Digital Scrapbooking Kits for Altered Art Projects

A while ago I posted about finishing a hatbox by creating the papers digitally. It’s a fun project, and a great way to personalize a gift box. It’s also one of the most viewed posts!

It was also fun to take a notebook, pen, and small wooden box and decorate them! I find it so much fun to create tangible projects, but created with the personal touch by digi crafting!

Well, my newest one is a simple gift bag and tag.

This started out as a plain blue gift bag, found at most craft or party stores. I wanted to decorate it with summer themed papers and elements. Taking the measurements of the bag, I wanted my paper to cover 7.5″ x 10″, so I set up my page for Letter Size Paper, and cropped the paper to that size. I’m using the beautiful kit “Cool Caribbean” by Designs by Shelle.

Once my paper was sized, I just added the elements, used ribbon for the frame, and put my sentiment on the scallop tag.

I just printed it out. Now, I knew it would be simple enough to just adhere the whole front to the bag, so I wanted to add a little something extra - something dimensional. So I printed another copy with the decorative tag and some of the background paper. Then, I just cut out the tag and adhered it to the background paper - wrong sides together. Thereby creating a two sided tag! I punched a hole, added my blue fiber and attached it to the bag handle!

I’ll just put my friend’s name on the back of that tag, and it is all ready to go!

17 July 2008 | Altered Art, Digital Scrapbooking, Papercrafts | Comments