Printing on a Lunch Sack

Printing on lunch sacks is one of my new favorite ways to create my own cute packaging.

I first did printed on lunch sacks for our teacher Brownie Points Valentine's.

I have used it several times since...it is AHHHHdicting.

Most recently I made these take-home bags for Little's Charlie Brown Birthday Party. Through a little bit of trial and error I have worked out a method of printing on lunch sacks that works out pretty well for me.

Today I am sharing my handy dandy method of printing on a lunch sack.

The very first step of course is creating the image you will use on the lunch sack.

I created this image by using an image of Charlie Brown and adding the text and word bubble in the online photo editing program PicMonkey.

I saved it to my computer.

Then I opened up a Word document. I edited the margins to the narrow setting.

Insert the image into your document. You will want it justified left. The image will most likely need to be shrunk down a tad to make sure it fits on the bag. You will also want to move the image down a tad.

Now, if you print the bag now, the image would be facing the wrong way. So you need to flip it.

First, under page layout go to the ROTATE icon. Flip the image vertically. If there is any writing it will be as if you are looking in a mirror.

So the last step is to ROTATE the image HORIZONTALLY.

Now the image is upside down and facing the proper way.

To actually print the image on the bags, first grab some lunch sacks. For this project I used white bags.

You will want the "bottom" of the bag to face the top and the "bottom flap" of the bag to face you.

Load the lunch sack into your printer with the "bottom" facing up.Move the slider in the printer over so it rest right against the edge of the lunch sack (you know like when you print on an envelope).

Now all you have to do is print it off.

I do recommend doing a trail run first. Sometimes the printer has a hard time feeding the bag through. No matter how many times I have done it, there is still a little bit of trail and error. You might have to move your image up or down to get it right were you want it.

Once it comes out perfect, just keep printing until you have all your bags.

I had fun adding these Charlie Brown Chevron Sugar Cookies to my freshly printed Charlie Brown take-home party bags.

I tied them up with a little strip of fabric. Then they waited patiently until the end of the party until it was time to go home with our cute and happy party guests.

I pretty much promise that once you try this, you will use this technique all the stinking time. You might even come up with gifts you can give out just so that you can print on some more bags.

You probably should just go buy lunch sacks in bulk.

Just sayin'.

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A Charlie Brown Birthday Party

Whoosh! Guys, what a week. Heck what a month. Okay let's be realistic...it has been a crazy SEVERAL months.

Good news folks! This Charlie Brown Birthday Party marks the end of our CRAZY, with a capital CRAY, run of birthdays.

Little came up with this birthday theme around Christmas time when he developed a mild obsession with all the Charlie Brown movies playing on Netflix. I readily agreed because to be honest it is really hard to tell Little no when he asks so sweetly.

For the next 3ish months we have heard of very little else.

He was very excited. In fact in every sweet little prayer he has uttered for the last month plus, he has thanked Heavenly Father for his birthday and birthday party coming soon.

It was really rather sweet.

So sweet in fact that I was given to panic when just a few short weeks before his party, nothing was actually planned, and I was worried about letting his sweet face down.

AHHH!!!  

A Charlie Brown Themed Birthday Party was a little harder to put together than I had anticipated.

Everything finally came together and there was plenty of Charlie Brown fun!

I decorated with a lot of yellow and black in true Charlie Brown fashion. Although, did you know that Charlie Brown did not always wear his oh-so-well-known yellow with black chevron?

I found that little gem out while putting stuff together for this party.

For a little pop there was some red added in, but it was just a tad since Charlie Brown was the star.

One of my favorite things were these simple graphic Charlie Brown poster that I made using PicMonkey.

Ya wanna know what my very favorite part was?

The birthday boy in his custom-made Charlie Brown Shirt was my very favorite part.

The kids' favorite part was lunch.

The lunches were packed with traditional lunch items.

Fresh cut red apple slices.

Pretzel twists.

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Of course we can't forget the PB and J. Everything was nestled in a cardboard lunch box.

 Just add a glass of milk and let the eating begin.

Happy, happy eaters.

