Monday..itus

It's very windy, and that always used to make the kids go silly so guess that's why I have gone a little silly myself and decorated up a gift bag. Why?  Crop Stop are having a summer blog hop and there is a challenge to complete 10 challenges before June 30th! Vicki told us to 'Think Pink' and create a project and that did it! It's all her fault!

(HUB just dropped a FULL bottle of white wine and broke it on the tiles in the downstairs bathroom (wine is being stored in the shower there - don't ask) and wine has gone everywhere.  The smell is delicious but three towels later he is mopping the floor with hot water to get the sticky residue off - what a waste of lovely wine)

Anyway, back to why it is Vicki's fault   the challenge at Vicki's blog: here is what I made up in PINK!

The front - it is a commercial small white bag, covered with some daisyanddandilion paper (freebie in a craft magazine) on both sides of the bag.  Then I added a pink doily cut from my Cherry Lyn Doily Die from some scrap SU Pink Passion card to each side. On top of this I put a pink die cut from a Dielicious die - Lace Dies cut from some pink pearlised card scrap.  A big sparkly pink brad attached these two items to the DP.  I stamped the WMS banner from Bitty Banners (in PP ink) onto SU Whisper White scrap and got two sentiments from WMS sets - one from Asian Gardens and one from Sweethearts and stamped them onto the banners, cut them out and attached one each side as well. In order to close the top I tied some pink ribbon which says "Happy Birthday" on it, on the handle but the top still gaped so I fashioned a tag from a scrap piece of PP and stuck it to the back, and attached a fuzzy opener thingy underneath the front, with a pink button from the stash on top.  You just pull it up and it opens the bag.

Side view

Back view

Sorry about the photography but it is blowing a gale outside and I had difficulty getting the bag to stand up and be counted.