I am so so chuffed with these little beauties! I’ve had these canvas bags for a while with the intention of decorating them in some way but the right idea just hadn’t come along. I had thought of maybe drawing on them using fabric pens but I couldn’t think of a design. Anyhow, I was having a poke around in my craft room this weekend and rediscovered some bondaweb and some hearts I had cut out for a project a few years ago. The idea of using fabric to embellish the bags was born. I utilised some of the hearts I found and after making some flower cards (blog post to follow) I decided on upsizing the idea to use on one of the bags.
These bags were so easy to make:
- Cut out the desired shapes from fabric.
- Cut out the shapes again, this time from Bondaweb.
- Iron the Bondaweb onto each of the fabric pieces.
- Assemble the pieces onto the bag and then iron into place (I steam iron through a tea towel).
Hey presto.
Lovely as both bags looked, I just couldn’t leave it there, my button box was calling me and the centre of the flower was just the place. What do you think?
Obviously the button was sewn on but could just as easily have been glue gunned in place.
(Apologies for the lighting in the photos in this post but I just couldn’t wait for tomorrow and better lighting, my impatient brain decided that they needed photographing NOW!)
Little Miss has decided she wants a bag too and the ideas are already whirring. I’d better get cracking on it soon, she’s even more impatient than me!
Karen x x
