Bag It

Bag It

Hallo everyone!

Today's project would make

a really special gift bag and

here is Louise Thomson to

tell you how she made it

"Start by applying a couple of coats of the 

base colour – Green Apple So Soft fabric paint, 

to a canvas wine bottle bag. 

I wanted a fairly natural look with rough edges 

and plenty of the canvas still showing

Mix the green apple paint with a tiny bit of 

‘So Soft’ tangerine to get a terracotta colour 

and apply through a stencil. 

I used two different designs of the same 

Kaisercraft mini mix stencil

Once completely dry, stamp the Honey Doo 

Floral Chaos design repeatedly on to the canvas. 

My ink pad was running low and I ended up 

re – stamping the image several times.

 I thought it was going to be a disaster and 

need ditching but I should have had faith – 

there is no project that can’t be rescued!

Using tangerine and dark burgundy So Soft paints, 

paint in the flower heads, mixing them to create a variety of tones

Once you are happy with the paint and 

have allowed it to dry, go over the stems in a 

sakura gelly roll pen. 

Add in dots of bisque liquid pearls around the 

stems and also to add centres to the flowers

Finally, bag a bottle!

 I tied the bag with the hessian style chord provided

 and added three coordinating paper flowers 

which rather handily were in a Craft Barn 

goody box I purchased recently!"

Materials used-

Canvas bottle bag

So soft paints in green apple, tangerine and dark burgundy

Kaisercraft 12x12 mini mix stencil

Paint brush

Honey doo floral chaos stamp

Staz on ink – Jet Black

Sakura gelly roll pen – metallic emerald

Liquid pearl - Bisque

Paper flowers (from stash)

Thank you Louise - a super project.

Didn't I tell you it would be special?

I'm sure you agree this is a beautiful

way of presenting a bottle be it a

full bodied red or a bottle of blackcurrant juice!

The So Soft paints, by DecoArt, are really nice to 

use too and come in a good range of colours

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx