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Monday, March 18, 2013

ABC Baby Card {A Quick Tutorial}

I made this card a couple weeks ago for a baby shower, and the hardest thing about making this card was finding the font I wanted to use. Seriously, it's that easy!

Print "abcdeBabyfgh" on a piece of white card stock. Mine is almost centered on the page; it's just a little lower than centered. Cut two pieces of coordinating paper the same width of the card and glue them beneath the sentiment. My green piece overlapped the blue piece.

That's it folks!

More Information About Making This Card:

This piece was inspired by a card I saw in an older issue of Paper Crafts Magazine I was flipping through at the library.

The font I used was Brady Bunch.

You can download a PDF the template I created here to use or to give you an idea of how to line up your text. It will print to a 8.5x11 sheet of paper, and you'll want to cut that piece of paper in half to create your card base.

Happy Card Making!

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Rockin' Baby Burp Cloths

I saw this tutorial over at Made and decided that burp cloths would be the perfect thing to make with some fabric remnants I picked up at JoAnn's. I didn't exactly follow the tutorial though, so I'll give you a little run through. It's basically just sewing a couple pieces of fabric together...super easy. :-)

I was working with smaller pieces of flannel, so I made them a bit smaller. For the back, I had a weird shaped piece of fabric, so I cut two pieces of the flannel measuring 7.25x10.5 inches and sewed them together giving me one piece measuring 10.5x14 inches.

I cut my top piece to match the size of this combined piece 10.5x14 inches.

This is where I followed Dana's instructions. Stack the pieces so the right sides face each other and sew around three sides of the two pieces. Trim the corners and turn them inside out. Tuck the raw edges of the open end inward and sew around all the edges about 1/4 inch away from the edge. I ironed the edges inward and pinned the open end shut before I started sewing.

TIP: To ensure that your corners line up, start sewing the edges toward the middle of one of the edges rather than at the corner. I thing it's easier to line up the joining seams once you get all the way around.

Since my cloths were a little smaller than those in the tutorial, I decided to just have them fold in half where the seam to the back piece was. So, I just sewed a seam along that back piece seam to help create the fold.

That fabric is so cute and rockin'!

I'm having a blast at these lovely linking parties.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Diaper & Wet Wipes "Wallet"

My little guy goes into the "nursery" at church, and we usually give them his diaper bag (just in case). They only ever need diapers and wipes, though, so it seems like overkill to give them the whole bag. I've seen diaper and wipes holders,but they were more than I wanted to spend, and I figured I could make something.

Then I got to thinking about my Gift Card Holder{Wallet}. A bigger version of that would work perfectly! There'll be a pocket for diapers and a pocket for the wipes. Awesome!

So, I followed the tutorial from My So Called Green Life again, but this time I used these measurements:

3 pieces measuring 15.5x10.5 inches (1 was for the interfacing, so you could do that in a different fabric or an actual interfacing).
1 piece measuring 15.5x7.5 inches

In one of the first steps in the original tutorial you are supposed to fold over 1/4 of an inch and then 1/4 inch again to finish off the edge of the pocket, but I did 1/2 and inch and then 1/2 an inch. It was a little easier than folding over 1/4 inch.

I sewed three different versions. Once I got going on these, they were so easy to make!

In the first version, I used a button closure. I got the button over a little too far, but it works. :-)

The next version didn't have any closure at all. It's going to be in my husband's truck, so it won't be moving around too much. We'll see how it works...I can always add a closure later.

The last one uses a band closure. I used what was essentially a large pony tail holder (or headband) to create this closure.

Now the diapers and wipes have a nice new snugly place to stay.

I'm having a blast at these lovely linking parties.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

One of Two & Two of Two

My cousin is having twins! One is a boy and one is a girl. I wanted to get something for the baby shower for them that matched somewhat, but finding matching outfits for a boy and a girl is a little difficult. Then it came to me. Why not make them something? I came up with the idea of using the common phrases for a pair of items-"one of two" and "two of two". It was fairly simple, and here's how I did it:

I bought two plain newborn size onesies. I figured white would be a nice neutral color.

I created my design and printed it as a mirror image on t-shirt transfer paper.

I followed the instructions with the transfer paper to transfer my images on the onesies. I did have a little bit of difficultly peeling of the backing of the paper, but after working at it a little, I was able to get the paper off. Here's how they turned out:

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