Sewing - finished the mushroom bags and added embellisments

I have been working on these bags off and on for quite a while.  I finished them this week.  I finished the seams and added ties and buttons so the handle could be shortened for carrying at the end of the arm instead of over the shoulder.  You simply tie the twill tape to one of buttons to shorten the handle and it easily can be changed whenever you need.  I chose heart buttons and a flower one for my daughter in law who is such a wonderful gardener.  

I added a mushroom embellishment on the one for my youngest grand daughter so she could easily be able to see which one was hers.  I am sure they will get lots of use as they use the library services often.  It is so fun to create gifts for family!!

Therese

 

Crafting - shrink plastic embellishment for a bag featuring a cute mushroom image

I wanted a little embellishment for my youngest granddaughter's bag so I decided to create a fun mushroom embellishment with shrink plastic.  I found the mushrooms image (Pixabay), sized it and then printed it about 6" or so.  I laid a sheet of transparent rough textured shrink plastic over it and traced the outline with a fine tipped black permanent marker and then added colour using pencil crayons with various levels of pressure to provide different values of the colours.  It does not require too much colour to really get a very good result with pencil crayons.  Once I was finished colouring I cut the circle out with scissors and punched a 1.4" hole at the top so I could add a  hanger.  I heat it with my heat gun until it was flat though it did go through quite the convulsions getting there.  It finished up just over 2" around.  I am very happy with the finished piece!! She will be able to use it any way she wishes as she grows up.  Therese