There is this super cool chick over at Wobisobi who last year did 52 Re-Style projects, so many of them are on my to do list. Well this one is now on my done list! Just in time to wear it on my valentines day date tonight (under my Wild sweatshirt of course.) Check out the inspiration. Wobisobi’s  Heart Shaped , Off The Shoulder Tee-Shirt.

Check out Wobisobi’s post for full instructions but I’ll point out a few things I did differently.

I started with one of Mac’s old Tee-Shirts and one of my old too short tank tops. Along with some clips and a heart pattern (since I stink at free handing.)

I clipped the shirt to a magazine and then traced around the heart with pencil.

The rest I did step by step and here is what I ended up with

Not bad huh? How do you think it compares?

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Crafts, Green, Sewing Project

Never underestimate the use of transfer tape, this stuff is amazing. Keeps all the letters evenly spaced and lets you see where you are placing it.

The font is Cricut’s Lyrical Letters and the coffee cup and ‘steam’ are both from Gypsy Wonderings (only available on the gypsy.)

So what do you think? Like it? I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, plus good news if you want to buy some vinyl head on over to Expressions Vinyl and use the code BEMINE for 10% Off!! That code ends tomorrow Wednesday February 8th but keep an eye on the side there >>>>> for future coupons.

Hope you find some simple ways to use vinyl in one of your projects this week!

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Crafts, Cricut, Vinyl

Have you “liked” my Facebook page? You should! I post up green crafts, Ideas, and such almost daily.  Click on that fun green button above and check out my page and then like it so I know you care

But for those of you who aren’t on facebook or if you aren’t on often here are my green craft favorites from the last month of facebook posts.

Scrappy Pin Cushion

Use up your fabric scraps and make something reuseable (double green!) with this great Scrappy Pin Cushion from Vixen Made.

Shimmering Candle Holders

I would bet that everyone has at lease one of these boring candle holders or maybe a extra vase or two that could use some umph. Here is a great idea of how to do that from Burton Avenue.

Hanger Bag Clips

Not sure if its a craft but its a project for sure a simple one at that. Make bag clips from old plastic pants hangers! Thanks Crafting in the Rain!

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Crafts, Green, Green Craft Round-up

This weekend I decided to take an hour out of my day and do something ‘fun’ I’ve realized lately that I don’t do that enough. In fact Sunday I took the whole darn day and did nothing. I had a mild panic attack when I saw the dishes before bed, but hey they can get done tomorrow right? No one is going to die.

Anyway back to my fun project, I bought some cute minky material a while back to make a blanket for Cooper, nothing fancy just sew up the edges and call it done. But I decided it would be fun to personalize it with some iron-on vinyl too.

• First of all I didn’t know how the iron-on vinyl would work with minky fabric so I looked through my stash to find a cotton based fabric to use as my surface for the iron on.
• Secondly place your vinyl on the cutting mat shiny side down.  This is very important, if you do it the wrong way your letters are going to end up backwards and hard to work with.

(left is shiny side right is matt)

• Then use your vinyl cutting machine to cut out whatever name, word or design you would like, then reverse it before cutting it out. (refer to your manual for how to on your machine) If you happen to use a gypsy like me here are the two things you need to know for reversing the text click the advanced tab > the reverse button, see the orange circles.

• Go ahead and cut out your vinyl. I’m not going to suggest a pressure or depth setting because its different for every machine, you may want to play with some scraps first. But I will say this, it depends on the newness of your blade. You want to keep a light hand enough to cut through the vinyl and not through the plastic.
• Next cut off any extra vinyl to use later and then start removing the extra vinyl from around the word.  Peel it off your cutting mat (should still be on the plastic) and place it on your fabric ready to iron.
• Make sure your iron is on a non-steam heat around 305 degrees (basically the correct heat setting for your type of fabric) and start to iron. It only takes 10-15 seconds to bond, give it a few more seconds just to be sure and then peel off the plastic protector sheet. If anything sticks just lay it back down and iron again.
• Next I simply used my cutting mat to square it up and cut out a perfect rectangle.  I lined up one of the black lines with the bottom of the letters and then cut the bottom and the right then reversed the process for the top and left.
• Then I pinned back the edges attached it to on side of my blanket and sewed it on. I’ll be honest here jersey is a very floppy fabric and this isn’t perfect but hey its for my dog. For a cleaner look I would suggest a sturdier quilting fabric for this part.
• That’s it. I lined up the minky right sides together, sewed all around leaving about 2 inches open on one side. Flipped it right side out and hand stitched the hole closed. With minky you don’t even need any batting but if you wanted to you could add a layer and do a quick quilt job. I just used two 1.5 yard pieces and it was the perfect size for the puppy or a child.

One to get some iron on vinyl?

Check out my Expressions Vinyl button on the side bar for a link and a coupon code till the end of the week!

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Cooper, Crafts, Sewing, Vinyl