The Candy Bags

Ah...The candy bags. Let's just say I was over ambitious for this project. These are for the Candy Station that will serve as our favors for the wedding. Because I failed at getting Chinese takeout boxes for the favors (I'll tell you later), I wanted to go the simple and easy route. Then there was DIY...

My friend purchased these white lunch bags from a paper store in DE for me and they were exactly what I was looking for. They were cheap too! They sold 100 bags for $4 + some change. Since they were plain and white, I wanted to jazz them up. The first attempt was to make the opening a zig-zag or scalloped edge with scissors. You know the ones that have the designed pattern blade...yeah, well that didn't work. It would neatfully cut like 3 zigs and then not cut the rest of the paper. So I took my new paper trimmer and cut off nearly two inches off the top. Now they are a cuter size and still plain.

The next thing I had tried was using my DIY stencil (foam paper, exacto knife, & print out of monogram) to stencil the 'R' onto the middle of the bags. The stenciling was fine and very easy... The hard part? Painting or coloring in the 'R'... Not on 1 bag but on 250 - 300 bags. =(

I tried to color with a black marker, but as you know you can see all the streaks of the marker when it dries... so that didn't work. So the decision was to outline with the marker and paint the 'R' with acrylic black paint. They look so darn cute but I just can't justify coming up with time to paint 300 bags (YIKES!!). Yesterday, I did about 30ish and my body was killing me.

So my FI and I made an executive decision to just have the 30ish painted and leave the remaining the plain white. We will however, make sure the 'R' painted bags are in the front of the basket so they look perty!

Sample of completed bag... Simple but I likey

The batch that I completed