Guest Blogger - Teal and Lime - Quatrefoil Drum Lamp

Hi, I'm Jackie. I am so excited to be guest posting here today and so thankful Michelle took a chance on me! This is my first ever guest blog post, so I did my homework and came up with an amazing tutorial to share.

 

I am a happily married, working mother of two busy little boys. I decorate and blog in my spare time, or lack there of. I just can't help myself. My blog Teal & Lime is about creating a DIY modern home. I like to say, "my style is modern, my home is getting there one room at a time". I hope you will join in and see my home transform from builder basic to modern beauty. I love to DIY and share tutorials so you can DIY too.

Today I want to share a tutorial to turn a plain drum shade into a statement piece for less than $10. I made my own drum shade pendant for less than $75, but I wanted to dress it up a bit. I originally planned to stencil a design on the shade, but the fabric on the shade has a lot of texture and I was nervous about getting a crisp design with a stencil. I brainstormed a fabulous alternative to create a modern design with appliquéd fabric. I love, love, love the way this turned out. The pattern and color are so crisp.

 

Here is how I did it:

Supplies:

• Drum Shade (circumference at the top and bottom of the shade is the same)
• Fabric (I used solid-color quilting cotton)
• Fusible web
• Mini Craft Iron (with a 50% off coupon you can get one for less than $20)
• Sharp scissors
• Clothespins
  

Step by step:

1. Measure your shade height and circumference. If the shade has a binding at the top and bottom, measure the height from the inside edge of the bottom binding to the inside edge of the top binding.
2. Using the measurements from Step 1, cut out a rectangle piece of fusible web.
3. Create your design. Geometric designs work great for this project. I decided on a quatrefoil design, which I designed to fit evenly within the size of my rectangle. Learn more about how I chose my fabric and created my design.
4. Trace your design onto the paper side of the fusible web. Tip: For a complicated design, shade in the areas to be cut away.
5. Iron the fusible web onto the wrong side of your fabric.
6. Trim fabric to same size as fusible web rectangle.
7. Cut out your design to remove all the shaded areas. I also split my design into three sections to make it more manageable.
8. "Dry fit" your design by lining up each section around the drum shade with the fusible web side against the shade. Use clips or clothespins to hold the fabric in place.
9. Starting with one section, peel the paper backing off the fusible webbing and repin the fabric to the shade. Line the fabric up very carefully.
10. Use the mini craft iron on medium heat to fuse the fabric design to the lamp shade. Use light pressure and keep the iron moving to avoid denting or warping the lamp shade.
    

The finished lampshade is beautiful! You would never know it didn't come this way. The thin cotton fabric fused so smoothly, it looks like part of the fabric on the shade.

 

This lampshade is right at home in our breakfast nook where we eat all of our meals. The green coordinates with the bits of green in the chair back covers. I love the boldness of the light now!

 

Want more fun tutorials and inspiration? Follow Teal & Lime on Facebook and check out these Teal & Lime favorites:

 

Turning tablecloths into slipcovers

Milk & Cookies Party

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Thanks so much for having me Michelle!

THANK YOU, Jackie for that awesome tutorial.  I can think of many cool designs (or words) to put on lampshade using your tutorial.   I love the colors in your house!   Head over Teal & Lime and say hi!!!   She is a very talented gal and her blog is so clean and crisp!  It's beautiful!

More Decoupaged Pumpkins

Check out some more of those decoupaged pumpkins!   I love the fabric that Love Sweet Love used!!!  So fun!  Are you going to decoupage any pumpkins this year?

See the decopauged pumpkins.

Pottery Barn(ish) Fabric Luminaries

Create a something you would see in a Pottery Barn catalog by adding some fabric to some dollar store glass jars to create gorgeous luminaries. I love how simple and yet stunning this idea is. You can see the easy details for this project at Sassy Style Redesign.

See the fabric covered luminaries.

Guest Blogger - 1st Lady of the House - Embroidery Hoop Wall Decor

Hey there Someday Crafts readers.

My name is Camilla and I blog at

1st Lady Of The House.

I'm way happy to be sharing my nursery update with you.

My nursery is on child #2 at this point and I haven't done anything with it since I was pregnant with my first baby. I decide it was time for some updating.

I saw the cute fabric in embroidery hoops all over the blog-o-sphere and Pinterest and I thought it would be a cute and cheap way to spruce up the place.

I wanted my baby's name to be included in the collage so I bought wood letters from Hobby Lobby.

I started collecting embroidery hoops from thrift stores and what I couldn't get there I bought from the Hob Lob as well. I bought fabric from various places.

OK, I primed and spray painted my letters. White Spray Primer, Then a Blue'ish Green'ish color (because I wanted it to come through in the distressing stage) then White Spray paint.

Then I distressed with my electric hand sander (which I bought and this was my first project to use it on! Love it!)

I then hung picture hangers on the back. This process may or may not have made me swear a few times. The nails were teeny tiny itsy bitsy, so stabilizing the nail was close to impossible.

