Elephant Feed Treat Bags DIY

Welcome to the Sweet DIY tutorial area of our blog!

This tutorial is for our Elephant Feed Treat Bags as seen on our Vintage Circus Dessert Table. We want to share with you this easy and cute as pie tutorial to create a simple and fun treat bag for your party guests to take home and enjoy! This particular bag was inspired by a vintage circus themed party we planned for our son's 2nd birthday a few weeks ago.

Here's the deal, this is so easy it's gonna blow your mind.

For this project you will need several very easy to find items available at Walmart.

 

Step One: Trim

Use either your edging scissors or your regular scissors to trim the paper lunch bags in about half. We suppose you could also just carefully tear them across if you want a more rugged look as well.

Tear off as many tickets as you will need from the roll.

Step Two: Hole Punchn'

Punch a hole into each of the four corners of the bag about an inch away from the top. This will be where you thread your twine. Punch one hole in each ticket as well.

Step Three: Threading

Cut a piece of twine for each lunch bag. We made ours about 12 inches long. Open you bags up and carfully wind a piece of twine through each hole all the way around the bag just like you would with putting on a belt. That's right, we are belting our bags. Fancy.

 

Step Four: Accessorizing

Every bag needs a little bling with its new belt. Thread a ticket onto the twine in the front of the bag where the two ends meet. Then lightly and carefully tie a loose knot so that the twine doesn't release easily and let the ticket slip off. 

Step Five: Personalizing

If you choose to you could write your guest names on each bag, or maybe even stamp them on with some plain black ink and an alphabet stamp kit. The possibilitites are really endless for these little bags.

They will thank you for their new found glory, no longer are they be pre-destined to hold soggy sandwiches and warm fruit cups!

Easter Dessert Table Printable Giveaway

We've decided to give away our fab set of Spring/Easter Party Printables, with fully customized text to suit your party needs, to one lucky commenter this week! 

The winner will receive: 

A complete set of our Spring/Easter Printable Party Dessert Table Decor.

It was guest featured on the Amy Atlas Sweet Designs Blog on 4-14-2011.

This complete set includes:

 

  • 3 Decorative Patterned Paper Designs
  • Drink/Cupcake Flags
  • 5x7 Invitation (customized with your party info)
  • Large and Small Dessert Tags/Decor
  • Easter Egg Decor or Strand-able Bunting
  • Chocolate Bar Wraps
  • Decorative Cupcake Wrappers
  • Napkin Rings/Drink Bottle Wraps


You will receive one PDF file via email in which you may print the included pages multiple times as needed in order to have the desired quantity of decorations. 

 

  • THE PRIZE: A complete set of printable Spring/Easter Party Decor fro Hello My Sweet
  • HOW TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the words “SPRING FEVER” and…
  • WE WANT TO KNOW: … share what you love most about this time of year
  • CONTEST ENDS: Tuesday, April 19th at 9pm EST
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS: One
  • PRIZE DISTRIBUTION: via Email
  • RULES: One entry per e-mail address is permitted. The winners will be selected using random.org and announced on Wednesday as an update to this post. So come on back here on Wednesday morning for the announcement of the winner. Happy commenting!

 

Featured on Amy Atlas

We are so excited, no… exstatic, or maybe even over the moon about our feature on Amy Atlas Blog this week.

We recently put together a Dessert Table for our nephew, combining his birthday with an Easter/Spring theme. We never dreamed it would be successful enough to be featured on a blog that we look to for inspiration. A HUGE thank you to Amy Atlas and her team for considering us for the feature and providing us with your creative genius to aspire to.

In case you don’t know who Amy Atlas is or what she is all about and why we are so crazy excited, here is a little bit of information about her from her website:

“Amy Atlas is a coveted entertaining expert, baking and crafting stylist, and is internationally recognized for creating the stylized dessert bar trend.  Amy’s work has appeared multiple times in InStyle Magazine, Parents Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, The New York Times, Every Day with Rachael Ray, The Los Angeles Times, Food and Wine Magazine, Life & Style, Gotham, New York Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides, and many more.  Her work has appeared on thousands of top US and international entertaining and lifestyle blogs.

In 2008, Amy created Sweet Designs to share her styling tricks, recipes, diy tips, and behind-the-scenes of her work. InStyle Magazine named Sweet Designs one of the best entertaining blogs in November 2010.

From a very young age, Amy was entertaining for friends and family. By the time she reached college, she had perfected her talent for her signature dessert tables.

After several years of working on political campaigns and practicing law, Amy decided to return to her creative passion for entertaining and party planning.

Desserts bring back many sweet memories for Amy so it is no surprise that she would specialize in her signature dessert tables. Amy’s fondest sweet memory from childhood is of sitting in her grandmother’s sunny kitchen on a spring afternoon, watching her pull homemade rocky road cake out of the oven. While waiting to lick the bowl, Grandma would let Amy drizzle caramel icing all over the cake. To this day the smell of rich, melted caramel still reminds Amy of that wonderful spring afternoon, when it felt like the world belonged to just the two of them and the essence of happiness was warm rocky road cake.

Amy lives in New York City with her husband, Rick, and sons Zachary and Joshua.

Not surprisingly, her family’s favorite activity is baking together!”

If you love this Easter/Spring theme, we offer it FOR FREE as a printable download here.