Bunny burlap banner

I have been a little busy working on the one room challenge, crafting for the craft fair I participated in last weekend and prepping for my daughter's 12th birthday {where did the time go?!}.

I didn't want to let the time fly by without stopping to make an Easter craft though.

Since I work in my den, I like to decorate that mantle in there for the holidays.

I think this burlap bunny banner makes the perfect Easter decoration.

I started with this burlap banner 

{on sale now for only $3.99!}

from burlapfabric.com

I used my Silhouette to cut this bunny silhouette out of freezer paper.

You can see a more detailed tutorial  for using freezer paper as a stencil here.

Iron on your stencil

and paint using craft paint.

I ended up doing three coats of paint on this stencil.

Once your paint is dry, peel your stencil off.

Of course, bunnies need cotton tails!

I hot glued on this cotton ball.

I am obsessed with banners and this burlap banner is super easy to use and already made for you!

That's the hardest part!

The decorating is the fun part.

Think fun and order your banner.

The possibilities are endless. You could make a banner for every season!

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Ron Burgundy Stay Classy freezer paper t-shirt tutorial

Over Christmas break I went with some girlfriends to the Anchorman 2 movie.

My friend has a birthday on Christmas eve and we were celebrating her.

I thought what would be more fitting for a birthday present then a Ron Burgundy tank that she could wear.

It was super easy to make.

Here's how.

I found this image on-line and with my trusty silhouette software I created an image that I cut out with freezer paper.  You can find more information on how to use freezer paper in your silhouette you can see this tutorial here.  If you have a silhouette, you can follow this tutorial on how to make any image with your silhouette.

Once I cut out my Ron Burgundy image on my freezer paper, I ironed it down {shiny side down} to the tank top I bought.

I used a pouncer and black fabric paint and pounced the paint on the open image.

While the paint was drying, I cut "stay classy" from blue heat transfer material.

Once the silhouette was dry, I removed the freezer paper and ironed on the letters.

That's it!

Super easy.

Stay Classy San Diego!

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Freezer Paper Stenciling Tutorial on a Shirt

Freezer Paper Stenciling Tutorial on a Shirt

One of my favorite techniques has been freezer paper stenciling on t-shirts as seen here,
here,
here,
and here .

So if you missed my blog swap with Allison at A Glimpse Inside last week, I thought I would share with my readers how I brought this technique to decorating.

Aren't these mini decorative pillows cute? I'm excited to show you how to make them.

I found these vintage looking money bags at a garage sale for $1. I knew I could do something cool with them.

I started by pairing the bags with some corduroy that I had in my stash.


I cut them down to 7 inches tall, 6 inches wide. I'm pretty sure most of you know how to make a pillow, so I won't bore you with that information. Make sure you leave a large enough hole to turn the fabric since it is quite thick. I like to use as much fabric as I can and not waste anything, so I used even the back of the money bags even though it didn't have any of the cool printing on it.

They needed something so I printed up some numbers in Word and then traced them onto freezer paper. Cut the number out and iron them on to the fabric you are using. I used black paint and a sponge brush to fill the stencil in and let it dry. Once it's dry you can peel off the freezer paper.

Then you stuff the pillow and finish sewing the seam.

Aren't they cute stuffed in this vintage wire basket?



Or you can use them as a door stop or to stuff a decorative basket. What would you do with them?

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Beat it!

Last night we went to the Brenton Brown concert. One of my dear friends from High School married a professional drummer who plays with the band. We had the opportunity to meet him and watch him play. He was amazing!

I decided that in honor of the event, I would whip a little shirt up for my 5 year old. I started by finding some free clip art of a basic drum kit. I then went to word and wrote out "beat it" in a font that I liked. Then I printed them both out.

I then copied the image on to freezer paper and got my exacto knife out and set to work.

I ended up with a pretty fun shirt for my little guy to wear to his first concert.

So fun! If you haven't heard of Brenton Brown before, go download some of his music.

No really, GO! Beat it!

Looking for a good freezer paper tutorial? Go here

I'm linking up here

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Birthday Shirt

My youngest son is turning 5 this week. In celebration of his upcoming birthday, I made him a shirt using the freezer paper stenciling techinque. You can find my tutorial here.

I made the number 5 using the Algerian font in Microsoft Word at 575.





Cool Dude! Happy Birthday little guy!

I'm linking up to some of
these parties.

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In stitches!

About five years ago we had a new couple move in two doors down. Our kids thought they were pretty cool because they have the coolest jobs...a firefighter and a police officer. They have the cutest little guy that they added to their family two years ago, and he's the only one in the family without a matching TEAM family t-shirt. I asked why and was told that they didn't make them that small. Ah, a challenge! So I whipped one up for the little guy using freezer stenciling.

The little guys favorite thing is balls and it's one of his only words, so when I saw the pocket, I knew I needed to put a ball on there. I just used a circle freezer stencil, filled it in with a few coats of white fabric paint, and then when it was dry used red embroidery floss to made the chevron stitching.

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freezer paper bug car

I've been starting to get bored out of my gourd while I am recovering from surgery. I am finally off the strong medication but still need to be sitting around a lot. So, I thought I would whip up a freezer paper shirt for my youngest.
I found this car picture as a free download on etsy, but as much as I have tried today to re-find it, I can't. Don't you hate that? I've googled everything...so it's out there...just can't remember where.
I printed it off at about 150%, then did the old elementary school art trick and taped it my window.
I taped the freezer paper right over it. The lines are bold enough that I can still see them through both sheets of paper. If they weren't, you could sharpie the picture first.
I used a sharpie to trace my picture and left out the smaller details that I didn't want.
Then I selectively choose the details I wanted in the picture and cut them out with an exacto knife. This is what I came up with to use. I ironed it directly on to my shirt. You can find out more about freezer paper stenciling here and here
Then I painted in the whole picture. I used about 3 or 4 coats.
Once it was dry, I peeled off the smaller pieces with my tweezers and the larger piece very carefully with my hands.
And this is what I was left with.
Pretty cool, huh?!
Oh, and can I brag a bit about how cheap this shirt was to make. I bought a HUGE bag of fabric paints (some mostly empty, some full) for 50 cents, the shirt was 50 cents, the freezer paper came from a garage sale (probably for 50 cents), and I had the paintbrush and exacto knife. Crafts are NOT cheap...and when you add it all up, sometimes it doesn't make sense to make anything...garage sales are a lifesaver for me!

I am linking up to some of these parties.

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