christmas

Filed Under: christmas, printable · Tagged: christmas, free, love, o holy night, printable

Dec 14, 2011

It’s a crafty Christmas…cookies 4 santa plate

By Connie · Leave a Comment

Remember my Good Morning Cereal Bowls? Well I made this cookies 4 santa plate the same way.

I would have done it in red or even black, but they didn’t have either color. So I went with turquoise and did a snowflake theme. I think it works. What do you think??

The middle has a quote written in a circle. It says:

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”~Dr. Seuss

If you need to see the tutorial on how to make these customized dishes, click here.

Thanks for reading!!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like:

Filed Under: christmas, paint, tutorial · Tagged: christmas, cookies for santa, dishes, paint, plate, tutorial

Dec 12, 2011

It’s a crafty Christmas…freezer paper stenciling

By Connie · 2 Comments

Hello all. I’m back with another DIY Christmas present idea. You can see all the other Homemade present ideas by clicking here.

Today I am going to show you freezer paper stenciling.

We took this plain red shirt and put the Captain America symbol on it. I got this idea from Cheryl @ I am momma hear me roar. She has an awesome blog full of lots of boy tutorials if you want to go check it out.

Ok so first things first, you have to find what you want to put on your shirt. We did several with symbols and sayings. Here are a few other examples:

Princess in training and Homework is Evil. I apologize for the bad pics, my camera broke and then my laptop with photoshop on it needs a new motherboard. Thankfully it is still under warranty but we have to ship it back and wait and wait. And I didn’t iron the shirts. Actually I never iron but I could have thrown it in the dryer with a damp cloth. Oh well too late now.

Ok so enough of that on with the tutorial. I’m showing you how to make the captain America shirt but you can apply these steps to whatever you want to stencil.

After you decide what you want on the shirt you need to make the stencil. You must use freezer paper for this. Not wax paper. Must be freezer paper. You need a wax side and a non wax side.

You can print out your image or I have been known to just put my freezer paper up to the computer screen and trace it. I like this idea because the screen is lit up and makes for good tracing. {If I was doing a saying, I would just type it up in word and then trace it on the freezer paper.} If you print it out, then you would trace it onto the freezer paper from there. Remember everywhere you want to show up on the shirt needs to be cut out. I used an exacto knife.

When you are done, you will have this:

Now it’s time to get out your handy dandy iron. {this is my mommas iron, yes I do own one. But I hardly use it so it hasn’t been unpacked from the move yet. Pathetic, I know.}

Making sure the freezer paper is wax side down, take your iron and iron it onto the shirt. It will make it stick down like so:

It is now all stuck down and won’t let the paint bleed through. For paint, you must must use fabric paint. Look on the bottles at the craft store. It will say for fabric. Just dab a little on your brush and paint it on the shirt.

You can use different colors like we did here if you want. The next step is my favorite. You peel up the freezer paper and pull it off.

This is the instant gratification step where you get to see what it looks like.

When it’s all pulled off…Tada!!

We went back in later and filled in the star free hand. Now you may think you are done. But no…there is one last step. You need to heat set the image. After all the paint is dry, you just go over it again with your iron. You can put down a towel and iron over the towel if you want, just make sure the shirt gets warm so it will heat set. I did all of mine directly on the image. If you do this, make sure it is completely dry first.

And there you have it, one Captain America shirt!!

Thanks for reading!!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like:

Filed Under: christmas, paint, t shirt · Tagged: boys, christmas, paint, t shirt

Dec 7, 2011

It’s a crafty Christmas…lifesaver necklaces

By Connie · 4 Comments

We are making these cute little necklaces for my nieces and the girls friends. It seems every time someone comes over to play and they see them sitting out, they gravitate toward them and make cute exclamations like “oh how cute” or “ooh I like that”. So I think it is a winner for girls.

You start out with a standard washer in a bigger size.

My hubbs brought me home a whole box of these. Wasn’t that nice?? I think they would look awesome in even bigger sizes too. I used some scrap book paper I had around and just traced the washer onto the paper and then cut it out.

The next step is to glue it onto the washer. I have used both modge podge and spray adhesive for this. Both work. The modge podge takes longer to dry but other than that they were pretty similar. Don’t use things like hot glue because it will add lumps of glue under the paper and you want something that will let it lay really flat. Also, make sure you glue it on so it sticks well. You don’t want to make these all up and then have them peeling off.

After you glue it on, turn it over to the backside. You will see some paper over lap where it is bigger than the washer.

Take your scissors and trim around the outside. Don’t worry about the over lap in the center hole.

When you get it all trimmed up and it is securely affixed on and all dry, you need to grab your Dimensional Magic. It comes in a bottle and looks like this:

You can do so many things with it, and it lasts FoReVeR. You will put a thinish layer on the top of your paper.

