Cricut Snowflake Gift Bag - Free sewing patterns

Making your own gift bags and wrapping adds an extra personal touch to your festive giving. This project makes a delicate snowflake stencil and tag, cut using the Cricut Explore Air and its online software, Design Space.

Essentials

Cricut Explore Air™ electronic cutting machine,
Design Space™ online software, pc/Mac/iPad
12” x 24” Standard grip cutting mat
Cricut craper, weeder and spatula tools
Cardstock – Kraft card
Fabric paint
Drawstring cotton/canvas bag

Snowflake Gift Bag

1 Make the drawstring bag from cotton or canvas fabric.

2 Connect the Cricut Explore Air™ to the pc/laptop/Mac/iPad/iPhone and log on to your Design Space™ account. From the ‘Christmas’ category in the Make It Now Projects, search for and select the ‘Snowflake Gift Bag’.

Steps

3 Click ‘Customise’ to resize the project or ‘Make It Now’ to create it as designed. This project cuts eight snowflakes each measuring approximately 2.5” x 2.5”. Resize the image as required by first highlighting the image and then dragging the corner point. The size appears in a black text box as the image is altered.

Steps 3

4 Cut the images from cardstock. You can move the position of the images on the preview mat to give more space around them so that they are easier to use as a stencil.

5 Carefully remove the images from the cutting mat. Carefully cut in between the snowflakes to create the stencils.

6 Place a waste piece of card inside the gift bag. Lay the stencil in position on the bag and paint through the stencil. Carefully remove the stencil and allow the paint to dry. The card insert prevents the paint bleeding through the fabric layers.

7 Tie the snowflake on to the bag’s string as an embellishment. You can also write the recipient’s name on the tag.

Find out more about the Cricut Explore Air here.