Boy Scout Tote

I made these 2 bags for the other tiger scout leader and I to put our stuff in.  She's been a big help as I've gotten started and I wanted to do something to say thanks.  So I found a fleur de lis emblem and put them and our names on it.  I hope she likes it!  And you would think that by now I would remember to mirror my letters... nope.  I had to do them again.

pink vinyl t shirts

Here are some shirts I made using the silhouette pink vinyl.  I love how I can turn a plain t shirt into something a little special using vinyl. If you notice, the blue and the black shirt are made from the same peice of vinyl-one the postive and one the negative.  To me that was an added bonus!  2 shirts for the vinyl of one!  All 3 of these shirts have been washed several times and still look good and are sticking well.

baby shower gifts continued-super cute onesie!

So this is the onesie that matches the burp cloth I showed you a couple days ago.  I love, love, love this onesie.  It was for a friend of mine who is having a baby girl.  I just love, love, love elephants...

The "E is for" is heat transfer vinyl.  You might want to learn a lesson from me and make the letters thicker.  One of these days I'll learn!  The elephant is fabric that I ironed onto heat n bond.  It is then hand stitched on.  I used black paint (paint pen) around the ear and eye and for the toenails.  I did remove the toenails from the original image (ungrouped the image until I could remove them).  The water drops I enlarged and then cut out of clear contact paper and used a purple paint pen on.

The mom to be LOVED this onesie! I do to.  Almost enough to have baby #3.  NOT!  

baby shower burp cloths

The next part of my baby shower gifts were burp cloths made of a mixture of medium.  For the first ones used a 3d layered flower and tried to do layers of paint.  I cut them out of clear contact paper and painted using paint pens I have.  I edged them in black paint.  I only did one side of the burp cloths so that the side next to the baby doesn't have paint on it.

For the sailboats I made the sails out of cloth that I bonded to heat n bond.  I cut the sailboat (#26814) out of contact paper and my 4 year old and I painted them.  I cut out the wave pattern (4 piece wave #9589)
out of contact paper and painted that as well

The last one is my favorite.  The E and the elephant are cut out of fabric and the water drops are cut out of contact paper that I painted.  I cut the words "is for" is cut from vinyl and ironed on.  I hand sewed around the elephant and the E (and the sails for the sailboat).  This project didn't take very long and ended up in some very cute projects.  The mommies to be seem thrilled!  Come back tomorrow to see the matching onesie to the elephant burp cloth.

scrub jacket make over

It's been a nice weekend off but I'm back to work tonight.  I work 3 (12 hour) shifts a week from 7p-7a.  At about 3 am I'm freezing and go look for my scrub jacket.  But sometimes it's hard to figure out which one is mine.  You see our hospital has set a required color of scrubs by position (RN's are one color, respiratory therapy another, PCT (another term for CNA's another).  The RN's "won" the color carribean blue.  And since we have to wear scrub jackets in that color as well it can be hard to figure out which one is mine!  Since my scrub jacket went MIA a couple weeks ago and I just found it again I decided to personalize it so I would know it is mine.  So while I was cutting out the pumpkins for yesterdays shirt I also designed and cut out this one.  I used the nurses tools set (#6731).  Of course the first time I cut it I forgot to mirror it so I had to do it again.  But here is the final product

I used the stethoscope and the syringe (minus the marking lines).  I then wrote RN into the syringe.  I also added my initials to it.  The vinyl is black, the light reflecting off of it makes it look strange.  

pumpkin shirt part 2

Today I worked on a pumpkin shirt for my son.  He's 6 and I felt that the ornamental pumpkins were just a little too girly for him.  He agreed and picked a set of jack o lantern (assorted jack o lantern pumpkins #31936).  I cut them out with a few other designs I've been working on, messed one up (forgot to mirror something with letters-duh!), re-cut that one and ended up messing up one of the pumpkins.  So he too has 3 pumpkins on his shirt.  I let him place them how he wanted them and this is what he ended up with!  In case you missed yesterdays post these shirts are hand dyed from white t shirts with an attempt at an ombre effect.  He really likes the shirt and says he wants to wear it tomorrow so I'll take that as high praise from a 6 year old!

pumpkin shirts!

So today's project actually went as planned which is unusual!  I also worked on a couple other things which I'll share later and am working on designing a couple other projects.  This is in between running errands with the kids and folding 5 loads of laundry!  Anyways, back to the pumpkin shirts.  I was able to get a bottle of orange dye today and sink dyed instead of washing machine dyed (which is how we re-dye our fading curtains!)  I filled the kitchen sink with hot water and added about 1/2 bottle of dye and 1 cup of salt (1 adult long sleeve shirt and 2 kid short sleeve shirts). 

I left them completely under for 15 min and then pulled out the tops of them and dyed the lower 2/3's or so for another 15 min (and added another 1/4 bottle of the dye) and then just the bottom 1/3 and added the rest of the bottle of dye.  It did give it somewhat of an ombre look which is what I was looking for.  Then I washed them in the machine with vinegar to set it some more.  Then I put them in the dryer.  Here they are washed and dried.  You can sort of see how they have a graduated color effect there (these pics are without flash, the next ones are with flash which is why it looks like it faded..)

I then ironed on the decals I had cut out yesterday and here we are!  Matching fall pumpkin shirts for mommy and daughter!  I also dyed a shirt for my son but I have a feeling he will prefer more of a jack o lantern look on his so I'll wait til tomorrow to do anything with it.  I guess that will be tomorrow's project!

I think these turned out super cute!

Fall T shirts part 1

Fall is here, I wore my scrub jacket home from work at 3 am and wished for something heavier.  I've been putting up fall decorations around the house (more on them later!) but today I'm working on a few fall long sleeved t shirts. This week at walmart I picked up 3 long sleeved plain Hanes shirts.  I was looking for orange but I can't find an orange t-shirt.  I may end up dying a white t shirt orange if I don't run into one soon.  So what I ended up with was white, a reddish color called cherry something and a sage green.  I pre-washed them yesterday and actually remembered to put them in the dryer when I woke up!  So here they are; washed and dried.

I had gotten a bunch of sisser easy week heat transfer vinyl online, so I designed a 12x12 space of images for today's project and future ones (I hate trying to re-use vinyl so I decided to just cram a bunch of stuff in).

on my page I have the following images:
3 pumpkins #13486
sailboat (for a later project!) #26814
fall tree #22351
fall leaf set (just the maple one) #22169
a flower (its one of the ones that is the 50 original images that are free-also for a later project) #16698
and the word fall that I just typed in and played with (cluffhmk is the font.   And don't forget to mirror the image (especially if you have words!)

So after a basic weeding and then a detailed weeding (while watching what not to wear) I ironed on the tree,  All was going well until I decided to directly iron on one area to get it to stick on better (see pic) and melted a leaf.

 

 

Since I was going to add a flourish design to the fall leaf one anyways I took my yellow iron on transfer and cut out a flourish and a yellow leaf (to get the leaf I used the cutting tool to cut off the leaf and then copied it into the page with the flourish).  But for some reason the iron on started to slip in the cutter so I had to start over.  Which is why the flourish has a couple lines on it (see under the leaf!).  And I weeded the flourish the wrong way and had to cut around the shape.  But since it is my only sheet of yellow, it is what it is.  I do like the tree shape with the yellow leaf (although not so much the yellow stem!).

I'm so-so about the fall leaf shirt.  But this blog is about the good the bad and the ugly so here it is!  And I will say that the fall shirts are cuter than anything I've seen at the store.  And I've learned some more.  Every day I learn something new...

Tomorrow I'll try to hit walmart for a bottle of orange dye to work on the pumpkin shirts.  My daughter (4) wants one too so I'll be making some kid shirts too!