Heart Stamped Shirt

Last weekend was my big Valentine's Day party! Last year I dyed my own pants. This year I decided to decorate a shirt using fabric ink.

Materials:
Shirt
Stamp
Fabric Ink Pad (Mine was from Hobby Lobby, $3.99)
Cardboard

 First step, get a shirt. I picked up this beauty at Goodwill:

This shirt is 100% polyester, although the ink says it works best with natural fibers. 

As you can see, I placed cardboard in the shirt and sleeves to separate the layers. This is an important step! If you don't do it, you'll be stamping through both sides. 

I flew by the seat of my pants on this (and always, I'm wayward) and just started on the sleeve. If I were to do it again, I'd start on the back side. It went quickly and I was quite excited with the results. 

I let the shirt dry overnight and then used a hot, dry iron to "set" the stamping, as recommended on the back of the stamp pad. Then I flipped the shirt over and completed the same thing on the back side.

This is how it turned out!

This is how I wore it to the party. 

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Not bad, eh? Best compliments: people didn't believe I'd done design! I had to show them my little mess ups to prove it to them. 

The possibilities are endless for shirts! I'm thinking about having a little craft night with friends to do it all over again!

A few more ornaments and gift wrap idea

Here are three more ornaments that we have made over the years. They span the decades of the girls growing up as you will see.

From a looong time ago... this little ornament works for the under 10 crowd.

Remove the topper and then paint a small clear glass ornament with a clear glitter paint. When that dries, dot it with red and green acrylic paint. Easy!

From not so, so long ago

You will need a 2" clear glass ball, Mod Podge, tissue paper, glitter gold tinsel trimmed wire, and glitter

Remove the topper and put some of the gold tinsel inside the ball. You can add glitter, too. Then Mod Podge a few pieces of tissue paper on the outside of the ball. Don't cover the entire ball-- leave some clear spots, too. Sprinkle lightly with glitter before it dries. After it dries, replace the topper and twist some of the wire around the top.

Finally from just a few years ago, these were the favors at Brooke's December wedding.

One more craft for the kids. I don't have a picture, but it won't be hard to imagine it. We used to have big rolls of white paper leftover from my husband's work. One year at Christmans, the girls made stamps from potatos. (Cut a potato in half and then carve a design such as a bell, star, holly leaf, etc.) Then they dipped the stamp into red or green paint and stamped away. You can add GLITTER!!! to make it more festive. 

ENJOY!