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Repurposed Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag


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January 12, 2019

Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - cute pink and white striped shopping bag repurposed into a Valentine's Day gift bagIf you have any shopping bags laying around, you can repurpose those bags into thoughtful handmade Valentine's Day gift bags.

Your gift bag will pair perfectly with your purchased or handmade gift. I was able to use items I already had at home to make this!

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Total Time: 20-25 minutes

Yield: 1 bag

Supplies:

  • shopping bag
  • magazine
  • construction paper
  • packing slip pouch
  • tape
  • hole puncher
  • heart paper hole puncher
  • pen/Sharpie
  • scissors
  • glue stick
Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - supplies
 

Steps:

  1. I traced a heart shape in the center of my shopping bag.
  2. Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - trace a heart shape on the front of the bag
     
  3. Next stick a magazine into your bag so as not to cut the other side of the bag and use an X-acto knife to carefully cut the heart out.
  4. Repurpose Victoria's Secret
Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - slip a magazine inside
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - cut out the heart shape with your craft knife
     
  5. If your bag has logo/text like mine, you can think of something creative to cover it up. I decided to go with an arrow. I cut shapes to resemble an arrow (rectangle and triangle). Worse case scenario if your bag has a lot of logo/text you can make a collage with magazine cuttings or cover with construction paper, etc.
  6. Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - adding an arrow shape to cover store name, here part of shaft
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - rest of shaft and point
     
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  7. Finalize the placement of the arrow and glue down. Stick the magazine back in the bag and carefully trim off the part of the arrow extending into the heart shape to make it look seamless.
  8. Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - finalize position and glue down
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - trim off excess
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - finished arrow decoration
     
  9. As a fun touch, I punched out hearts and dots to put into a packing slip pouch. Seal the pouch with some tape.
  10. Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - recycled plastic shipping label pouch
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - using a hole punch to make paper hearts and dots
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - container of pink and purple paper dots and hearts
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - add punched shapes to the bag
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - tape closed on back
     
  11. Place the pouch inside the shopping bag and mark the heart outline as a guideline. Then glue around the guidelines and secure with tape on the inside to keep the pouch in place.
  12. Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - view of the bag from the front with the dots and hearts
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - slip the bag inside behind the heart shape and mark for placement
     
    Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - placement marks visible on bag
     
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  13. Add your gift and it's done!
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Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,246 Posts
January 15, 20190 found this helpful

Very smart as they already have a very lovey dovey feel! :)

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Diamond Post Medal for All Time! 1,298 Posts
January 15, 20190 found this helpful

Thank you! I always save all of my shopping bags. They can be very useful :)

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