Custom Printed Gift Bags

Use your home printer to make cute custom gift bags!

Posted by Miriam G.

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I use these to put 'thank you' gifts in for guests and customers.

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You Will Need (5 things)

  • Brown Paper Lunch Bags
  • Home Printer
  • Clip Art you can get the 'thank yous' from my blog
  • Microsof Word Or Adobe Photoshop Or Illustrator Computer Program
  • Iron

Steps (4 steps, 20 minutes)

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    1- Open a new document in Word.
    2- Go to File > Page Set-up set the page dimensions to the size of your bag. Mine is 5.13” x 10.75.”

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    3- Go to Format > Document and set all margins to .25.”

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    4- Save your file!
    5- Insert your clip art. Go to Insert > Picture > From File… and browse to your clip art file.
    6- Position the clip art a few inches from the top. Not too far down – you don’t want it to print over the folded bottom of the bag.

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    7- Do not skip this step, this is they key to getting your printer to feed the bags through: iron your paper bags flat with a dry hot iron.
    8- Place bag in printer tray seam side up, top going in first.
    9- Print your bags. Depending on your printer you can adjust your paper type to “heavy” and play around with other settings that will help your printed feed the bag through. I found my printer could handle three bags at a time, but any more was too much for it. Try doing just one at first and then add a few more.