It's..... CREATIVITY WEEK!

Yup you heard right folks! 

It is Creativity Week over at 733! 

So hop on over to 733's blog and grab a button... Join in some giveaways and tutorials!  But above all have fun and be creative!  :D

Enjoy!

Butterfly mobile

This butterfly mobile was inspired by a butterfly chandelier that Pottery Barn used to sell. 

It is paper butterflies cut out some thread a wooden ring and some yard for the top part. 

It came out so good! 

Hours of work in this thing :D I am so glad she liked it. 

I also added a heavy dangler in the middle it is two clear plastic round pieces with flowery designs. 

Like?

Linking to some of these parties...

Freezer paper Guitar shirt

So for father's day I decided that my brother deserved something special, after all he is the uncle to my son. :D 

So I took his love of music and my freezer paper obsession and presto, magic happened! 

Here is my "tutorial"....

I started with a plain t-shirt that I purchased from wal-mart for $4.00. It is a darker gray color.

I than hand drew a guitar onto the papery side of freezer paper (remember the waxy side needs to go down onto the clothing to stick) 

I than fit it to the shirt...

Next was the HARD PART!

I got out my x-acto knife and a new blade and got to cutting. 

What was hard about this is making sure to keep all of the little inserts like the spaces between the bars on the neck of the guitar etc... you have to iron those down too so that its not just a blob of a guitar! 

And when it was done being cut out it looked like that!

Finally I ironed it all down (on the seam so it looked like the guitar wraps around the shirt)  (I iron on the cotton setting) and painted it on , black, with a sponge brush and fabric paint.


(EDIT: DO NOT FORGET TO PUT SOMETHING IN BETWEEN THE SHIRT LAYERS! THE PAINT WILL GO THROUGH! :D I almost did this that night started painting and forgot...luckily I realized my mistake asap!)

I did 3 coats because since it was such a dark shirt I wanted to make sure it showed but not TOO much.

Let it dry overnight :D And than peeled off the freezer paper. 

Don't worry you do not need to be careful peeling you cannot use the stencil again and it will rip! 

The great thing about freezer paper is it comes off really easy and leaves a great crisp design.

(the shirt is darker than this but I took these pictures at night because I forgot to take them during the day before I left on my trip)

He loved it! I am going to get him to send me a picture with it on him because once again forgetful me... I did not get a picture while I was down there visiting! 

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial !






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Adventures in Freezer Paper Stenciling....

So I decided that I would take a leap and jump into the big bad world of freezer paper stenciling. I looked up everything I possibly could online about it in preparation. 

I decided that my first adventure would be making two shirts to go with the squirt guns I got for my cousin who is turning 3 Sunday! Since I usually make little girl stuff and just now am getting into boy stuff (since I had the gall to go and have a boy lol) I am having to learn to speak little boy. So far I have sports and robots down! 

Supplies:

-Freezer paper (check)

-fabric paint (check)

-fabric to paint on (check)

-brushes to paint with (check) 

-PINK exacto knife (check check) [yes I said pink!]

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So with all my supplies in order... I made some stencils ...

And than I used my fancy mini iron to put them on the shirts 

and painted :) 

Peeled off the paper stencils to reveal that I should use a regular iron next time ! 

(it did not get hot enough to seal all that great on the rocket so it leaked a little) 

But lesson learned! :-D 

Let the shirts hang to dry and presto! Beautiful!

[um the shirt is actually yellow with pale blue stencil... not sure why it looks orange]

I would say that my first attempt turned out pretty darn good. 

Know what? This is addicting! So that means that for the next few days I am going to be freezer stenciling anything I can get my hands on! 

(already made my mom her mothers day gift with stencils and fabric paint)

And of course the blog would not be complete without a picture of my gorgeous son that I took at the local park. 

[My photo taking abilities are slacking these days... my kid is so pale in this picture when in all actuality he is very very tan! lol Oh well!]

Here are some other mommies that have tried and succeeded far better than I at freezer stenciling! 

733 [Seven-Thirty-Three]

Create Studio

MADE-Celebrating mom (thanks so much to her for the ironing tip!)

I am sure there are plenty more out there but these are some of my fav blogs :P