Stenciled dance bag

Madison is starting dance! I couldn't be more excited and we will see how excited she is to go after her first class today. We will see.

Anyways, I made her a stenciled little ballet bag. My mom had a drawstring bag and then I created a vinyl stencil with the cricut and painted it on. It was easier then I thought! I shared some pictures below, because I learned a few things about using vinyl as stencils that I thought were really useful. The techniques can be applied to any stencil project.

p.s. I can't take credit for the design. I basically found a picture I liked on Pinterest and then created a look a like in my cricut program.

So first I created my design and then cut it out with my cricut on vinyl. (The sticky back plastic paper) I then pulled all of the design away, only leaving the outline and of course made sure to leave the middle parts of the pictures and letters.

I was a little nervous about getting those small, middle parts of the letters and pictures onto the bag and originally planned to do it by hand, but decided to use contact paper! I put the sticky side of the contact paper on the stencil and rubbed really hard to attach everything, even the little middle pieces to the sticky paper. I then carefully pulled the stencil away and stuck it to my flat draw string bag. I also really rubbed the stencil so it would adhere to the bag and then carefully pulled away the contact paper! It worked wonderfully. Just took a little bit of time.

I then used acrylic paint to sponge in the different graphics and words. I mixed in a little bit of fabric additive with the paint that I just purchased at a normal craft store. I used make-up sponges to dab the stencil. Easy Peasy!

I then let the paint dry then carefully peeled off the vinyl stencil.

And if course I am going to show off my tiny ballerina.