Then this occurred...

Not once but TWICE!

Got out the E6000 and jimmy-rigged the thing because there was no way I was going to get a new letter.

OK, Then to the funnest part...

This was way easy! Put the hoop on the fabric of choice and then trim around the back.

So here is the before picture:

As my baby was growing out of clothes, I would just pile it on top of the dresser to put into the correct bins. The bin you see on the right is the clothes that she was growing into, toys spread around, every single piece of furniture is a different color (not in a good way).

More casualties: I was moving the changing table out and the leg busted off, kinda glad because now I can buy a new one when I ever have another baby (Something to match).

This is the inside of the lamp shade...That is not suppose to be bent like that...Off to Target to get a lamp shade!

Hung the collage! Love it!

I want to take done the alphabet letters. I just didn't have a ladder handy.

Rearranged the furniture around, took out the outdated rug, no more changing table, took down some pictures, cleaned up the massive mess...I'm left with this!

and again here is the before

I have collected tea sets since I was a small child.

With all the disasters that happened with this project, I have to mention one more that I didn't take pictures of.

I was all done fixing the room up and the baby was whining, so I put her down for her nap in her new updated room. Ten minutes later she starts crying, I go in and she had thrown up all over in her crib, so I had to tear apart her crib sheets and padding, get out the towels and draped everything else in towels as to not get soiled. So the room lasted for 10 minutes looking like that! Happy Day. Life of a Mother, Right?

Thanks for reading along. I hope you stop on by my blog,

1st Lady of the House

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and check out some of my other projects like Butterfly Specimen Art, Side Table Re-do, and my Pottery Barn Moss Monogram.

THANKS, Camilla for sharing your cute nursery! I love the fabric you found! That wall just "pops" now!

Head over to 1st Lady of the House to see more awesome projects!!!

Guest Blogger - Live. Laugh. Photograph. - Anthropologie Inspired Mirror

Hello Bloggy Friends!!

My name is Laura and I am over.the.moon excited to be here today! I'm the author of the blog live.laugh.photograph where I blog about crafts, sewing, photography, style, and digital scrapbooking to name a few. In real life I'm a cosmetologist which means I love doing hair and makeup and sometimes I share a little bit of that too!

This is ME. Hi! Nice to meet you!

Here are just a few of my favorite projects you can find on my blog!

Bird Nest Necklace {Tutorial}

Pottery Barn Kids Knock-off Wall Decor

Grapefruit and Lemon Salt Scrub

You can check out more of my tutorials here!

Now that you know a little bit about me, I'm going to show you my latest project! Today I'm going to show you how to make this Anthropologie inspired mirror using a little paint and some fabric scraps!

Here is the original = $168

And here is mine! =$5

To get started you will need these supplies:

Craft wood mirror {I got mine at Michael's}

craft paint/paintbrush
fabric scraps
scissors
mod podge
razor blade or painters tape to protect the mirror from paint and glue

Let's get this party started! First, you will want to paint the wood in the color of your choice. I used white because this mirror is going in my daughter's room and brown wouldn't go with the flow ;)

Here is where you might also want to tape off the mirror part to prevent any paint or glue from getting onto it. I didn't do this step because a plain old razor blade works just as well! Either way you do it, we'll take care of it at the end ;)

While the paint is drying, you can measure and cut out your fabric scraps for each of the four corners of the mirror. I found that starting with the 4 corners first was the easiest way to go. Mine measured 2x2 inches.

Take a little mod podge and brush it onto the wood or fabric. Whichever floats your boat! Place it onto the mirror and smooth it out. Fabric is very giving so if your square isn't exact you can push/pull into place!

Do this for each of the corners of the mirror.

Since my mirror is a rectangle and not a square, I knew that the fabric squares would have spaces in between them. No biggie! I just measured to figure out how many more fabric squares I needed to cut out. It ended up being 10.

Cut those babies out!

Now play around with them to see where you want them to go and mod podge them to the mirror!

Easy breezy!

If you like the tattered effect, you can always leave the frays alone. I usually love the distressed look but I went completely against everything in my body telling me to leave it alone and mod podged it to make those little frays disappear!

I went through and put a coat all over the mirror brushing the frays into place as I went!

One last step! Once the mirror is dry go ahead and take off your tape if you used it or grab a razor blade and scrape off the paint and glue.

Then use some window cleaner to get it nice and clean!

And now you have your very own Anthro inspired Mirror!

Now marvel at your pretty creation!! SO easy right?

Thanks so much for letting me share my little ol' project with you today! It's been a pleasure and an honor to be guest blogging here at Someday Crafts!

I'd love for you to stop by my blog, Live. Laugh. Photograph, anytime and say hi! I love meeting new people!

xoxo

Laura, THANKS for the cute and easy knock-off! We all love to save money! Head over to Live. Laugh. Photograph. to get more of this goodness!