How to decorate a bag with your own hands?

Original accessories can dramatically change the whole image. But sometimes the cost of exclusive quality items is very high. So why not make an unusual thing yourself. We offer two simple ways how you can beautifully decorate a bag made of leather or textiles.

How to decorate your hand with a bag of cloth?

Simple shopping bags made of dense cotton fabric like oxford can become a real canvas for your future masterpiece.

  1. To delineate the boundaries of the drawing, we will use the usual building scotch.
  2. Now we need acrylic paint for the fabric to decorate the bags with our own hands. The denser and coarser the fabric, the better the paints will fall on it and the pattern will be uniform.
  3. We will apply alternately different shades. You can use stencils or any other techniques for drawing a picture.
  4. Now the main drawing should dry up properly.
  5. We proceed to the final stage - draw borders.
  6. In this technique, you can decorate both the old and the new bag. If you did not find the paints for the fabric and decided to use conventional acrylics, remember their ability to dissolve in water. You can not erase the finished product.

How to decorate a leather bag?

From a small clutch or cosmetic bag you can create something stylish and exclusive. We offer to consider an interesting option, how to decorate a leather bag.

  1. We will need a base for a bag and a cut of leather in tone, as well as tools for work.
  2. Cut out the pattern and transfer the pattern to the cut of the skin.
  3. We take the first detail (the body of a butterfly) and roll the edge. We take everything on the glue and fix it before drying with clothespins.
  4. With the help of glue, we also make the antennae.
  5. Now we are making wings in a similar way.
  6. Once the glue dries, treat the edge on the sewing machine.
  7. We decorate the wings.
  8. We collect the butterfly and spend it on the typewriter.
  9. It remains only to fix it on the bag and decor, made by own hands, ready!

Also, you can simply sew a nice cloth bag with your own hands .