After making the Espresso Crinkle Cookies, I wanted to find a cute way to package them up to give as little Valentine gifts. Using my Reusable Gift Bag pattern I whipped up these cute little Valentine Treat Bags.
I love the funky pattern and the simple sweet little bows.
And the best part is that these are filled with delicious chewy Espresso Crinkle Cookies. I think I seriously have an addiction because I cannot stop eating these. Wrapping them up and giving them away may be my only cure.
A year ago I saw a spool of this adorable ribbon in a clearance bin after Valentine’s Day and I squirreled it away, completely forgetting about it until a few weeks ago. I was so glad that I came across it because it was the perfect way to tie off these little packages.
I’m ordinary not a fan of pink, but I just couldn’t resist this fabric, especially when I nabbed to at MacFab‘s moving sale for 70% off. Score!
To make the bags, I cut a 9.5″ x 19″ rectangle of fabric (including 1/4″ hem), folded the good sides together and stitched along the two side edges. I then stitched over the corners to make it square and then folded the top edges over twice and to hem it. I showed this step-by-step when I made Reusable Gift Bags.
To pack up the Espresso Crinkle Cookies, I stacked them together on wax paper.
Then I neatly folded them into a little bundle.
Then it was just a matter of slipping the bundle into the bag. You could throw some candies in their too, or even a sweet little note 🙂
And then its just a matter of tying it up with some ribbon!
Speaking of Valentine’s Day, do you have any sweet plans lined up?
very cute…don’t you just love edible valentine treats? your bags are adorable…i have to go back to your original tutorial to master the flat bottom’d bag.