 Hey everybody, we are here for a Monday with decor So I have this bag I picked this up at scrap when I was there recently with Claudia Rossi and Sarah Whitney and Both from crazy island family. They were in town visiting and this bag was Something I picked up there. I don't remember exactly how much it was, but it was only like a dollar or something Obviously it's from a bike to work day event and It's some kind of obviously bike bag. It's made out of deep decent canvas fabric. It has a nice long strap so you can put it cross body and I Picked one up because I thought you know it would make an interesting project at some point that was before I got my decor It's stuff. So I Had no idea that that was going to come in and I was going to end up doing this with it, but there you have it So we're going to work on Making this something that's a little more usable. We're not going to Completely cover up the design necessarily as much as de-emphasize it and To do that. We're going to use a variety of deco art stencils some of their fabric painting Medium and some of the paints that they sent me so I'm going to get some stuff together and I will get ready and I will be right back if you're going to do this along with me Whatever bag you're using make sure you put a piece of cardboard or chipboard or plastic or something inside So that when you're painting that the fat the paint doesn't seep through to the other side Okay, so you can like paint one side and then you can you know paint the other side and the designs don't like sort of meet In the middle and glue the bag shut That would be bad. All right. I am going to get my stuff together. I'll be right back Okay, I've got some colors of paint here. I've got my Textile medium here fabric painting medium got some stencil brushes some palette knives some Paint pouncers which might be nice to stencil with and I've got a bunch of stencils The only thing I pulled that's not deco art is a piece of punch in Ella Yeah, and I got this piece of punch in Ella off of a seller on Etsy So if you go to Etsy and you type in punch in Ella like a whole bunch of people come up All right, so let's get started So the first thing you should do is read the fabric painting medium directions and it says on the back mix paint with medium Two to one so two parts paint one part medium Air dry design 24 to 48 hours heat set 30 seconds with iron wash inside out on gentle cycle Now I usually instead of heat actually heat setting it like with an iron I usually just toss the bag in the dryer or the item in the dryer for a while and heat set it using my dryer And that usually works fine When we're painting this bag today, I'm probably going to heat set the one side with my embossing tool Just enough so that I can flip it over to do the back side Without messing up the paint and we're going to just not do anything complicated. We're going to just layer Paint colors and stencil marks on top of each other to get something interesting Like I said without really covering up what's already here and just kind of de-emphasizing it with something else All right, so Let's get started First let's open our tools So these palette knives also come with some texturing tools Which you could I don't know if you're gonna be able to see what you could use on here and drag them through the paint if you wanted I don't know that we're gonna do that, but I'm not gonna go too far with them. It comes with five of them But we're gonna need these at least one of these we're gonna keep that one out stencil brushes and I need those Paint palencers we're gonna try these somebody asked me Today, I think I just got the message through today about stenciling properly so it's not all smudgy and smeared underneath So maybe we'll talk about that while we're working on our bag. I'm gonna open up all the stencils. This one that I just pulled out is called Snakes web This one is called Sunburst This one is called tornado. These are all Andy Skinner stencils, which are by distributed by Deco Art At least here in the US. I guess they're the distributor Deco Art Ink This one's called serendipity. I like this one for the bag because it's full of full of positive affirmation words like dream create serendipity imagine This is what I've been using called Whirlpool Which I love this one and we have tread carefully Which I can't get open And then we have burning rubber and then we have this one I thought we might use called strike the pose which is just faces. All right so the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab my sort of Texturey or kind of background stencils like these because we're gonna start with layering those And I'm gonna set the ones that the couple that I think might be focal point stencils aside Okay then We need a plate. I use ceramic plates to mix all my paints on whether I'm working with acrylics or watercolor or whatever And I think I want to start with Do I want to start with darker light? I usually either start with my darkest value or my lightest value and work my way towards the other way. I might want to start dark this is Deco art media fluid acrylics in burnt umber Now you can mix this fabric fabric medium with Art paint craft paint and mix it with all any kind of paint and You can turn any of those kinds of paint into fabric paint now. I just splattered that there, but I'm gonna just I'm gonna just do that. I'm not gonna be too We're gonna be layering colors on here. So that really doesn't matter in the long run Okay, I put the There it is. I keep putting the fabric painting medium out of my sight So two parts paint one part medium and then mix them together Until they're completely mixed Then we're gonna not go too far with the baby wipes. I'm gonna grab my baby wipes Because we might need those Okay, so we're gonna start with one of our stencils and I think I want to start with I'm gonna just follow my instincts and I just already said that so many times already. We just got started This is the one What is it called tire trends or something but it to me? It looks like chevrons I'm going to take the biggest brush. This is a number 12. I'm gonna just pounce so the key to a nice crisp stencil Is not too much paint? A dry as a dry of a brush as possible And if you do that, then you're gonna get a nice crisp Design to see right there. It's nice and crisp, but look where I had too much paint Now for this project. I don't mind But if you really want to make sure that you're doing a nice Getting a nice clean design Then you want to dip the brush in the paint and then tap it off on a clean spot So that you don't have too much paint on your brush And you want your brush to be almost dry like that one Okay This is a cool stencil now for this project I Am not completely really caring too much if This dental is not crisp and clear if I'm not catching all the spots if there's some clear spots and some smudgy spots All of that is totally okay with me. This is about layering marks and colors It's not about getting a crisp clean clear image When you're planning on this doing a project like this, you know start out by just picking your favorite colors And but then also make sure you pick a couple of neutrals The neutrals will help offset the bright colors that you choose your favorites I'm not going in any particular pattern. I'm kind of doing a random order I'm just trying to make sure that there's kind of a balance Okay, that took a little longer than I wanted to get the next stencil on here because my card on my SD card in my camera got full All right, so we're going to move on to the next color. This is another DecoArt media fluid acrylic This is cobalt turquoise hue I'm going to do the same thing two parts paint one part fabric medium Mix them together I'm going to use this stencil now and I'm going to keep going Alternating my colors and layering my stencils right on top of each other like this until I get something I really like I'm going to fast forward through the process and I'll be right back of it I need to let it dry now my hands are all icky So I just layered a stencil on top of stencil color on top of color Until I got something I really like and I really love the way it turned out I love the row of faces across the center with the words inspirational or positive affirmation words Scattered throughout and I ended up using some of the leftover paint to do the handle. This is one side And this is the other side So then you need to let it set for 20 40 48 hours and then heat treat it And then when you wash it wash it inside out and you're good to go and you have this really great messenger bag It's nice bag I can take and throw my cell phone and keys in there when I go out walking around the neighborhood And I'm not hunting up a small cross-body bag or some kind of tote bag to take with me Maybe I'm going to go pick up the mail. This is a perfect bag for that By the way, this is a great bag for me to go walk to the mailbox Anyway, I hope it gives you some ideas of what you do you can do get out those Old tote bags that you don't like the way they look anymore and get some decor media paints and some fabric medium Painting medium and have at it now The colors I used I used the Americana fabric painting medium, which is from Deco art I use Deco art media fluid acrylics in quiroquerone magenta carbon black titanium white Thalo turquoise oops cobalt turquoise hue cobalt teal hue and Quiroquerone violet I ended up not using these other three colors, but that's okay with me I like the way it turned out All right, I hope this gave you some ideas of what you can do with your old bags You've got laying around the house and a few different products from Deco art. I love these by the way. These are great Anyway, go out and have some fun paint those bags and Don't forget to do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later