This first baby shower favor I created used a free baby diaper invitation template that I found online simply by typing baby diaper invitation into my search box. DigiChick Designer Kelleigh Ratzlaff created a fabulous Baby Themed Shaped Cards Template Set that would work perfectly for this also!

This was an easy favor to make. Open the template in your photo-editing program and choose a paper for your diaper. I used papers from Dawn Inskip’s Welcome to the World kit.

Clip your paper to the template and then print using your printer’s best print option. I printed mine on matte presentation paper. Cut around the edges and score your fold lines.

Glue small sized eyelet around the leg opening and then a small piece on the inside of the waist of the diaper. Fold the sides of the diaper in and pin in place with, what else? A diaper pin!

This next baby shower favor I have for you was also relatively simple to make. For these favors, I used papers from Mira Designs’ Baby Days kit, baby elements from Dawn Inskip’s Welcome to the World kit, and Precious Sentiments Baby Word Art by Danielle Engebretson.

I purchased the empty baby bottles at our local party store. First, I measured the surface of one sides of the baby bottle so that I could create your own label. My measurements were 2.5” x 2.25”. I decided to go with an oval shaped label so that the bath salts in the baby bottle would show.

I used my photo editing program to create my label. I was able to print about 25 oval shaped labels on Avery white full sheet label paper. I used Fiskars Scallop scissors to cut around the outside of my labels. Peel and stick one to each of your baby bottles.

For the bath salts, I purchased a bag of Epsom salts. Pour into a large bowl and add a few drops of food coloring to tint the salts. Once mixed well, add a few drops of scented essential oils and mix well.

Fill your bottles and cap tightly. Aren’t they adorable?

The last baby shower favor I have to share with you is a little more time consuming than the other favors. These are definitely favors you don’t want to wait until last minute to create!

This is a baby shower favor I made out of a styrofoam cup. I found the instructions online and tweaked it for a better looking shoe!

I wanted my baby shoe to be a lace up version. Here’s where I tweaked the instructions. When bringing the sides in to create the flaps over the tongue, I cut those flaps vertically and parallel to each other to form the part for the holes for my lacings. I punched 2 holes in each flap. I then rounded and reshaped the top part of the shoe for a nicer, more realistic looking shoe. Here’s what it looked like before it’s laced up.

I did not use clear nail polish around the punched holes. None of the punched holes ripped or tore. Cut 15” pieces of ribbon and lace up your baby shoe. I tied a knot in my ribbon before finishing the laces with a pretty bow.

I created a 1 ½” round tag and then used my scallop scissors to cut out the tag. I used my Crop-o-dile to punch a small hole in the top of the tag and hung the tag from the laces using a small piece of ball chain.

The tag also uses Mira Designs’ Baby Days kit, baby elements from Dawn Inskip’s Welcome to the World kit, and Precious Sentiments Baby Word Art by Danielle Engebretson.

Kind of resembles a Cabbage Patch doll shoe, doesn’t it???

Fill with candy, peanuts, butter candies, or whatever you want! And these are just as adorable without the hanging tag – and my recommendation if you are creating these favors for a large sized baby shower!!!

My giveaway is this: I will create for you up to 100 of these baby shoe favors:

You chose the color of the ribbon for the laces. They will arrive all laced up and ready to fill with goodies of your choice.

* please note – there will be no hanging tags on the ones you receive! *

All you have to do to be eligible to win is leave a comment here on this post! If you’d like to double your chances, you can receive an additional entry by mentioning this post on your blog, Twitter or Facebook. Come back and comment again with the link to your posting. All winners will be announced on June 28th!

Good Luck!

Let’s get started with our supplies! Here’s what you will need:

• Digital Kit – I used the Sweet’n Sassy kit by Mira Designs
• Empty matchboxes – I used 4 large sized boxes that I picked up at our local dollar store.
• Avery Inkjet Labels, Full Sheet, White
• Scotch Brand Scrapbooker’s Glue with 2-way Applicator (or a glue stick)
• Kilz Spray Primer
• Crop-A-Dile Eyelet & Snap Punch
• Scrap Essentials Mini Heart Brad
• Round wood craft beads
• Tape measure
• Scissors
• Wooden skewers (optional)
• Acrylic paint and small paint brush(optional)

A matchbox consists of two parts – the drawer (which holds the matches) and the sleeve (the part that the drawer slides into). For the rest of the tutorial, I will refer to the parts as the drawer and the sleeve. Matchbox will refer to working with the drawer part inside the sleeve.

