Another opening of another show....ha!

Cheap, no reasonable is my middle name, gosh if it was cheap…it wouldn’t sound right, right?

Tonight’s DIY project is actually another from yesterday, but the other one took so much time to explain I left this one for today, okay? Not totally true, and I will explain later...

Again it cost nothing to do, but in a little time and preparations. Again Hubby was enlisted for the cut-up guy!

And this time it was a little more difficult since he was using card stock, which I also have sheaths of for years, since I do enjoy making  our own greeting cards too.

Any-who, since the card stock is less flimsy for this project and so it was used for a stencil for the paint your pillow project! Masking tape was used inside and out to secure it to the location of where you want it to be and to prevent as much seepage as possible… I suppose I could have used my Frog tape, but Gee, I just thought of that now, silly me! Again, if you don’t have fabric paint your acrylics will work just fine, personally I have not owned fabric paint but I am sure it is everything it is cracked up to be! Ha, a joke, but the acrylic didn’t crack either so far…

The process is quite similar to the vine one with using your insert button on your word program and then your clip art to achieve and retrieve the items that you want to transfer as your idea for pretty on your pillows, or if you’re a brave soul I imagine and a great artist with free hand designs that would be the way to go…but I am no artist and I know that!

And so I chose the items I wanted to be placed on the two pillows that came with the sleeper sofa in our sun-room, we have a white sleeper that opens to a full and a blue sofa that opens to a queen in there and lotsa room for company with the guestroom too!

Anyway, these pillows are covered in white duck material and they do unzip off if for any reason we are not happy with the designs again (and if not, I do believe with proper pre-scrubbing and with washing machine use they can be removed, but I could be wrong or not…better to be sure before)…, and don’t forget to save the PICS for perhaps another idea down the road. What I did and you could do too, is just paint on one side, leaving the other blank for a different look or if imperfect, you have an out, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek, be cautious and decisive when you chose a design… Nautical? You see, we live on a salt water canal, five minutes to the harbor by boat, thus the nautical theme throughout our home, pretty much so, shell themed for one bath, mine and fish themed for the other one, his, same with the master bedroom, shell, although the garden theme is in the guest-room the living room is a combination of it all and in here, the sun-room, it is pretty much fishy... but not in a bad stinky way!

 

 

On that note of a double header, get it, a twofer? (two nights of crafts, two pillows) Allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?!

PS Hubby liked this one better than I did and I did the painting… to me it wasn’t as good as it could have been, but it was my first try at this one/two type of project, but many of them are... And he wondered why I didn’t post last night…so I did it tonight for him. So don’t look too closely, okay?