echo park and hampton art blog hop…

Good morning!  Thanks for stopping my blog as part of the hampton art & echo park blog hop!

I have a quick little project to share with you today featuring the “Scoot” stamp set and paper collection. 

I love these colorful little lunch sacks…I like having a bunch of them in my stash – they are Hallmark brand and they are really inexpensive. They make great bases for decorating a quick gift bag!

To begin, I folded over the top of the blue bag and cut two blocks of patterned paper to create the oversized flag banner on the front.

I used the “cool guy” tag stamp to create four tags in different colors.  I arranged them “banner style” along the top of the folded bag.

I added colorful little gems to each tag.  I stamped the “happy birthday” sentiment on a bit of patterned paper that had several colorful “x'”s…the effect is subtle, but I like having all of the colors in the title block.  I used foam dots to attach the sentiment to the top of the bag.

Finally, I punched holes in each side of the bag and tied the top closed with coordinating baker’s twine.

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This is only one set of stamps, but there are several more collections available so be sure to follow the entire blog hop so you can see all of the fun echo park/hampton art collaborative sets!  After you’re done hopping, be sure to enter for a chance to win a fun prize from hampton art or echo park! 

Here are the Giveaway details: For a chance to win either a stamp prize from Hampton Art or one of three collection kits from Echo Park Paper, please continue on the blog hop leaving a comment on each blog. Winners will be selected and announced both on the Echo Park Paper and Hampton Art blogs on Monday, April 29th. All comments are due by Sunday, April 28th at midnight EDT to qualify.
Here is the blog hop list:

Echo Park Paper

Hampton Art

Laurel Seabrook

Linda Auclair

TamaraTripodi

Susan Stringfellow

Wendy SueAnderson

JenniferGallacher

Kandis Smith