Here’s a slideshow showing how to make them: 

Check out Kimba’s for more great ideas!

You can create this gift on any scale, a small piece of art for a desk or a large piece of art for your friend’s empty mantel. It’s up to you!

Here’s what you need: a blank canvas and a vinyl decal (large canvas for large decal, small canvas for small decal)

In the pictures below, I used an 18×24. Every week our local paper has 40-50% off coupons for Hobby Lobby and Michaels Arts & Crafts and I clip them just in case. I also found the vinyl decal at Marshalls. Etsy has a huge selection and many craft store are now carrying them.

This is the one I found:

Or keep.

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Some other handmade gift ideas I love:

Cake-in-a-Cup Yum!

Mason jar Pin Cushion -adorable!

Matchbook Notepads-cute stocking stuffer idea

DIY holiday gift ideas-Living Locurto has a whole slew of great projects!

Supplies:

This is by far my favorite handmade gift this season and I’m just getting started!  I’m making a ton of these and if you are related to me, there may be some burlap in your future.

I’ve only bought burlap once. It’s a long story, but it involves me, a children’s Christmas program and an ornery 5 year old dressed up like a camel.  So, you could say I’ve been a little slow to the whole use-burlap-in-your-home-decor-fad.

Until now. 

My friend Karen and I made these right before Thanksgiving:

Love it.

So, here’s what I came up with:

Supplies: Freezer paper (you can read how to use it here)

Paint

Burlap -any fabric store (even Wal Mart)

X-acto knife

Pillow stuffing

Sewing machine

In 6 easy steps, here we go:

• Print out a letter (For the “C” pillow above, I used the Edwardian Script font and sized it at 400 in a Word document), lay freezer paper of the letter, cut it out with an X-acto (this is definitely the hardest part).
• Place the freezer paper stencil over the burlap square (all my pillows are different sizes, burlap is so forgiving) and make sure you put something under the burlap because the paint will bleed through.
• Iron the paper onto the burlap (freezer paper lightly sticks waxy side down)
• Paint the letter. After it dries, peel off the freezer paper.
• Sew the pillow pieces together, leaving room to stuff and about a 1″ hem. 
• Fray the edges (the 1″ you left from the seam). This is the fun part. Just pull the threads and they unravel in a most becoming frayed edge!

So. Easy.

Nice gift, eh?

I’m linking up to Just a Girl‘s “I can make that Party” and Kimba’s DIY day!

For my girls, we used clothes we had and bought kitty cat accessories. My sister and Mom made my toddler’s black TuTu. Here are instructions for making them several different ways.

This kitten found her mittens:

Here are the detailed Lego costume instructions.