Fond Farewells

Fond Farewells

Hallo Everyone!

Thought just for a change we

could tackle the Goodbye word.

It has such an air of finality about

it, I much prefer Auf Wiedersehen,

Au revoir....... or even the more

informal Ciao and Servus that

mean both Hello and Goodbye

We start off with Bon Voyage and

Jane Castle

"I've been working on a pattern for a 

small gift bag recently that 

could be made from a sheet of 

12"x12" double sided paper and 

having got the proportions to balance 

I thought I would share this with you

 for this project.

To begin with I made my template 

( there were a few before!)

 out of a sheet of fairly robust A4 tracing paper.

All dark straight lines are cuts, side and bottom

 and the dotted lines are folds.

 I then cut the main shape from my piece of 

Fabscraps paper.

Then working on my cutting mat 

I scored my folds.

 Most lines are easy to follow as they 

join up several of the v-shaped cuts.

 As I didn't want to make any marks on the paper 

I laid the template on top to check any folds 

I was not certain of.

Most folds all go the same way except

 for the 2 centre side panels.

To stick the bag together I used Comic Shimmer 

Glue as this not only dries clear 

it also dries very quickly! 

I began with the 3 flaps at the bottom, 

then the side fastening, 

then folded over the top 

making a neat edge and

 finally the last flap at the bottom.

4 holes were then punched at the 

top for the cord handles.

Now onto the tag and card:

For this I used a piece of A4 cream 

coloured card which I cut in half (A5) 

for the card and cut the tag from the remainder. 

The edges of the card and tag were lightly 

brushed with D.I. in Pumice Stone.

I then randomly stamped small areas of text 

in Potting Soil from my new set of Archival Inks. 

Then using 3 of the 4 ink pads from the set

 I inked up the main image from 

Deep Red Clingstamps of a train station.

For the tag I didn't ink the area of the roof 

with the clock but I did in the card.

 From the trimmings of my double sided paper

 I cut out a few of the small images and added

 these to the tag and card.

I then cut 2 x 28cm lengths of black nylon cord

 for the handles of the bag. 

These were threaded through and knotted

 on the insided of the bag.

The tag was placed onto the cord before knotting!!

Bon Voyage was added to the card using die-cut letters.

I really like the way the inks blend 

giving subtle shades of the 3 colours.

The bag is a perfect size for small gifts

 for travellers ie sun tan lotion, vouchers, 

jewelery etc and if the bag isn't completely

 full the card fits inside too --- a bonus!

I hope you find these instructions fairly 

easy to follow but if you have any queries 

please leave a comment at the bottom of the 

page and I will get back to you. 

Thanks for stopping by today."

Items Used

Archival Wendy Vecchi Mini Inks Set 1

FabScraps 12'x12' papers In Transit C87

Deep Red Clingstamps Train Station

Distress Ink Pumice Stone

Cosmic Shimmers Glue

Text stamp 

A4 cream Card

Thanks to you Jane for a lovely

start to the week. 

'Till tomorrow

Mickie