M&M Bag

A bag made from old denim jeans and an M&M bag.

Posted by I May Be Rude But I'm The Truth

About

I am always looking for ways to challenge myself creatively and as I was browsing the site I looked over onto my desk at a M&M wrapper. I thought, this could make a good bag! So I ran up to my room and spent an hour creating this little jewel. I personaly like the way it turned out!

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You Will Need (6 things)

  • Candy Bag Packaging
  • Denim
  • Staples
  • Hot Glue
  • Needle
  • Thread

Steps (13 steps, 60 minutes)

  1. 1

    Start with a empty bag of M&Ms.

  2. 2

    Cut off the ends of the bag.

  3. 3

    Flip you bag inside out and cut a slit through the bag until it is about one inch from each side. My bag was torn and torn more in the process of turning it inside out. So I hot glue the peices back together

  4. 4

    Cut your denim to size and tack it to your bag with hot glue. Then stitch the denim using what I think it a blanket stitch until it looks like...

  5. 5

    This!

  6. 6

    Cut the excess material from the bag and then glue the edges using hot glue. (Or you could stitch but at this point I was too lazy to sew anymore:)

  7. 7

    Flip the bag right side out and glue the little opening flap thingy down to make the outside of the purse smooth.

  8. 8

    Trace around the circumference of the bag onto a peice of denim(this was two layers thick)Cut them out.

  9. 9

    Glue one of the denim circles to one end of the bag. Repeat with the other side so it looks like...

  10. 10

    This!

  11. 11

    Make a handle. WHat I did was make a tube by rolling the denim, then tacking it with hot glue and then stapling it

  12. 12

    Attatch the handle

  13. 13

    And the it is! A bag that you can use to smuggle sweets into the movies!