Pallet for Home: "Summer Social" Guest Project -- Make an Embellished Grocery Bag Container!! {great item to keep in your car}

"Summer Social" Guest Project -- Make an Embellished Grocery Bag Container!! {great item to keep in your car}

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Jen is my bloggy bestie. We run The CSI Project together, Crafterminds, and we are doing a web show together in the fall. Yet I have never guest posted on her blog. I wanted to have the perfect project before I posted here. Well that day of perfection will never come.

However, I did come to share with you a fun little gift to give yourself or a friend for the summer…an embellished grocery bag container.

These are perfect to throw in a beach bag for wet suits. They are also wonderful to have in your car for summer road trips. Whatever you reuse plastic bags for having a container full of them looks a heck of a lot better than stuffed in a drawer. Plus they are so much more portable this way.

I figured out how to fold them so that they are interconnected and one bag comes out at a time but pulls the next one out a little.

Supplies:

12 plastic grocery bags (I used Target ones)

coordinating fabric

Empty wipe container

Fabric Mod Podge

Foam brush

Spray adhesive

scissors or rotary cutter

quilting ruler

1. Grab a dozen bags and flatten them out pushing all the air out.

2. Fold them in half again pressing all the air out.

3. Overlap the handles onto the top of the previous bag. Do this for all 11 bags lining them all up into one big row.

4. Fold the first bag’s handle upward. This will be your middle and the first bag you pull out of the container. All the other bags will be connected to this first one.

5. Now tightly roll up your bags tucking in the new handles as you roll.

6. After you roll up 12 bags you are ready to insert them into your wipes container.

7. Tuck the first bag’s handles through the top. Now you are done.

Done? What do you mean done?

I can’t be at TT& J without embellishing right!? RIGHT!

8. Cut out a piece of fabric roughly 8” x 10”. With your foam brush “paint” Fabric Mod Podge onto the fabric. The Mod Podge seals the edges and gives the fabric a durable water resistant surface.

9. After it is dry cut it to size. For one of the Lysol wipes containers I cut mine 7 1/8” x 10 3/8”. Then glue it in place. I use a spray adhesive because it is quick and easy. Overlap the pieces one over another. Adorable and practical!

I LOVE IT!

Here are some more summer fun ideas if you want to come to my house for a little bit:

Chalk Spray

Windproof Picnic Quilt

Paper Bag Pinata

Thanks Beckie!! I have a whole drawer of those plastic bags and now I know what to do with them!!!

Beckie is awesome. Not only is she funny, but she's smart, creative and has a big heart too.

Have you seen her signature "Roadkill Rescue" projects?

I love this Changing Table turned Shelf she made for her craft space!

Of course I love this Chevron Trash Can transformation.

And you have probably seen Beckie's "Countdown" Kisses Boards, she's made different ones for several holidays. So cute!

And have you seen her Purple Board and Batten Bathroom?

Plus Beckie Runs Another fun site -- Knock Off Decor. The girl is busy!!

You will love following along with Beckie as she scoops things up from the side of the road and transforms them into treasures at Infarrantly Creative!!

xoxo