Okay, raise your hand if you think brown-bagging your lunch every day gets to be a little boring. Now that kids all over the country are starting back to school, I thought I’d share an idea to liven up their bag lunches – well, the bags, at least. I can’t make a miracle out of bologna. These lunch bags are so fun, the kids won’t mind being green and using them over and over. Then when it’s time to “retire” the bags, instead of throwing them away, you can use them in mixed media projects or scrapbooking pages.
Decorating brown paper bags is so easy with Craft Attitude printable film. It lets you apply any image, design or photograph onto the paper bag with just a glue stick or a spray adhesive. I’ve created some fun designs for this project that you can download with the links below. The great thing about Craft Attitude film is it actually provides an extra layer of protection to the bags, so you really can reuse the bags over and over again.
Step 1: Print the images on a sheet of Craft Attitude film on an inkjet printer. Any of Craft Attitude’s line of products will work, e.g., Shoe Attitude, Scrapbooking Attitude, Wood Attitude, etc. Be sure to print the images in reverse. (The images in the links above are already in reverse, so you don’t need to do it yourself. I know, I’m always thinking of you.)
Step 2: Trim excess film the images to fit onto the side of the paper bags.
Step 3: Apply spray adhesive to the ink side of the film.
Step 4: Place the Craft Attitude film face down on the paper bag and burnish with a brayer or your hands.
Step 5: Peel the white protective backing from the film and burnish the Craft Attitude once more to the bag.
Boy, I wish I had lunch bags like this when I was in school. Of course, mine would’ve said “I’m the child of a Tiger Mom so I don’t get to do arts and crafts, but I will make up for it when I get older and become a professional designer and big time crafter.”
Disclosure: I am a designer/spokesperson for Craft Attitude, and links on these pages are affiliate links. But I was loving and using Craft Attitude way before I did any work for them, and I have really become addicted to the stuff.