~Making Your Own Vintage Ad Brown Bags *tutorial*~

Good morning my wonderful crafty friends!

I was so happy and surprised that our

Americana Chickens began laying yesterday and

we found our first GREEN EGG!

My hubby and I were outside feeding the chickens together

last night and we opened the coop together and both

did a little gasp and squeal of excitement.

I have had many questions about these green eggs

and they are perfectly edible and just like any other egg.

OK remember I told you I was going to make a vintage

brown bag tutorial yesterday? Well, many attempts later

I figured it out and here it is.

This is the LO I used as inspiration *from yesterday*

because a friend sent me a vintage ad brown bag last

week and I wanted to figure out how to make my own.

Now I started with a regular CHEAP lunch bag

you can get a pack of 50 for like 2.00.

I wanted to get the smaller flatter bags but let's be honest

they were like 6.00! LOL I am frugal so I went with

the lunch bag.

With the lunch bag it does take 2 bags I will warn ya.

You have to cut the front out of one bag

leaving about 1-2" around the entire thing.

I tried to cut it 6X12 using ONLY the front but

the printer did not like those dimensions, as much as I tried

and I am pretty good with my computer/printer.

So for anyone who is not real techie this is the way to go.

I also suggest you iron of really flatten the paper you cut.

Now here it is after I printed it, but let me take a minute to tell you

how I printed it. I used Photoshop CS , you could use any photo

WORD program and collage any free vintage ad images you find online

Here is the 2 I made and here is the place I found my images

IMAGES

Feel FREE to use mine, but please not for publication in

magazines. And please if you do send them my way :)

I collaged the images, these are 1940's but you can

certainly find older and any style you want!

This blog here had AMAZING VINTAGE images

http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/

Especially if you wanted a little older style.

Anyways, after you make your collage or find one

and print it onto the paper, you will then glue it onto

the front of a full bag. DO NOT USE WET GLUE. You know

my stand by glue does not work. Not only does it bleed into

the paper because the paper is thin but it dries oddly.

I strongly suggest Glue Glider Pro or Scotch ATG Gun

those won't bleed or crack later, I found the other

glues I tried ended up bleeding or cracking.

Now this is how it looked when I was finished, you

can see I used a zig zag pair of Exacto Scissors to trim off the top.

You will lose maybe 2" off the top.

Those Exacto scissors I received yesterday in my

BZZ Agent kit for testing new products.

They are actually really cool!

Did you know Exacto made deco scissors? I had no clue!

Have you tried them? Do you like them?

Anyways that's how you make your own vintage brown bag

Pinky Style hahaha!

Hope you found this tutorial useful and try it.

If you do PLEASE let me know and please

tell your friends you found it right here!

OK on to the TIM HOLTZ SIGNED EMBOSSING folders

WINNER!!!!!!!

Randomly drawn from random.org

celticmystyc said...

Look at you! Aren't you the bomb!! Sounds like a fun technique!! :)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

send me your info chickta! :)

I gotta tell you, it's so hard for me to always draw

one winner because I know there are always like 60-100 comments

I am so sorry and I always try to get great prizes to give away.

So please don't get discouraged.

And companies do approach me to do giveaways,

I always leave my blog open for that just for YOU!

I really appreciate and love the support! :)

~Happy Sunday Y'all!~

~Have a wonderful day~

~Pinky~