Hand Decorated Mother / Daughter Shoes

Here's a fun gift idea for a mother & daughter.  I have to admit, it wasn't my idea.  My oldest son and his wife are going to visit friends in Colorado next week.  They thought of this and I became involved.

Here's what we used to create these shoes:

• Shoes purchased at Walmart
• Sharpies
• Fabric Glue
• Stickles
• Bling
• Square 1 Printable
• Silhouette Cameo 

Hand decorated shoes for Mom

Picture of shoes for Mom.  Zig-zag strips were cut using Square 1 and laid across the shoes making a template.  The template made the outline for the sharpie-colored decorations.  A little bling was added and attached using fabric glue.

Side view of Mom's Shoes

I {heart} Viv was printed and cut using the Silhouette.  Square 1 is a great product to use for this project.  You can move your design around until you're satisfied with final placement, then permanently attached using fabric glue.

Top view of Daughter's Shoes

Picture of daughter's shoes.  Once again Square 1 is used as a template for the zip-zag design.  Little hearts were hand drawn on back with a sharpie.   Stickles were added to zip-zag design.

Side view of Daughter's Shoes

The I {heart} Mom was printed onto the Square 1 product again.  It has been permanently attached using fabric glue.

Thank you for visiting my blog today! ~ Marilyn

Our Lady of Guadalupe - Baby Baptism Gift

Hello, Friends!  Marilyn here with a tutorial on heat transfers.  In this example, I'm using a baby onesie and an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Some may know that my husband has a home-based Christian t-shirt business : www.gloryfactory.com (shameless plug)  

His t-shirts are created using heat transfers that many times are created for him via Transfer Express.   Last week he had a special order for a remodeling company that wanted an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the words "God Bless You" on the shirt pocket.  When the heat transfers arrived, he realized that the images were too large for a shirt pocket and reordered.   Soooo, long story to get to this point...  The images were too large for a shirt pocket, but would fit the front of a baby onesie.

Actually, the "God Bless You" part was too long for a onesie as well.  I had to cut it into sections to fit the front of the onesie.

Heat presses always arrive with heating instructions.  This image needed to be pressed at 365 degress for 4 seconds.  After heat pressing, you just pull the transfer off leaving the image on your clothing.

Here's the completed onesie.  I'll use this as a baptism gift.  It will work for either a boy or girl.

Another note:  I have a bunch of these clear boxes for A2 sized cards.  I just re-purposed it as a gift box for my onesie.

What do you have that can be re-purposed?

~ Marilyn