Only 5 Fridays til Christmas!
Every Friday through Black Friday, five talented friends and I are sharing easy projects to get you in the holiday spirit.
I love wrapping gifts – sometimes the shiny package is better than what’s inside.
With cookies to bake, carols to sing, turkeys to cook and wine to drink, sometimes it’s easier to use a gift bag.
But not just any gift bag will do.
I love these grain sacks from Online Fabric Store. Some are French reproductions, there’s a cattle feed sack and lots of sizes of plain ones too.
Ooooh, la la.
I knew my friend Jen Rizzo’s new line of stencils would be perfect for this!
Isn’t the antler the cutest – I love the garland too.
DIY Personalized Grain Sacks
Supplies:
Plain Grain Sacks
Antler Stencil
Holiday Garland Stencil
Large Alphabet Stencils (mine are 4″)
Craft Paint (I used white and red)
Foam Pouncers
1) Insert cardboard or magazines inside the grain sack so the paint doesn’t soak through
2) Use a foam pouncer to apply paint to spell out a name
Hint: Start with center letter first so your name is centered
3) Use your antler or garland stencil above and below the name
Hint: Stencil the top left and bottom right first, then clean off the stencil, flip it over and stencil the top right and bottom left
4) Let dry and stuff with gifts for your favorite girl or boy
Best part is they are reusable year after year and they make the cutest decorations.
Now if Santa will just bring me a Kelly sack filled with one million dollars in small bills.
P.S. Don’t forget to check out the full line of gorgeous stencils by Jennifer Rizzo for Royal Design Studio.
P.P.S. Mark your calendars for the Cyber Monday sale at Online Fabric Store.
Don’t forget to check out my other Countdown to Christmas Projects:
Now check out what my friends created …
Kelly, your reminders of how many weeks til Christmas have been very helpful to me! 🙂
Those bags are so cute, it is like receiving 2 gifts! I will tell Santa about that bag if money you want!
Great idea! Love creative gift wrap! Cheers, Kelly ~ xo Heidi
This are perfect for gifts and so eco-friendly too! Definitely reusable year after year! Hope all is well with you Kelly, I have so many back-reading to do!
So cute! Did you need help making one with my name on it?!?! 😉
It’s on Santa’s sleigh!
Oh I so love them and the stencils are fabulous!….Have a great weekend Kelly!
Thanks Shirley – have a wonderful weekend too!
I saw those at pb at thought they were so cute. Yours look great.
Kelly, you are one creative gal! Those grain sacks are perfect for hard to wrap presents under the tree! Love the personalized ones!!!! Now I’m off to buy a few for my Christmas gifts!!!
Kelly what a smart way to “wrap” gifts for anytime. I had no idea they’d be so reasonably priced, even printed ones. Will be ordering some of these after payday. Love them, so much can be used for. Glad you shared this idea. I had no idea the online fabric store had them either. Love how you stenciled yours, look great.
Happy weekend
So charming, Kelly!!! I’d love to make these as personalized hostess gifts. Cool stencils!
Xoxo
Loi
PS – Shared your snow village jars on IG – what a big hit!!! 🙂
Those bags are darling and reusable. Love that! I always love anything that is made of natural fibers too. TFS!
Thanks Laura!
Very cute and fun bags…this would also be cute to make one to store your potatoes in. 🙂
I do love a good potato!
Love, love, LOVE these gift bags. Saying goodbye to wrapping paper, and those stencils are really cute, too!!
Hi just found your fabulous blog. Love those grain sacs. A couple of questions ..I went to online fabric site but so many choices. Which specific sacks did you paint (some look looser weave than others which I would imagine would be tougher to paint on). I prefer the tighter weave. Also where did you get or what brand of 4″ stencils did you use for the names. Really cute idea. many thanks
Hi just found your fabulous blog. Love those grain sacs. A couple of questions ..I went to online fabric site but so many choices. Which specific sacks did you paint (some look looser weave than others which I would imagine would be tougher to paint on). I prefer the tighter weave. Also where did you get or what brand of 4″ stencils did you use for the names. Really cute idea. many thanks
Thanks Dorelle – these are the grain sacks I used: https://www.onlinefabricstore.net/27-x-40-hydrocarbon-free-burlap-bag-.htm
The stencils were 4″ high cardboard stencils – I think I got them at Michaels