Wednesday 11 May 2011

Altered Marks and Spencer Bag

For this project I’ve used a large felt shopper from M & S, bought a while ago for about £4, felt flowers and leaves cut on my Big Shot using Tim Holtz Tattered Florals and Tattered Leaves dies and clear flat backed gems.
Altered M & S bag
I’m not too sure about this. I wish I had restricted the colours a little more. I used almost every colour in my felt bag and once the first couple of flowers were stuck on there was no going back!  The bag is a bright fuchsia pink and a devil to match up, so by using a whole swash of colour I thought it wouldn’t be so noticeable that they didn’t actually match!
Altered bag form Marks and Spencer
I’ve used a mixture of glue gun, pva and Bostick to stick everything in place.  I have a feeling this (like my Primark bag on Monday) may only be a fair weather bag …. I’m not sure how it would stand up to the rigours of rain and hail stones ….. and I think I will only  do “gentile lady type shopping’ with it, and not the spuds, savoy cabbage and washing powder variety!

8 comments:

Anne said...

Gorgeous bag.
I love the fact that you used all colours on the flowers.
Beautiful job!

craftycreationsbydebbie said...

This is stunning and the colours are perfect for the summer. I've never tried felf in my big shot I must give it a go. Thank you for a great blog it's full of inspiration. Debbie x

Bee and Dee said...

Great bag, great inspiration, maybe it's a ladies who lunch bag Bee x

Caroline said...

I love it! Its Fab, the sort of thing I would buy. x

Suze Bain said...

What a fabulous summer bag. Looks v. expensive! x

marc said...

Great bag its so on trend its perfect, i know for a fact ladie who lunch would pay big time for a bag like this ,its a one of a kind in a real look at me i have arrived way .fab great art make thanks for sharing big love marc ps did i say i liked it lol

Neenie said...

ooh I have that bag - what a fab idea!

Bumblebee said...

Amazing! I saw a kid in school today with your primark bag and I thought "wouldn't that be great coloured"!