Showing posts with label Fabric Paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fabric Paint. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The Girl on Fire!

I don't know how many of you crafty peeps out there have read the books or now have seen the movie (or are planning seeing the movie); but, I LOVE The Hunger Games trilogy.  I have been super excited about seeing the movie since the moment I heard they were going to make a movie.  Of coarse I had to make sure I was dressed for the occasion.  You do not need to spend $20 or more on a themed shirt for your favorite movies when you can make one yourself.

"May the odds be ever in your favor!"

I found this awesome stencil type shape online.  I changed it from a JPEG image to a PNG in Photoshop.  I then pulled it into my Silhouette Desingner Studio program and traced the image.  Once it was traced and good to go I cut the shape into the stencil material using my Silhouette Cameo.  Once it was cut out I was able to lay it on my shirt and use some gold fabric paint I found at Hobby Lobby to paint the image onto my shirt.  It took about three layers of paint for the gold to really show.  This is how it turned out.  Ignore the crazy eyes and psyco face in the photo.  I was trying to show my excitement about my shirt and the movie!  ha ha!

I wanted a little more on my shirt and decided to add some words on the back. So, I went on a search for a free Hunger Games font and found it here: Hunger Games Font.  I wanted to keep the wording simple so picked what is shown below.

Again... it took about three layers of gold paint.

All in all my shirt was a success I had several people ask me where I got it and they all looked shocked when I told them I did it myself.  ha ha!

Sorry for the poor picture quality.  I had to hurry and snap these photos with my phone before my husband and I went to see the movie.  I must say that I am so in love with my Cam in these moments.  I have the freedom and ability to make my own movie themed shirts and let my nerdness shine through.  You just cannot get that kind of flexibility with a Cricut machine.  I do not regret making the switch.  Cam is amazing!


Tuesday, November 8, 2011

1st EVER project with Cam!!!

Oh, Cam, you are my little gentleman. I'll take you to foggy London town 'cause you are my little gentleman... (for some reason Anchorman was in my head)  ha ha!  I know... I am a little crazy sometimes but everyone has some crazy in them right?... says the crazy girl.

Anywhosie... like I said in my previous post, the first project I did was for the hubs.  I feel really bad that I cannot rememeber the name of the font I used on my Mac.  My husband picked it out and I was not paying very close attention as he decided.

**** Pssst:  I think I was secretly letting my brain wander onto what project I wanted to try next.  Shhhh!  Don't tell.  As far as he knows I was giving him my  full attention.  ;o) tee hee!***

Well that is enough rambling from me.  Time to start showing the project I did using Cam.

*** Correction:  Thanks to Krafting Kelly, I now know the name of the font I used.  It is Copperplate Gothic Bold and we made it eight inches wide.  Thank you Krafting Kelly!






We used freezer paper and fabric paint.  There are many you tube videos with freezer paper if you are interested on how to do it.

Well... that is all for today.  Thank you so much for stopping by!