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Silly New PJ’s with Heat Transfers!

17
May 2011

When I found out the Silhouette promo was going to be Heat Transfer – I knew just what to do – new, funny pj’s – for me and my daughter!

Before we get to my projects, let me give you the scoop on the awesome promo!
This month you can get:

1 Silhouette SD
1 package white flocked heat transfer material
1 package teal smooth heat transfer material
1 package dark pink smooth heat transfer
All for $219!

That’s a $125 savings!
Click here for the deal!

If you already have the machine, you can get 25% off heat transfer materials!
Use the code FLAMINGO at checkout for your discount!
(The promotion runs May 17 – 25 so don’t wait!)

One of the fun things about having a teenager (besides the fact that you can send them to the grocery store when you’re out of milk) is that they are old enough to have their own sense of humor.
For some reason both my kids have developed these snarky, sly senses of humor. I have no idea where they get it.
Ok I do.
It’s Mr. F.T.’s fault.
Yep babe – I just threw you under the bus.

So for our new pj’s, here’s what we came up with:

We went hunting for inspiration at Snorg Tees – an online shop with hilarious t-shirts.
(Disclaimer – some of the shirts there are edgy/risque/etc. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)
We picked out these two styles to knockoff:

Hedgehogs Can't Share Everything Is Easier Said Than Done

I switched them up a bit – for my daughter’s I made a different hedgehog and for mine I added some cute little stick figure friends.
(If you’d like the Silhouette files of the designs I made – send me an email (bev(at)flamingotoes.com) – I’ll mail them to ya.)

Silhouette’s Heat Transfer is soooo easy to use!
You just cut out the design . . .

Peel off the transfer material that isn’t part of the design . . .

If you’re anything like me, realize you haven’t reversed your image until you’ve peeled off all the transfer material. Lovely.
Redo the whole thing.

Much Better.
Place the sticky transfer tape down on the shirt.

Iron On . .

Peel up the plastic and your transfer should be ironed on to your shirt! If it’s not, put the plastic back and re-iron.

I couldn’t waste the extra little hedgehog from my unreversed transfer – so I ironed him onto the back of the t-shirt at the bottom.

That’s it – so easy right?? Yet I still felt the need to show you all those steps. ;)

I like my daughters a bit better than mine – I think the blue stands out more on the white.
Doesn’t matter too much – it’s not like a ton of people will see them. ;)

What do you think?
I have a fun sweater re-do coming up this week too!

I’m linking to Sunday Scoop, Today’s Creative Blog, Met Monday, Skip to my Lou, Tutorials & Tips Tuesday,
and the other fabulous parties on the sidebar – make sure you check them out!

I’m also over at C.R.A.F.T. today – taking part in Jamie’s Creating Really Awesome Free Trips series!

I’m sharing all the cool free (and cheap) stuff to do in San Diego! Come say hi!

Category: Clothing Tags: knockoff, Silhouette, T-Shirt 23 Comments

Adding Rhinestone Bling for Spring!

24
Apr 2011

Beverly

So I’d like to introduce you to my new little darling.

Isn’t she cute? I love her.
We’re still in the getting to know each other stage of our relationship – but I can just tell. We’re made for each other.

When she arrived though – I will confess that I was a bit intimidated. You guys know that I am not good with paper-ish things. And I’m not exactly graceful.
I was a little afraid that my “issues” might extend to her and I would cut my finger off or something. Who knows.

I am happy to say that we had a very successful first run – and I can’t wait to show you what I made!

This month’s Silhouette promotion is for their Rhinestone products (yep. another thing I’ve never done anything with).
I thought the perfect thing to start with would be to dress up some tops for my cute little nieces!

Here’s what I did. And bear with me here – because I was so new to this I took pictures of every step.
Silhouette Rhinestone fun for Dummies. ;) (Not that any of us are dummies – but you get what I mean, right?)
All you Silhouette experts – feel free to have a chuckle at my newbie expense. I’m good with it. ;)

(Also – I was given this machine – and the product to show off to you.
But I will ALWAYS be honest with you about how it goes and what I think. :)

I started by opening up the software and adding my designs to the page. Since I was doing two shirts I put both images on so it could cut them at the same time.
I chose a couple of their fun designs for spring – this little birdie and a butterfly.

You use the pink tip to cut the rhinestone template – which is very easy to change out.

Feed the green Rhinestone template material into the machine.

(If you look closely it even tells you inside to keep your hands out of the machine. See?
They understand paper-challenged people like me. Ha.)

When you click “Send to Silhouette”, they make it very easy to set up – you just select the rhinestone templete from the menu on the left.

Then the machine does it’s magic!
(I will spare you all the ridiculous pictures I took of it cutting – because you can’t tell it’s cutting from a single photo. Duh.
What can I say? I was excited.)

Here’s the design all cut out.

Peel the paper backing off the template material and all the little holes should come out.

Obviously mine didn’t but it was no big deal. I ran my fingernail along the hole and it popped right out!
The back side of the template material is sticky. Lay the sticky side of the material onto the backing board they provide.

It makes a little rhinestone pattern for you! So cool. :)

They recommend you put the rhinestones on from largest in size to smallest. It is easier to fill the holes that way.

Oh. So cute already.

Peel the backing off the sticky transfer tape and lay it down over the rhinestones.
I’ll confess the second time I did this, I didn’t lay it down evenly, and it messed up my pattern. It was an easy fix though. I just picked the rhinestones off the tape in the affected area and set them back into the template. Then I laid the tape down again. No problem!

Now the transfer tape has all the little stones stuck to it with the iron-on side facing up.

Iron the transfer piece onto your fabric – place a cloth over the transfer tape to protect your iron.

