Since my summer-loving mother in law was about to have a birthday, a hand-decorated beach tote seemed like just the thing. I'm sure some of you crafty sorts could do a better job executing this concept, (I'm more of an impatient, imprecise idea person) but even doing it simply like I did turned out cute.
The canvas tote, fabric paint, and coordinating ribbon to line the bag with all came from Michaels. For the pattern of the flip flops I traced around a pair of M's shoes and a pair of G's shoes, but when I filled in the pattern with paint, I enlarged them slightly (because footprints are slightly larger than feet).
I had the girls sit down and placed the bag on the ground for the print. After each print, I washed the foot and filled in some of the spotty places on the footprint with a paintbrush.
Getting the straps on the flip flops to lay right turned out to be a little tricky. I'm not going to include a tutorial on that because I think there's probably a better way than how I did it. :-)
2 comments:
Oh, that is so cute
Ooh, I'll bet that did tickle! Part of the fun.
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