extra large gift bag

inneed

Can anyone help please? I've bought dd a quite expensive handbag, and it won't fit in to the largest gift bag I can find. The width is ok (33cm), but the gift bag height is 45cm, and I need around 60cm. I don't want to risk ruining the bag by forcing the stiff handles down.I'm not at all crafty, but wonder if anyone can suggest an alternative, that won't cost the earth, or a way of adapting the gift bag I have? Thanks. x

kingfisherblue

Could you get some chiffon or other floaty fabric and wrap loosely in that? Tie with a wide ribbon.

Or how about going rustic - use plain brown paper and tie with string.

Depending on the recipient, you could put the gift bag inside the handbag, with a note saying that it should be the other way round but it just wouldn't fit and you didn't want to waste the gift bag - but only go for this option if their sense of humour is likely to kick in.

You could also look for a wide gift bag and put the handbag in on its side.

PoppyGirl

Could you lay it flat in a shoebox style gift box, or if it's standing up perhaps a bigger box then wrapped? Would keep her guessing what it is too!

Missy_Moo_2

Make your own like this one, looks easy enough... Could use posh wrapping paper which would be thicker than normal stuff? http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Miscellaneous/Gifts_and_Craft_Projects/585.php Just need to find a box big enough to use as a template, and use a hole punch to make the ribbon holes.

faerie~spangles

Have a look here

sarah69696pink

cellophane - you could get clear with nice tissue paper underneath or patterned.
Or material would be my other idea.
Or a nice bag for life from someone nice? (maybe a clothes shop or something rather than a supermarket)

inneed

Thanks everyone. I ended up using the bag I had, but replacing the handles with long pieces of silver ribbon, the double sided sticky to attach pleated silver tissue to the top to make it taller! x