"Aaliyah" Baby Sign

This sign was so much fun because it was so girly! Butterflies and purples. What more can you ask for? 

Complete with a butterfly bow! 

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"Dylan" Baby Sign

I made this for a little boy who loves turtles. What better than a giant turtle with your name on it!! Thanks for checking out my blog! =) 

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Baseball Tutorial

In a moment of desperation, this is what I came up with to make half of a baseball. As I frantically went through the house looking for half a sphere I came across a soup ladle and had an idea...

Supplies:

Soup Ladle
Scissors
Tin Foil
Clear Embossing Powder
Embossing Gun
Embossing Pad
White Acrylic Paint
Red Flock (You can use red embossing powder if you would like)
Thin tipped glue applicator. (I used glossy accents from Inkssentials)
Mod Podge (Matte or Glossy)

Step 1: Measure a piece of tin foil and cut. Wrap the tin foil around your ladle. You will get creases from the tin foil so just press down in those areas to get them as flat as possible.
Step 2: Tuck the excess tin foil inside the ladle.
Step 3: With your embossing pad, press down all over the ladle multiple times to ensure nooks and crannies have been reached.
Step 4: Pour embossing powder over all surfaces of the ladle. Hold the ladle over a a bowl or plate to catch the excess embossing powder.
Step 5: Use your embossing gun to heat emboss the powder. This can become extremely hot so don't touch the tin foil. If you see vacant areas of embossing powder, just keep dipping the hot ladle into the excess embossing powder in the bowl or on the plate. Re-heat emboss. You can do as many layers as you would like. Some might melt off the sides but you can cut that off later.
Step 6: Once cooled off, remove the tin foil from the ladle and cut off the edges.

Step 7: Paint the tin foil with the white acrylic paint.

Step 8: Draw in the seams with a thin marker. Apply glossy accents over the seam lines you just drew and add the red flock over the top. Shake off the excess.

Step 9: After the glue has dried, blow along the seams to remove any flock that did not adhere and paint over entire baseball surface with Mod Podge.

Step 10: Let dry and figure out how you want to adhere it. I used some paper and wire so that the ball actually has movement.

Step 11: You are done!!

The end product of this can be find on the "Charlie" sign.

"Haley" Baby Sign

This was made for a little girl who likes animals and rainbows. This was so colorful and happy! I love these colors and I love summer!! This sign has texture from the Cuttlebug (Love that machine). You can't tell from the picture but I added Pearl Ex to the green acrylic paint. Turned out sparkly and pretty!


Cute little owl from Sentimentals.



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"Alessandria" Baby Sign

This is actually for a little girl who loves Minnie and Mickey mouse! I love how this turned out. The big ears and the bow is my favorite part! I had bought the ribbon and when I got started on this I realized I didn't have a matching pink ink. I ended up having to ink the ribbon I bought to get it to look like the pink ink I used. Phew!!

Minnie...
and...
Mickey!!
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"Charlie" Baby Sign & Tutorial

Who is a Cubbies fan??? I know someone who is...Charlie!! I'm a Cubs fan myself so that made making this sign even more fun! The baseball was made using a Ladle and tinfoil....Curious? If you want to know how it was made, Check out the "Baseball Tutorial."

"Cubs Sign" Tutorial
Supplies:

Wood Plaque
Red, White, and Blue acrylic paint
Black embossing powder
Versamark pen
Mod Podge
Pop Dots (Dimensional glue stickers)
Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun
Red and Blue Cardstock
Lyrical Letters Cartridge
Cricut

Step 1: Using painters Tape, I taped around the edges. I painted the outside layer ROYAL BLUE, the middle layer RED, and the face of the plaque WHITE (Takes a couple coats of each).

Step 2: While the paint dries cut out the letters.

The letters for "HARLIE" and the "C "were cut from "Lyrical Letters -JUMBO" and I cut off the ends to create a more "baseballish" look. I had to hand draw my own shadow of the letters (Trace the letters slightly larger).

The "CUBS" & "WIN" were also from "Lyrical Letters -JUMBO" and I left the ends on. Again I hand drew my own shadow.

Step 3: The Cubs home jersey is white with blue lines so with my paper trimmer I cut thin lines and glued them on when the plaque was dry. After the lines dried I cut off the edges.

Step 4: After you have the letters cut and glued onto the "shadow," glue the "HARLIE" onto the plaque. Let dry.

Step 5: Mod Podge the entire plaque using Mod Podge Glossy.

Step 6: The bat was hand drawn and cut out. With my Versamark pen I drew the lines and added black embossing powder and heat embossed it.

-The "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was a section from the ribbon that I glued on after the Mod Podge dried on the plaque.

Step 7: While the plaque is drying, Mod Podge the "C," the baseball bat, "CUBS," & "WIN" all separately from the plaque. Once the plaque is dry, adhere the "C" and the bat using the dimensional glue stickers or Pop Dots.

Step 8: For the baseball, you will need to check out the "Baseball Tutorial" to make that.

Step 9: For the black lines next to the baseball I again used my Versamark pen and black embossing powder (I first drew in the lines lightly with pencil after the baseball had been adhered to the plaque).

Step 10: With your glue gun, adhere the ribbon onto the backside of the sign.

Step 11: With your hot glue gun, glue on the "CUBS" and the " WIN" in the middle of where the ribbon is on each side.

Step 12: Sing "Go Cubs, Go! Go Cubs, Go! Hey Chicago, what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today!" LOL!!

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