"Sweet" Gift Bag

Many brands of sugar include a cookie recipe on the bag. This gave me the idea to make the cookies as a gift, then turn the sugar bag into the gift bag. The recipient receives a nice treat as well as the recipe all in one bag.

Supplies:

• sugar bag
• scissors
• small bowl
• pencil
• cardstock
• glue
• yarn or ribbon

Directions:

1. I simply emptied all the sugar into my canister, then flattened the top end of the bag.

 
2. Using a small bowl, I drew 2 semi-circles that would be the bag's handles and continued the lines down to the top of the bag's graphics.

 
3. I cut out inside the handles area, through front and back, and the excess around the sides.
4. I also reinforced the inside of each handle with card stock cut to the same shape as the handles.

 
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5. I used a bit of red yarn to tie them together, but you could leave the handles plain.
6. Fill your bag with sugar cookies. This one holds about 18. I wrapped them in waxed paper packets of 6.

Now you're ready to give someone a unique gift.

By ~gloria from western NY