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Stenciling A Pillow…

September 26, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 2 Comments

Happy Monday!

I’m in the middle of giving our family room a makeover… painting is done, beadboard wallpaper is hung (hoping to paint it today) and my mind is swirling with curtain update plans, entertainment center face-lifts and a bench I’m hoping to build.

So… I figured since everything else was getting a new look, my boring brown pillow could use a make0ver too.

Here’s what I used:

Cutting Edge Stencil’s Lily Scroll

DecoArt’s SoSoft fabric paint in Gold Glitz

stencil brush

You can get the how-to details over at the DIY Club today.

While you’re over at the club you can check out September’s Top 10!

Later today I’ve got my fluffy star to share with you!

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69th Power of Paint Party… Painting a Pillow

April 19, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 24 Comments

Welcome Paint Lovers!

First up… I’ve got a paint FREEBIE for you! Go HERE to print a coupon for a FREE 2 oz. Color Sampler of Benjamin Moore paint. You can use the coupon through June 30, 2011.

Last week I shared my adorable seahorse burlap pillow…

This week I created another painted pillow…

Mr. Starfish! (The Mrs. is in the works)

{Here’s the “how to”}

You can use any fabric you’d like… I’m on a burlap kick, so that’s what I used.

Measure your pillow form and then cut out 2 pieces of fabric adding 2” to your length and width measurement. So if you form is 20”x20” then you want to cut your fabric 22”x22”.

Then I ironed both pieces of burlap.

To create the seahorse I found an image online that I like and printed it off.

I took a piece of freezer paper (slightly larger than the image size) and placed the shiny side down on my cutting mat and placed the seahorse image on top.

I used a piece of painter’s tape to hold all the pieces still.

With an X-Acto blade I cut around the outline of the image cutting through the paper (with the image) and the freezer paper.

Once your images is cut out you will have this…

Take a piece of your cut out burlap and place the freezer paper shiny side down in the spot you want it.

Take an iron on a “no steam” setting and press the freezer paper onto the burlap. I held it still for about 5 seconds then moved it around, repeating a few times.

I took a stencil brush and bounced on my DecorArt Snow White paint and textile medium (this mixed with acrylic paint creates a fabric washable paint). Follow the direction on your bottle for the correct ratio.

After letting it dry about 10-15 minutes I pulled off the freezer paper… the moment of truth!

Super cute!!!

Let the paint dry thoroughly before you sew your pieces of burlap together.

For my pillow I used fabric tape on 3 sides and hand-stitched the 4th side after stuffing in the pillow form.

So what have you been painting?

Power of Paint Party Rules:

#1… This is a PAINT party… so pretty please, link-up only paint related projects. I HATE deleting!

#2… Please put my nifty POPP button (you can find it up in my menu bar’s BUTTONS) in your blog post or a link back to this party somewhere on your blog… that way others from your blog can check out all the paint projects too.

#3… Share the Love… visit the other paint pals.

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68th Power of Paint Party – Seahorse Pillow!

April 12, 2011 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 19 Comments

Welcome Paint Lovers!

This week I decided to combine 2 of my favorite things…

burlap & paint!

Full tutorial coming soon, but for now… whatcha been painting?

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Fabric Scrap Flowers…

December 10, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 5 Comments

These are one of my favorite crafts to make for all the best reasons…

they are super cute
there’s a good chance you already have all the supplies
they are fast to make
they look great on so many things

So here’s the how-to:

Step One: Cut a circle from your felt in the size you’d like your flower to be.

Step Two: Cut a long strip of fabric (burlap in this case). Mine was about 1 1/2 inches wide by about 24 inches long. Then you tie a knot on one end of your burlap.

Step Three: Glue your knotted end to the center of your felt circle. I’ve always used hot glue, but I’d bet fabric glue would work great too.

Step Four: Basically you are twisting and gluing as you wrap around your center knot. I glued the fabric down about every 1/2 turn, so if the circle was a clock face, at 3 and 9 o’clock (hope that makes sense). So you just keep twisting the fabric and gluing till you’ve filled in your felt circle. If you run out of fabric just start another piece with a knotted end and tuck it under where you ran out and complete your circle. If you have more fabric then you need, just cut it and glue down the end.

Here’s my burlap flower. I rolled my sweater scraps for the center of this one. Love how it looks on my sweater pillow.

This one I made with the sweater scraps and rolled twine in the center.

The black one is from scraps of one of my daughter’s ruined dresses and a burlap center…

You can easily put your flower on a headband too!

I bought a 6 pack of basic headbands at Dollar Tree.

You need to cut a felt circle a little smaller than the felt circle on the base of your flower.

Glue the circle to the underside of the headband…

and then put glue on the felt of your flower base and press it onto your smaller circle (headband in the middle).

A cute headband for my littlest princess!

You can also glue a scrap flower to a barrette.

I glued a flower bead for the center of this flower.

Look at all the fun you can have with your fabric scraps!

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Wasting No Sweater Scraps…Neck Roll Pillow

February 9, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 16 Comments

Yesterday I showed you my Pottery Barn Knockoff Sweater…

I didn’t want to waste the remains though.

I took one of the sweater sleeves

and rolled up a crib mattress pad that I had removed from my linen closet when organizing recently… my baby is 4 and has been in a bed for 2 years… goodness! I shoved the rolled up mattress pad in the sleeve. I cinched up one end and wrapped it with twine.

Then I just did the same with the other side, cutting the sweater so the ends matched in length.

What a cute set they are!

I’ve got a few more project to show you from my sweater… stay tuned.

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College Sweater turned Pottery Barn Pillow

February 8, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 45 Comments

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I still had this sweater in my closet. I’m not sure how it’s survived a few moves without being sold or given away.

Did you own one of these? My long torso never liked this sweater!

First I chopped off the arms… then chopped the lower snap section.

Then I turned the sweater inside out and got to stitching.

Remember I am no master sewer. Replacing missing buttons and patching small holes has been the extent of my sewing expertise… till my resent plunge into blogging. So if I can do this… you can too!

I just hand stitched to make this pillow cover. You have most of the 2 sides done already with your existing sweater seams. So, I started at the top and sewed the arm area, across the top and down the other arm area.

Then I right-side outed (is this a real term?) the sweater and stuffed in my pillow form. Sewing off the bottom side was the final step.

I love my cozy sweater pillow! Pretty darn close to Pottery Barn. Here’s theirs…at $39.00. I think I’ll keep my free one.

Tomorrow I’ll show you what I did with the sweater scraps!

Don’t forget… Power of Paint Party will start tomorrow (Tues) night at 7pm (PST).

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Christmas Placemat Becomes Pillow Case

January 10, 2010 By Maryann @ Domestically Speaking 27 Comments

In my after Christmas bargain hunting at Target I found a 4 pack of these placemats. They were 75% off, making them $2.50 for 4.

I love the satin, silky look of the fabric. While looking at them I noticed they were two pieces of fabric sewn together, so why not pull out the stitching on one side and stuff it?

I figured it was worth a try at this price.

I just took the pillow form out of an old pillow and then hand stitched the open seam closed.

I’ve got 3 more shimmery gold ones to make. I also bought some creamy white ones at the same price. Guess I’ll be doing some sewing during my TV nights.