Finally!

Here you go! I promised you a little pre-maturely but here it is. A decorative pillow case for my couch. Background on the saying: Jesse got me a card on our 5 month anniversary after we were married and it said "I would totally throw myself on a bee for you" on the front. I loved it and we say that to each other every once and a while so I figured to incorporate it in our home.

I chose vintage buttons as my closure. I've never used buttons as a closure on my pillow cases before and I'm not really a fan. I think I'm going to hid a zipper to close it and keep the buttons for decoration.

I loosely based my back on this pillow on Sew, Mama, Sew. I didn't have many scraps left over from my curtains so I couldn't make it as cool as I wanted it to be but I still think it came out good.

Freezer Paper Party

A couple of nights ago I invited my crafty friends Markie and Laura over to use my recently acquired Freezer Paper. Markie made a cool looking t-shirt for her husband and Laura made some super cute valentines day shirts for her daughters.

{My mess}

Don't you want to know what I made? Well too bad! You have to wait! (I know I'm so mean)

Coming Soon!

Freezer Paper Stenciling

I finally found some Freezer paper in Rexburg! So now I finally get to finally experiment with it! I've been looking for a long time for a cheaper/not so complicated/not so messy way to do silk-screening at home. Freezer paper stenciling is much more limited but I think I'm in love! Its super easy to add a simple decal to your clothes or fabric decoration in your home.

What You Need

Sketch pad/pencil

Freezer Paper

Exacto knife

Clothing Iron

Craft sponge brush

Fabric Paint

In your sketch pad draw your design you want to apply. Place freezer paper over design and lightly sketch it on the NON-SHINNY side of the freezer paper.

Carefully cut the design out with the exacto knife.

Place SHINNY side of the freezer paper on fabric and iron on fabric until all edges stick.

Apply paint generously over design. Depending on what look you are going for you will probably have to do multiple layers and you can't apply another layer until the first is completely DRY! This takes awhile- I think the bottle said like 48 hours but I put a fan on mine and it dried in a few hours.
DO NOT REMOVE Freezer paper until you are completely done and the paint is completely dry! It will mess up your design if you do not follow this!

Ta Da!

**The freezer paper peeled up a little on the left side so my circle has a little "bump" in it. Thats why you need to be very careful that it doesn't peel up while your working with it.