Easy Iron On St. Patrick's Day shirt and a giveaway

I usually make my daughter a festive shirt for each holiday.  This year I was a little bored with all the traditional green shamrocks I had seen everywhere in stores.  I decided to make her a sassy St. Patrick's Day shirt incorporating her favorite color, blue. 

The shirt was very easy and took less than half an hour to complete.

Supplies:

-Blank Shirt

-Scrap Fabric

-Iron On Letters

-Heat n' Bond

-Iron

Start by drawing or tracing a four leaf clover on the back of a small piece of Heat n' Bond.  Trim the edges and iron it onto the back side of your fabric.

Cut out your clover.

Peel the Heat n' Bond backing off the clover.

Position the clover onto your shirt and press with a hot iron for approximately 10 seconds.

Next add your iron on letters.  Use a sheet of paper or ruler as a guide.  Lay out your letters and press with a hot iron.

I added a few different sized clovers.

Your shirt is done!

Pair your shirt with a cute skirt and you have a fun St. Patrick's Day outfit.

The iron on letters came from Fashion Art Projects, a great line of DIY fashion designs for the Next Style brand of fashion crafting products. 

Their website has some great ideas and tutorials for their fun products.  One of my favorite tutorials from their site is for the floral applique headband.  I will be making one soon!  You can also see video tutorials on their YouTube channel.  Their Pinterest boards have some great inspiration too.

Fashion Art Projects if offering a great giveaway to one of you.  The winner will receive a collection of Next Style Products including letter sheets, iron on appliques and rhinestones, a tote bag, and bandana.  There are so many fun things you could make with everything included!

There are a few different ways to enter.

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This giveaway is open to US residents only.  Winner will be picked Monday, March 12 at midnight MST by the random number generator.

This giveaway is now closed.  Go here to see who won.

 

"Cookies for Santa" plate

I've always wanted a special plate to leave Santa his milk and cookies.  This year I decided to make my own.

I started with a plain white salad plate and a DecoArt glass paint pen. 

I used Word to find a font I liked for the plate and printed "cookies for Santa."  I cut out the words and used them as guides to write on the plate.

Once I had all the words on the plate I went back with the paint pen to make the lines thicker.

I added some dots around the edge of the plate.

The instructions on the pen say to bake the plate for 30 minutes at 325 degrees.

Let your plate cool and you're all done.  Add some milk and cookies to leave out tonight for Santa!

We are sure Santa will be happy when he sees his treats on this cute plate!  Maybe he'll leave some extra presents.

I hope you are having an extra special holiday! 

 

Ornaments made from Toilet Paper Rolls

Today I'm visiting the Arizona Moms Network sharing a pretty ornament I made from recycled toilet paper rolls.  We are less than a week away from Christmas so I'm sharing my post here today too. 

This would be a great kids craft to try this week. 

I used three toilet paper rolls to make each ornament.

Start by cutting the rolls into 1/4" strips.

Use hot glue to form your ornament base with the cardboard strips.  I applied a small amount of glue to the centers and pushed each piece together.

Next I folded some cardboard pieces in half.

I glued each half piece inside the larger sections.

Using the same technique with the glue I used three folded pieces in each larger section.

Add more cardboard pieces to make the ornament bigger.

I used Krylon's Glitter Blast to add some color to the ornament.

Use a ribbon or wire hanger to put the ornament on your tree.

These would make great toppers for family gifts too.

To turn this into a fun kids craft for younger children use Elmer's glue instead of a hot glue gun.  Skip the paint step and use markers and/or other fun embellishments (rhinestones, stickers, etc.).

I'm linking this post here.

 

Puffy Paint Snowflake Shirt

Our daughters' cute holiday outfits were shared over at Naptime Crafters this week.  Jessica shared her Layered Holiday Skirt tutorial here Thursday and today I'm going to show you how I made the snowflake shirt. 

I had so much fun playing with puffy paint to create the pretty snowflakes!

Supplies:

-Shirt

-Snowflake pattern (this tutorial used a free clip art image found online)

-Felt Tip Pen

-Puffy Paint (Tulip's Matte paint in red and white was used on the shirts in this tutorial)

First, find a simple snowflake image online and print it roughly the same size you want the snowflakes on your shirt.

Place a piece of cardboard or freezer paper inside your shirt to avoid any bleeding of the paint onto the back.  Trim the pattern and place directly where you would like the design on your shirt.  Use a felt tip pen to transfer the pattern onto your shirt.  Gently poke the pen through the paper to make a small dot on the shirt in each place.  Keep in mind you don't need to outline the entire snowflake.  You can always add more dots with paint after you have your simple pattern on the shirt.

The pen dots on your shirt will be very light.

Use the puffy paint to add dots to the pen spots on your shirt.  Start by adding paint to every pen spot.  Then go back to add additional dots to change the look of the snowflake. 

It might be easier if you keep your snowflake pattern next to your shirt as a guide.

The white puffy paint added some extra detail to each snowflake.

 

Each snowflake on the shirts started with the same pattern in different sizes.  You can easily change the way each snowflake looks by adding more puffy paint or not using as much to each design.



My daugher has already worn her shirt several times!

I'm linking this post here.

 

Fun Find Friday: Reindeer Cookies

Earlier this week I saw Bakergirl's Peanut Butter Reindeer Cookies and knew I needed to make some!  My daughter had so much fun helping with our reindeer!

The peanut butter cookies sounded yummy but I wanted to do something quick because my little three year old helper was in the kitchen with me.  I used cubed sugar cookie dough.

I tried to make each cookie into a reindeer shape before putting them in the oven. 

The cookies came out perfect circles instead of cute little reindeer heads.  Once they were decorated it didn't matter because they were so cute!

Go see Bakergirl for more fun recipes!