How many doctor’s offices have you been to that give you a free bag filled with advertisements that you probably won’t ever use? I just recently had a baby and got my fair share of these bags that I didn’t quite know what to do with. I couldn’t really throw a perfectly useful bag away, so I decided to give it a little facelift.
I had the opportunity of going to the Snap! Blogger Conference last month and wanted a way to showcase my blog name without having to talk to every, single person. Putting my name on a bag was the perfect way to do this! To make your own personalized bag you will need…
*Canvas tote
*Cricut using Sure Cuts a Lot or Silhouette
*Felt
*Iron
First, you will want to measure your bag to see how large your background vinyl piece needs to be.
Go on your cutting program and create the background piece that you want. I wanted my website to be shown too so I put that in there too. Be sure to make the text flipped before cutting it out though. Having the vinyl cut out this way, will make it so the color of your bag shows through the holes that the text will be cut.
Now you wantto peel off the vinyl from your letters and iron your vinyl onto your bag. The vinyl is a little harder to get to stick to the canvas, so be sure to press really hard and to let it sit a little longer than you typically would for other materials.
Your bag will now have your background piece on it.
I have a heart in my logo and I wanted to have my logo look the same on my bag that it does on my blog. Because the bag had it’s own logo on it, I couldn’t have the heart cut out of the background, so I cut it out of felt and hot glued it onto my vinyl.
Now you want to cut out your letters for your bag. I made sure to measure how large I could have them on the background, then typed them in, flipped them, then cut it out.
Cut your vinyl words apart and lay them out where you will want them to be.
Be sure to use the multi use paper when ironing over the hot glued piece so that you don’t get hot glue on your iron.
One by one, iron your words where you want them to be.
I added felt flowers to give it a little flair and now I have a unique, personalized bag that is both stylish and totally affordable!
Happy Creating
McKenzie from Girl Loves Glam
Great idea and looks so good! I still have yet to try iron-ons.
Love this! I recently got some plasticy (not a word but I have no clue what to call it) shopping totes at the dollar store. I cut the names of my daughter, the wedding party and the ‘moms’ out of vinyl and adhered to it. We will be using them to keep wedding paperwork and such in. I made the girls in the colors of their dresses, DD in silver and mine and the mother of the groom in our favorite colors. Everyone LOVES them!
hi im getting married in november and want to make welcome/thank you bags for my guests (its going to be an out of town location) and i want to purchase canvas totes to personalize for the bags and i have a vinyl cutting machine, i was wondering what type of vinyl (brand and grade) do i need and what type of application tape do i use to apply the decals to the bag and then do i put multi paper over the application tape or is there a certain application tape that will hold up under the heat of an iron, any help anyone can provide me with would be great and much appreciated.