Friday, 31 May 2013

paper straw frame tutorial from creativebag.com
Here's an easy project that you can create in afternoon using our paper straws. Paper straw frames can be used as a decorative element at a wedding, shower or party. Use them on food and sweet tables to let guests know what is being served. Signs are especially useful for guests that have food allergies to nuts, dairy, glutten or whatever. 
paper straws from Creative Bag
Our paper straws some in so many beautiful colours. I especially love the striped ones. We also carry different patterns and colours seasonally. 

Here's how I made my paper straw frame:
paper straw tutorial on Creative Bag's blog
1. I used some old Ikea wood frames that I had on hand (any plain frame will work), paper straws, glue, scissors, a pencil and a Martha Stewart scoreboard. If you don't have a scoreboard you can use a ruler.
2. Figure out how long your straws will need to be to completely cover your frame. For my small frame, I cut my longest straws down to 6.75" and my smallest straws to 1". I used my scoring board to mark with a pencil where I would need to cut each straw and then simply cut the straws with a pair of sharp scissors.
3. Once you have all of the straws cut to fit your frame you can start to glue the straws to the frame. I put glue on the frame and added the straws in the following order:  long straws at the top, short straws on both sides and then the long straws at the bottom.
4. Let your straws dry and you are done! I told you this was easy.
paper straw tutorial from Creative Bag
I used one colour of straws in this sample but you could easily do this project with a mix of different colours to match your colour theme. Have fun and experiment with straw placement on your frame.

Just so that you know, when I'm creating a project for the first time it sometimes takes me a few tries to everything perfect. I'm a little picky when it comes to little details ... I'm a Virgo, need I say more? ... and I thought that I'd share with you why I recommend using a scoring board vs a ruler for this project. 
Creative Bag blog post on making paper straw frames
Pictured above are my first and second attempts at making these frames. In my first attempt with the green and blue straws I used a ruler to measure my straws and I found it difficult to be consistent - especially on the 1" pieces. Check out the shorter straws on the sides! In my second attempt you can see that when I used my Martha Stewart scoreboard to mark each straw, I was able to be more accurate in my markings and my finished piece looks a bit more polished. 


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