Quilling handmade bag

Quilling Handmade bag

      Are you one of those who are looking forward to save environment and stop using plastic bags  ? Then you have landed on the right page, you can make your own handmade paper bag for either decorative purpose (like the one shown in picture above), for gifting purpose or which is quite sturdy to carry weight and of course is also environment friendly.  A handmade paper bag can be made of any size. These bags can be fashioned out of any patterned paper , handmade paper , colored paper  or newspaper.

In the example below, I have used a pink color handmade paper to make a decorative gift bag.

The materials required are :

• Handmade paper
• Feviol
• Scissors.
• Quilling strips
• Quilling needle
• Satin ribbon

Now I will explain the steps of doing the bag.

You can make your handmade bag of any size. I have used a handmade paper of size 20/20 cm. 

• Cut the handmade paper into a square of size  20 / 20 cm. 

Square 20/20 cm

• Fold right side 5 cm and left side 5 cm.

Fold right side 5 cm and left side 5 cm

• Turn the paper , fold right side 8 cm and left side 8 cm.

Right side 8 cm,left side 8 cm

• Fold all the sides at the mark, as you can see the shape of a box is getting formed.

Folding at the mark

• Fold at 5 cm for all the sides.

Foldings on all sides

• Use fevicol to seal the edges of the bag.

After sealing the bag

• After sticking , your bag will look like this 

Bag after sticking

• Put the handle using ribbon or thread to complete the bag.

Ready bag

Once our handmade  bag is ready , you can do your own quilling designs to make it look more attractive. I have used flower as a quilling pattern on the bag. You can also write your message or decorate it with beads and have fun .

Please watch the video for detailed instructions of making the bag.

You can get really get creative with the way you decorate your handmade bag. This bag can be useful to gift it to your friends . It can also be an interesting craft activity for kids during holidays.

Please share your views and tell me how your beautiful handmade bag was useful to you. Keep watching this space for more on handmade bags.  Next I will show you a bag which is more sturdy and can be used for daily use.