To start, remove all of the matches out of the matchboxes. I put these in a small storage container and put them up high, well out of reach of little hands.

Next, you will need to decide on how you want your treasure box to look. You can stack your four empty matchboxes on top of each other to create a tall treasure box or you can do two stacks of two matchboxes side by side to create a treasure box like mine.

Remove all of the drawers from the boxes. I chose to spray my empty matchboxes with Kilz. This step is optional though because most of the surfaces of your boxes will be covered with paper. I didn’t want the original box colors showing along the edges of my project. You can also paint your boxes and drawers with acrylic paint to coordinate with the digital kit that you will be using. Allow to dry.

The brads I had here did not match the color of my project so I also sprayed them white with Kilz. To do this, I pushed the brads through a folded sheet of paper and then simply sprayed them.

Next stack your matchboxes (with the drawers in the sleeves) and glue the sleeves together. For this I used Scotch Brand Scrapbooker’s Glue. I love to use this glue because it has a dauber end for easy application. Make sure the edges of the matchboxes are flush with each other for a nice straight treasure box. Allow to dry.

To create “feet” for the treasure chest (beads can be left natural if you choose):
Take four small sized wood beads and thread them onto a wooden skewer. Spray with Kilz sealer and allow to dry – this will help the acrylic paint cover the smooth bead better. You can leave them white after spraying with the Kilz or paint with an acrylic paint that coordinates with your papers. Allow to dry.

Measure the inside of a drawer and measure the front surface of a drawer. Stack your matchboxes and measure the distance around the outside of the boxes as well as how deep the stacked matchboxes are. Mine was 15” around allowing for some overlap on the bottom of the treasure chest and 5” deep. I’ll explain how I printed this in a little bit.

Open your software. Open an 11 x 8.5” white canvas

To create the Drawer liners:
Using the Rectangle Marqee tool, draw out a rectangle the size of the inside of your drawer (refer to your measurements). Add a new layer and paste in a digital paper of your choice. Resize and rotate the digital paper to your liking. Select none.

If you want all of your drawers to have the same paper liner, simply duplicate this layer until you have as many as needed for your drawers – move the duplicated layer from over the original layer. If you want your drawers to have different liners, repeat the above steps to create them.

To create the front panel of the drawer:
Using your Rectangle Marquee tool, draw out a rectangle the size of the front panel of the drawer (refer to your measurements). Add a new layer and paste in a digital paper of your choice. Resize and rotate the digital paper to your liking. Select none.

Again, if you want all of your drawers to have the paper on the front of the drawer, simply duplicate this layer until you have as many as needed – move the duplicated layer from over the original layer. If you want the front of your drawers to have different papers, repeat the above steps to create them.

This is what you should have so far:

Print on a full sheet of Avery sticker paper using your printer’s best print option. For Avery sticker paper, I chose Matte Presentation Paper option for a brighter print.

Next we’re going to create the piece that goes around the outside of the stacked matchboxes.

Open a new blank canvas the size of the measurements of your stacked matchboxes (mine was 15 x 5”).

Copy and paste a digital paper of your choice. Resize and rotate to your liking. I ended up duplicating my floral paper twice and piecing it to cover the 15” canvas. Merge layers.

To print such a long label required some creative thinking on my part.

I knew I was going to print my covering piece on full sheets of sticker paper. I chose an area near the end of my label where I could easily piece it together. Crop the first 10” of the covering and print using your printer’s best print option. For Avery sticker paper, I chose Matte Presentation Paper option for a brighter print. Once printed, hit un-do.

Crop the last 6”of the covering piece (start at the 9” mark) and print as above.

Allow ink to dry and then cut around all of your pieces.

