Browsing the grocery store aisles tonight I was itchin’ to make something Eastery to give away as a gift. I started grabbing bags of Easter candy off the shelves and the light bulb turned on – Treat Bags! Our Adornit Design Team member, Stephanie Austin shared this idea with us in our October 2006 Trifold. She made Treat Bags with Halloween candy and paper.

When I came home I put Boston to bed and started unpacking the candy I purchased. I purged my scrapbook room for the paper I wanted and was so excited to see how easy our12x12 patterned paper, Easter Parade would make this project. Each bag really only takes a minute or two – SIMPLE and QUICK (just what I need)! Tomorrow I’m spending the day with friends and can’t wait to have Boston give a Treat Bag to each of them. Here are my instructions (I even took pictures for you!).

1. Fill a sandwich bag full of fun Easter treats.

2. Trim 21681 Easter Parade patterned paper 6 x 12 inches. Now in my opinion the reason why this project is so simple is because of the patterned paper. The way this paper is designed it already has faux stitching, cute art and has variation so you don't have to trim and piece together - our designers here at Adornit did it all for us!

3. Fold over the bottom one inch. Trim with decorative scissors.

4. Position sandwich bag into the fold (I fold over the Ziploc part of the bag to make it fit perfect) and staple three times. Quick Tip: My bag hung over the sides a bit so I just took my scissors and trimmed the excess plastic bag off.

5. Now, this could be really simple and stop right there or I went one more step and added 18” of ribbon around the top and tied a simple square knot.

6. Finished (I said it was easy!)