{"id":3215,"date":"2014-12-19T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:33:42","slug":"upcycling-gift-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/upcycling-gift-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcycling Gift Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a post for the collaborative project I am part of called the Cre8ive Klatch about stamping on gift boxes. (You can find that post <a title=\"Upcycling a Gift Box with Stamps\" href=\"\u00a0http:\/\/cre8iveklatch.blogspot.com\/2014\/12\/hand-carved-stamps-outside-box-by.html\">here<\/a>.). I am actually not a fan of stamping on gift bags however. They usually have too many folds in them and are pretty difficult to get a clean stamp impression. But sometimes, you really need a gift bag makeover \ud83d\ude09 and that is where paint and molding paste are your friends!<\/p>\n<p>I used a stencil and ran molding paste through it onto this gently used gift bag. After the paste dried I painted over the stenciled image, and wiped some of the paint off the raised design. It ended up looking like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag-422x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3216\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag-300x568.jpg\" alt=\"Molding Paste Upcycled Gift Bag\" width=\"300\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag-300x568.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag-400x758.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag-422x800.jpg 422w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-Gift-Bag.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molding Paste Upcycled Gift Bag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of course you could always do the same thing to a gift box:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3217\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box-537x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3217\" src=\"http:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box-300x446.jpg\" alt=\"Molding Paste Upcycled Gift Box\" width=\"300\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box-300x446.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box-400x595.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box-537x800.jpg 537w, https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Molding-Paste-on-Gift-Box.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Molding Paste Upcycled Gift Box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am working on a video to show how to use a stencil with paint and molding paste so look for that in the next few weeks! Enjoy!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote a post for the collaborative project I am part of called the Cre8ive Klatch about stamping on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mixed-media-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ursula-smith.com\/mixed-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}