So… I finally got my hands on freezer paper!
I figured I would try to use my freezer paper to print on some burlap… did you know you can print on material with some printers?
{1st Step}
I created my “laundry” verbiage in Photoshop elements, but you could use any word processing program. I made it 8 1/2” x 11”, so that it would run through my printer as a standard piece of paper. I went to an online dictionary to find the definition I used.
{2nd Step}
Iron the burlap.
I had a piece of scrap burlap that worked perfectly for this project. You want your fabric nice and smooth for the printing.
{3rd Step}
Place your freezer paper on top of your ironed burlap with the shiny side down (touching the burlap). Run a medium, dry iron on top of the freezer paper and it will magically adhere to your burlap.
{4th Step}
Cut your burlap/freezer paper into your 8 1/2” x 11” size.
{5th Step}
Run your burlap/freezer paper through your printer.
{6th Step}
Peel off the freezer paper….
and you have this amazing printed burlap!
To finish off this project, I used the leftovers of the foam board from my Check My Pockets laundry sign to create the backing for my empty black frame.
To adhere the burlap sign I used decorative nails.
I used scraps of burlap, remnants of a sweater I turned into a pillow and the remains of my daughter’s dress turned pillow… and twisted and hot glued them onto felt to create some cute flowers. I glued the flowers onto the foam board and frame with my trusty hot glue gun.
My newest laundry love!
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Wowee! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this idea. I'm so inpsired by all the possibilities it holds. And what a GREAT tutorial!
Thank you.
Sarahx
Love this idea!
Easy, peasy! Who knew? What a great tutorial! And the finished project is wonderful.
I am starting a new meme within a couple of weeks, Tutorials, Tips and Tidbits. This would be a perfect entry!
Please join StoneGable with this wonderful project.
Yvonne
That looks so fantastic! I love it!!
Wow, that is really cool! Must try the wax paper tip. Thanks for sharing!
Not wax paper it is freezer paper.
Very cool Maryann! What can't freezer paper do???
Brittany
http://www.prettyhandygirl.com
Amazingly wonderful!! I have to do this!
Love how this turned out!!! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I'm stealing this for another project.
Wow! this is cool! I am actually going to try this! Very well done!
Fabulous technique!! Thank you so much for sharing this project how to.
I love it! I am slowly redoing this house one room at the time… My laundry room needs it SO badly… It's huge, but it's a MESS! I would be embarrassed to even show a picture! Maybe if I made a cute sign like yours I'd find some motivation to make the rest of it cute!
That is so cute. Didn't know you could do that. Must try it!
Brooke
Wow, that is awesome!! Great project!
xo, cassie
That is so very cool!!! I love it and how easy!! Thank you for posting this!!!
I love this–I have printed on muslin but never thought of using burlap!
DYING!!! I want to make this with "Love" for my master bedroom.
Awesome! I absolutely love this!
That's really cool! Thanks for sharing!
totally cute
Are you kidding me?! Wow- what a fantastic idea and the end product screams Ballard Desighns or somethplace great! You are amazing!
love it!
-Danielle
What a great addition to a laundry room. Very clever to print on burlap.
Diane
Oh my goodness. You've done it again!! This is too freakin cool!!! Will you make me one, pretty please?
Great job as always. 
I am in love!!! You need to post this on Funky Junk Interiors she is having a "what can you do with burlap party!" I would be afraid that all the burlap lent would mess up my printer. I may have to try this tho! Wonderful idea!!!
I think I like yours better! Thanks for sharing … I've posted a link.
What a fabulous idea! I have 2 yards of burlap that I have been clueless as what to do with it. Now I know!! Visiting from Tatertots and Jello.
That's a really clever project! Freezer paper can be used to get candle wax and melted crayons up too. It works kind of like transfer paper does.
Blessings,
Shanna
http://www.revampedfrenchmaison.com
Oh my gosh!!!!! How cool is THAT????!!!! Who would'ave thought……??? Just love it – and I'm definitely going to try this one out! Thanks for the great tutorial!
xoxo laurie@heavens-walk
Thanks for the how-to…I've been wanting to try this, but really wasn't sure how to go about it. Your laundry room must look AMAZING!
Happy weekend!
smiles!
Love it Maryann, thanks for the tutorial. I am needing to try this. Yes, needing!
Very neat idea. I wonder what printers it will and will not work in???
Clever, clever, clever! Looks great!
That is a terrific tutorial and I LOVE that sign!
Good Job!
~Liz
Oh my gosh -this is too cool! Your tutorial is well done too -I want to try this -Thanks for sharing
VERY COOL!! Thanks for all the detail on trying this…i am going to have to give this a try!
Hi Maryann…
Ohhh…this is awesome! I just adore your burlap "laundry" sign! Love the pretty burlap flowers that you added as well! You also did a great job with the tutorial! I think I could actually craft one of these beautiful signs! Thank you for sharing this with us today!
