Hotel Chocolat Ribbon Bag

January 2, 2021 Claire Taylor

I haven’t met very many people who are not keen on chocolate. I know that a few chocolates will cheer anyone up and are greatly appreciated. My favourite are the Gems and my parents favourite Dark Chocolate Brazil nuts are from Hotel Chocolat., they come packaged in the Ribbon bags, they look super pretty. Although they are prettily wrapped, I like to add to the beauty by using gorgeous paper to wrap them in. I try to change the packaging for every celebration.

The original bag uses the gorgeous In Good Taste DSP, I made the second bag with the gorgeous Fine Art Floral DSP from the January to June Mini Catalogue (available from 5th Jan). It is a gorgeous combination of stunning painted flowers and abstract patterns. I love the colours and that the flowers are a large design perfect for large bags and creations.

One of my favourite packages is this gorgeous bag. The video below shows how I have created this bag, I have used the Fine Art Floral DSP but any designer series paper will work.

Instructions

Imperial -

Piece of DSP measuring 9.75” x 11.5”

Score on long side (11.5”) at: - 1.75”, 5.5”, 7.25” and 11”

Score on short side (9.75”) at: - 1.75” flip the paper and score at 2”

Metric -

Piece of DSP measuring 25cm x29cm

Score on long side 29cm at: - 4.5cm, 14cm, 18.5cm and 28cm

Score on short side 25cm at: 4.5cm flip the paper and score at 5 cm

I need to restock up on Ribbon bags, but I hope that you like these which do you prefer, the masculine version or the floral version?

In good taste masculine cards

August 15, 2020 Claire Taylor

I really struggle with cards with a masculine theme, it is something I am trying to overcome as my mother always asks for masculine birthday cards. I know that there is always a need for masculine cards but I loose my mojo and end up making something that looks awful (awful to me as I am a perfectionist.)

I decided that I wanted to create a simple birthday card for my brother in laws (they are both June babies.)

I loved the in good taste paper as soon as I saw it and though that it would be the perfect DSP to use. It is a stunning combination of photgraphic imagery (mainly tiles, who knew they could make such pretty papers) and gorgeous neutral patterns. I also wanted to utilise the stamps from the Looking Up Card Kit, Happy Birthday is one of my most used sentiments but this layout would also work for Thank You cards.

This card is simple to make and could be made using any combination of card and DSP. I used the Tailored Tag Punch but any punch or die could be used to create the shape. If you do not have shapes or dies, you could also use any shape for the sentiment.