Elephant Gift Bag

This week at Frosted Designs, our theme is Give a Gift.  I used paper and a digi image from one of our sponsors - Cedar Chest Designs.

I printed out the elephant.  I was thinking it would look cute on a canvas but did not want to color the image in.  I printed out an 8x8 page in green with dots.  I am not super savy with digi images, so I put the elephant on my copy machine and ran the printed page through. 

I fussy cut the elephant out.  Later I learned how to size the images, but by then I really liked my polka dotted ellie!!!

I wanted to take the theme literally {Give a Gift} and thought about decorating a gift bag instead of making an actual gift.  I got a brown kraft gift bag and got started!

I needed some grass.  I found this grass border on Martha Stewart Season Art Cake.  I put three of them on my mat (sized to 1") and welded them together.

I cut the grass out in lime green cardstock.

I grabbed this K and Company paper from my stash and trimmed it to fit on the bag.  

I punched three circle "balloons" out of an old book page.  I inked them purple, green and pink.  I used my 5" Xyron to adhere them to my bag.

I used matching twine for the knot and balloon string.

I used a strip of tissue tape with birds on it from Michaels.

This bag would be perfect for a baby gift or a child's birthday gift!!

Be sure to join us at Frosted Designs with a Give a Gift item of your own!!