Tie Dyed House Number Banners

I'm not the only one I know who is mad about tie dye. And when I was thinking of a neat-o house warming gift I thought of an address banner. And when I realized this person was just as crazy about the multi-color fabulosity that is tie dye, I knew just what I had to do!

Body Art Birthday & House Warming Party

We had the most fun at my Girlfriends combination 50th Birthday and Home Warming party this past weekend. I thought it would be oodles of creative fun if we painted each others faces and one belly with Tulip's Body Art kit. 

But first we did a little doodling with Tulip's Fabric Markers. I so love these markers! 

Arielle & Tess got really quite and serious while creating their Inspirational statements on this bandana that I purchased from Michaels Craft stores. 

I love the intense look on Tess's face! These girls are super talented! 

We continued to add more artwork through out the night. A really fun and inexpensive way to create and give a gift all at the same time. 

Smile...Your Beautiful! 

Next it was off to Tulips Body Art. I must say that everyone was super eager to paint someone's face, belly or arm. It was so much fun to watch. 

The Birthday Girl and her Lovely daughter Tess picking out a design to paint on momma's face. 

It was so sweet watching these two. 

She did a GREAT job, it was so easy and quick! 

We all picked Kaileen as the perfect candidate for a silly Mustache.

She ROCKED it big time! 

Watching these two almost Newlyweds paint each others faces was beyond Hysterical! 

Not bad......its a Tulip, Tracy's favorite flower.

This girl has "Mad Skills" and she did it so quick! 

Santos, you are such a "Doll Baby", hehe! So cool! 

Hey its called Tulip Body Art, Do my Belly! 

Love how Arielle incorporated Natalie's belly button ring as the nose and mouth for her smiley face!

Hey...Whats that crawling on your forehead? Tess's friend Sam pull out her own free hand painting skills with this Pinterest inspired image of a snail.

and then it was my turn! 

Great job Kaileen! Love my sunshine. 

Needless to say a great time was had by all! We are definitely taking our Tulip Fabric Markers and Body Art to the Jersey Shore this summer. In fact we are already brainstorming on quick and easy images that we can paint for each day. Don't worry I am sure there will be a Blog entry featuring that crazy trip! Enjoy! Jewels 

Personalized Placemats

Recently when I was invited to my friend's house warming party, I knew I could not show up empty handed. The couple already had a fully functioning house with all the staples, but I followed my instincts that they were without a set of personalized place mats. Good thing I did because they were smitten on the place mats and it was a gift that no one else brought them.


SUPPLIES
Ready Made Place Mats
Embroidery Floss
Computer Program (such as Picnic) to covert photos into line drawings
Tulip Fabric Markers
Fabric
Embroidery Needle
Aleene's Tack It Over and Over
Iron On Interfacing
Pen
Carbon Paper
Photographs

Because I can never say no to the random kitschy junk I find at the thrift store I already had some groovy vintage quilted place mats in my stash. I had been saving them for a special day and a house warming for one of my oldest and dearest friends qualified. You can find place mats at Target, Bed Bath & Beyond, World Market - or sew your own.


Next I needed to get portraits of the new home owners. I snagged pictures from their Facebook pages and ran them through a Picnic program to make them into line drawings.


Once I had line drawings to follow I traced the basic outline of their faces onto a piece of cotton cloth using carbon paper and a pen.


After my drawing was complete I went back in with Tulip and Crafty Chica Fabric Markers and did a little augmenting.


I needed to attach my fabric to my place mats so I started by using some iron on interface to stiffen my drawing and also set my fabric markers. Then using Aleene's Tack It Over and Over I glued the portraits to the place mats.

I also added a little banner that read "Home is Where Cory is" and "Home is Where Tom is". I used a Sublime Stitching iron on embroidery pattern for the banner.


Once everything was tacked to the placemat I went through and did a bit of embroidery to add a touch of fancy to the place mats and give them a more of a mixed media feel.


The new home owners seemed pleased as punch with their new place mats, hooray!


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