alwaysperseveres: Recycle or ReUse

Before I get into my project for this week, I must explain the reason it even came about.... Lately I have been noticing an extremely large quantity of brown paper bags in my kitchen, it would look as though I was a paper bag hoarder lol I assure you I'm not, I just never throw them away after I grocery shop and they just pile up on the side of the fridge (maybe I'm not the only one :) I know I should recycle and use the reusable bags but I only have 2 reusable bags (usually not enough for all my groceries) Since I have so many brown bags, I just keep thinking to myself, "Ok Olivia surely there is something you can use these for." while that thought is going, I'm realizing I need gift bags for some gifts I have and I don't have any big enough. Well then it all comes together.. LIGHTBULB! ReUse the brown paper bags for gift bags!

So here I am for this week making home made gift bags...

These are really simple and the more you go all out in decorating the more it really does look like a gift bag! I made a few different ones using materials I had on hand. The items I used for the first one are:

Hot glue Gun

White scrap fabric
Hemp Cord

2 Brown Paper bags

First I cut one of the paper bags because some of the paper bags that I have, have print on both sides so I had to first cover that up by gluing pieces of the other brown paper bag. With some extra material I had I twisted up a flower and glued it to the bag. Next with some hemp cord I spelled out love and glued it down. With more material I wrapped it along the handles. Made a lil card to attach and there you go! What makes these look more like gift bags than paper bags is changing up the handles and adding a card.

This Next one I used:
Ribbon

Hot Glue Gun

Stick on Rhinestones

Black Marker

I colored the handles with the black marker and then stuck on the rhinestones, covered the print once again and just glued some ribbon around the bag, super easy!!