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More Floating Shelves!

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Guys, I am officially obsessed with floating shelves in our home! You might remember when we made smaller floating shelves last year, and we made this the exact same way. I was over the photos we had hanging up in the living room for the past few years. I wanted to switch it up and decided some longer shelves would look great, so we tried it out. We love how they turned out and wanted to share. Charlie’s dad cut the wood for us – the pieces are 5 feet long, 6 inches wide, with an inch wide and 2 inch tall lip to block anything from sliding off the shelves. I’ll show some photos below of what I mean.

Here’s what the shelves look like:

DIY Wooden Floating Shelves

And here’s what we had before. The change makes the room look so much more inviting some how! It’s crazy what small changes can do to a room.

All you need to hang them up are your brackets, screw gun, screws, a level (super important to make sure everything is even!), and a pencil to mark where your screws will go. Charlie and I got these hung up within an hour.

DIY Wooden Floating Shelves

So this is what the wood looks like before it was stained…you can see the lip I talked about before here.

DIY Wooden Floating Shelves

I use the same stain color for all of our shelves so they match…

Here’s what I’ve been using and love:

To see what we use to hang the shelves and how we hang them, check out our first floating shelves DIY post here.

DIY Wooden Floating ShelvesDIY Wooden Floating Shelves

I LOVE lights, so Charlie had the idea to add a couple puck lights to the top shelf to shine to the below shelf, and they look so cute at night all lit up! I added some twinkle lights too, because why not lol.

DIY Wooden Floating Shelves

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Reverse Canvas DIY

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If you have a Cricut, you’ll probably know that “reverse canvas” projects have become super popular. I’m not sure who started this trend or else I’d give them credit, but props to whoever first made one of these because they turn out beautiful! I’ve made a few and stained the wood, but last week decided to paint this one’s canvas as well as the wood frame. I painted the frame white and the canvas a color to match my living room since I’ll be putting this on a new shelf. I’ve seen the quote “Together is my favorite place to be” on Pinterest and I LOVE it, so I decided to put that on this one. If you’d like to see how I made this keep reading!

STEP ONE:

Cut the canvas off of the frame from the back. I ended up using a bigger Exacto knife because this knife didn’t work that great. Just cut the canvas off the frame, it doesn’t need to be perfect or neat. You’re going to end up cutting the excess anyway.

See how I did mine? All that’s visible now are the staples. You can leave those, they’ll end up on the back of the new picture.

STEP TWO:

Put the canvas aside. Now paint or stain your frame any color you’d like! I just used a white acrylic paint.

STEP THREE:

I used my Cricut to cut this quote I made. If you don’t have a Cricut, just get some stickers or stencil! Both will work great.

STEP FOUR:

Before applying your letters to the canvas, paint clear mod podge all over the canvas and let dry. It will help the vinyl or stickers to stick better. Once you’re done with the mod podge and it’s dried, add on your vinyl or stickers. If you’re stenciling, paint the canvas your solid color, and then stencil. If you’re stenciling you’ll do these steps opposite of how I am.

I’m not gonna lie – applying vinyl to canvas even after the mod podge might be a little tricky. Just be patient with your transfer tape and it will work. I painted a slate blue/grey color all over the canvas, covering the letters. Once the paint is applied (2 coats), I took the letters off. The paint was still wet when I did this, didn’t make a difference.

STEP FIVE:

Once your canvas is completely dry, turn your wooden frame over to the side with all the staples. This is the back. Cut the canvas to  a size where it’s not overlapping the edges, but leave enough room to glue down the sides to the wooden frame. Look at my picture below, that’s exactly what you’re going to do. Hot glue down the edges of the canvas to the wooden frame. Make sure to pull tightly once the glue is dry to each side so there’s no creases.

And that’s it! Look how mine turned out! I love it so much and Charlie was so impressed by how this came out! Charlie’s Dad is making us some new shelves for our living room, and this will go on one of those. I’ll be blogging about those next week once they’re hung! Can’t wait to decorate them and show you what else I make to display on them.

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Changeable Seasonal No Sew Pillow Cases

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Is the title of this project a mouth full or what?! But that’s exactly what it is: you can change these NO SEW pillow cases and make different ones for every season! Today I’m going to show you how I made super easy Fall and Christmas pillow cases.

Here’s everything I used for these pillow cases. The pillow itself was about 16″x12″ big, and I ended up using fabric samples from JoAnn’s. Let me just say, the white fabric samples are super thin, so double up. I used a piece of light blue fabric I had to double up, but using the same color would probably be better lol. And what makes this no sew you ask? This crazy invention called Heat N Bond! I saw this at JoAnn’s and thought it was AWESOME! You place it between the fabric, and iron over it. It melts and adheres to the fabric, “sewing” it together. It works really nicely!

And for that final side of the pillow to make it changeable, you’ll want something like this velcro for fabric. This stuff works, but honestly it peels off if tugged at. Just be careful with it, and you shouldn’t have any problems.

First things first: measure your pillow, and then measure and cut your fabric. You’ll want your fabric a bit bigger on each side to leave room for the pillow once it’s all “sewn” together. My pillow was 16″x12″, and I used 18″x21″ fabric. It worked perfectly! So when you place the Heat N Bond on the fabric, make sure your pillow is inside out (graphic on inside), because you’ll be flipped the pillow out once you’ve ironed everything together.

See what I mean? The graphic I have on my pillow is inside, so it will be on the outside once flipped.

Iron, iron, iron it all together following the Heat N Bond instructions…

Once the Heat N Bond is applied and cooled, flip it right side out! You’ll have your third side left open where the pillow will be stuffed in. This is where you’ll want the place the velcro…

I kind of tucked the sides in when doing the velcro to make it look more put together, but here it is!

And with the pillow inside…

That’s all there is to it! Here’s the pillow all done…

I followed the same steps above to create a Christmas themed one too!

How adorable is this Christmas tree fabric from JoAnn’s? And if you’re wondering, I created these graphics for the pillows myself, and used my Cricut to cut HTV and put them on the fabric!

Here;s the Christmas pillow in action…

These actually turned out better than I thought they would! I had a few hiccups here and there, but I learned from my mistakes all to show you guys that this can be done and it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it! The possibilities are endless. You can create changeable pillow covers for pillows of all sizes, every holiday, every month…you get the picture 🙂

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