the hybrid chick

Happy Monday and hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

I have two very fun and useful projects to share with you today and to kick off your week on a good note ~ a give away!!! Who doesn’t love those?! All the details for the give away are at the bottom so I hope you’ll play along!

To put my projects together I used the amazing and oh so fun kit from Mari Koegelenberg called Whats Cooking? The Collection. The first project I’m going to share with you today is a fabric transfer project using an iron-on transfer sheet.

Here’s what the project looks like finished:

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Whats Cooking? The Collection by Mari Koegelenberg
• A fabric bag
• Avery Fabric Transfers (there are several, so make sure you select the correct one, light or dark depending on the color of your fabric)
• An iron
• An embellishment ~ I used some Prima Flowers for mine

Step 1: Create the design you will be printing onto the iron-on transfer. I used the what’s cooking? frame twice, once as is and again to add an additional dotted frame around the original design. I managed to fit two on an 8-1/2″ x 11″ sheet, by positioning them like this:

Step 2: Print out your designs onto a Avery Fabric Transfer sheet and cut it out as close to the design as possible.

Step 3: Make sure the area where you will be adding your design has little to no wrinkles and add your iron-on sheet with design facing the bag. Follow the instructions to determine the amount of time you need to press the iron to the design.

Side note: I’m sad to share that this is the most I have used my iron in a year…don’t know what I would do without my dry cleaners!

Step 4: After letting the iron-on transfer cool, peel away backing, and finish embellishing as you’d like! Here’s a close up of the design on the bag.

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The next project is a tag. As I mentioned above, I’m using the same digi kit ~ Whats Cooking? The Collection, but this time to alter a chipboard tag. Here’s what you’ll need:

• Whats Cooking? The Collection by Mari Koegelenberg
• Epson Premium Presentation Paper
• Chipboard Tag (I’m using a Maya Road tag)
• Mist Spray (I used Maya Road’s Avocado Metallic Mist)
• Glue
• Ball and Chain or Ribbon (something to hang tag with)
• Optional: halfback pearls or brads

Here’s what the project looks like finished.

Step 1: Spray your chipboard with some mist on both sides and set it aside to dry.

Here’s what it looks like after I sprayed it once and the finished tag you will see in later steps is after two coats; which by the way, doesn’t take very long:

Step 2: Create the design you’d like to add to your tag. From the kit I added the blank label, typed in what I wanted the tag to read and added a flower element. Below the frame I show you how I put the flower together.

I used the flower 7 image twice (the one the left I lightened by decreasing the opacity and fill) and the brad 1 image.

Step 3: Try to fit as many tags as possible onto your document so that you waste as little paper as possible. I was able to fit four by arranging them as such:

Step 4: Cut out your design and adhere it to the dry chipboard tag. Embellish further if you’d like; add ball and chair or ribbon; and you are done! Here’s what it looks like once again.

I plan to add theses to my scrapbooking bags so that I can easily identify them when I go to crops; to my carry on luggage; and to my camera bag.

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Challenge & Give Away:

Challenge:You will have three opportunities to have your name entered into a random drawing to win this fun Maya Chipboard Calendar Album.

1. Make a project that can be used again and again. I gave you two ideas here, a fabric grocery bag and a tag; but I’m sure all you creative and talented gals out there can come up with many more ideas. Feel free to make one of these ideas or share a new one…both are eligible. Make sure to leave us a link so we can check it out.
2. Upload your project to The Digichick Gallery ~ leave a link to it here.
3. Leave a comment sharing a way you Recyle, Reuse or Reduce.

Excited to see what you all come up with! You have until next Monday, June 7 at 10 pm PST. The winner’s name will be announced on June 9th!

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Other Articles by Carolina:

• A Carrot Treat - March 7th, 2011
• The Perfect Embellishment - Paper Roses - January 3rd, 2011
• Great Things Come In Small Packages - December 29th, 2010
• Deck The Halls With Some Digital Cheer! - December 6th, 2010
• Hostess Thank You Gift - October 30th, 2010