Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Lamp shade make over!

I bought this little lamp the other day, and decided to add a few little cute tid bits to make it even sweeter!
Here's what you need- fabric (several different patterns)
                           heat bond
                  iron
                       buttons
                                                          stencil, or hand drawn design
                               hot glue gun
                                         permanent marker.

Sorry that I don't have pictures of the first few steps- being the genius I am, I took pictures not realizing I had no memory card in the camera... so no pictures.
Anyway- the steps are simple. Just cut squares of your fabric and iron the fabric  on to the heat bond. (heat bond is the stuff that will melt when ironed, and then you peel the backer paper off and re-iron to whatever surface you want your fabric to stick to.... does that make sense?)
When all of your fabric is ironed on it should look similar to a patch work quilt.
Next, grab your design and trace it on to the paper side of the heat bond. Once you have the design on the heat bond, cut it out, peel the paper backing away and place it on the lamp shade or pillow- whatever you are decorating.
Since I wanted to re-do this lamp shade I just took it off the base and slipped it on to the ironing board to iron the fabric birds on.


I placed the birds where I wanted them and ironed them on. (there are directions on the heat bond to follow as well)
 These are the tiny black buttons I used for eyes.
 Oh, notice that the fabric of the wing is different than the body- I ironed the wings to the body before I ironed the body to the lamp shade. Then I hot glued the eye on.


The next thing was to make little feet and beaks- I used a sharpie black marker and it did bleed a little bit- probably a fine tip one would have been better.
 More little finished birdies.
 So sweet! I made each side of the lamp shade a little different.

 The last thing I did was add a felt flower to the front of the shade- I thought it looked really sweet.
 So there you have it- simple, easy but really cute.... in my opinion of course!

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