Hello everyone! Here is another non-paper project using digital items. I confess that since I discovered tee-shirt transfer paper I want to use it all the time. I made this bunting for my scrap space using the transfer paper and the Banner kit by Deena Rutter.
Apart from the kit you will need an iron, plain fabric and patterned fabric, pinking shears, ribbon or twill and a sewing machine.
I wanted the colours of the bunting to be grey and yellow, but the kit didn’t contain any grey triangles, so I recoloured the blue ones to grey. To do this I added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, checked the Colorize box, and played with the sliders until I got the colour I wanted.
Then I added the letters to spell out Create on alternating yellow and grey triangles. I used the custom shape tool to add the heart shapes.
Once printed out onto the transfer paper, I ironed them to the triangles cut from the plain fabric.
Then I stitched the smaller triangle to the larger patterned triangle.
Once all the triangles were complete, I stitched them to my twill and hung it over my shelf.
You can use different colours and words to adapt this to any occasion, like birthday parties and also for the upcoming holidays.
Isn’t it great all the kinds of projects we can use digital kits for?
Tags: Decoration, deena rutter, Francine Clouden, Hybrid Project
Hybrid Christmas Mini Album
We will be spending the holidays with my family and I want to leave my Mum a reminder when we say goodbye, so I decided to pre-make a mini-album which I will later fill with photos from Christmas Day.
I used Deena Rutter’s Happy Christmas kit, as well as one tag element from the free Christmas kit.
Once I decided to use the Teresa Collins bracket album, I printed out some of the patterned papers to make the pages, by printing onto both sides of cardstock weight white paper. I designed journaling spots and photo mats in Photoshop and also printed those out.
I used one of the Theresa Collins die-cut pages as a template to cut my own pages out from the patterned paper. Once I had the pages done, I printed and cut out the journaling spots and photo mats. Then I put the pages together alternating journaling spots and photo mats. I added holiday stickers to the bottom of each photo mat.
Finally I assembled the album using my Bind-it-All machine.
I plan to crop my photos to 4″x4″ to fit the photo mats. I was actually going for a sort of Polaroid look.
I tried to stick with a fairly muted palette since the photos from Christmas Day will probably be quite colourful! I’ll be sure to take photos of the final book to share before I give it to my Mum!
Tags: deena rutter, Francine Clouden, Hybrid Album, Hybrid Holiday Projects, Jen Allyson
Hybrid Christmas Art
Here are two simple canvases that I made using the free Christmas kit you can download when you subscribe to the DHD newsletter.
I used canvas board as my background.
For the Christmas Tree Scene, I used the snowflake paper, and white cardstock for a wintery backdrop. Then I cut the triangle shapes out of the patterned paper which I had printed out. Finally I cut trunks for the trees from brown cardstock.
I used a PVA glue that dries clear (similar to ModPodge) to stick the scene to the canvas board. Then I painted the entire thing with another coat of the glue as a fixative.
The single tree was made by cutting strips of varying widths and lengths, and then constructing the tree shape. I punched out a star shape for the top, and used some patterned paper from Sasafrass Lass to make the trunk.
This is a nice little project that can add some holiday cheer to your home!
