Vintage Suitcase Surprise

My friend Julie is very creative.  She teaches art and jewelry classes.  She is always packing up supplies and bringing it to the various places she teaches. For her Birthday I decorated an old suitcase for her to carry her supplies.

Of course as I always forget to do, I forgot to take the before picture... but it looked something like this...(found this one on Pinterest)


And yes it did freak me out a bit to paint over it .. it is vintage! But I think I made it really cute...so here is what I did..

I took the suitcase out side and spray painted it with a primer spray paint from Home Depot.  Once it dried, I painted it with an eggshell paint I got at Home Depot.  I used the small samples they can make the color you like for about $3.  I used a Tiffany Blue kind of color.. I can't remember the actual name but the Tiffany color was what I was going for.

Once it was dry...I used some Wallies wall paper flowers and Mod Podge to decorate the suitcase.

Taaadaaah!