Sometimes I come across the cutest lunch bags at Homegoods. I don’t work out of the house, so I am always bummed when I see them because I want one for myself. So I do the next best thing, and buy them for friends and family members as gifts and add my own little touches to them. They are roomy inside and also come with plastic containers that have cooler lids that you can put in the freezer to keep your food cold. And for the price of $12.99, I think they are a great buy. This particular one I bought for my good friend who is a first grade teacher and happens to have a birthday coming up. I thought it would be a nice gift after a having summer off to get her back into the swing of things for the new year. I needed to pretty it up with some bling and trim, cause she is that kind of gal.
The front looked cute, but the back was plain Jane. What to do, what to do…got it! I took an acrylic crystal {didn’t want to use glass just in case it might bang into something and shatter glass everywhere, that wouldn’t be good} and traced out the shape on damask paper and mod podged it on to the back. I attached it with a cute ribbon and hand sewed it on to the bag. Ta DA! Just what it needed!
I love the way it turned out! Hopefully it will give her joy to pack her lunch for work after coming back from the summer break.
{I freaked when I posted this picture! It looks like her name is crooked, but I checked, it isn’t, it is just the angle of my camera, and the way the bag is sitting, whew!}
Here is a quick tutorial on how I spruced up the lunch bag. I ruffled some ribbon with my ruffler foot, added some rhinestone trim and made a cute fabric and silk flower rosette with a rhinestone button center. 
I used some black velvet iron on letters I already had {not that I thought someone would take her lunch bag, but I thought it would be cute for the kids to see their teacher bring in her own lunch bag with her name on it}.
Got out my handy dandy bejeweled tool and added some crystals to her name for some extra bling. I love this tool. I used it over and over again last year for my daughters wedding invitations and menus and what ever else I could think of to bling! The crystals come in different sizes, and the ones I used here are really small. But the trick is to lay them on the spot you want to put them on and then use the iron tool to attach the crystal. I really got to know the ends of out of using this tool after doing 250 invitations and menus! {This tool is so much fun. They stick the crystals on strong to paper, fabric or I am sure what ever you can think of that won’t melt from the heat of the iron. And they won’t fall off during washing! Just think of how many cool things you can bling}
To attach the damask to the acrylic crystal, I printed out a damask paper from my computer, traced it and then cut it.
I used a sponge brush and put a thin layer of mod podge on the back of the crystal and once I attached the paper to the back of the crystal, I added another thin layer of mod podge to the back of it to seal the paper. 
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