Upcycling: Duct Tape Crafts

Hi I'm Danny CEO author of the book up cycling and today I'm gonna show you how to up cycle. When you're flimsy reusable bags or when your generic backs that you guys in your staff -- eco friendly back. Out to create these people's right color blocks that answer the follow up front here that's as young. All you need it are two different things -- off from the duct tape -- products now you may be familiar with duct tape in this role warm who became his great callers on my local Michael's store I found -- in this hot pink. This vibrant yellow this beautiful -- I've even seen it in comma lives so it's kind of fun to see how creative and how part duct -- com. But others in the duct tapes sheets and they come in -- by eleven sheet of Paper that. Really sort of limitless what you could do it that that Tikrit the young back and have a right here I use the -- half by eleven seed. And on the back he used a permanent marker just to -- out. The words yeah you know you don't get it right the first of its okay because you can sketch it out until you're happy with the is a pair of sharp scissors to cut them out and you end up wit here little stickers right here so I got the white backing on the ones -- ready on the bag. You and me and you peel it off. The he's the adhesive backing on the back. Just like that. And new tax. The back and you're finished right there you don't have to do a young back you -- do your initials he could -- a beautiful silhouette it is -- can take it different hole punches and your different. Craft materials that you have to really customize everything that you want this out to do these other banks -- at the strikes you gonna use the regular duct tape ran. Liberals of today. -- And it looks complicated but really it's so cool earth and so forgiving and you just go at the top of the back into an overlap with that there's some duct tape on the size right here. And more on the side over here. And just tremendous. As sharp scissors. That was on the front just like this you wanna turn it around us. And it overlap and the reason we're gonna do this is that when -- finished at the back -- the front they'll have a guide where the court meets strict ago. -- got the -- and then maybe all of -- But he then I think -- But the key thing here is that you don't want to. To start the yellow striped raid at the at trader is you're gonna go crazy when a little bit of the white back speaking through so you overlap that ever so slightly. And what's great about this tape. University I'm. The stripes and and he continued it on and on with the colors of the duct tape that you want and -- completely tibia and -- it undecided about it I'm and then you're done. Now under spec right here and actually left the existing handles under that the chocolate brown or really well that in great -- this one. I use a standard -- kids and took some hardware store -- just to customize it even just a little bit more either you do it it's going to be a beautiful reusable bag and who wouldn't love this fashion forward ready back to go grocery shopping.