Aloha ladies, Joscie here! In the spirit of Halloween, I’ve created a little monster gift bag that I call Frankenbag.

The digital materials are:

Miss Mint’s Mini Gift Bag Template
Miss Mint’s DIY Doodles Edges
Miss Mint’s Soopa Sunburst Patterned Papers

The other materials are:

Royal Brites Matte Photo Paper
HP all in one printer
QK silhouette (but you could use a scissors)
3M Scotch ATG
Mini Glue dots
American Crafts Black Buttons
googly eyes
Bazzill Basics Needles
Black Crochet Thread
Making Memories Large Brads
Large eyelets
Tulle
Scissors
candy or other goodies to fill

I started out with the Mini Gift Bag template and added Miss Mint’s Soopa Sunburst Halloween Patterned Paper in Green and black. I used Miss Mint’s DIY Doodled Edges for the Franken Hair.

I saved a copy as a JPG to be imported and printed from my craft robo software, but if you’re going to use a scissors, you can simply print from photoshop on to matte photo paper.

I cut it out using my print and cut technique on my silhouette (but you can use a scissors too).

I used mini glue dots to adhere the googly eyes to black buttons and then more glue dots to attach the buttons to the face. I threaded up a needle with black crochet thread to stitch a mouth under the eyes.

The finishing touch before constructing the box was to add knobs on the side of the box. First I cut a little slit in the side of the package. I used Making Memories Jumbo brads in silver and We R Memory Keepers large silver eyelets as a spacer between the brad and the package.

I folded the bag, used my ATG to adhere the bag tabs in place, added some tulle and candy to the bag, and voila, a monster was born! There are endless ways to decorate these adorable bags! Check out Friedabag! ;)

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer. Thanks!