By Noreen Doll. Learn to make a fast basic bagalope - a gift bag made with an envelope - that can be finished in many different ways. A bagalope is quick and easy to make and perfect for small gifts. All you need to create one is an envelope, scissors, ruler, and pencil - all items most people have already. You can find instructions for these all over the internet, … [Read more...] about Basic Bagalope
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Crimped Envelope Bag
By Noreen Doll. The reindeer crimped envelope bag uses a reindeer cut from a recycled card and an envelope. Cut designs you like from old greeting cards: flowers, poinsettias, snowmen, reindeer and more. Use a piece of a brown paper bag. Or cut a small piece off the crumpled brown paper that came in that last box you ordered through the mail. You really don't … [Read more...] about Crimped Envelope Bag
Mini Gift Bags
By Noreen Doll. Mini gift bags are perfect for holding small gifts, including gift cards, small pieces of jewelry, and money. To make one, you need 1 envelope and a few colorful decorations, such as buttons, flowers, and even colorful paper strips. This is a project kids can work on, and they could draw on the envelopes - before crimping, or add … [Read more...] about Mini Gift Bags
Free Gift Box Templates
© by Noreen Doll. Use these free gift box templates to make many different kinds of small boxes. This is an excellent way to recycle all those Christmas or birthday cards that are taking so much space in your home. If you don't have many used greeting cards, or you need to make a lot of small gift boxes and bags, consider buying greeting cards specifically for this … [Read more...] about Free Gift Box Templates
Greeting Card Sour Cream Box
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card sour cream box is another gift box that can be made from a recycled card. Basically you glue or tape the two open edges together to make a tube, and then close both ends. Turning the tube halfway before closing the top edge gives the gift box an interesting look. To close the bottom edge of the greeting card sour cream box, you can … [Read more...] about Greeting Card Sour Cream Box
Gift Box Patterns
By Noreen Doll. If you're looking for great gift box patterns, try this unique triangle shaped box made with a greeting card. You can either recycle an old card or use a new one. The triangle box is so quick and easy you can make several in half an hour. Even better, you can teach your kids to make them, too. One thing I discovered when making a triangle box is that it … [Read more...] about Gift Box Patterns
Greeting Card Pizza Box
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card pizza box is very easy to make. Just a few cuts and folds, a bit of glue, and it's ready to use. This gift box is hinged on one edge just like a pizza box. A greeting card pizza box may be used for any small gift, such as money, jewelry, or a gift card. What You Need Greeting Card Small Strip of Card … [Read more...] about Greeting Card Pizza Box
Pillow Box Template
By Noreen Doll. A greeting card pillow box template is quick and easy to make using a greeting card. And after you make one, you can use it to easily make dozens more gift boxes from the same size card. Here are some boxes made with different sizes of cards and pillow box templates. After you put your gift inside the pillow box and close the ends, you can tie a … [Read more...] about Pillow Box Template
Gift Box Packaging
By Noreen Doll. Gift box packaging is easy when it requires only one greeting card to create it! The front of the card becomes the lid, and the back of the card becomes the box bottom. This small handy gift box can be used to hold small gifts, a gift card, or money that is rolled or folded to fit. Using a large card to make a lidded box works best unless you … [Read more...] about Gift Box Packaging
Origami Box Using Kids Art
By Noreen Doll. Here's a great way to make an origami box using kids art. You know that if you have kids, you have lots of art works they've created. You don't want to throw it away but you don't know how to use it all either. Now you can create an origami box using kids art just for wrapping small gifts. What grandparent or aunt wouldn't love having a gift box … [Read more...] about Origami Box Using Kids Art
Lunchbag Gift Bag
By Noreen Doll. Make a quick lunchbag gift bag for an easy gift wrap for small gifts. I made several Post-It Note holders to give as gifts and I needed some small sized gift bags in which to wrap them. I also wanted to wrap them quickly and inexpensively. So I turned to one of my favorite gift wrapping ideas - a small brown lunchbag. You can usually get 40 or 50 … [Read more...] about Lunchbag Gift Bag
Origami Box
By Noreen Doll. I love making this origami box! It is very easy to do and can be made with almost any kind of paper or card stock. The box can be made in any size you want and all you have to do is decide what size your paper needs to be. It's also very easy to teach kids how to make it, and once they learn it, they love creating them. An origami box can be used … [Read more...] about Origami Box
