D.I.Y: Printed Onesie

Hey guys!

   So I thought I would share with you a neat little project that I did today. I screen printed on a onesie, but not really because I used a stencil I made out of contact paper rather then a silk screen. Anyways lets get started!!!

   Alright so the supplies you will need include:

• Scissors
• Tape
• Exacto Knife
• Cutting Board 
• or if you have one of those neat Cricut machines you can skip the above supplies
• Contact paper
• Screen Printing Ink ( I used yudu, Lavender, because it was on sale at Michaels) 
• Onesie or Shirt
• Cardboard
• and a squeegee type piece of plastic (mine came with my screen printing stuff,) it is really just a thin piece of plastic with a straight edge

   So first I printed some letters to make the stencil. Then I taped the contact paper and the printed paper to my cutting board so that they would not move while I exacto knifed those letters :)

   Very carefully I traced the letters with the exacto knife and cut each one out. Now the important part of the letter to keep clean is the outside. (Not the part that is sticking out in the picture below)

See clean cut :)

   Now if you have one of those cool cutting machines then you don't have to do the above steps, and this is the part where I really envy you because cutting each letter out takes a while. Especially if you want to make them look pretty. Okay then you take apart the contact paper and place your letters on the onesie. 

Then put a few drops of your paint on the onesie...

and squeegee away!

   Last leave the stencil on for an extra minute after you have administered the paint. This lets it dry abit so that it does not bleed once the stencil is off. Be very careful when pulling the contact paper off. 

Let it dry for like an hour or so and then place a towel over the image and use an iron to set the image.

And Tada!!

I also made this onesie:

This one was much easier to make because I did not have to make teenie tiny cuts for letter. 

Quick Organization: My desk

Hi guys!

    I hope you all are having a lovely week! This past week has been pretty busy here. My Mom just moved into a new house so we have been unpacking and organizing and unpacking some more. I thought I would show you how I organized the desk in my room :) I had a few crafty thing supplies laying around in bags that I finally put away.

• So the top left photo shows my scrap fabrics and thread neatly placed in a vintage lunch box that Mr.Cherry bought for our first dating anniversary. I needed a container to put them in and found it very useful.  On the top right is said lunch box when it is closed. 

• The bottom left photo is my make shift ribbon rack thing. I used a #2 pencil and two pieces of ribbon to make it. Very simple. Tie each end with the ribbon and tack it to where ever you feel like displaying your ribbon rolls. I also used hot glue to secure the ribbon on the pencil after I tied it just for the extra sturdiness. 

• The bottom right is a photo of my glue stick holder. Yes you can just use a cup, but I ran out of cups to use on my desk and still needed a place to put them. I did have an empty water bottle laying around and thought "hey I could use this!" So I got my scissors and cut across the middle of the bottle. Then I was like "Dude this looks tacky!" So I grabbed a piece of scrap fabric and wrapped it around the bottle. I glued it in three spots: 1. The length of the yellow line. 2. Around the bottom edge 3. The top inside. (I then folded the fabric over so that it would be secure, this eliminated the sharp edges.) Pretty simple :) 

If this didn't make any sense to you just let me know ;)

   My finished desk:

Yay for being organized! I hope it last :D

Boredom makes for great projects.

   For some reason today I fell asleep at 5:00 p.mish! Can you believe that so of course I woke up at 12:00 a.m. wide awake and unable to fall back asleep. Lovely right? So I decided to get to work. I pulled out a canvas, my crayons, my glue gun and some contact paper. I had planned on making crayon art with the word imagine in the middle. So I started cutting my letters out, placed them on the canvas and waited for the glue gun to heat up. After I stuck my first crayon in the glue gun all the fun started :) At first I tried just outlining the letters so that it would be easier to pull off the contact paper in the end, but then a few splashes here and there made that a bit harder. So I abandon that plan and just started splashing and melting away. In the end I liked the way it looked so much I decided to not attempt to take off the contact paper that spelled out imagine and leave it just the way it was. Beautiful don't you think?

   Right now I am watching WifeSwap and all I can say is DANG. Some of the lives these people live are crazy.