Homemade FE Gifts Photo Thread

[IWannaBeAPrincess]

Here is another - Personalized lanyards for pin trading or room cards - Every child in our group will get one!

 

[wld4mky]

O.K. Its official, I want to be on your cruise! How did you do those? Did you have those done or are they iron on of your own. What a pain I am, I know.

 

[SmallWorld71]

Here is another - Personalized lanyards for pin trading or room cards - Every child in our group will get one!

Love all your items!

How did you do this? Is it paint?

Thanks

 

[Dgentrysim]

IWannaBeAPrincess........did you just just use address labels on the magic markers you made? Great idea! Also, on the lanyard you made.....did you have someone make them? Or did you do it yourself? Great ideas! Love your washcloths!

DisneyDeb

 

[IWannaBeAPrincess]

Thanks guys! Well the lanyards are a long pathetic story! I bought the lanyards with intent to embroider the names and Mickeys on them. Broke a half dozen needles, made my sewing machine go out of timing, and made a huge disasterous mess. Sewing machine in the shop, back to the store for 2 lanyards to replace the ones I messed up.... LOL - so Dh says "can you print out an iron on? " So I "one upped" his idea and cut out the dark transfer paper on my cricut and then placed each letter and ironed them on! (wish I thought of that before messing up the sewing machine!!!)

thank you for the compliments. I've put a lot of thought, hard work and love into my gifts and I hope they help make the trip more magical!!

 

[IWannaBeAPrincess]

The color wonder markers just have an address label on them. It fit perfect to cover the brand without looking out of place!

 

[wld4mky]

Thanks guys! Well the lanyards are a long pathetic story! I bought the lanyards with intent to embroider the names and Mickeys on them. Broke a half dozen needles, made my sewing machine go out of timing, and made a huge disasterous mess. Sewing machine in the shop, back to the store for 2 lanyards to replace the ones I messed up.... LOL - so Dh says "can you print out an iron on? " So I "one upped" his idea and cut out the dark transfer paper on my cricut and then placed each letter and ironed them on! (wish I thought of that before messing up the sewing machine!!!)

thank you for the compliments. I've put a lot of thought, hard work and love into my gifts and I hope they help make the trip more magical!!

MAGICAL!!!!! , without a doubt!!!!!

 

[Dgentrysim]

IWannaBeAPrincess.......where do you get the dark transfer paper. I have a cricut machine.....love it.....but not sure how you do that? Would you share your secret? Also, did you use a bigger address label? I tried using a label today at work after seeing your idea and it didn't go completely around the magic marker. Thanks!

DisneyDeb

 

[LittleDisneyLovers]

They are all great idea's. You have done a great job! I have my thinking cap on for our WBTA, I have a few idea's, but every time someone posts on this thread It gets my mind going again! It's all good fun!

 

[wld4mky]

bumping

 

[croppincolburn]

The lanyards are great! Everything else is too!

I am perfecting my technique so I don't have a picture yet. I'm making polymer clay beads with the DCL logo on one side. I'll be making them into bag dangles/zipper pulls. I'm using an image transfer technique to get the logo on to the clay. I print the logo on t-shirt transfer paper, burnish it onto the clay then stick it in the oven for several minutes. Then finish baking the clay. It looks good. The part I'm working on is getting the bead size correct after burnishing.

 

[ddavis860]

The lanyards are great! Everything else is too!

I am perfecting my technique so I don't have a picture yet. I'm making polymer clay beads with the DCL logo on one side. I'll be making them into bag dangles/zipper pulls. I'm using an image transfer technique to get the logo on to the clay. I print the logo on t-shirt transfer paper, burnish it onto the clay then stick it in the oven for several minutes. Then finish baking the clay. It looks good. The part I'm working on is getting the bead size correct after burnishing.

I can't wait to see these. Love this idea!

 

[ddavis860]

This is a great thread! I have so many ideas now! Thanks everyone for sharing!

When I make mine, I'll be sure to post pics too...

 

[The Bad Witch]

OMG...I'm in AWE of all your AMAZING, WONDERFUL, TALENTED and AWESOME ideas!!! I have lot's of food for thought. Thank goodness I have a little less than a year to get things figured out! LOLOLOL!

 

[Dgentrysim]

IWannaBeAPrincess......what kind of address labels did you use on your magic markers? Mine are peeling away at the ends. Did yours meet totally around the magic markers so you stuck one on top of the other end? Thanks!

DisneyDeb

 

[IWannaBeAPrincess]

IWannaBeAPrincess.......where do you get the dark transfer paper. I have a cricut machine.....love it.....but not sure how you do that? Would you share your secret? Also, did you use a bigger address label? I tried using a label today at work after seeing your idea and it didn't go completely around the magic marker. Thanks!

DisneyDeb

The dark transfer paper is from eBay. I bought it a long time ago, but it is the paper suggested in the DISigns group. It's Gold Label dark transfer paper, BUT for this project, any old dark transfer paper will do, because you aren't printing on it. The Avery stuff from Walmart is NOT good for printing, but it would work fine for this.

Then I just attached it to my Cricut mat, and cut the letters at the 1" setting. I use a computer program to do my fonts. The program is Sure Cuts A Lot and the font is "Waltograph UI" I just let it cut out each letter, then I peeled them off, stuck them on the lanyard, and lightly ironed. The lanyards are nylon, so the heat set the design really fast, and viola!

Hope that helps!

 

[IWannaBeAPrincess]

IWannaBeAPrincess......what kind of address labels did you use on your magic markers? Mine are peeling away at the ends. Did yours meet totally around the magic markers so you stuck one on top of the other end? Thanks!

DisneyDeb

I used Avery 8250. They are 1" X 2.625". They do not go all the way around, but you could put another label on the other sides to make the ends meet. It looks fine without meeting, IMO, because it basically just covers the color wonder part...

 

[wld4mky]

bumping again
keep those ideas coming!!

 

[jessrose18]

Thanks for the great ideas...I have a few homemade fe ideas will reveal after we take our cruise

 

[wld4mky]

Do we have to wait that long?