Shabby Chic Gift Packages

A plain brown paper bag can be the perfect packaging for smaller gifts. When giving a handmade gift, consider dressing one up with paints and embellishments to coordinate with your gift. I did this recently when I created some shabby chic door hangers. I grabbed some supplies and brown paper bags to create these shabby chic gift packages.

Supplies for Shabby Chic Gift Packages

Brown paper bags

Adtech Adhesives Cool Tool

Adtech Adhesives Cool Temp Gluesticks

Hemp, bakers twine

Washi tape, self adhesive gem stone rows

Wood tags

DecoArt Americana Acrylics- Baby Pink, Bahama Blue, Snow White, Espresso

Staz-on ink in black and tiny alphabet stamps

Hole punch, scissors

Not long ago, I created these shabby chic door hangers as gifts for an upcoming baby shower, a wedding gift and a housewarming gift. I loved the results and knew that the packaging had to be as special as the gift inside. So I decided to create some coordinating gift packaging from brown paper bags.

I love the simple look of brown paper bags. So I dry brushed them with paint, allowing some of the bag to show through.

Then I created some hemp embellishments using a low temperature glue gun. Believe me, you will want to use a low temperature glue gun for creating these spiraled embellishments as your fingers will be touching the hemp a lot and you want to minimize finger burns!