When your stones are ironed on – lift the transfer tape off the fabric and stones.
(My transfer tape was still sticky after this so I put the backing material on it to save it and I’ll reuse it. Sweet!)

Flip the piece over and iron again to pull the transfer material further into the fabric. Use your towel again to protect the iron.

Now I have two cute little designs to add to the tops!

Walmart is carring these great little shirts for girls right now (for $3.50!!). They are blank but have a little gathered section on the yoke. Perfect for embellishing! :)

I added the rhinestone designs to the bottom of the tops on one side -

I dressed up the yoke section with ric rac on one and some sweet gingham trim on the other. I used the gingham trim on the hem of the white top too.

It was such a fun, easy project for my first time using the Silhouette! I really love how the tops turned out and I think the girls will too!
They are perfect for this time of year.

Don’t forget – there are a few more days to enter the Silhouette giveaway!

And you can get the amazing deal for the Silhouette and Rhinestone pack for only $229 (that’s $125 off!!).
If you have the Silhouette you can get the Rhinestone bundle for only $34.99 – savings of $20!!
Click here to get either bundle and enter the code FLAMINGO for the deals!

What do you think? Aren’t the Rhinestones fun? I am looking forward to trying them again!
What would you add them to?

I’m linking to Today’s Creative Blog, Met Monday, Skip to my Lou, Tutorials & Tips Tuesday,
and the other fabulous parties on the sidebar – make sure you check them out!

Category: Clothing Tags: kids, tops 11 Comments

He Loves Me – Valentine’s Shirt

30
Jan 2011

Beverly

Well I have had a blast doing Blog Spa with Elizabeth! Last week was so fun!

So now we’re back into our regularly scheduled programming – which is not very regular I must say. :)
I mentioned before Blog Spa that I had some fun ideas to share with you for Valentine’s Day – so here is the next one!

I wanted to make a shirt for Valentine’s Day. Something sweet and “Valentine-y” but not something that I was limited to wear only for a few days once a year. (I don’t have any problem with that – I just don’t have the closet space to store clothes for every holiday.) I wanted something subtly Valentine-y. Yes. I just said that.

Here’s what I came up with!

My sweet friend Emily, from Frilly Details had sent me a tutorial idea on the request page back before Christmas – which I loved but I just didn’t have time to do. It was for this cute Christmas shirt at Target.

It was a plain white t-shirt with a white ribbon or chiffon ruffled and stitched on for the words. Nice and simple but oh so cute!

I switched it up a bit and went with the whole “He Loves Me, He loves me not, he loves me” idea with a flower for Valentine’s Day – only I shortened it. Because I don’t have to guess, I know he loves me. :)

Ready for a tutorial?

You’ll need:

• T-shirt
• Assorted Ribbon. I used about 7 yards for the white (definitely an estimate) and maybe 2 yards for the cream on the flower
• Freezer paper

This is a pretty similar process to my Ribbon Flower T-shirt. You probably haven’t seen that though because I think maybe 11 people were reading my blog then. :) Maybe less.

Start by ironing on a piece of Freezer paper to the wrong side of the front of your t-shirt. Place the shiny side of the freezer paper down on the fabric and iron it – it will stick to the fabric.
This is to stabilize our shirt. If we didn’t do this, when we sewed the ribbon on the t-shirt would stretch out and look funky.

PS – this was my last piece of freezer paper and I am now out. That is on par with running out of milk in this house. Must. Buy. More.

Turn your shirt right side out. Draw out what you would like to write. I wrote “he loves me” and drew a flower. But it would also be cute to write out “love” in different languages, or whatever you want really!

For a marking pen – I used a Marvy Disappearing Ink marker that I picked up at a quilt shop. The marker says that the ink disappears within 2 – 14 days. Um. Not in my case. More like 2 – 14 minutes. Not really – but it starts disappearing within an hour or two. I like that it disappears so completely – but if I am not going to finish my project on the day I’ve started – I don’t use it. I switch to the blue Mark-B-Gone that I get at Joann’s. That one stays longer but is also harder to get out and sometimes it returns. So neither are ideal. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

Ok – onto sewing. I started with a 10 yard roll of white 3/8″ ribbon. I used about 3/4 of it I think.

Run a gathering stitch down the center of the ribbon. Put your sewing machine on the longest stitch length and sew down the center, leaving long ends at the beginning and end of the thread.
I stopped and started my stitch a few times since the ribbon piece was so long. I didn’t want my gathering thread to break in the middle. Hold the ribbon and pull gently on one of the ends of the thread (either the top or the bottom, it doesn’t matter which). This will gather up the ribbon. You don’t want the gathers too tight for this.

Start with the end of the ribbon and your first letter. Turn the ribbon under just a bit so the cut end is covered by the ribbon. Begin sewing your ribbon on, following your marked lines.
Fold the ribbon under at the end of the word, like you did at the beginning.

Continue sewing your ribbon onto your other words. Your shirt will become pretty wrinkled because of the freezer paper. Just make sure it doesn’t pucker under the ribbon. Also make sure you are pulling the rest of the shirt out of the way and you don’t sew over it accidentally. Ahem.

See? Wrinkly. :)

I wanted the petals of the flower to be just a bit different than the writing. I used a sheer ivory 3/8″ wide ribbon.

Follow the marked lines for this as well, but at the curves, turn the ribbon at angles to follow the lines.

For the center of the flower, switch back to the ruffled white. Sew that in the center of the flower in a spiral, so that your spiral gets smaller and smaller and covers the center of the flower.

Turn your shirt wrong side out – it’s time to remove all the freezer paper.

Start by tearing off the big pieces around the edges. Work closer and closer to your stitching. When you get to the stitching, pull gently – if you pull too hard you can pull out or distort your threads. It helps to place your finger on the seam and pull gently with your other hand. This will help hold the stitching in place.