Archives for September 2012

 

Welcome back to day 3 of Tailgate Week!!!  I am here with yet another way to add a little personalization to your tailgating!!!

Check out the other posts below!

Day 1. Team Spirit Bunting DIY

Day 2. Personalized Utensil Holder

By adding team spirit right to the food platters!

I got lucky and found this bright Michigan maze colored plate on clearance at Target and decided to personalize with by using my Martha Stewart Glass paint by Plaid, the scraper tool and some cut vinyl.  I should mention that I cut all of my vinyl with my silhouette cutting machine.  I love it!

I simply put the vinyl on the clean platter and made sure the air bubbles were smoothed out.  Then place the paint around the area to be painted and drag the paint into the image area just like I did with this tutorial here.  Really the only other part that is important, is taking off the vinyl before the glass paint dries (otherwise the paint will stick to the vinyl and peel off)

And there you go, personalized and team spirited!  And I think it goes great with my team spirited bunting from day one of tailgate week and my DIY utensil holder found here.

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Happy Happy Tailgate Week!!!!  I am excited to show you my next team spirited project!!!  {In case you missed day one of tailgate week—check out my DIY bunting here}

 I had some fun up-cycling a utensil holder that I found this past weekend in the clearance section of Target, it was a big old $2.95!

 Here is what you will need:  a cut vinyl image, Martha Stewart Glass Paint by Plaid and a scraper tool (white tool pictured above)

 I used the same method that I used to decorate my store-bought candle that you can find here.  I used glass paint because it is very adhesive and you can wash it after the paint is fully dry and cured.  And with tailgating you would want to be able to clean up after!!

I think for a whopping $2.95 this was a good little up-cycle and adds team spirit to my overall look which can be seen here!

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I love LOVE love football.  And I love decorating and crafting…. sooooo it should not be surprising that I crafted up my own team spirited Maze and Blue (ohhh yayyyy I am a HUGE University of Michigan fan) tailgate that I will be sharing with you this week!

So, Day 1 of Tailgating the Crafty Way—-starts with DIY team spirited bunting!

I love what the great punch of team colors that bunting can add to a tailgating look!!!  I might just be making more and more version of this of bunting banners, I love the look!  I have to admit, I have never made bunting before mainly because of the sewing.  What in the world was I waiting on, it wasn’t bad at all!?!?  I know there are tutorials and “how to” posts over the blog world… but in true “Jaime” fashion I didn’t check out tutorials I just kind of came up with my own methods….

I ended up finding this cute maze colored chevron fabric at Hobby Lobby and couldn’t find a blue fabric that I was crazy about…. so, I grabbed my husbands old dress shirt that no longer fits him {I wouldn’t just steal a good dress shirt for crafting…. well maybeeee I would… hehe}.  Did I mention I like to reused everything and everything?!

 

I just cut up strips of the blue fabric and two triangles joined in the middle.

And I sewed one straight line right on the top to hold each triangle section in place. And that is it, nice and simple and festive all at the same time!

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