Quick Valentine Treat Bags

Evolution.
It's a process.
Better things are ahead.

I found this to be true last night when trying to create bags to hold some baked goods for my youngest daughter's middle school PTO group. We honor small groups of staff and teachers each month with baked goods and a gift card to a local coffee shop (LOVE YOU, Mocha and Java's!), so I needed to create 16 bags to hold baked goods. Quickly. The longest step in the evolutionary process is that of procrastination. So at 10:30 last night, I was beginning the final stage; the actual PRODUCTIVE stage.

I tried creating cute bags in the style of the recent post on the Splitcoast Stampers You Tube channel, in which a bag is created using a single sheet of letter size patterned paper. I attempted this with a 12 x 12" sheet, but the results were not large enough for what I needed. So I thought I'd just make tags to tie around those tall clear cellophane bags. But that would be too EXPECTED, too NORMAL, not WOW...... So this is what I came up with.

I hope they like them! I had fun making them. To finish them off, I'll pre-tie the bows, and slip the twist ties that came with the bags through the back of the bow, so they can re-seal it, should they happen to be one of the nearly extinct species that possess the ancient characteristic of SELF-CONTROL! See, evolution is still relevant today!

My 7th grade science teacher, Mr. Thompson, would be so proud!