Monday, January 18, 2010

~LOVE~sacks

Are you all sick of so many Valentine's projects yet? I think you can kinda tell that we love Valentine's!  For me, it's an excuse to decorate a little more girly. In my boy house, it's sport teams, footballs, jerseys, trucks, toy guns, and Star Wars.  So, I love anything pink, red, frilly, or feminine.
These "love sacks" are influenced by staring at tons of blogs.  A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Nicole told me not to name them "love sacks" because people might think it's derogatory! :) I'm not sure what else to call them?  I wonder what people we might pick up off of Google's search looking for a "love sack"?

These were so easy to make!  I first found a font and I didn't even print it off.  You know, computers make great light boxes.  I held my freezer paper up to the computer screen and penciled it right on.  It saves some ink. I then used an exacto knife to cut the freezer paper out carefully.
Iron the freezer paper onto the fabric.
Most people have stenciled the paint on, but I prefer spray paint.  It sprays on so evenly!
Just make sure you cut your freezer paper wide enough to cover the fabric.
Look at that!  So cool!
I sewed the two pieces of burlap together and stuffed with fiberfil, then finished the sack off with twine.

I swear we have some other projects besides Valentine's stuff coming really soon! :)




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20 comments:

  1. beautiful! and you are so clever! not printing them off! brilliant, actually!
    hey, if you follow me on facebook, you get a preview of my living room! :)
    gail

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  2. Those are sooo cute! I'm going to definately try the freezer paper and computer screen trick!

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  3. That is darling! What a great idea about putting the freezer paper up to the computer monitor!

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  4. Those are so fun! Love the creative idea.

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  5. Love it! And how cool that you used spray paint. I have never tried that!

    XOX
    Jen

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  6. These are great! Clever idea!

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  7. Adorable! Maybe with some primitive looking paper hearts dangling from the tags?

    Love them!

    Please feel free to link up to Talented Tuesdays over at My Frugal Family!

    http://theherberfamily.blogspot.com/2010/01/talented-tuesday-links-january-19th.html

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  8. A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E! I love these!

    Chelsea

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  9. I LOVE these! Too cute and very creative.

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  10. Very, very cute. I actually have some little burlap bags I saved from Christmas gifts that I held onto knowing I'd find SOMETHING to do with them. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  11. I came here from Funky Junk and originally clicked on your post from there but when I saw these, it stopped me in my tracks. I love them so much. Want. Them. Now! =)

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  12. Simple & wonderful! But where did you find this font?
    Have a lovely day!
    (linedupuy at hotmail dot fr)

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  13. These are so pretty, i love this idea! I just clicked over from 4 Crazy Kings and I'm so glad I did. I would love to link to this if you didn't mind.

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  14. You know I have had more fun this year decorating for Valentine's day...I love the projects and no I don't get tired of them. I look forward...in a way...to packing all the projects up this time...to look forward to unpacking it all next Valentines day. Does that sound stupid. I love this little holiday and enjoy crafting things (cute things like your little sacks) for it. Have a great day.
    Debbie

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  15. This looks so great! Clever of you to come up with that idea!! And such cute fonts used!

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  16. You are brilliant - I love every part of this, the freezer paper, the spray paint, the burlap bags... completely adorable!

    I might have to do something like this for Spring, it will be spring at some point right???

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  17. These are adorable! I adore burlap, and this is just a cute project. I did something like this with the word soap, I gave some goat soap with lavender scent in a burlap sack like this! Love to be creative with burlap!

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