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 bag If 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!

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

Steps:

I traced a heart shape in the center of my shopping bag.

Repurpose Victoria's Secret Shopping Bag for Valentine's Day - trace a heart shape on the front of the bag

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As a fun touch, I punched out hearts and dots to put into a packing slip pouch. Seal the pouch with some tape.

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

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.