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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

If you start making a shoe it might end up in a bag.... ;)


I found this glove outside. It had been there for a couple of month, I saw a black lomp in the snow, after awhile I went to check it out, and it was a leather glove. The poor glove was torn apart and I don't think anyone will miss it because it has certainly served its purpose of beeing a glove, now its just trash... But I took it home of course ;) And thought I could do a pair of shoes...
I took some old sheets that had been turned apart too, and started making a pattern, it was too hard!!!! It seems like I cant make shoes, so I gave up.. this is what I got, any tip on how to make it better???

As I said, I gave up, and started doing a bag instead, not of the leather (which I might do later) but out of paper, or cardboard.
I saw Birgittas very cute bag.  I got so inspired and since I have a bag like this, which I had since I was a kid, I thought it was a great idea to make one in miniature too. 

I will show you how I did =)

I took a quite thick cardboard and made a bag-shape. (I recommend you to use thinner cardboard if you try this). The glue dried too slow, so I had to take help from a piece of tape to hold the shape together. I then glued this on to the same piece of cardboard and let it dry over night (not that it took that long to dry, just that I didn't have more time for minis that day ;) )

I did make the pattern on a checkered paper first, but then I did the sides and they didn't fit, so I made a new bottom directly at the cardboard.


Then I did the same thing all over again, but this time I used the first part as a pattern. This is going to be the lid, so its a bit bigger then the first, bottom part. On the picture you see the back, attached to the lid, its all upside-down =) Hope you get it, although my tricky description ;)
(addition: I later realized that If you want to close the bag, its smarter to make the lid without the backside, I don't know how to explain this but, to open and close the back, the boarder on the back needs to go, otherwise you cant bend it all open...)

Then I painted it. Fortunately I had the same colour as on my big bag. =)

Then I mad a "lock" out of a tablet blisters. I used a small scissors to cut it out.

Then I made a handle the same way as the lock. But I glued a small piece of paper on it too. And glued a piece of fabric as a hinge. (I thought I was nearly done, but had forgot the trim, which I just remembered before I glued the pieces together.)
(addition: Her you see a lid with all the boarders, but if you remove the back, it will open more easy) 
I glued folded paper around the sides, and attached the "hinge" and then its done =)


My tiny bag =) The lock and the handle doesn't look the same as the original, but close enough I think =)




And finally I will thank and welcome my new followers:

Mona
Liduina
Kikka
Krizze

Charlotte

And yes I already got tied of writing in both Swedish and English, so today its only English, but I might do both from time to time =)
I might even fix this post and add some Swedish later, but I don't have the time now (but when will I ever get time?!) =)



16 comments:

  1. Den blev jättefin och mycket lik den riktiga i form och färg. Bra gjort! Tycker om att göra miniatyrer av egna grejer. De är extra kul att se på.

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    1. Tack! Ja, det är extrakul med miniatyrer av saker man har i "verkliga" livet =) Jag tror jag ska satsa på mer sånna, det var kul. Jag såg ju att du gjort en miniatyr av din säng och det var ju så kul att se =)

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  2. This is so cute!!! You made a fantastic copy of the pink suitcase, and very tiny. Thanks for showing us how you did this, I'll keep it in mind....perhaps a future project (I hope so).

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    1. Thank you! I will keep my eyes open and look for your mini bag later ;)

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  3. Te ha quedado la maleta preciosa, es igual a la grande, felicidades!! Besitos

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  4. Casey did a lot of tutorials on shoes..here you go I hope you find this useful

    http://caseymini.blogspot.com/search/label/shoes

    your bag is cute, you should make more then you can stack them up as a display

    Hugs
    marisa :)

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    1. Thank you for the link! I will check that out, it looks so easy, but it isn't ;) But maybe I get it after looking at Casey's shoes.
      And maybe I will do some more bags, I would like to try to make one in thinner cardboard too =)

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  5. The pink suitcase is gorgeous. Thanks for the tutorial.
    Bye, Faby

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  6. Gracias por la bienvenida y felicitarte por tu maleta, es una copia exacta de la real. Un saludo, Eva

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  7. How sweet two indentical suitcases :)

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  8. Сумки удивительные!!! Мне тоже предстоит не мало сделать таких!!!!
    Вы талантливая девушка!!!! У вас очень интересный и позитивный блог!!!!!
    Hugs
    Ksandra

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    1. Thank you very much! I really like your blog too! You are so talented!

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Hannah