 Hi guys, all right brain my laundry room Okay, so this week since we are trying to Use recyclable found Objects trash if you want in our journals figuring out how to reuse things and make them pretty I thought I would revive an old craft thing that I used to do way back when I was in an artist cooperative gift shop and that is turn packaging Into fabric. I know you're like what? So I used to take potato chip bags coffee bean bags Sugar bags all kinds of stuff turn them into a vinyl fabric if you will and then I would make pencil bags and tote bags And all kinds of stuff out of it handbags So this one I'm not sure if it's gonna work because it is very plastic But we're gonna try it. This is a Dried berry bag Stone Ridge orchard's all-natural berry mix was very good The first thing you want to do is you want to cut It into something that's flat So I'm gonna cut the sides off I'm depending on the oops That way depending on the bag that may mean different things you may be able to just split it or you may have to cut Something off. This was a Ziploc Top so I'm gonna cut the Ziploc off Okay, and it has heat laminated corners. It's like folded in at the corner. So I'm gonna cut the corners off so that I can actually open it and lay it flat So we have something that lays flat like that. Now this other piece that I have is Harvest snap pea crisps wasabi ranch flavor bag. I Are all family. We're addicted to these snap pea chips I like a lightly salted flavor. My husband likes this wasabi ranch flavor if you're gonna try this at home You of course want to make sure you you need some packaging You also want to make sure you wash it out. You want to get all the food residue off that you can Again on this one I'm gonna cut the top and bottom off now on this one. It's got the seam up the back So I'm going to do this and then we're gonna cut that seam off So that again, we can open it up And lay it flat and this one should work fine at these this kind of thing I've used before In the version of a potato chip bag it worked great. I am going to this is a little damp from when I washed it So I'm gonna go get a rag to dry that off and I'll be right back Okay, so you're gonna need your clean packaging a pair of scissors to cut it open it So you can lay it flat with this is a pressing board this is actually made for pressing and ironing and Doing like iron-on application stuff you can find these of course on line and you should be able to find them at your fabric store I will try to link it in the materials list The other thing you're gonna need the most important piece is iron-on vinyl So this is by thermo web It's called iron-on vinyl. It comes in a bolt like this it's heat and bond iron-on vinyl by thermo web and You can get it by the yard. So just get enough to do your piece with It does have instructions. So make sure you have them give you you a copy of the instructions And it's been a while since I've done this so I cut off some instructions and have them stink to the side so that I can see what I'm doing All right, we're gonna cut off just enough at the thermo web to do hopefully our Two pieces it's a little crowded in my laundry room. It's not that big a room. Okay So I'm gonna put a little one aside right now We're gonna work with the bigger one first so the first thing what you want to do is you want to have your iron on a medium temperature no steam And you should test a piece. I'm not going to do that because I've done this before You want to peel the paper backing from the vinyl, but don't get rid of the paper Maybe we're doing all of them at once. So don't get rid of the paper. We're gonna put this face Pretty face down on the vinyl. I'm gonna move my board out of the way really quick and Then I'm gonna smooth the chip bag Into the vinyl which is a little bit sticky. I'm gonna do my best To get out any air bubbles. It doesn't always come out perfect, but I don't necessarily always care about that So it's usually good. We have this piece over here So let's put our other bag again pretty side down. I have to put this back on the vinyl There's a shiny side and a non shiny side So you want to put shiny side down against the vinyl and the packaging I'm gonna try to match this up as well as I can because I don't want to get Any of the vinyl melted onto my iron. That would be bad Be very bad So with a medium pressure you want to hold your iron onto each section of this for eight seconds Until you have the whole sheet done. So remember in school, right? one one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand five one thousand six one Thousand seven one thousand eight one thousand and then move the iron keep doing that until you have the whole piece done All right, I'm gonna do that and I'll be back Okay, now you're supposed to do the fabric side with the pressing that we just did without the paper And then you're supposed to turn it over with the vinyl side up and press it with the paper because I'm always using Crazy materials when I do this I use the paper on both sides So I have flipped it over And I am going to put the paper Back on the vinyl and We're gonna do we're gonna repeat what we just did and basically heat up that plastic and melt it into our Product packaging that we just stuck to it. All right, and this doing it both sides will help ensure that it sticks really well All right, so I'm gonna do that and I'll be back Okay, generally speaking when I used to do this I would cover the whole piece of plastic entirely with packaging this time I didn't because we're just doing this little video So what I'm gonna do because this is still sticky is I'm gonna cut out the fabric that we've made out of the packaging from the plastic so I can throw the unused part of the vinyl Away and at the sticky Remnant edges are not driving me crazy If you're worried about fumes or an odor first of all I have asthma And I can tell you there aren't any but if you're worried about it open a window turn on a fan and wear a mask What you're left with then is This piece of now Vinyl-y fabric that you've made out of this chip bag So I'm gonna cut out this other one and we're gonna go back into my art room And we're gonna make something out of it and we'll be right back