Baby Onesies

Here are some baby onesies I made up for a baby shower and a couple to have on hand.  I think these turned out great.  Once again, I vut out heat transfer vinyl with my Silhouette Cameo and pressed it with my heat press.  The tie dyed oneses are from the batch I made earlier this month.

Concert Memorabilia

This month Allison made a memory box for all of her concert memorabilia.

Laundry Sign

I have seen a lot of signs on Pinterest that give me a giggle so I have been trying to make some with my own spin on things using up some of the supplies we have around the house.  I really like a lot of the laundry signs or displays for missing socks.  Everyone has missing socks, and I am tired of the pile on my dresser, so I thought I needed a sign.  I used up some left over paint from one of the bedrooms to paint a board.  Then I ran some washi tape along the top.  I used my Silhouette to cut out the saying in vinyl and attached that.  I ran washi tape over the top of some clothespins and then mod podged over it to make them stick.  I coated the whole board in polyurethane and let it dry completely.  Then I used tacky glue to attach the clothespins to the board.  Some of my inspiration for this came from Here  and Here.  However if you type in Missing Sock in Pinterest you will get a whole slew of fun options!

Magnet

We love books in our house.  Since having kids my addiction for buying books for myself has mostly ended and instead I have a slight problem buying hoards of books for the kids.  I am trying to be good about rotating some of them out seasonally.  A while back I bought this metal bucket from Target.  I decided that it would be fun to decorate it for each season and have this be our main rotating book location for the living room.  I finally got around to trying out my magnet paper on my Silhouette.  I found the shape in the shop, colored it in and merged it together.  Then I printed it out on my printer and then ran the magnet sheet through the Silhouette to cut it out.  I was pretty pleased with how the first attempt went.  Now onto making them for each season!

Clothespin Magnets

Kelly got inspiration for this project from one of her friends.

 She used scrapbook paper, clothes pins, glue and self adhesive magnet strips.

 She cut the scrapbook paper to size and glued it onto the clothespins.  Then she cut a strip of the self adhesive magnet strips and attached it to the back of the clothespin.  She set a couple of heavy books on top of it so it would really stick well.

Cute, easy project!

Back To School

 
Parker has a Spiderman backpack and Aiden has a StarWars backpack, so I put their names on their backpack using Heat Transfer Vinyl.  It looks great.  The only problem I encountered was that it did melt the internal padding, but I'm not worried about that with these backpacks.

Aiden also needed his name put on his rest time towel.  Since he has an Angry Birds towel, we downloaded an Angry Birds font.  He picked the bright blue glitter HTV.  I was a little worried about how it would turn out, but it was great.  Now I'm going to add the other boys names to their beach towels!

Ice Pack Covers and Knitting Projects

 This month Vicki sewed ice pack covers.  She sewed two that fit smaller ice packs that she had.  She also sewed one that was adjustable to fit around any size ice pack.

Vicki also knitted a few hot pads and a red scarf.  The red scarf was donated to a local project that gives them out on Valentine's Day to kids that have aged out of the foster care system.

Tie Dye Shirts

 
 After dyeing stuff last month, I wanted to have some fun and tie done clothes with the boys.  I did some research on what dye is the best to use and found this kit.  I followed the instructions in the kit.  You are suppose to let them sit for 12-24 hours to make sure the dye adheres correctly.  I was impatient and only wanted 5.  We'll see how long they hold up, but as you can see, they turned out great.  Nice bright colors and nice crisp white.  I think we'll be dyeing more things in the future!

Super Sparkly Apparel for August!

So, I don't know if you all remember the Target holiday commercial from this last year, but there was a line in it that said "Have a super sparkly day!!" - Somewhere in the midst of our crazy Nutcracker run this became our catchphrase and goal to aim for "super sparkly" performances on stage!  We had our open house last night for the ballet school (which I had crafted last month for : ) and we decided that we should make warm up muscle tees to get ready for the new season/year and promote the idea that everyone works better with a positive attitude! : )  Some Silly end of the summer fun!

-Sorry for the poor quality photo-

Finished product: cut/ironed/jeweled

July Craft all put together!