I cant speak for anyone else but myself I cannot stand iron on transfers. I hate that plastic look, its horrible.
I found a tutorial that lets you use your printer to print on fabric itself, I found that it didn't really work for me but I switched it up and experimented a bit til it did. Of course its only an 8X11 piece of fabric, but until you find an iron on transfer that you actually like, think of the possibilities.

*Please read whole tutorial before you begin the project. Try this project at your own risk. It MIGHT mess up your printer. I've done this over 10x with mine and its perfectly fine, but then again lazer jet printers are not made to print on fabric.





Materials:

1. Piece of fabric that you want to print on.

2. 2 pieces of printer paper

3. Glue stick/ Spray adhesive

4. Iron

5. Graphic that you want to print out

6. Lazer jet printer





1. Cut your piece of fabric as big as your printer paper.

2. Take one piece of your printer paper and apply glue or spray adhesive to one side. I had to use modge pode, my glue stick died. Making sure the sides of the fabric is glued on to the paper is very important otherwise you will create a paper jam in your printer.

3. Stick your piece of fabric to printer paper.

4. Heat up iron, put other piece of printer paper over fabric and iron over paper for about 2 minutes. Keep moving iron so you don't start a fire.

5. Once that is dry, put fabric/paper in printer so that it prints on the fabric.

6. Get graphic ready and go to print setting and make sure it prints on "plain paper" and the out put quality is "high quality' or if you don't have that option, set your printer up so it prints its darkest and print.

7. Once its printed out, carefully separate paper and fabric. There you go :) I plan on sewing this piece of fabric on a pillow I'm making. I'll have the tutorial for that next week. Have fun!

If this method does not work for you, try the original tutorial at The Graphics Fairy.

7:37 AM

This has got to be the most useful thing ever. If you can recall I covered those tin cans with fabric, well when I made those fabric boxes. Considering how many I thought I needed it was just exhausting thinking about doing all that sewing. I love to sew, I love doing it for fun, I dont want it to feel like a dam job and that what it would have felt like If I sewed as many as I wanted. Let me get to the point. I found an easier way to do it ( thank god!) The tutorial is at In My Own Style. Keep in mind if you have been saving your cardboard boxes you can make your own boxes. I personally wanted to make the boxes for storage for my pantry. I shaped the boxes to what I wanted to store and now its so much more organized in there.

These are one of my own while making it. I use bobby pins to keep the edges down. It dries within 3 minutes. Of course I also did not use white glue, I used Modge Podge :)

10:00 PM

Say hello to my little friend....

This took me like 10 minutes to do if that.I got the tutorial at American Overlook. My mother In Law actually made one of these last year and Our Little One asked if I could make one for her. I recommend using very cheap rice. The only thing different I did was I used modge podge to glue on his buttons instead of a glue gun.

9:22 PM

Ok so this one was a bit of a pain. If you decide to do this, when you make  your letter make sure you do not leave the edge or your letters for last.Like an idiot I did and good lawd it was a pain. This project consist of Cereal boxes, tape, modge podge and an old shirt.

I was originally going to make a yarn coverd letter that I pinned at A Smith Of All Trades, but it consisted yarn which I did not have at the moment. So I figured I would use modge podge and cover up my letter with and old Fly Leaf shirt of mine. Follow the instructions on how to make your monogram in the tutorial, grab an old shirt or whatever fabric you want to use draw your letter on the fabric 2x and before you cut it out make sure you have enough fabric to cover the sides. Iron fabric and cover monogram as you would a present and make sure there are no wrinkles ( use your Id or something similar to iron out wrinkles) Let it dry and there you go. You just made something that would have cost you over $15 at a craft store for basically free.I swear I will do better with my own tutorials when it comes to step by step pictures. I dint intend on starting a blog, these where just pics to show my friends on FaceBook.

8:35 PM

I loved doing this, and it was so easy.  I simply saved my tin cans from whatever ( soup, veggies, coffee) peeled off the paper, ran it though the dishwasher. Ordered me some Modge Podge from amazon, which is so much cheaper than any craft store ( especially with Primes free shipping) used and old make up brush to apply the modge podge to the DRY tin can. Cut some fabric to fit the cans before hand, applied those to the modge podge covered cans then Viola! Storage space to put any writing utensil, makeup or whatever can fit in the can.

These are currently sitting on our Little Ones desk holding her makers,crayons and pencils. For an in detailed tutorial visit Simplicity in the South. Remember the less you throw away the smaller your family's foot print is :)

8:15 PM