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?