Warmest autumn wishes,
Chari @Happy To Design
Awesome! You could use this technique for so many different things!
I adore it!!!!
I LOVE this idea. I had no idea you could put fabric through a printer. I'd be so worried it would jam!
I love how yours turned out though and am going to have to get up the nerve to try this sometime soon!
Great sign. Love burlap and that is such a cute idea. Now if I could just start making things like that.
What a fantastic craft! It looks great.
NOOO WAY!!! THAT IS SOOO COOL!
Thanks for sharing.. so many great ideas I have to try.
So terrifically cool and clever! I have to try this, and you've given me inspiration for so many ideas! Just wonderful.
This is a fabulous idea! Now, where's the freezer paper?
Lorrie ~ I ordered mine from Amazon, but I've heard Wal-Mart has it too.
I am NOT putting burlap in my 500.00 printer!
LOL-I am afraid of my large printer but I hate that thing anyway…it is so fussy about paper in general so probably would not take it. But, I wonder about scanners…
I wonder if it only works with top feed printers.
OKAY! Did it and it works fine from bottom feeding wireless HP!!! I LOVE IT! THANK YOU! I will post pictures later on the beginning of my blog-LOL! Will post the name. I am not even sure how you post that-yes, very new at it! : )
So so cute! Great idea!!!
You’ve iemprssed us all with that posting!
Whoa, I am SO going to try this. Thanks for the inspiration….printing on burlap, who knew??
Oh my gosh I love this! Best idea of the day! And I have all the 'ingredients' for trying it. I have printed on fabric before but not burlap. Thank you for the inspiration!
This looks fabulous! Question…does the burlap dirty up the printer at all? My husband would die.
Well the burlap I use sheds like mad. That is the first thing I thought of. And I don’t see a way to clean it out…canned air?
How did it work out for anyone else?
Debra
Wow, I had no idea that you could print on material. Thank you so much for sharing this information, I am going to try this out for sure!!
Your sign looks so good, love it!! Nicole
What a great tutorial and such a fun idea. I'm going to see what I can do on fabric that maybe I'll make into a pillow. I think that my daughter is going to love this….or maybe Christmas pillows! Perfect timing! Thank you for sharing your wonderful idea. Cherry Kay
This is really, really cool. Thanks so much for sharing!
This is so awesome!! I especially love the flowers you added. I have been wanting to do something with burlap – thanks for the inspiration!
This is sooo cute! Thank you for the tutorial. I hope to make something like this someday for my laundry room!
Love, love the idea!! What a cute thing to hang in your laundry room. I am going to give it a try.
I love it! Thanks for joining us for Anything Related!
{Rebekah}
Holy Crap! That is incredible!! I so want to try this. Thanks!
Krista
craftinginthecloset.blogspot.com
How cool is that! I had never heard of using wax paper and fabric to use in the printer. Amazing. I love the project. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my gosh! I love this tutorial! I just picked up some freezer paper for another project but now I've got two! Love it! Thanks!!!!
Crazy weekend and I am just now getting to this post in my reader! What a phenomenal idea!! Love it! Have to share on my FB page!
Oh my! This will change my life I think!!!
http://www.sarahbohldesigns.com
great idea… I think I'm going to try. If however, I destroy the family printer… I'm blaming you! {smiles}
LOVE THIS! Great job and great tutorial! Going to have to give this a try
I love this. What a wonderful idea.
LOVE THIS!!! Thanks for sharing such a cute idea!!
Love this, but I'm too scared to try it. I don't know how I would explain to my husband that I ruined the printer trying to print on fabric.
I have always wondered how I could print on fabric. This is amazing! Thanks for showing us
It looks fabulous.
GET OUT! that's fabulous!!! thanks for sharing!
Incredible! I have been racking my brain on how to do something like this without outsourcing to a screen printer! So you put the fabric and freezer paper righ into the printer? Which side facing which direction? Is the printer supposed to print onto the paper side or the fabric directly?
MY husband said " Better watch it, it's gonna JAMB, and mess up the printer" Ha Ha It worked like a charm, I will send you a picture of what I did. So cool.
Christy
Which printers this for work for I really can't answer… I'm not a printer expert. I've got a cheap bubble jet printer and it worked great. You want your burlap to be facing the direction it needs to in order to be printed on. In my printer my burlap was facing up in the printer tray… this is the side that gets printed on. Hope that helps!
I love this laundry sign so much that I made a digital version!! And what's so funny is I did a Thanksgiving-definition version, and when I clicked over to your blog to get the link to give you credit, I found you had since done a Thanksgiving one too! The real thing is the best but until I can get to the store for some burlap, I have the next-best thing!
http://craftily-ever-after.blogspot.com/2010/11/faux-burlap-thanksgiving-printable.html
Perfection. Love it!
