Paint Chip Art

My walls were looking bare in the dorm, so I decided to make some new art. Overall, since paint chips are free and I had all the other elements, the project cost me $0 monies! Wahoo!

 Above - Paint chips plus white canvas

Below - Paint chips cut up and arranged in a 6x6 square (the size of the canvas)

 Above - Painted the canvas blue

Below - Glued on the paint chips (sandwiching the canvas with a book to make sure the chips dry on the canvas flat)

Finished product!!!

Happy Crafting!

Love,

Susie

Using a Label Maker for God's Glory :)

I set out today to do one of those cool photo transfers that I have seen all over Pinterest. It failed miserably! But the background it made was really interesting looking, so I decided to make it in to a sort of collage thing.

A while back, I was given a label maker. I hadn't used it a ton, so I thought I would incorporate it into a new craft. Here are some pictures of how it went down.

 (That is where I was about to wet it to do the photo transfer)

(And...that's how it turned out - well, I added the white paint, but you get the picture...FAIL)

 (Here I had doodled a picture on some tracing paper - I am just painting the back of the paper so that it is opaque)

LABEL MAKER :D I layed out the words before I stuck them to the picture.

This picture is after I glued on the doodle with some mod podge

So that's it!

Thanks for reading!
Susie

My My My My My Boogie Shoes :D

Back in the fall semester, I dyed a pair of white keds from Target. I thought it would be super fun to paint a pair this time! Overall, with the shoes, paint, and everything else, these shoes were under $20. Next time, since I already have the paint, the only cost will be the cost of the shoes :)

First I drew some fun patterns on the shoe with a pencil. I traced over the lines with black puff paint.

Later, after letting that dry, I painted the orange (orange acrylic paint) in between some of the lines.

Lastly, I painted the blue. It helped me a lot to water down the paint a little bit. It seemed to go on smoother that way. Also, I always had a q-tip handy just in case I got a little heavy handed with the paint.

Super Easy! Give it a try!!!

Love,
Susie

EASY Ombre T-shirt! CHEAP!

I felt very homemaker-y today. I did dishes, washed clothes, baked homemade bread, and wrapped it up with a super easy and fun craft!

I had extra purple dye from another project I did, so I decided to put it to good use. I found a plain white t-shirt I had gotten from the thrift store ($0.50) in my drawer, so naturally, I decided to dye it.

Steps:
     1) wet the shirt
     2) put a little bit of dye in warm water in the sink
     3) dip 80% of the shirt in the dye, wait 5 seconds, lift it out
     4) add a bit more dye and dip again, except farther down the shirt
     5) add a bit more dye and dip again even farther down the shirt (hold for about 30 seconds)
     6) add more dye and do the very bottom of the shirt, letting it soak in nice and dark
     7) let dry, then rinse out with soap (do not wash with other clothes or they will turn purple too!)

At this point, your shirt would be white on top and fade to purple. However, I was a spaz and dropped the entire shirt in the dye :/ So at that point, my shirt was all purple instead of the top being white :P It still turned out fine I think. You can always make do with mistakes.

Enjoy!

Happy Easter!
Susie