I love bright bold summer colors! This summer I'm loving the emphasis of red, white, and blue {showing the love for the 4th of July and the 2012 summer Olympics}.
It seems to happen to me quite often. I had a skirt inspiration come to me last year {February 2011} for my daughter. I knew it would be easy enough to make, so I set out to find the perfect fabric {I had a mental picture of this perfect fabric}. I searched and searched but never found "the one". I should mention that I have been looking for white or off-white cotton fabric with larger blue stars on it.
When I was doing my freezer paper stenciling the other day, I had one of those "aha" moments. The thought to freezer paper stencil it onto white fabric crossed my mind...but I couldn't imagine cutting out all of those stars. Then I thought to actually stencil it...but I wasn't to sure of how that would go. So while digging through my craft supplies for my brushes I saw a packages of sponges and thought to "stamp" stars onto my fabric.
Here are my instagram pics of the stamping process...
After completing my "custom" fabric I was able to quick whip up this three tiered skirt for my daughter.
I'm really happy with how the skirt turned out. I {kind of} wish that I had used a darker blue for the stars, but I can live with it.
Now, if I could just figure out how to get my kids to "happily" model for me and cooperate with me, I would be in luck!
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-R.
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xoxo -Shar
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DeleteSuper cute skirt and a good idea to sponge those stars on what a time saver.
ReplyDeleteThank you! The sponging went so slick and easy!
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