To decorate the bags made of textile material, obtain specialized hardware department store set of plastic figurines for decorating with holes. The kit usually consists of small butterflies, flowers, beads, Turkish eyes. Similar kits are sold in the departments for creative children's shops. Sew all this "wealth" on the surface of the bag at a small distance from each other. Between the plastic decorations you can put roses of satin ribbons, sequins and bows of ribbons. You can also use buttons, old brooches and necklaces. The closer to each other will be located details better.
If the bag has a regular geometric shape and smooth surface without wrinkles, giving it a new look, making insertion-application. To do this, cut from pieces of leather or suede "leopard" flat wide strips2-4 cm, place them on the product and a loop stitch neatly sew around the perimeter. You can place them in parallel or perpendicular, at its discretion, and even impose them one to another. Alternatively, the "leopard" insert, you can use the fabric interesting textures, pieces of fur or tie the spokes rectangles with an openwork pattern.
To decorate a simple one-color leather bag style you will need a large piece of thin skin color and suitable belt loops, for example, from an old leather jacket. If the belt loops was not at hand, you can make them yourself from the small rectangles. In this case, your imagination is not limited to the size of the auxiliary parts. Sew4-6 belt loops around the perimeter of the bag so that they are positioned vertically. Cut a piece of skin from a long strip of such a width that it can be vdet in loops, but it has thus collected in folds. Fold about 1 cm of skin on the wrong side, iron it through cotton. Thread the ribbon in loops, tie a big bow on the front of the bag.