How to make a custom tote bag for the horse lover in your life, plus a 15% coupon code on blank tote bags.
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Bagz Depot sent me these super fun canvas tote bags with rope handles along with the large laundry bags that I used for my Santa bags. The bags have a magnetic clasp and a zippered pocket inside. They seem to be really good quality so I was excited to make something nice with them.
I made this for a friend who loves horses. Now I just need to decide what to put inside.
DIY Custom Tote
Supplies
- Canvas tote bags: Use coupon code DIYDANIELLE for 15% off
- Dashing Through the Snow Design on Etsy
- Horse Heart SVG on Etsy
- Cricut Air 2 or the Cricut Maker™
- Cutting mat
- Weeding tool
- Cricut EasyPress™ with the Pressing Pillow Underneath
- Teflon Sheet
- Heat Transfer Vinyl
Use the Discount Code DIYDANIELLE on cricut.com for 10% off any cutting machine or heatpress (no minimum). Excludes: materials/accessories/mystery boxes/etc. Applies to US/CA only, code expires 12/31/23.
How to Customize the Tote
Start by cutting all of your Heat Transfer Vinyl with your Cricut Maker™. Make sure to mirror the image and place your HTV right sides down on your cutting mat.
Weed away the excess from your design so you’re left with what you see below.
Preheat your bag per the instructions for your HTV and bag… I used the settings for my HTV + cotton canvas from Cricut. The blue horse is regular iron on, but the red design is foil so they have different settings.
Once the area is preheated, place your design down on the bag. Make sure it’s centered properly. Lay your teflon sheet down over the design.
Now you can press with your Cricut EasyPress™ per the instructions. I pressed the design, then flipped the bag and slipped the EasyPress inside to press the back of the design too.
Once ready, I peeled the plastic sheet off to reveal my adhered design.
At this point, I repeated with the other side for my other design.
Look! It has a pocket!
I really adore these canvas tote bags and BagzDepot has given me a 15% off coupon code EXCLUSIVELY for my visitors. Use the code DIYDANIELLE at checkout to get the discount!
Check out these other DIY gift ideas!
Love horses? Check out: What Can Horses Eat? | Composting Horse Manure | DIY Saddle Rack | Rolling Feed Bins. Check out more horse care tips and tricks from DIY Danielle here!
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