WMSC#65-Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

For the last four days I have been enjoying visions of Christmas Cottages, snowmen and dreams of the cooler holiday weather, so of course when I sat down to make my project for WMSC#65, all I could think of was Christmas.

This week's sketch is another good one by Anya Schrier.

The first thing that drew me to this sketch was the curved bottom portion.  I decided to make a gift bag and tag for my project and knew tha tI wanted to include a curved edge in my project.  So, how do you get a curved edge on a premade kraft bag with the handles already in place?

There's probably some better way that I haven't thought of, but what I did was carefully pry the handles off by sliding my cricut spatula tool underneath the glued on portion of the handle.  They actually came off pretty easily.  Then I cut the curved edge and taped the handles back on using scor-tape.

Here is my gift bag:

In reality, the tag started the project off.  The sentiment from Compliments of the Season about sleigh bells ringing is probably my favorite from the set. 

Compliments of the Season

 I found a free sleigh svg that I cut with my cricut and stamped it with a background from Pic-nic Patterns. 

Pic-nic Patterns

 I added distress  ink and dotted each little flower with red stickles.  I cut a mat outline in dark chocolate and impressed it with a linen impression plate.  The sleigh needed some bling so I added a poinsettia wreath for the front and some sleigh bells draped from twine in the back.  The papers are by Bo Bunny Father Christmas.  I straight stitched around the top layer and stamped a faux zig zag stitch along the bottom. I wrapped twine and more sleigh bells on the center layer.  The tag was diecut from Spellbinders Labels#14 and stamped with a frame from WaltzingMouse Holiday Labels #14 stamp set using Adirondack "Bottle" pigment ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. 

Holiday Labels #14



The sentiment was stamped with A Muse pigment ink in French Roast and also embossed.  I added some more sleigh bells and some wrinkled ribbon to tie it all onto the handles. 

Here's a little closeup of the tag and curved edge of the gift bag.

/If you haven't played along with the Mischief Makers at the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge Blog, you really should!  Here is a link so you can check out all the great projects with a new sketch posted every Saturday.
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