Inspired by the colors over at Color My Heart, I decided to make a Collegiate Christmas bag for my son who is starting his Senior Year at Purdue! Do I have anything to put in it? No, of course not! I'm not that far ahead! : )
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I started by stamping a gift bag from Dollar Tree (3 for a dollar!) using the letters P and U from the CTMH Homestead Alphabet with White Daisy Pigment Ink. I then sprinkled it with embossing powder and heat set it. You can barely see it in the pictures, but it does give the bag some texture and shine! One thing I learned doing this project is this: do a row at a time! I first tried stamping the entire bag and then sprinkling. For me it didn't work. My ink had dried and the embossing powder didn't stick! I tried the warm breath trick, but maybe I hadn't had enough hot coffee before breathing on it!
The tree is cut from Celebrate with Flourish. Merry & Bright is from CTMH Artbooking and the PU is from Plantin Schoolbook. I finished it up by adding a little Baker's Twine bow where I can later attach a tag.
Obviously, this would work for any school; simply change the colors!
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I think just making the bag is a huge jump on Christmas! Great idea! Thanks for joining the Color Dare this week.
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