{"id":3606,"date":"2012-06-11T22:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2012-06-11T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T05:30:18","slug":"crafty-tuesday-gifts-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=3606","title":{"rendered":"Crafty Tuesday ~ Gifts Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eva strikes again.<\/p>\n

I am certain by now you know of my love for our Silhouette machine. Look what a little vinyl did for these teacher end-of-year gifts. Instant personalized cups for summer!<\/p>\n

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And…I saw some family tree prints with the little birds (for each birdie in the family!) awhile ago and decided that I wanted to tackle family trees too…only doing it as canvas\/painted art. With THREE best girls with June birthdays, I decided this was the craft to try. With only a minor set-back, I think they turned out pretty good.<\/p>\n

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I started with some square blank canvases (thanks to Hobby Lobby!), and painted them a base color – the color I wanted the trees to be – not the major color.<\/p>\n

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And then I cut out the tree & birds with Eva and adhered it onto the canvas.<\/p>\n

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This is a good way to use up bits and scraps of odd colored vinyl, since you are not really using the applique. I used outdoor vinyl, because it is what we had. It is however, very hard<\/strong><\/em> to make sure the edges are really applied well on the canvas. I tried to smooth it down while I pressed on the back of the canvas to make sure it was adhered. (This will become important in a minute or two…)<\/p>\n

Then…paint your overall color over the top of the vinyl.<\/p>\n

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(Yes, sorry about switching paintings on you…same steps, different tree and colors!)<\/p>\n

Let dry, and peel the vinyl up. You *should* see your object outlined and colored in the color that you put down first.<\/p>\n

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And it DID work, but since I didn’t get all of my edges all pressed down perfectly, my tree and birds were kind of jaggy. So I ended up repainting the tree by hand to get it nice and smooth and neat. But at least I had a good outline to follow and didn’t have to freehand it.<\/p>\n

The text, on the other hand, did not fare so well. So I ended up cutting the text out of vinyl again and just using the text instead of the paint trick.<\/p>\n

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There was no way I was getting nicely printed text from my paintbrush. It worked just as well.<\/p>\n

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I think they were liked by all, and I can’t wait to make one for us for our new kitchen.<\/p>\n

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