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I’m doing a couple of craft sales running up to the festive period and was trying to think of an easy and nice way to wrap my goods without having to buy packaging…so looked around the house for stuff to recycle and settled on magazines.

I wanted something that was easy to make, didn’t involve glueing or the use of sticky tape and was also adaptable so that I could make different sizes to accomodate different products.

I settled on the use of origami and after a quick search found something perfect. So here’s my tutorial on how to make a gift bag from a magazine page.

Rating: 5/5 stars
Tags: bag, craft, gift, handmade, milomade, More…origami, packaging, recycle, recycling
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Karen Jinks / Kala Comment by Karen Jinks / Kala on December 11, 2008 at 7:10am
great idea, thanks!
milomade Comment by milomade on November 26, 2008 at 1:35pm
It does get quite addictive. I've made mostly small ones, but have also started making larger bags from double spreads of the weekend magazines that come with the newspapers and they work well too. Thinking of adding string handles to them as well so that they're easy to carry.
Pouch Comment by Pouch on November 26, 2008 at 1:27pm
love this, I would have to make some a bit larger as I don't sell many small things, but what a great idea and I bet making them is quite addictive :)
milomade Comment by milomade on November 26, 2008 at 12:03am
You can also see this tutorial in photo form at the Cut Out + Keep Website...

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