Quilling carry bag

                                           

  

                  Hi friends , hope you remember I had shown a small quilling handmade bag in my earlier articles. This is a bag which is more sturdy and can be used for daily shopping. A beautiful , attractive and Eco friendly handmade paper decorated with paper quilled flowers or designs for your special ones. This is a multipurpose bag made of handmade sheet ( kg cardboard ) decorated with quilling. It can also be used to present gift on special occasions. Paper bags are environment friendly and are good alternate for plastic bags.

Now I will show you how to make a paper bag using chart paper in  few steps. You can take a thin / thick chart paper. 

Materials required are :

• Chart paper  ( Any color  but let it be in contrast with the quilling design color )
• Fevicol
• Scissors
• Handle for the bag
• Punching machine
• Quilling strips
• Quilling needle / comb
• Washer

The step by step procedure is explained below.  

• Take a chart paper and cut it into size 55  X  40 cm. You can change the paper size as per your requirement.
• Fold it on both sides ( One side 17 cm and other side 12 cm ) as shown in Step 1 and Step 2..
• Paste the two overlapped sides together with fevicol. Please refer to Step 3.
• Allow it to dry.

              

• Fold the bottom of the bag for a length of around 2 inch ( Refer to Step 4 ). If you increase this , your bag size will be big. You can fold it according to the size of the bag you are making. 
• Unfold the last fold. Fold upwards to form a triangular shaped edge as shown.
• Fold the flap inwards and flatten it. ( Step 5 and Step 6 
• Paste the two flaps together using fevicol so that the base is firm.

       

               

• Fold both sides of the paper lengthwise as shown in Step 10.The thickness of the fold will determine the space inside the bag. 
• Make the fold according to the width of your bag.  

            

• Open the folds and along the creases make fold inwards on both the sides as shown:

• Using a punching machine, make two holes on both sides of the bag. Please refer to Step 12.

Please note : To make the bag more strong (bag with just holes on paper are likely to tear under load), I have used a washer ( Step 14 ) which you have to stick on all the punched holes or you can even rivet each hole. Please refer to the pictures below.

Once your bag is ready , you can decorate it using various designs or quilling comb flowers in your own way. As you can see , I have made some quilling flowers and decorated it on the handmade bag.

The complete handmade bag looks like this:

  Please share your comments on how this carry bag was useful to you.

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.