Step 1:

Iron your produce bags to remove creases. Prepare them for painting by inserting a protective sheet of card or plastic so the paint won’t seep through to the other side.

Step 2:

Choose your paint colours. Sarah went for three cheerful choices: Resene Home Run, Resene Smitten and Resene Big Bang.

Step 3:

Cut your fruit and vegetables in half to make the stamps. Look for fruit and vegetables with interesting shapes and textures.

Step 4:

Remove any excess moisture from the cut fruit with a paper towel. Apply your chosen paint colour to the cut face of the fruit using a testpot brush and then stamp it onto the bags.

Step 5:

Reapply paint as needed for subsequent prints. You may even like to add two colours to one stamp. Then, add any extra details using small artist brushes.

Step 6:

Wait for your paint to completely dry before removing your inserts.

It will be difficult to forget these colourful produce bags on your next supermarket trip! You can even colour code them so you know what belongs in each bag.