This past week things were crazy at my house. But Friday we found a new car, so hopefully things can be a little bit less crazy here. But with it being so close to Christmas, I am not sure! The other day while I was making up my zippered pouches for my kids teachers I had a great idea that I should put some labels in them! I even had this idea while there was still time to put them in without unpicking anything! That is pretty good right there!
But I browsed Pinterest looking for some good tutorials. I read a bunch, but just ended up kind of making up my own!
I took some freezer paper and ironed it to my fabric. Then I trimmed it down to 8.5x11, so that I could fit it in the printer. I wasn't terribly worried about how fancy it looked because I knew that I could iron it out later.
Then I designed my labels in photoshop and ran it through the printer. One worked beautifully and I was so excited that I ran another one through.
It was not as good - the wrinkles did prove to give me a little bit extra ink and I had to kind of feed it through the printer. But it still worked, I think that I will worry about the wrinkles next time and try to get a nice smooth one.
Then I ironed over the printing to help set the ink. I have not washed any of this yet so I do not know if they are washable or not.
I then cut apart the ones that I needed and sewed them with a zig zag stitch to the inside of my pouches and voila! They look great! And so much more professional now!
I've got these all finished up now, I shared a picture on Instagram the other day. Maybe I'll get a post written about them before I wrap them up!
One more thing I was able to cross off my list! I hope that you are all enjoying this wonderful time of year!
Enjoy!
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