
Next I stamped the Santa and then stamped his hat again. I colored and decorated him with some Kaiser rhinestones, cut him out and glued him to the bag. I then cut out the second hat and popped it up. I raided my ribbon scrap bag and found some various silver, white and blue ribbons. The Christmas chocolates are in a regular sandwich baggie that I tied, trimmed and pulled up through the punched slots.


Here is a close up of the top.
I used Jody's tutorial with 2 variations. The first, I cut a couple inches off the top panels, making the project not as tall. The second, I used a Word Window punch to make the ribbon slot instead of the Slot punch.
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