How are you today? So I'm gonna make a quick little luggage tag for my travel art bag You know, it's probably never gonna get lost, but you never know so I'm gonna make a tag Anyway, so here's one of my business cards so I can just judge how big I need to make this I have a piece of canvas natural colored canvas that I've done some Stencilling on with just some different colors that I just had out You could you could do this from any painting fabric or printed fabric something thick Then I've got a piece of Plastic here. This is kind of a thicker plastic. It's the kind that you buy By the yard at the dollar store And I'm not sure what millimeter thicknesses, but it's not the thickest one and it's not the thinnest one It's something in between And I've put I taped it to the fabric So I want the painted side to face out and then the plot this side is going to be where the card is going to sit And I've just taped the fabric the plastic to the fabric Instead of using pins because I don't want the pins to necessarily put hole I don't want to make more holes in the plastic than are necessary. Yeah all right, so I Need to figure out how I'm going to cut this and I have no idea how I'm going to exactly do this if I want to You know, I could do that That might be interesting, okay, so the first thing I think that I need to do is trace around my God I'm at a loss for words today trace around my I Business card, so I'm gonna I think this is a pencil. I don't know where I got this from Anyway, so I'm gonna just center it here. Hopefully this will leave some kind of mark It doesn't have to be a heavy mark. I don't know that like did nothing. Let's get a pen Let's use a Sharpie. Oh, yeah, that's leaving a mark. There we go So that's what we want now I need to Was gonna just sew the Plastic to this and have it be but now I'm thinking I want to wrap this around Like that Okay, so I cut a little strip of fabric off of one end of this piece of canvas and I'm just gonna center my plastic in here and then I'm gonna sort of finger press the fabric down on all sides you could Do this with an iron I guess if you really wanted to but I would be you need to be real careful. You don't melt the plastic So now we have this and it if you can see those like faint fold lines. You see that? Yeah So now what I want to do is I want to clip off some of these corners I could do this of course, it's my ruler, but I don't want to Lay the lazy crafter Okay, and I don't care about these strings. I'm not gonna actually finish the edge of this fabric I don't mind if it rattles or not Now we need to put our plastic back and then we need to sew all these edges down Yep And I'm gonna get three of them sewn down and then I'm gonna stick my business card back in there So let's do that. I've got my little sewing machine out that I used That I use all the time for mixed media. So that'll work just fine. I'm gonna set it for a straight stitch Which is let's see. Let's do see hold my threads before I get started Go back and forth at the beginning to lock your stitches in I'm lining up the folded edge of my fabric with the outside edge of the sewing machine's presser foot So I'm not just sewing all the way to the fabric If you have to stop and move your fabric around lift the presser foot up Make sure your needle's in the down position so nothing shifts around Okay, so like we have to turn the corner So I want to make sure my needle's down and then I'm gonna lift the presser foot up and turn my fabric and then keep going We're gonna do that again and going back and forth and then I'm gonna take some A little bit of a paper towel. This is just plain old rubbing alcohol And I'm going to see if I can get some of the Sharpie off. It may not come off, but It might I don't know Nope, it's on there It's all right. It's not gonna show when it's done. I just thought I'd give it a try You never know It's clean now So now we're gonna slip the business card back in So this business card has my business phone and my business Address on it. You don't want to put something in here necessarily with your home address then the entire Staff at the airport knows you're on vacation. That's not necessarily a good thing So now we're gonna sew this other edge down go back and forth at the beginning in the end to lock it in Now you're gonna say, okay, that's good and all but how you gonna hang it on your luggage I'll show you I'll show you Hold your horses. I haven't gotten there yet All right, so this I have some grosgrain ribbon this happens to be dark brown, but it could be any color I Let's see. Do I have regular color? Oh, I do. I have white. Okay, that'll work So we need a piece of this I'm gonna take kind of probably a little more than I need but that's okay I've got a lot of this it turns out So you want to make a long enough piece that you can wrap this around Your suitcase handle and then do this and pull it tight. Yeah the other thing to the way you could do it is Sew the folded end down and have it like this so that you tie it to your suitcase I think I want it the other way and I Think I want to do it this way. I think I'm gonna leave those tail ends I'm not sure exactly why I'm leaving them, but they I seem to like them So now I'm gonna sew through everything I'm going to raise my needle and I'm going to go to a Zigzag stitch there you go custom cute luggage tag now. This is never going to get washed It's never going to you know Go in the laundry So you can use any kind of paint or whatever on it you probably want to Not use something that could seep through the fabric if it did get slightly damp and stain your card because the most important Thing is that you have your card in here So the information is readable in case God forbid your luggage should get lost so now I have a cute tag to hang on my On my art bag and that cute. All right, that's it for today. I will talk to you guys all later Don't forget the most important thing go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'll see you later. Bye