I thought that I had dodged a bullet with my daughter. All of her friends and girls her age seemed to have been bitten by the One Direction bug. Not my girl. And then a few months ago it happened. She started blasting their songs (at 5:30am sometimes!), talking about them and begging for Tiger Beat. Just like nobody can prepare you for having a baby, nobody could have prepared me for having a tween.
Although I don’t want to further her obsession with 1D, I know that it’s something she loves. Similar to New Kids on the Block when I was that age. I thought it’d be fun to design and print some lunch bags for her, just because.
I had a good time designing bags that I knew my (not so little) girl would flip out over. Some are lyrics, another is a logo and one is meant for big time fans- “My heart goes One Direction!”
I have showed other bags that I’ve printed before. Visit my Printable Gift Bag or Christmas Treats posts. When you first try to create and print a bag, it takes some time to get your settings down just right. Each printer is different. You can see from my screenshot below how I set mine up.
I got my exact lunch bag size- 10 5/8″ x 5 1/8″ and imputed it into the custom field for my printer’s page set up. I fed my bag face down. Again, each printer is different so you have to play around with yours to know how to print it correctly. Because I saved this setting, I can now use it in the future for other bags to be printed. (hint, hint- you can see what type of bags I printed next for my youngest!)
Julia said this one was her favorite:
The look on her face when I showed her what I was up to was golden. She even squealed!
Download the One Direction Gift Bags for your fan:
Let’s Go Crazy
Stop the Tape and Rewind
My Heart Only Goes One Direction
You Don’t Know You’re Beautiful
1D Logo
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Do you have kids that are big fans? Have you made fun lunch bags or printed on them before? I’d love to hear all about it!
Just made these as treat bags for my daughters birthday party. Thank you.
This is an awesome idea I will be trying this out for my daughters 8th birthday party in January. Awesome idea!
I can’t do much for the kids for Christmas this year…and this is going to make my little girls day!! I can re-use some old frames and give her wall art to go with her new blanket! YAY!!!! Thank you so much for sharing your designs!
Please tell me hoe to do this?? I would like to do this for my daughter party on Sunday. Can’t seeem to get this. I want the template for bags
Hey, these are great!! I love it. But, can I know how to create more 1D’s logos? Thanxxx =)
i love these! but i tried at home and cant print on the bag! anyway thanks for sharing youre so talented!
i did it!!! thanks a lot!!! i use the tip of using a blank paper and tape! also i use the bag from the open to the bottom! my daugther loves them!!!
Oh yay!! I’m so happy that it worked for you Mildred. I’m glad your daughter is excited. My husband surprised our 11 yr old with taking her to the 1D concert on Saturday and she FREAKED OUT! Such a fun memory for them. Thanks for the comment and letting me know it worked!
OMG!!! great!!! my daugther is gonna be 10 in 2 weeks!! im gonna use your bags for a 1D candy bar!!! we live in PR and she will love to go to a concert too!! hope they can visit here too on the 2014 tour!! (fingers crossed!!!)happy they enjoy the concert!! sure it was awesome!!! again thanks for sharing the bags!!!
Can I simply just say what a comfort to discover somebody that genuinely understands what they are discussing on the net.
You definitely know how to bring a problem to light and make it important.
More and more people have to read this and understand this side of your story.
I was surprised you aren’t more popular since you most certainly have the gift.
hi I love these so much I am trying to make them but my printer wont print it on the bag? Any suggestions??? thanks
Hi Lexi- thanks!! Each printer is different. You have to make sure that you put the right dimensions in your printer set up like I showed in my screenshot. I wish I could help more but I only know that it works on my printer. Another trick is to tape the bag to a regular piece of paper and line it up right, then print. Sometimes it has a hard time “grabbing” the bag. Good luck!
Wow!! I love these! I will be doing this for myself soon!! Thanks so much :)
How fun are these? Can’t wait until I have girls in school to make these for with their latest crushes. I’ll be featuring this on my blog tomorrow!
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These are awesome!
my daughter is a huge 1D fan and she is 17. sad i know..lol but she takes her lunch and is going to flip over these. thanks so much for them
My daughter isn’t a fan but this idea is BRILLIANT. So cute I just cannot…..
Thanks for sharing and knocking it out of the creative ballpark.
I think printing on lunch bags is an awesome idea too!
OMG my daughter is totally obsessed with 1D. Harry is her fave. Thank you for these cuties. I will be printing some for sure. :)
Harry is my daugther’s favorite too! ;) Let me know if she loves them as much as Julia did. Thanks for the comment Angi!
I LOVE LOUIS!!!!!!!