Elegant Gift Bag

Before we start talking about putting this Elegant Gift Bag together, let’s take a closer look at the design and understand what we are looking at.

First notice that there are 2 sets of circles across the top of the bag. They are separated by a green score line. These circles are your eyelets. The eyelets are used to thread the ribbon or twine in an alternating manner so you can close the bag.

The score line between the eyelets in folded towards the inside of the bag. When this top area is folded, they eyelets are aligned perfectly.

This fold reinforces the eyelets and the top of the box.

There is also the added benefit of using single side card stock. This fold prevents the white back of the card stock from showing.

The next thing I want to point out is the tab of the side. This is used for joining the box sides together.

But notice that it doesn’t extend all the way to the top. This is because it is tucked between the fold at the top of the gift bag.

You can add glue to the top fold if you want to, but I didn’t find that to be necessary.

But, I found it much easier to fold the top of the gift bag before adding glue to the side tab. It made it much easier to slip the tab in between. This snug fit at the top helped me achieve a perfect alignment for the side of the gift bag.

The green lines are your scoring lines. I didn’t do anything more than a light finger press on any of these score lines.

The horizontal score line at the top of the gift bag was folded towards the inside, as already discussed. The vertical score lines were lightly creased in an accordion manner.

The diagonal score lines at the bottom of the gift bag only need a slight nudge in the right direction. I found that these score lines do their own thing as the top of the gift bag is closed.

This gift bag goes together perfectly with no problems. I just love this little gift bag. It really is elegant and oh so simple.