Recycled Brown Bag

For my great grandson's birthday present (I actually do this for all childrens gift's, just something I have learned oner the years) I took it out of the packaging and was looking around the closet for a gift bag to slip it into and OOPS!  None of the ones I had  was large enough.....what to do????

Well I love to recycle and I love brown paper bags so I grabbed my stamps and ink pad and paper punch. 

I used another bag to tear and glue a cover over the printing on the front of my "new" bag.

The "Owl" motif  has been his talisman since before he was born so I have several stamps and punches just for him!

 His room is decorated in greens, leaves and feathered friends, mostly owls.

I traced the owl pattern (that had from making his bed skirt) onto a page from an old music book.

The owl's eye lids were a hit for tiny fingers.

I squeezed in a little crafting before the partyand not another package looked anything like this one from great grandma!