DIY Gold Glitter Striped Muslin Bag Tutorial with Rebekah Faries

DIY Gold Glitter Striped Muslin Bag Tutorial
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Rebekah Faries

Rebekah is big into gift wrapping lately and so for her most recent tutorial she decided to try her hand at decorating bags. Curtsey Boutique muslin bags are perfect for tucking in smaller gifts when you don't feel like wrapping with paper.

Gold seems to be the color of the moment and feathers are fun and everywhere you look in the crafting world.  Today's DIY technique teaches you how to mimic the beautiful gold glitter bands on Rebekah's bag.

The secret is using double sided quick hem tape which can be found in any sewing store.  

Regular double sided tape won't stick to fabric well, but quick hem tape is made for fabric and holds beautifully.

1. Simply decide how many bands of color you want, trim to size and adhere. 

2. Be sure to rub all over with a bone folder (or your fingers) to guarantee great adhesion of the tape to the fabric.

3. Peel off the protective paper and cover generously with glitter.

4. Press the glitter into the tape before tapping off any excess.

Voila! Mess free bands of yummy gold glitter.

Add Baker's Twine and other embellies to jazz up your bag.

Other Supplies
Double Sided Quick Hem Tape: Singer
Gold Glitter: Martha Stewart
Stamp: Feather Finery: PTI
Ink: Fine Linen: PTI
Feathers
Gold Button: Craft Supply
Date Label: MME
Love Diecut: Pink Paislee
Seam Binding: French Market
Bird Paper Clip: Michaels

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique

Blue and White Baker's Twine - Curtsey Boutique

5mm foil cup sequins

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To see more of Rebekah's work be sure to click on her image below and visit her blog, Midnite Lullabies.

Happy Easter Treat Bags with Connie Mercer

Happy Easter Treat Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Easter is almost here! Are you ready?

Connie's adorable embellished treat bag will help you get there. Our kraft bakery bags are perfect for showing a peek of Easter color. Fill them with home baked treats, plastic Easter eggs or candy.

Our white seambinding was dyed using Yellow Dylusions spray - a perfect way to customize a must have supply in your craft stash

Other supplies:

Chalks

Copic Markers

Ranger/black ink

Easter stamps: Inkadinkado

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Kraft 1/2 pound Bakery Bags

Pink Dyed Doilies

Valentine's Assortment Seambinding

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To see more of Connie's lovely work click on her image below.

This Boy is Awesome Sauce Layout by Connie Mercer

This Boy is Awesome Sauce Layout
by Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

 Connie is back today sharing another fantastic boy themed layout of her darling grandson. I love that she uses our vintage pattern flowers and burlap tags with darker jewel toned colors and patterns to showcase the versatility of kraft colored embellishments.

other supplies:

Maya Road tickets

Maya Road paper twine

Little Yellow Bicycle pattern paper

American Crafts

Silhouette

button and trim

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

4 Inch Paper Doilies - Curtsey Boutique

Kraft Merchandise Bag - 5x7 - Curtsey Boutique

Vintage Pattern Flowers

Blue Library Cards - Curtsey Boutique

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 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

DIY Berry Basket Holder Shadow Box Tutorial with Lisa Spiegel

Berry Basket Holder Tutorial

Original Design : Lisa Spiegel

Lisa shares this ingenious tutorial for creating a shadow box display piece from two of our berry baskets. 

1. Cut a slit in the first berry box, then remove the top half of the box following that line.

2. Using twine, tie the basket you cut to another full size basket creating a clam shell appearance.

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3. Stuff a muslin bag with pillow stuffing and tuck in the bottom basket.  Hot glue red doily to the top basket.

4. Hot glue Fabric Flower, Twine tied button, Felt Flowers and Glassine Leaves punched from Glassine bag to top basket.

5. Fold Glassine bag up two times from the bottom edge.  Use stick pin to attach it to the muslin pin cushion.  Adhere wallet sized photo to the front.

6. Pull apart Red Fabric flower to reveal fabric strip.  Tie around the berry basket and embellish with pins.  Pin Burlap Butterfly to the pin cushion.  Enjoy!

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

Pint Pulp Berry Basket - Curtsey Boutique	Mini Red Felt Rose - Curtsey Boutique	Bird and Vine Embossed Glassine Bags	Floral Print Ruffle Fabric Flower
Red Polka Dot Ruffle Fabric Flower	Vintage Blue Painted 1 inch Button	Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique	Assorted Dyed Doilies - Curtsey Boutique
Burlap Butterflies - Curtsey Boutique

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Other Supplies:

Pillow Stuffing

Maya Road Stick Pins

Twine

To see more of Lisa's work, click on her photo below.

Wintery Muslin Treat Bag with Jenifer Cowles

Wintery Muslin Treat Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

Project Instructions:

1. Using the muslin bags in the shop spray with some silver color wash. 

2. Layer a doily, some wax paper garland, a fancy silver ribbon, a blue circle and top it all off with a snowflake rosette.  

3. Cut a v into a embossed coin envelope and attach that to the underside of the doily, making it look like a nice pretty ribbon.

4. To make the wax paper garland fold several layers of  wax paper about 2” wide and cut multiple cuts about ¼” apart and using a jumbo zot adhere it in a circle giving your snowflake medallion some dimension.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Polka Dot Embossed Coin Envelopes - Curtsey Boutique

Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique

Large Snowflake Rosettes - Curtsey Boutique

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Thanks for taking a peek today!  To see more of Jenifer's work, please visit her blog by clicking on her picture below.

DIY Jute Organizer and Burlap Bag Dispense Tutorial by Connie Mercer

We all love to use Jute in our projects, but storing and keeping it kink and not free is not always easy. Connie has stylishly mastered this organizational conundrum and is sharing her burlap organizer tutorial with us today.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Burlap Butterflies - Curtsey Boutique	Plain Burlap Bags - Curtsey Boutique	Green Damask Ruffle Flower - Curtsey Boutique
Butterfly Botanical Ruffle Flowers

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 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

Hand Painted Muslin Gift Bag by Kim Stewart

Hand Painted Muslin Gift Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Kim Stewart

 Headed to a New Year's Eve party and need to give the host or hostess something with a bit of sparkle?  Kim hand painted the stripes on our muslin bags with a metallic finish acrylic paint. She topped the bags off with colorful sewn pennant.

Our muslin bags can be found here in the shop:

Muslin Bags - Curtsey Boutique

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This year has been a wonderful one here at the Curtsey Boutique and we can't wait to see what next year brings.

Be safe and have fun tonight!

To see more of Kim's work, visit her blog by clicking on her photo.  Thanks for dropping by.