Upcycling: Hiding logos and how to embellish cloth bags

Since our posts about how to hide logos and advertising messages on shopping bags are so very popular, here another example of a cloth shopping bag we upcycled (modified) a bit to make it more beautiful. 🙂

The bag had a large company logo and slogan printed on its straps, which we hid under a satin gift ribbon in the same colour. If you want to hide a company name or slogan, but a ribbon in the exact same colour as your bag is not available, it is often best to deliberately choose a contrasting colour that is different from the colour of the bag since this will often give the most interesting visual result.

As the shopping bag was a bit plain, we embellished it with some sea turtles which we cut out of small scraps of fabric. 🙂