11 DIYs For The Avid Travelers

Personalize your suitcase with a bright and colorful polka dot luggage tag that will help you identify your luggage on the airport bag carousel. Making your own tag is easy, as you can use your existing luggage tag and decorate it with craft paint an a easy DIY dot stencil. 

DIY Polka Dot Luggage Tag from Lovely Indeed

Keep your clothes organized while traveling by sewing a laundry bag that you can store in your suitcase to help keep your dirty clothes all in one place.

DIY Travel Laundry Bag from The City Sage

Stylishly protect your passport with a DIY leather passport cover you can sew together by hand and decorative with a stamped design. 

DIY Leather Passport Cover from A Beautiful Mess

If you are planning a short weekend getaway this classic designed do it yourself bag is the perfect size for all your essential items. The contrasting leather and wool fabric that you can sew together in a day creates a sturdy bag that is perfect for all your short road trips.

DIY Weekender Bag from Makes The Things

A beautiful monogrammed luggage tag would make for a wonderful gift for any avid traveler, and they are simple to make. To make a this DIY you can use your Silhouette machine to easily cut vinyl in your choice of color to create a custom monogram to adhere to the front of a luggage tag. Once the vinyl has been cut it is simply a matter of peeling of the cut vinyl and positioning it on the tag. 

DIY Monogrammed Luggage Tag from Ginger Snap Crafts

Beautifully store all your travel mementos, such as tickets, photographs, maps, local currency, and post cards in unique travel boxes for each trip you go on. The boxes can be made out of any small box covered in a map of the country, and make for a great way to keep all your memories in reach on a bookcase.

DIY Travel Memento Boxes from A Pair And A Spare

Keeping your suitcase organized will help you find whatever you need in less time, and these super cute mini drawstring bags are the perfect thing to store your snack, makeup or other odds and end with a simple to sew drawstring bag.

DIY Drawstring Makeup and Snack Bags from A Cup Of Thing

For a short flight a carry on bag is all you need, and this sewn DIY bag has plenty of storage for all your travel essentials. Best of all the exterior pockets allow for quick access to passports or maps, and the leather handles and base add extra durability.

DIY Carry On Bag from Bag'N-Telle

Protect your makeup brushes and keep them organized at the same time with this easy to sew travel case that you can roll up so that it hardly takes up any room in your suitcase. Chances are you will love it so much that you will want to use this DIY brush case all year as it makes finding the right makeup brush when doing your makeup super easy as they are all lined up.

DIY Travel Makeup Brushes Case from A Centsational Girl

Sleeping on an air plane can be difficult with all the activity going on around you, so to help catch up on some much needed sleep before your flight lands slip on a homemade sleep mask that will block out all the light to help you fall asleep.

DIY Sleep Mask from I Sew Free

Store your extra pairs of shoes in fabric bags within your suitcase to prevent the dirt on the bottom of your shoes from getting on all your clean clothes. To make the bags extra fun, Fabric Paper Glue decorated each bag with a stenciled circle and stamped word, such as fancy, comfy, smart etc...

DIY Shoe Bag from Fabric Paper Glue