Friday, December 23, 2011

Ornament Pillow and Magnetic Chalkboard

This year for Christmas Mendy asked for some Christmas decorations for their new house. They moved into a beautiful house this Fall and how fun to start fresh with Christmas decorations!? How cute are they in front of their new house!?
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I ended up making Mendy a few things and bought her a cute glitter snowman...just in case she was not into getting everything homemade for Christmas.

I fell in love with an ornament image that I saw online. I really wanted to make it into a pillow. I used the freezer paper method to screen print the image onto brown linen. If you haven't ever screen printed a multi-color image, it is pretty fun and very simple with the right image.
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I started out by ironing down the image outline and two non-touching pieces from the inside and painted the exposed linen. (I forgot to take pictures of this step...epic fail....but, you will get the idea) I was really excited to find these Simply Screen paint bottles at Hobby Lobby for $2.99. They had lots of colors to choose from and I didn't have to buy the large speedball jars for like $8.
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After the first paint was dry, I peeled the remaining freezer paper inside the image outline.
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Then I ironed on the pieces of freezer paper over the first parts that I painted and painted the remaining exposed linen.
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After it was all dry, I peeled off all the freezer paper and heat set the entire image.
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I did a quick sew around the image in a square and just kept raw edges. I love the way it turned out! I love the bright colors and how it can go with traditional or non-traditional Christmas decor.
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The second project I did for Mendy was make her a magnetic chalkboard frame. These are all over the blog-world and pinterest this year and I was dying to make one. I bought this not so cute picture at goodwill because I liked the frame.
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I taped off the edges
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sprayed it with magnetic paint
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then sprayed with chalkboard paint
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then prepped it by rubbing chalk on its side and wiping it clean
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and voila! Finished Product! (Insert someone who has good handwriting)
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It looks great in Mendy's remodeled kitchen!
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I also decided to throw in a subway art printout like I have in my house. This is the easiest Christmas decoration. Definitely go here if you want one for your house!
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2 comments:

Misty said...

are you using a cricut or a silhouette to cut out the image for the pillow? or is it free hand?

kristen said...

i love the pillow and the redo of the kitchen and the chalkboard! love it all. can't wait to visit mendy and alex!