Loved your sign so much that I had to make one too! Thanks for the inspiration!
As far as printers go I am guessing it would have to be an inkjet, I have a Laser and since it heat sets the toner, I would be afraid the burlap burn and the wax would melt causing issues for the printer.
Love the idea though!! I will have to go use my mom's inkjet if I decide I want to do it.
Okay, so maybe this is a retarded question, but do you allow the burlap to "fee" through the printer or do you have a backdoor to open to feed it through straight?
Aimees5 – I feed it though the top and it curves through to the front. It's a normal bubble jet style.
Hey Maryann! Love this idea and just had to share it on my site. Just wanted to let you know: http://inspiringpretty.com/?p=762
Lindsey
What a NEAT idea! I'm loving your blog – and will be back to steal more ideas from you soon! Thanks for the spark of creativity you've given me!
Love it! What a great idea
Thanks for sharing.
Birgitte
Do you know if the design would mess up if you folded it? I'm thinking about using these for wedding invitations, wrapped with a piece of lace, then with a piece of twine tied in a bow. (Sort of like some that I've seen with handkerchiefs.)
WOW! This is outstanding! How genius are you?! One question though…Do you need to adjust anything on the printer to help the burlap run smoothly through the printer feed? Won't it get jammed and smear?! Thanks for such a grand idea!!!
Tried it with an old cut up t-shirt! It totally works and I totally linked this to my blog! I have so much burlap and black in my living room, this is such a common sense choice for wall art in my house! I just have to figure out what I want to put on it. I'm thinking some inspiration quote or something…
Oooh! And could this also be done with thin corkboard, like you buy in a roll?
this is awesome! i cant wait to try!
This is so cool! Love it and I also love your verse on your heading!!
Hi there! I found this project on Pinterest and just love it. It's just in time for fall, too! I wanted to let you know that I'm featuring you on my blog today in a fall roundup. Feel free to stop by and grab a featured button!
http://www.craftycritique.com
GENIUS!! So happy I found your blog this morning through Pinterest!! I love it!!
Hugs
~Leslie
LOVELY!! What a great idea
Ellen
I love that! I've printed on fabric before, but I never thought something as bumpy as burlap would work. Very exciting!
Maryann I am stopping by to let you know that I'll be sharing today a link to your tutorial on my blog…
Thank you so much for this wonderful idea!
Absolutely brilliant! I just love your little flowers! Thanks for taking the time to explain the process, I've been wanting to do something with my burlap for a year now…never seem to have the time or the right project for the time I do find. Now, to find this freezer paper you speak of…cheers!
(Miss Charlotte)
http://www.lesbonnesideesmag.com
"Elegant Domesticity for Wayward Girls"
What a great idea! It works great on muslin, too. One suggestion for burlap-to keep your ends from continuing to ravel and fray, sew a straight stitch all around
where can i buy freezer paper and this decorative burlap?
Hi Maryann, I like this tutorial (just as the rest of your site!) so much and yet..I have no idea what “freezer paper” is! My english is not good enough! Would anyone please help me out? The idea is great and I would l♥ve to try it!
You can find freezer paper in the same section in a store that has plastic wrap, aluminum foil, sandwich/food storage bags. It will say “freezer paper” on it. Also, it is NOT the same as waxed paper, waxed paper is a different product altogether. Hope that helped.. I’m not sure if I’m brave enough to try sendin something other than paper through my printer- mainly because I’d never hear the end of it from my husband… that might be the straw that broke the crafter’s husband’s back!
I used the idea of printing on burlap to make a really fun Christmas gift for my parents and for my in-laws. You can check it out on my blog.
Thanks so much for sharing these instructions! This was very simple and easy to follow with great results!
Amazing! What a great idea, but i’m afriad if I try to do this with my printer it will die. I have a hard time printing on regular paper. Lol!
Found you on Pinterest! I LOVE this! New follower!
This is so cool! I tried it on osnaburg and it worked beautifully. I did a water test, and without heat setting it bled badly. Then I heat set it and it bled just a little. I’m going to keep experimenting.
I should have said I used an inkjet printer. I don’t know if laser would bleed or not.
This is such a cool idea! I love it and I featured it here: http://rustic-crafts.com/?p=4990
I love this and cannot wait to try it using the correct dimensions! I have linked this project up in one of our most recent posts … let’s just say my attempt at printing on burlap was VERY entertaining!
http://www.thediyvillage.com/2012/02/laundry-sign-tutorial-nailed-it.html
I’ve seen tutorials that print a photograph onto tissue paper. Then you adhere the tissue paper to canvas. Do you think the burlap would take a photograph well?
This is a fabulous idea, thank you so much for the tutorial.
I love this!!! Thanks for the inspiration! I also featured this on my blog: http://www.vixenmade.com/2012/04/10-creative-diy-projects.html