Cute, happy, happy eaters.

We followed lunch with a few games, hot potato Snoopy being the crowd favorite.

Next we went on to coloring and chalkboard fun.

Coloring took a lot of concentration.

They weren't concentrating hard enough to forget about the baked goods though.

Black frosting adds a bit of fun to an otherwise boring cupcake.

Little had a really good time and as always, was very appreciate by saying "thank you" over and over.

When the party was done he said "thank you" to his little friends with Charlie Brown take home gifts.

My new favorite thing is printing on lunch sacks. I am all set to show you how I made up these bags tomorrow in a little tutorial.

Thanks for sticking with me last week while I was MIA. I would send you each a little Charlie Brown Thank You, but that would be a lot of lunch sacks AND more ink than I could buy at Sam's Club.

So accept my little virtual "thank you". You guys are the bestest.

See ya tomorrow!

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Easy Superhero Boy Gift with Printable

Happy Monday! I am getting this week started a little late. We had a great family-filled weekend and we got back late, and very exhausted, yesterday.

Here I am after a slow start to share with you this SUPER easy, SUPER awesome, and SUPER boy SUPERHERO gift idea.

P.S. Was that one too many supers? I just couldn't seem to help myself.

One of Little's friends had a birthday several weeks ago. His birthday fell smack dab in the middle of my t-shirt craze.

Who am I kidding? I am not sure I am out of it.

Anyhoo, since I had a stack of blank t-shirts and I had just made Middle his Simple Avengers T-shirt, I decided that I should make another one and it would be a perfect birthday gift for this little boy.

I made the Avengers Tee on a blank basic tee.

Then I designed a Superhero Gift Tag to go on the present. I made the tag really easily in PicMonkey.

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To wish you all a Happy Monday, I have made the tags available for a download. Woohoo!

Print, cut out and punch a hole in the tag.

Don't worry about wrapping it in paper. For a simpler, yet still awesome way to present your gift just roll up the t-shirt so the Avenger symbols are showing.

Grab a strip of coordinating fabric and tie is around the rolled-up t-shirt. Attach the tag and tie a knot.

Birthday present done just like that.

Come back tomorrow for a new t-shirt design from a galaxy far, far away...

Beach Birthday Party

This year was Oldest's 9th birthday.

It was his first non-party year. That was what was decided after his last birthday. No more big parties after 8.

Yep, no more big parties. Just the birthday boy, a couple of friends, and a low-key activity.

So when Oldest decided that he wanted to go swimming for his low-key activity, it seemed okay to just have a teeny, tiny beach-themed...er...um...

...lunch...not at all a party...

There may or may not have been some minor decorations.

There may or may not have been balloons, and maybe a tad of a tablescape on my favorite stand-by red dresser.

But really, it wasn't a party...

I promise...

Okay it was kind of a party. Just a little, itty, bitty one.

I mean, one of my kids was heard to say, "This is all you are going to decorate? Just this little spot?"

So see I did reign it in. 

I just couldn't help myself. I wanted to do just a smidge. Something to make his day special.

Once he decided he wanted to go swimming, I settled on a beachy theme to welcome them once they returned from swimming.

Bright colors. Beach balls. Colorful beach towels. Cold drinks.

 

I made a simple...I mean siiiimple banner of crepe paper.

There were some beach posters I made using simple geometric shapes from PicMonkey. 

I was lucky to find some Summer toys even in the bitter coldness of February.

There was also a ceiling of balloons. It added such a great effect.

Then there were the cakes.

My favorite was the small, simple blue wave cake.

Before the cake, we had to have our Beach Picnic Lunch.

Oldest LOVES hotdogs, so that had to make the lunch list.

They ate on laid out beach towels and we all pretended it was warm and tropical outside instead of snow-covered.

We had chips and fruit. I love, love, love the yellow print bags that I found for the chips.

It would seem that lunch was enjoyed by Oldest.

And his friends.

I think it was a success. Good times were had by all at this non-party birthday.

Hope you enjoy, are inspired, and feel a bit

of Summer during this never-ending winter.

Thanks for reading!