It’s great to see more new faces this week!! I just love hosting this blog hop and getting the chance to see what projects are out on the blogsphere!!
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If I didn’t follow you last week, I will this week!! Plus, I do pin your projects on my Favorite’s Board.
My Favorite Five!
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Katie’s {Creatively Living} The Kitchen Reveal – she has a pretty amazing kitchen!
Marissa’s {Rae Gun Ramblings} Knock-off Cheesecake Factory Bread
Jess’ {Jess and the Boys} Meal Planning Magnet Board - I just LOVE this idea and plan on doing it myself sometime.
Brittany’s {Crafty Mischief} Funky Braided Scarf
Finally, because I DID clean my microwave this week after reading her blog post, Jessi’s {Practically Functional} How to Clean your Microwave in 2 Minutes
Finally (yes, I’m adding a sixth again!) I absolutely LOVED Lindsay’s {Southern Lovely} Knock-off Striped Skirt
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Duct Tape Purses
My Sister-in-law and Mother-in-law have been busy crafting lately. This weekend they showed me, and allowed me to help with one of their projects!!
Aren’t they so cute? They are amazingly easy to make too!
Step 1: Create Duct Tape Fabric
You do this by putting duct tape back to back. In this instance we chose the pink polka dots and a solid blue duct tape. The blue duct tape was actual duct tape sheets they had purchased at Michaels.
After creating duct tape fabric for the front and back of the purse, we put strips together to form the binding. For this we chose pink polka dots on one side and a cupcake pattern for the other side.
Step 2: Tape the pieces together and add binding
After we had all the pieces made, we lined them up like this and started taping them together, using the cupcake patterned duct tape for our binding:
Step 3: Make the ruffles
We used a box to help hold the form, as we were bending it around. (Sorry I don’t have any pictures of the rest of the process!!) Velcro secured the top flap over the purse.
I didn’t take any pictures of us making the ruffles, but here’s a pretty good video tutorial.
Have you ever made anything out of duct tape? What projects have you been working on lately?
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Thanks so much for featuring my microwave cleaning tip, and I’m glad it inspired you! Those duct tape purses are absolutely adorable, I saw some cute duct tape at Michael’s the other day that I may just have to go buy now
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You are welcome! I’m so happy to have a clean microwave now. I didn’t know it was so easy to clean!
What!? There is duct tape fabric!!! Wow, that will give me about a zillion more possibilities for projects! Great purses! I love them!
Thank you so much for the feature!
–Katie
Well, the duct tape “fabric” is made by adhering the tape together. (Is adhering a word?) Anyway, with the duct tape sheets it’s pretty easy to make duct tape fabric!
The purses were made by my sister and mother in law! I’ll tell them you love them.
Wow, I had NO IDEA there was duct tape fabric! Those purses are super cute. I love how you have the Hunger Games reference there -Girl on Fire. Thanks for sharing the tutorial!
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The duct tape “fabric” is made by adhering the tape together. (Is adhering a word?) Anyway, with the duct tape sheets it’s pretty easy to make duct tape fabric! Thanks for visiting and commenting! I’ll have to check your blog out!
Thank you for hosting, Betsy and enjoy the week ahead!
You are welcome!! So glad you visited.
Thanks so much for hosting this party, Betsy. Can’t wait to see all the projects that have been linked up this week. Megan
Thanks Megan. I’m so glad you joined us again!!
Well thank you so much for the feature of my skirt! You made my day! I am so happy to be here each week!
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You are welcome Lindsay, I absolutely LOVE your skirt!!
I’m glad you keeping coming back to link up your projects!
Betsy… Thanks again for hosting and letting me and my stuff hangout here a while.
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I’m so glad you joined us and linked up!! I’m excited to check out your blog!
Those purses are adorable! My 9 year old son makes duct tape wallets all the time and wants to make me your purse now! How cute!
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I haven’t known that duct tape could be used as a fashion material, but this stuff looks absolutely cool! Thanks for posting this nice tutorial, I think I am going to give it a try!
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Great! I’m so glad you found it helpful Andrea. There are so many duct tape tutorials out there. And duct tape is VERY manageable and easy to handle!
I just love the duct-tape purses…. and also Betsy it’s so sweet of you to share how to make them from ur sister-in law and mother in law…. Thank you again!! Also i have made a team finnick one also hunger games style…. working on a KU one soon… but plenty more to make i think that we need to make a business out of them.
Thanks Danielle! I would love to see more when you are done working on them!
Thanks for featuring my menu board on this week’s link up! Was so surprised and excited to see it on your top five!
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You are welcome Jessica!! I loved the idea.
These purses are adorable. I’ve been wanted to try some duct tape projects, and now I have inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Great! I’m so glad Crystal!! You look like you have a great blog. I’ll have to check it out!
Love your purses! I’ve never attempted anything with duck tape but I do love that they have all those new patterns and colors out there (especially the zebra… hehehe)! I am also having a look through your linky! love finding a new one every now and then…
Visiting from the spicy link up!
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Thanks for visiting and commenting Emilee. Duct tape was surprisingly easy to work with. They do have great patterns and colors at both Michaels and Hobby Lobby. Good luck!
That’s really cool! Fashionable accessoires with duct tape! Such a great idea! Thanks for sharing this nice tutorial, I just can’t wait to make something like that!
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You are welcome! Yes, there are very cute and easy to make. Thanks for visiting and commenting!!
Betsy,
This is the neatest idea!!! I guess I’m kind of out of the loop on duct tape…didn’t know they had such cute duct tape around! And, also…such a sucker for purses! Thanks for sharing with us on Toot Your Horn Tuesdays!
Erin
You are welcome. Thanks for hosting such a great party! I love seeing what others are up to and gathering inspiration.
These purses are TOO cute!! I love that you added ruffles. ADORE!
Yes, I think the ruffles are the best touch. And they are so easy!!