To assemble:

**I use a small amount of Scotch Brand Scrapbooker’s Glue on all surfaces before applying my sticker paper. This allows for a quick and strong bond without the mess of mod podge or other glues.**

Check the fit of your drawer liners and trim as necessary. Apply glue to the insides of your drawers. Remove the paper backing from your sticker paper pieces and press in place.

Check the fit of the printed pieces against the front of your drawers. Trim as necessary. Apply glue to the front panel of your drawer. Remove the paper backing from your sticker paper pieces and press in place.

Allow to dry. Place drawers back inside matchbox frame before starting the next step.

Starting with the covering piece that is 10” long, position it overtop of the matchbox frame so that a ¼” wraps around to the underside of the chest. By positioning the piece this way, it allows for a fuller coverage with only one overlap area showing on the side of the chest. Apply a small amount of glue where your first piece is going to cover. Remove the paper backing and press in place.

Repeat using the second piece, positioning it so that it partially overlaps the first piece and wraps around to the bottom of the chest. Allow to dry.

Remove all 4 drawers from the chest. On the inside of the front panel of the drawer, place a pencil mark in the center. Use your Crop-o-dile to make a small hole. Insert your mini heart brad and press the brad prongs flush against the inside of the front of the drawer. Replace the drawers into the chest.

Glue the painted beads to the underside of the treasure chest. Allow to dry.

And there you have it! Your own mini treasure chest! Here’s mine again showing the treasure chest with an open drawer showing the drawer liner:

Please note: there are several different ways you can go about creating a treasure chest of your own. You can use computer paper and a glue stick if you choose. This tutorial is how I created mine.

And as always, if you have questions, please feel free to email me at wildblueeyez at Comcast dot net.

If you create your own treasure chest, I’d love to see it! Please send me an email at the address above!

Before you get started, you’ll need to gather a few supplies:

• Printable Iron-On Transfer Sheets – I use Avery 3302 Stretchable Fabric Transfers
• Baby Onesies or other cotton / poly blend fabric
• An Iron
• Ink Jet Printer
• Photo Editing Software – I use Photoshop Elements
• A few embellishments from your favorite digi kit – I used Oh Baby! by Mari Koegelenberg, available at the Digichick.

Optional Supplies:

• Stamps – I used Starlight, Starbright from Verve Stamps
• Acrylic Stamp Block
• Pigment Ink safe for stamping on fabric – I used Perfect Match Hybrid Ink in True Black from Papertrey Ink.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Pre-wash fabric to remove sizing.
2. Design your iron-on like you would any other digital project using your photo editing software of choice. (again, I use Photoshop Elements).  Tip: if you’re using words, be sure to flip the text layer horizontally (so it’s a mirror image when it prints) otherwise your words will be backwards when ironed on (trust me on this one!!!).
3. Print.  Check in the preference window for iron-on transfers under “paper type” – my printer has that setting.  Once you have it printed out, use scissors to trim closely around the edge of your design.
4. Iron-on according to the instructions included in the Transfer Sheet packaging.  Tip: if you have an old onesie or similar fabric to practice on, you might print out a few extras of your design to play around with the heat setting on your iron and the timing a bit before tackling your project – I went through a few onesies before I got things just right. (but it was worth it!!). For more tips on ironing, be sure to check out Jill’s great post about it in the Digichick Forums: Ironing Tips.
5. I’ve found that contrary to the Transfer Sheet Instructions, I get the best results if I remove the backing while it’s still piping hot, NOT waiting for it to cool.  I’m not sure if this is a result of environmental conditions or what, but you might have to play around a bit with that as well.
6. If you’d like to add a stamped image or sentiment to your project, place your stamp on your acrylic block, ink it up, and center it where you’d like it.  Using even, firm pressure, stamp directly onto the fabric as you would paper.

Admire your handiwork!!

Looking for some more iron-on inspiration? Check out these gift ideas:

• Doll Onesie by Jill
• Canvas Diaper Tote & gift set by KCherrie
• Smitten T-Shirt by Karistamps
• Heart You Pillow by Jill
• Twitter Blossoms Onesies by Jen

Be sure to stop back on Friday when I share some fun gift packaging ideas, including instructions for the Milk Carton I used in my project!! See you then!