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Please forgive me for all the DIY posts lately. Honestly it’s all I’ve been doing the past few weeks! Here’s a project that anyone can do… it’s super simple! So easy in fact, I’m not sure it requires pictures. But I took some for you anyway!
I’m not sure where I first found them, but for a long time now I’ve wanted to use canvas bags to fill with goodies for our out-of-town guests. I always seem to be an OOT guest at weddings, and it is so nice to have some snacks already in the hotel room when you are tired and hungry after a long drive. Our guests will find these cuties filled with treats in their rooms!
And now for the super simple tutorial:
You will need:
Instructions:
1. Lay your bag on a hard, flat surface.
2. Place cardboard or whatever you are using to prevent bleeding inside the bag in the area you want your design.
3. Load stamp with ink.
4. Position stamp where you want your design.
5. Firmly press down to transfer ink.
6. Carefully lift stamp off of bag.
7. Let dry and admire your pretty new tote bag!
Here are all of our bags, just waiting to be filled to make our guests smile!
This is one of those projects that took almost no thought and only an hour or two to finish! It was so simple, yet so satisfying to check it off the list!
Did you opt to give out OOT bags? Did your guests appreciate them?
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I love the stamp idea! We went with basic paper bags with our DIY monogram on a little tag…i love OOT bags–Hopefully our guests will enjoy!
I’m actually very excited to make our OOT bags. It’s one of the things that makes me really feel welcome when I go to a wedding, and I always appreciate it. This is a great idea, I’ll definitely have to try it!
Did you use any particular type of stamp pad?
I like that. Its nice, I will for sure do this myself as well
We were going to do OOT bags, but most of the guests who would be coming to Philly unfortunately sent in “no” RSVPs. 
What did you stuff the OOT bags with?
those look great. what a great idea! what are you putting in the bags?
@sarahnyc23: I used ColorBox pigment ink pads in Eggplant and Harbor.
@Lo: I didn’t stuff them yet! They are still folded up in my dining room!
wow, that is a ton of OOT bags! I don’t envy you having to fill them!
@LatteLove: Clarification: we are using the same bags to house our wedding party gifts. About 50 of these will be used as OOT bags. Still a lot, but not as many as are in the photo!
They look great! Where did you get the canvas bags?
SO cute! this was my original plan for our OOT bags, but the canvas bags i wanted were on backorder so i ended up using the smaller sized reusable bags from whole foods with the tree design on them. They’re not as unique to us, but they still match our overall design and were actually cheaper than the canvas ones i was going to order!
These are so cute! I am a huge fan of OOT bags… I dedicate a weekly feature to welcome tote ideas on my blog! So far, we’ve shared ideas to welcome guests to: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Virginia, Ohio, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
If you’d like your state to be featured, let me know! One Weddingbee already suggested Tennessee, so that’s coming up in a couple of weeks!
These are so cute! I am a huge fan of OOT bags… I dedicate a weekly feature to welcome tote ideas on my blog! So far, we’ve shared ideas to welcome guests to: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Virginia, Ohio, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
If you’d like your state to be featured, let me know! One Weddingbee reader already suggested Tennessee, so that’s coming up in a couple of weeks!
Those are cute!! Fortunately for me where I work we have the cute white paper bags with stiff handles so I plan on just taking a bunch of those … my bosses love me so much! haha
This is such a great idea. I have been toying with the idea myself and have found some cute ideas on etsy.com but this is a way more affordable option. Keep us posted on what you end up putting in them. I hope to find a tote that fit a beach towel and some snacks andd water.
Love that giant stamp! I’ve (oddly) never worked with stamps, but it looked like this project was a snap and the bags turned out great!
5. Firmly press down to transfer ink…while also making sure your gorgeous ring gets some of the spotlight!!! 
I love how simple this is and how great they turned out!
You make it sound so easy - you have so many bags, I can’t believe it only took you a few hours!
we did OOT baskets per apartment, including cell phones with prepaid credits. most were appreciative, others even claimed they “didn’t notice” that it was from us and thought it was provided by the apartment management (!!!!)
I’ve decided cut out OOT bags, but its a nice gesture, costs add up and it wasn’t worth it with all the favor costs too.
We did OOT bags for our guests, too, and they most definitely appreciated the goodies (and the bag itself!) I love the cohesive-ness of all your wedding projects - the motif works so well on all of it! Well done!
My FI doesn’t think they’re necessary. I do. We won’t have that many OOT guests, so he gave in to me. I promised to keep it on a low budget.
Those look really great. I have a hard time believing you did them in such a short time — but way to go! Your guests will love them.
I LOVE out of town bags! I love getting to the hotel and getting a great bag filled with treats and games. They always make me feel special.
Quick an easy. Sounds like a perfect DIY project to me! They look great Mascara, you did a wonderful job with the stamping.
I am right now getting into stamps and using one for my son’s birthday party invite and love this idea!
I might find some summertime stamps and play around with that!
thanks for the hint at cheaptotes.com! I usually use oriental trading for my party supplies but will check them out!
Great canvas tote find, I’ve been looking for a while to find something like this! Thank you for the much needed resource!
Thanks for the inspiration! We’re planning to make small OOT bags using brown (lunch) bags with a lot of information and sugar cookies or lemon squares. I hope our guests appreciate them!
Glad you all like the bags! From all of your stories it sounds like our guests will definitely be pleased to find these in their rooms! I’ll keep you posted about what we fill them with!
@SonomaBride: The bags are from cheaptotes.com. There is a link in the post to the bags!
@leenie: Sometimes I worry that you girls will get sick of all the DIY at some point! Maybe not?
@Miss Stiletto: The stamp is from PaperSource.
@FlipFlopBride: lol, I swear the ring shot was unintentional! I am not coordinated enough to take the picture with my left hand!!
@mary-alice-me: They really did take less than 2 hours! Although I have become a pretty efficient stamper after all of the wedding projects
[...] I’ve been wanting to do a bag for our out of town guests for a while now. And then I found these cheap tote bags from where else? cheap totes. 89 cents each?? I think I can handle that. And then I saw that you can use a stamp to decorate them as this bride did on Weddingbee [...]
That was so simple better yet they can use them again. I want to do OOT bags but I hadn’t thought of stamping them. It is simple. I can do this.
Holy moly, that is a plethora of bags you made! They look fab!
[...] I’ve been wanting to make bags for our out of town guests for a while now. And then I found these cheap tote bags from, where else? Cheap Totes. And at 89 cents each? I think I can handle that. Then I saw that you can use a stamp to decorate them, a la Mrs. Mascara. [...]
hi, do you just use a normal stamp pad? does that bleed when it gets wet? or is there a waterproof fabric stamp pad? This is very cool!
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Mrs. Mascara, Chicago/Upper Michigan
Age and Occupation: 25, Biomedical Engineer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Process Engineer
Engagement Date: July 27, 2008
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Catholic ceremony, reception at local armory
About Me: A lover of Mr. Mascara, crafting, baking, Gossip Girl, diet soda, and all things wedding. A Yooper girl somehow displaced in the Chicago suburbs, planning a wedding from a distance, and counting down the days until I marry my best friend.
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