Soap Bag with Connie Mercer

Today's gorgeous vintage-style technique comes from DT Member Connie Mercer.  Connie stamped on one of our muslin bags with Ranger Archival Ink and a Darkroom Door stamp to create this one-of a kind bag.  Once she embellished it with sunny seam binding, some vintage trims, and a burlap butterfly, Connie added a bar of sweet smelling soap and had the perfect gift to make a friend's day brighter.  On the other hand, this project may just be too gorgeous to give away!  

To see more of Connie's Crafty Goodies, visit her blog!

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.

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.

Hand Warmer Tutorial with Jenifer Cowles

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Muslin Bag Hand warmers

Original Design : Jenifer Cowles

Curtsey Boutique Supplies:

Muslin Bags 

Bakers Twine

With the weather being so cold in most of the country I needed a little bit more to keep my hands warmer than just a pair of gloves.  Using the 4x6 muslin bags from the shop I was able to create these super easy but useful hand warmers.

Project Instructions:

Since this will be heated up in the microwave you don’t want to decorate to heavily.  I stitched a simple heart with bakers twine in the center of my muslin bag.  Fill the bag with 1 cup of rice and stitch the bag closed.  Done!! Now 30 seconds in the microwave you have a little warmer to keep in your coat pocket.  Enjoy.  These would make wonderful gifts.

The Curtsey Boutique is an artisanal shop specializing in handcrafted and supply items that add a touch of whimsy and vintage inspired delight to home decor, crafting, wedding, special events and celebrations of everyday joy.  These project sheets are for the use of our customers and wholesale clients. They may be shared on the internet with proper credit and a link back to the Curtsey Boutique blog or shop. They are not to be used for resale, distribution or to be edited and redistributed in any way.

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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.

Stamped Muslin Bag with Kim Stewart

Today we are sharing a sweet little gift bag made by DT member Kim Stewart.  Kim stamped on a muslin bag, then used some Baker's Twine to sew on a fabric paper tree that she glittered for an extra festive touch.

We especially love the handmade detail of sewing the tree on with twine!  Check out these bags and all the supplies needed to embellish them for gift wrapping in our store.  Thanks for sharing, Kim!

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

Welcome our newest Designer Sarah Webb

Misted Muslin Bag
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Sarah Webb

Today we are welcoming another amazingly talented artist to our team, Sarah Webb.  Her first project is a lovely blend of color and technique, a misted muslin bag.

Sarah used a standard mist stencil to create the pattern on the little bag and combined pink, orange and yellow mists.

She than used Staz-On ink to stamp on the canvas butterfly and then layered on some pink paint.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

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To see more of Sarah's brillant work visit her blog, Scropping or click on her picture below.

Stamped Ribbon Tutorial

Stamped Ribbon Tutorial

My poor stamps are quite neglected so I've decided to dust them off and try something new with them. All this week I'll be showing projects and tutorials featuring fabric and stamping. First up - creating your own stamped ribbon. I've seen a ton of beautiful examples on Pinterest and Etsy so I thought I do a few experiments to see what I could come up with.  I had no desire to spend $$$ figuring out how to do this so I just used what I already had.

SUPPLIES

Fabric scraps

Ink

Stamps

Scissors

Step 1: Find fabrics in your stash that have a neutral background. 

Step 2: Cut a slit of your desired ribbon width. I cut about an inch or 2. 

Step 3: RIP!!!! (this is my favorite part)

NOTE: I discovered recently that fabric has a grain. (Stop laughing! I've never claimed to have any decent knowledge regarding sewing) Tear with the grain for a  basically straight line.

Step 4: Select Stamps and Ink and stamp away.

Step 5: Trim off crazy long strings.

Step 6: Package cutely!

Here's a few I came up with:

One color of ink, one stamp.

One color of ink, multiple stamps.

Multiple colors of ink, multiple stamps.

Stamping on shiny fabric and embellishing

 I burned the edges on this last one because the fraying was too crazy

I've already used some of mine on packaging for the shop and on cards. If neatness and straight lines are important to you, I suggest ironing before stamping. I decided to be a free spirit and not let it bother me today :)

Medium Polka Dot Embossed 5 x 7.5 Kraft Bags Curtsey Boutique

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Have a great day,

CarrieAnne