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.