Fun and Easy Way to Personalize Your Bags!

Good morning!!!

March is National Crafting Month and every Monday of the month the Limelight Papercrafts Team have been sharing tutorials with you.

Today is my day and I am sharing a fun and easy way to personalize your bags (purses, luggage, kids backpacks, etc) using stamping and paper-piecing.

Supplies used for Hey Chick tag:

Unity stamp Co. Hey Chick Kit,

Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6x6 paper pad,

ribbon,

brads,

Nestabilities Labels 13 diecut,

kraft paper,

StazOn Jet Black inkpad

Today's project is a project that I stumbled upon a few years ago when I was making Altered Trading Cards and was looking for a way to show them off. I found these id badge holders on base and an idea occurred to me that I could tie an ATC onto my purse as a pretty decorative element. Since then, I have made them to tie onto all my bags including luggage (makes it MUCH EASIER to spot your luggage on the baggage claim turnstile...you can make it pretty on one side and put your identification info on the other side) and even fun decorative tags for the kids backpacks.

The actual construction of the tags is super basic so I decided to make my tutorial about a stamping technique....paper-piecing. I think that this is a technique that looks way more difficult than it actually is and it is a perfect technique for the paper-pads that Mandy carries in the Limelight Papercrafts store (because these paper pads are scaled down, the patterns in them are smaller in scale than the 12x12 papers and makes them perfect for cutting into small pieces for paper-piecing.)

When I paper-piece, I like to use several different patterns...

Step 1. Choose your papers

Step 2. Stamp your image that you want to paper-piece onto all of your papers and a neutral base paper (which is where you will be layering on your patterned papers)

Step 3. Decide which sections of your stamped image you want to use the different papers in and trim accordingly

Step 4. Use a glue pen to adhere your patterned papers onto your stamped image

Step 5. Assemble your project using your paper-pieced stamped image as normal.

Supplies Used for Find Joy Tag:

Unity Stamp Co. Could I be Any Cuter,

Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6x6 paper pad,

ribbon,

kraft paper,

StazOn Jet Black inkpad

Supplies used for Travel Tag:

Unity Stamp Co. Destination Happiness,

Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6x6 paper pad,

ribbon,

kraft paper,

StazOn Jet Black inkpad,

watercolor pencils

Hint: I am NOT proficient with an exacto blade, so I simply cut out more pieces to layer on top for sections that should be plain like the windows on the camper.