How to Decorate Handmade Purses

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Melina Piroso and welcome to Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make cute little bags out of regular everyday fabrics. And so the last and final step is I like to decorate it. So, this is a little drawing I made and then I colored on Photo Shop and I printed it on a iron transfer sheet. And you can get these at, usually craft stores will have them, but the best ones you can buy them at darmatrading.com. That's the best place that you can get them and it's about $10 for 10 sheets and they're really wonderful. You can print almost anything on any type of fabric and get a nice, polished, professional look. WE can just go ahead and apply our transfer, or if we want, we can - what I like to do is I like to add a little bit of glitter so it has a nice sparkly look. So, first you just kind of plan out where you want it. I'm going to go ahead and put it a little bit, not right in in the middle. I'm going to put it right there. Just put down some glitter, and again this is optional, this is just going to give it a nice little sparkly look. And keep in mind once you have glitter on your hands, it's going to be there for about 7 months so you better pick a color that you like. We're going to turn over our transfer and we're going to take our iron. You're going to make sure that you don't have water in your iron. You cannot steam a transfer because the liquid interferes with the transfer and it won't stick. So, you're going to press down and you're going to just press as hard as you can. You're trying to get the color, every nice little bit of color, and you're trying to get it all onto your fabric. So, you're going to press down as hard as you can and make circle motion. Wahla! There we go!"