the finished painted gift bag
November 13, 2007 by Chloe Findlay-Harder
Filed under Home & Living
I talked yesterday about some different ways to use acrylic paint on fabric. I showed a piece of fabric that I had stamped on using Golden fluid acrylics & some inexpensive foam stamps. Here’s what I turned it into:
Making fabric gift bags is a great way to use up your stash, especially if you’re like me and covet Christmas fabric 
Using stamps on fabric can turn a plain fabric into a fun seasonal print quickly (it took less than 5 minutes to stamp the gift bag)
I made this gift bag out of a rectangle of fabric 16″ X 18″. I folded the right sides together and sewed the bottom and side using a plain straight stitch. I folded the top over twice and stitched it. I prefer to tack the ribbon ties onto the bag, they go missing in my house otherwise.
So there you go, a 20 minute gift bag you can use over & over!
Oooo Nice! How wonderfully green it would be if we all whipped up some of these instead of using wrapping paper this year!
Great idea Chloe – I have been making fabric Christmas bags for years. They keep being recycled from house to house and gift to gift – but somehow I keep having to make new ones as the bags get used by the recipients as a second gift!
I like to sew the ribbon right in with the side seam a few inches down from the top – then it can’t go missing.
Love the stamping!
Terri
That’s gorgeous, Chloe! If I received a gift bag like that, I sure wouldn’t even expect there to be anything *in* it!
Aww – thank you guys! It really is that fast to make a gift bag too