Paper Purse

Apr 14, 2011

I’ve had sev­eral emails sent my way ask­ing how I cre­ated the paper purse in the Mem­ory Mak­ers Blog Bounce Cre­ativ­ity Blooms blog post. Below are the steps to cre­ate your own paper purse if you want. It’s easy to make.

First you need to start out with a piece of paper cut to 8″ square. This is my favorite size. But the smaller your square the smaller your purse and the larger the square the larger the purse.

Next fold the pat­terned paper in half by bring­ing the bot­tom point up to the top point. If you want a tight crease I sug­gest you use a bone folder.

Bring the right pointed end all the way over to the left side of the tri­an­gle as shown below. Using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive attach the folded piece to the pat­terned paper. The point should meet with the edge of the triangle.

Now bring the left pointed end all the way over to the right side of the tri­an­gle as shown below. Using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive attach the folded piece to the pat­terned paper. The point should meet with the edge of the triangle.

Fold one piece of the upper por­tion down and attach to the base of the purse using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive as shown below.

Turn the purse over and fold the remain­ing top piece down and attach it to the base of the purse using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive as shown below.

Once the adhe­sive is dry you now have a paper purse as shown below. It will not stay open just so you know. This purse is per­fect to hold a gift card or sweet tags. Now all you need to do is alter the purse as you wish. To cre­ate the han­dle on mine I punched two small holes, one on each side of the purse using a crop-a-dile and then set an eye­let in each hole. I placed the ends of a che­nille stem into the holes about an inch worth on each side and twisted the stem to secure it in place. I then wrapped the stem with seam bind­ing and knot­ted it at one end, added a stitched tri­an­gle piece of pat­terned paper to the part I folded down and attached a flower.

Have fun mak­ing these. They are per­fect for any occasion.