It goes on a bit cloudy but dries clear. You want to make sure and pop any bubbles you may get so they don’t harden. Then you just let it sit and dry.

Once it’s dry, thread your string through the middle and there you have it. Lifesaver necklaces!!

Hope your girls enjoy!! Thanks for reading!!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like:

Filed Under: christmas, diy, girls, jewelry, populaR · Tagged: christmas, gift, girls, jewelry

Dec 6, 2011

Totally Tutorials Tuesday {12/5}

By Connie · Leave a Comment

It’s time for Totally Tutorials Tuesday!! In an effort to get the word out and grow this linky party, I have made some printable gift tags. You can have these if you link up a post.

One per post so for two links you can have both. One is more traditional and one is more modern but both have the snowflake theme. Print cut and write on them like so:

If you link up and would like these gift tags, just leave me a comment and I will get them over to you. If you don’t have a blog and want them, you can tweet or post on fb about this linky. If you don’t do fb or twitter or blog, then just leave me a comment and I will get them to you. Honor system please.

Terms and conditions for my printables can be found at the bottom of my printables page.

On with the party!!

We are SO glad you are joining in on the fun.

Totally Tutorial Tuesday is a co-hosted linky party so it’s double the fun…double the exposure!!!

Party Etiquette:

Become a follower of Measured by the Heart AND My world Made by Hand.
DIY projects, crafts, recipes, decorating ideas only please. NO SELLING PLEASE!
Add as many links as you want. Old and new posts are welcome.
Link directly to your post not your home page.
Please take the time to comment on at least two links before yours.
Add our button or a text link to each post that you link up or to your homepage/sidebar.

<center><a href="http://www.measuredbytheheart.com" target="_blank"><img alt="Totally Tutorials Tuesday" src="http://i446.photobucket.com/albums/qq188/cjdemille/Mylinkybutton.gif" /></a></center>

Be sure to check back Friday to see if you’ve been featured as one of our faves! You could be featured on Measured by the Heart or My World Made by Hand or both!! {By linking up you give us permission to feature your post on either site}

Until then…PARTY ON!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like:

Filed Under: christmas, link, link party, totally tutorial tuesdays · Tagged: link, link party, printables, totally tutorial tuesdays

Dec 5, 2011

It’s a crafty Christmas…Photo blocks

By Connie · 9 Comments

If you remember, I am showing you guys some of the DIY presents I made to give to people. You can see the first tutorial here: Good Morning Cereal Bowls.

Today I am going to show you the photo blocks I made.

My mom personally requested two of these blocks for her desk at work. She wanted pictures off all her grandkids and the blocks don’t take up too much space.

These blocks started out as a fence post from the good ol Home Depot.

We just chopped it into 4×4 pieces. Then I sized my photos accordingly, printed them and glued them on. I learned a thing or two along the way. I first tried to modge podge the photos onto the blocks. The modge podge left glue lines all over the photo. I thought it was supposed to dry clear. It did not. I gave it several chances. It also had a tendency to wrinkle the photo. I read somewhere on some blog that the thing to use was spray adhesive since it doesn’t wrinkle the photos. So I went out and got this:

It’s true, it didn’t wrinkle the photos. At all. But it was a bit annoying because the pictures didn’t affix amazingly. And I had to go back and respray them. Also the spray adhesive got all over my fingers and hands and didn’t wash off. I used this trick to get rid of sticky finisher and it came off rather well. But I also had over spray all over my table. Yucky. I even sprayed these inside a box to eliminate over spray. It gets all over. So a little annoying, but better overall outcome.

You only need 5 pics per block because you don’t need one for the bottom. I tried to get a picture showing the different sides but that was easier said than done. Here is the best one:

These things are darling. And I want some for around my home. {If I ever get around to making more lol} I left a little border around the photos but you can make them all match up if you want to.

I hope you are enjoying the crafty Christmas series and I hope these tutorials help you with your gift giving. If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks for reading!!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like:

Filed Under: christmas, gift, tutorial · Tagged: christmas, gift, photo, tutorial

Dec 3, 2011

Christmas Decor

By Connie · Leave a Comment

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Christmas?? Well get used to it, because I aint stopping!! Everyone has been posting their Christmas décor and I think it’s AwEsOmE!! So jumping on the bandwagon, here is mine:

My girls did the tree all by themselves this year. Didn’t they do an amazing job!!

And here is our Christmas mantle.

Thanks for letting me take a brief moment and share. We put up our Christmas decorations every year on the day after Thanksgiving. We put on some carols and brew some hot cocoa and everyone helps. It’s something we look forward to every year. Family togetherness….LoVe iT!!!

[ Add your comment ]

You might also like: