How To Make A Stenciled Burlap Canvas & A Fun Event!

Before I get to the Stenciled Burlap Canvas, 

there's a very special event coming up this Sunday, February 16th from 1-4 pm.

It's the Michaels - Hometalk Pinterest Party at all Michaels stores across the US and Canada.

There will be featured bloggers at select locations HERE

I will be at the Michaels Store in South Charlotte at 7836 Rea Rd in the Stonecrest shopping center and I hope you will join me!

Check out the Pinterest inspired displays at your local Michaels store, buy your supplies, and meet us in the classroom to create your own pin-worthy project.

I'm sure y'all know about Michaels Stores, but do you know about Hometalk??? Hometalk is a home and garden social network. You can get inspired by wonderful projects, post your own project or ask a question and you don't have to have a blog. You have your own page and you can interact with others.

There's a giveaway at the event on Sunday too!

Follow Michaels on Hometalk to enter to win a $100 Michaels gift card!

Five winners will be announced on Hometalk's Facebook page on February 17th after the party. 

 Now here's the "How To"

I spent a couple of hours in Michaels picking out my supplies. 

Don't know about you, but I can't help picking up a few things whenever I'm there. 

Ribbons, markers and cake supplies are my downfall. Come to think of it, I like the aisle with the craft punches and stamps too. Here are a few things I picked up for the crafts I made.

The first project I made was super easy and is one that anyone can make. Michael's makes it really easy with their stretched burlap canvases. They are available in an array of different sizes. The one I picked had 3 canvases, so I made two and will demonstrate one on Sunday.

The first thing I did was to do a mock up of where I wanted the flowers to go. I used a Martha Stewart stencil and some cardstock. After stenciling, I cut out the flowers and placed them where I wanted them to go on the burlap canvas.

There wasn't a stem in the stencil kit, so I made my own using a piece of cardstock and some tape.

I removed the first mock up flower and taped down the stencil where I wanted it to go. Notice I taped all around the stencil so I wouldn't paint through the other flower stencils.

I'm not really proficient at stenciling, but I did figure out that paint on the foam dauber needed to be blotted on some paper before putting it to the stencil. 

Practice makes more perfect  applies in stenciling.

After painting the 3 flowers and stems and letting it dry, I cut 40" of ribbon. The actual color is closer to Radiant Orchid, which is Pantone's color of the year for 2014.

I tied a knot in the center of the cut ribbon, then tied a bow.

The bow has to be tied tightly.

Once the bow was tied, I hot glued the end to the back at the top corners of the canvas.

Voila! The finished project! The whole craft should take you 30 minutes or less.

Here's a list of the supplies I used for this project:
1 artists burlap canvas
Martha Stewart stencil
cellophane tape
wide satin ribbon
glue gun and stick
white craft paint
small foam paint daubers

Tomorrow I will show you how I made the super simple ampersand  sign on another burlap canvas. I'm sure you can guess, but just humor me!

Here's the classroom at the Michaels in Stonecrest. 

Isn't it cute???

I hope ya'll will come out and see me at Michaels on Sunday from 1 to 4. 

If you can't visit me in Charlotte, be sure to visit the Michaels store near you. 

You can see how I made the ampersand on the burlap canvas HERE

Pam

Disclosure: I've partnered with Hometalk and Michaels for this event, but the opinions and love for crafting are all mine!

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Savvy Southern Style

No Cost Stencil Project

Happy Monday everyone!

Hope y'all had a great weekend. 

We spent Saturday working on organizing the basement. It still needs a lot of work, but the storage room is almost finished. Just scroll down to the previous post if you missed it.

Was hoping to get my new project finished this weekend, but  it morphed into something a little more complicated. 

Don't you hate it when that happens?

 Ever since we had the house painted, the sidelight windows near the front door have been, well, naked....

...and you can see in the Family Room when you are standing on the front porch. 

Don't know about you, but Mr. Fanatic and I have a thing about that. Maybe it's just us, but we like a little more privacy than that. 

Which brings me to my no cost project...

A few months ago, I purchased 2 sets of curtain panels for my Master Bedroom from Ikea. Since the 3 windows in that room are narrow and the curtain panels are wide, I only needed one panel for each window. That left me with one curtain panel left over. I thought the sidelights would look a little more dramatic covered with the leftover curtain.

A super easy project: cut the panel in half lengthwise and sew the edge. 

Or so I thought. Once up,  they needed a little something and remembered the trellis pattern stencil. Of course I have some extra paint hanging around too.

Thought I'd show you of  the two stencil projects that were done for my daughter's room. 
The first project turned is a stenciled burlap jewelry organizer and matching bulletin board. You can see the tutorial HERE.
 Believe it or not, her stenciled jewelry organizer looks just as organized today as it did when I took this photo. (wish her room did, as well)

The second stenciled project was a pillow. This was also a no cost project.

I stenciled some burlap and made her a pillow, as well. Note to self...next time stencil on prewashed drop cloth fabric or soft cotton...

it's much cuddlier.

I'm excited to get to use this stencil another time because it's so pretty. I'm also happy that this project will cost zero, zip nada...

Now I just have to come up with a no cost way to hang the panels on the sidelights.

Any suggestions?

Pam
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Stenciled Jewelry Organizer & A Giveaway!

I'm so glad to be revealing the project we've been working on for some time now. It's not that this project was a big one or that I've been procrastinating....I just worked on it little by little.

Cutting Edge sent me this fabulous stencil several months ago, 

along with a foam roller, a clip on level, a bonus mini stencil and some very helpful instructions.

They also have a great "how to" Youtube video.

I wanted to make a stencilled  jewelry organizer and bulletin board for my youngest daughter's room. The hooks in her closet weren't working for her.

Here's a reminder of what my daughter's room looks like.

I started with a plain bulletin board (on left) and a piece of plywood cut to match.

Here's how the jewelry organizer turned out...

...and the bulletin board...

The bulletin board and jewelry organizer are hung on a narrow wall to the right of her closet.

We used drawer pulls to hang earrings on and cabinet knobs for bracelets and necklaces.

My daughter really loved how it turned out. : )
You can see How To Make A Fabulous Jewelry Organizer HERE

Here are a few more great projects created with Cutting Edge Stencils:

Cutting Edge Stencils

 

Would you like to win a Cutting Edge Stencil stencil?

Cutting Edge Stencils is giving away one stencil up to a $50 value for one winner.

HERE ARE THE GIVEAWAY GUIDELINES

Giveaway will be open until Sunday June 17 at midnight (Eastern Standard Time)

The winner will be announced Monday, June 18th.  Giveaway is open to US Residents only. Free shipping will be provided.

Here's how to enter:

MANDATORY: Be a follower of diy Design Fanatic Blog (Google Friend Connect, Blog Lovin', Email). Leave a comment below telling me how you follow me.

FOR A SECOND CHANCE: Visit Cutting Edge Stencils and leave us a SECOND COMMENT HERE AT THE BLOG (this post) letting me know which stencil you'd love to win.

FOR A THIRD CHANCE: “LIKE” Cutting Edge Stencils on Facebook. Leave  a NEW COMMENT  below letting me know that you have liked them on Facebook.

FOR A FOURTH CHANCE TO WIN:  Post about the giveaway on your Facebook or Twitter and come back and leave a new comment telling me that you did.

 THAT’S FOUR CHANCES TO ENTER TO WIN!! 

THANK YOU SO MUCH to Cutting Edge Stencils for providing a stencil to me and for this generous giveaway!!!

Pam

Giveaway is now over.

You can see How To Make A Fabulous Jewelry Organizer HERE

 

Paris Market Pillow

Ah, the trials and tribulations of one little diy project.
All I wanted was a simple little pillow for the chair in my youngest daughter's room. A project, that should have taken an hour and a half at the most, turned into a half a day and all night project! Does this ever happen to you???? Or is it just me?

Ever since I found the cool gray chair at HomeGoods several months ago,  I knew it needed a pillow.

Awhile back on the big Blog Party blog hop, I saw a great table makeover over at Junkin' Junky that had a Paris Market stencil.  Oooh, la la, it was the perfect design for a pillow. I inquired about the design and Mel was so nice she emailed the design file to me. I was able to re-format it so I could cut the stencil with my Silhouette Machine

The stencil is pretty intricate, but the Silhouette cut it perfectly.

I used a pre-washed drop cloth for the fabric for the pillow. Then I started applying the paint on the fabric using the stencil.

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No photo with for this one....let's just say I need to do a bit more reading up on how to paint fabric : /

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When diy projects go awry, you have to get creative. I have heard about bloggers putting fabric in their  printers and printing straight onto the fabric. Thought it was a good idea. Problem is ... my design on Silhouette was an outline and I had to fill it in. No problem, I could do that on the Silhouette software, only having not used it for very long, I ran into some problems and only a few of the letters and design would fill in black. If you know what I'm doing wrong, let me know!

By the time I got to this point I was really frustrated and not in a good mood!

So, after wasting a bunch of time trying to fill in my design, I went back to the original design file, which was red and decided to print it in the black ink only.

Since the fabric that you put in the printer has to be 8 1/2" wide, I cut out another piece of drop cloth fabric and then spray glued it to a piece of cardstock... this got stuck in my printer.

So, I cut out another one and tried it again... only this time I spray glued the fabric onto regular printer paper.

Since I have 2  printers (don't ask) and it got stuck in the first one, I tried my other  printer. (Update:my printers are inkjet not laser)

Here's what came out when I printed it in grayscale...

Not sure what happened there.

So, I tried again in the first printer and got some uneven inking... I think the fabric got held up in the printer because it was too thick and wrinkly.

Let's try this AGAIN!  I ironed the fabric really good and sent it through again, only I forgot to check "print with black ink"!!!! OY!!!

It took me 5 tries, but it finally came out right!

The secret is to iron the fabric before putting it on the paper and making the fabric 1/8" shorter than the paper so that when it goes into the printer, the printer grabs the paper instead of the fabric.

PHEW!!!

Sewing the pillow took all but 5 minutes! I used batting instead of a pillow form to stuff it because it's a custom size.

Glad it's finished...I hope the next time I make one it doesn't take me 6 hours!

Seriously! Ever have simple diy projects take forever to finish???
Pam