Heat Transfer Pillows

Today is the last day to enter the awesome giveaway from Silhouette -- and to celebrate I'm going to be showing you one last project I did with their fantastic product.  

I've been wanting some Christmas-y (yes....Christmas....I know kind of early, but I couldn't help myself!) pillows for out on our bench in the entry way.  Usually, I have these pillows there:

But I LOVE decorating the house for the different seasons and some pillows seemed like they were just the thing to add to our entryway. 

I had some pillows left over from our last house that weren't really being used, so I decided to use them as my Christmas pillows.  I found a remnant piece of fabric at Joanne's for $2.50-ish.  It was a lovely grey piece of fabric and it had enough for my two pillows I was recovering. And then I this packet of red buttons at an Antique store I visited this weekend for $2.00.  That means these two pillows only cost me $4.50 -- I'll take it!!

I took my heat transfer material from Silhouette and cut out some white, bare, branches.  I decided it was WAY too much work to trace out some branches I found and then cut around everything; so I ended up drawing out my own branches and cutting them with my scissors.  They were supposed to look kind of like these branches I found online:

After my pillows were sewed together; I ironed the heat transfer on.  (You can see my exact instructions for ironing the heat transfer on here).  

Once the branches were on the pillows, it was time to put the buttons on.

I know I probably should have sewed these buttons on  -- but that's really a LOT of sewing, so I decided to glue them on.  I placed them all out on the fabric first; then I went to town gluing those little buttons down.

Then I put the pillows back into the cases and sewed the bottom edge.  

And now my entry is kind of ready for Christmas!  Don't worry -- I'll put these away until I get all the Christmas decor out. :)

Don't forget -- you can still enter the Silhouette Product giveaway here -- or you can order your own products with the special code just for Hand Me Down House readers until 11/13/2010:  MEDOWN

 

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More Silhouette Projects!

I hope you're not getting bored with all this silhouette madness; but I just LOVE using their materials -- so I have to show you another project from the fun package they sent me. :)

This one is not all that creative -- but it was SO fast and simple that I couldn't pass it up!

Included in the giveaway package (you can enter here) is a package of printable magnet sheets -- and they are just awesome!!  I had been trying to decide what magnets I wanted to make and design for the fridge when literally as I was trying to decide my husband told me he never knew if the dishwasher was full of clean or dirty dishes. Hmmmmm.  Someone else loading and unloading the dishwasher?  YES please! :)  He had a good point though -- there is no way to tell if the dishes are clean or dirty unless you open the dishwasher and inspect them.  That completely settled it -- we needed a dishwasher magnet to tell us the status of our dishes.

This is another project where you can use the Silhouette materials without actually having a coveted Silhouette Machine (although we all know everyone should have one, right?).    Are you ready to see just how easy this was?! 

I already had the Printable Magnet Paper that Silhouette had sent me:

I created this design on my computer:

If you want to use this design yourself just click on it and it opens in a new page for you to print

Then I took my scissors and cut it out of the magnet paper

and then I put it on the dishwasher for all to see! :)

At first I didn't think I would love this magnetic paper so much -- but oh my gosh!  I love it!  The magnets look really good just being printed out of a regular printer -- imagine all the things you could make!

And don't forget if  you want your own you can enter our giveaway here; or

you can use the special coupon just for The Hand Me Down House readers for 25% off any materials on Silhouette's Website!  Just enter the code: MEDOWN at check out!

 

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Silhouette Heat Transfer Napkins

So I've been just dying to use my new Silhouette products -- and I was SO excited that I couldn't decide what to use first!  :)  I finally settled on trying out their White Heat Transfer Material.   

I've been busy decking our house out in fall and Thanksgiving decor and I figured there couldn't be a better use of my new goodies from Silhouette than to use them for just that.   And at the top of my list was some cute cloth napkins.

I found these napkins at Kohl's last weekend while they were having a sale:

I decided I wanted to have a white silhouette of a birdie on my napkins -- even though I'm not a lover of real birds -- I still like the non-threatening-so-far-from-real-bird silhouettes. :)

I found this one somewhere online:

I printed out my bird silhouette on regular paper and cut it out.  Then I traced the shape of the bird onto my Smooth Heat Transfer Material from Silhouette.

Once I had it traced out I grabbed my scissors and cut out my silhouette that was on the heat transfer material.

Ooh -- it's SO close to getting on my napkins! :)  I peeled the clear plastic backing off of the heat transfer material and placed the back of the heat transfer onto my napkins.

Then I put a dishtowel over the top and ironed it on for 45 seconds on the cotton setting.  

Believe me -- this kind of ironing is actually fun. :)

That's it -- I repeated this for all my napkins -- and I was done!  

What do you think?

Don't worry -- we don't actually eat like this -- but it's fun to see in case we did!  And I'm sure the utensils and dishes aren't in their "proper" place either :)

Isn't this stuff just awesome??  And the best part is  you can win your own here!

And don't forget if you want to buy your own or buy different colors of the heat transfer material;  Silhouette has an awesome promotion just for The Hand Me Down House readers until November 13th:

**Silhouette is also offering 25% off on all their accessories with the code: MEDOWN

Linking up to:

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Silhouette Product Giveaway!

I promised you wouldn't want to miss the exciting giveaway going on this week -- and it's time to find out just what is too good to miss!

The people at Silhouette have decided that YOU should have a chance to win some of their awesome products!  I'm sure you've heard me say how much I need a Silhouette machine (and if you're keeping track -- I still need one).  However the GREAT thing about these products I'm about to show you is that you can use them without the machine.  That means you can make all kinds of adorable Silhouette-ish things -- even if you're like me and haven't won or bought the actual amazing Silhouette!  How cool is that!?!

Silhouette sent me a package of their fancy-schmancy products too -- so later this week I get to show you the cool things I chose to made and hopefully inspire you to make your own Silhouette projects too.   

Here's what's included in your very own Silhouette package:

• 2 Heat Transfer Rolls {Yellow & White Smooth}
• 1 Tattoo Pack
• 1 Magnet Sheet

And check out some of their cool ideas from their website that you can do with these things:

 Custom apparel with the heat transfer rolls

 Or some fun magnets for the fridge using their Magnetic sheets

How about a cute tote bag?

Or what about some temporary tattoos?

As you can see the possibilities are ENDLESS!  And all you need for these is the awesome giveaway pack, a printer and a pair of scissors -- that's it!

Are you jut chomping at the bit to find out HOW you win these cool products!?!

I've made it SO easy peasy for you -- and I'm going to leave this giveaway open for the next FIVE days -- which means there's a little extra time for you guys to get all your entries in! :)

HOW TO WIN:  

1.  Visit Silhouette's Website and leave me a comment telling me what you'd love to make

For extra entries:

2.  Become a follower of the Hand Me Down House (here or on Facebook) and leave a comment that you did

3.  Blog/Facebook/Twitter about this fantastic giveaway (only one comment letting me know you did)

Be sure to get your entries in -- this giveaway closes on 11/8/2010


***Sorry -- this giveaway is open to US residents, only

BUT - there's an AMAZING deal going on at Silhouette that you should know about too!

**Silhouette is also offering 25% off on all their accessories with the code: MEDOWN
 
{Runs through November 13th at midnight!}