I WON!!!!!!

 WOW I'm super excited, just found out I won a giveaway over at Tales of the Scotts! I never win anything so I was very surprised when I opened my e-mail their afternoon and found out I had won. The giveaway was for one of these beautiful Valentines Day Banners from Isaboo Designs

Check out her Etsy shop, she has some awesome stuff! Thanks again to Eva from Tales of the Scotts for sponsoring this great giveaway!

Key To My Heart Pillow

First and foremost I need to introduce you to my Assistant Smokey, without whom this project would have taken half the time!

I have been soooooo inspired by the things I have been seeing the last few days on everyones blogs and Pinterest posts! I wanted to do something for Valentines Day (I still haven't gotten my house decorated) and I knew I wanted to use my Cameo, this is what I came up with, I hope you like it, I LOVE the way it turned out!!!! I have seen so many beautiful pillows lately but they are sooo expensive, now that I have this one under my belt I know that I will be making many more. The only thing that I bought for this project was the fabric which totaled $7.48 and since I only used a small amount of it, I figure it cost  me about $1.50 or so. I had the buttons, paint and pillow insert in my craft stash.

This is only the second project that I have made with my new Silhouette Cameo, my first was the Mailbox Numbers that I did a few weeks ago. The Silhouette made this pillow supper easy. I just went into the design program and found the pictures that I wanted, the key and the font ( DJ Love) I found the font for free on pinterest somewhere. 

I printed my template out on paper first, I didn't want to waste my vinyl while I was messing around  with the sizing and placement.

Paper Template

Vinyl templet with transfer tape on top.

I arranged my templets on my fabric in different configurations
 before I found the spacing and arrangement that I liked.

Vinyl Transfered on to Fabric.

After my templets were secured on the fabric
 I began applying the pain to my fabric,
 I used a very small about and just dabbed the paint on the fabric through the templet,
I wanted a softer look so I didn't use very much paint at all.

After the paint was dry I ironed it to set the paint, and sewed my pillow. I cut a strip of red burlap and sewed it across the front, than I cut a heart out of tan burlap and red felt. I sewed a red and white button onto the center of the felt heart and hot glued both hearts to the red burlap strip. I didn't include any pictures of these steps because I figured they were pretty basic. So what do you think? 

The Love pillow in the background is from TJ Maxx $12.99
 and the gingham heart pillow is from Ikea $9.99 both were purchased
before Christmas.

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