making your own gift bags

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I looked through the FAQs and even googled it but didn't find anything about this.

For christmas I want to make original gift bags individualized for each person for the gifts. Is there a template for gift bags somewhere that I can follow? Or even step by step instructions with pictures?

I saw things online where it said to just tape/glue over existing brown paper bags to make them look better but I want to make a completely new bag starting from scratch and using heavy paper (heavier than normal wrapping paper) or possibly cardboard. I'm sure I can just use hemp for the string.

thanks in advance for your help!