Decorating with fabric

So being in love with the "Truck Stop" fabric, I had to do more with it than just use it for crib sheets. So I came up with this easy inexpensive way to decorate with fabric.  

(Also, if you make your own crib sheets this is a great way to use up your left over fabric up from the corners of your sheets!)

At Michaels I bought 4 little wood rectangle boards at about $0.97, a spool of ribbon at about $2.97 and I used an old bottle of Mod Podge that I think I've had since college. (ignore the little yellow canvas up top, stencils and paint. It was an interesting project that I will explain later :))

So next, I  covered the wood boards with Mod Podge. I used an old sponge brush that I had, but I'm sure you could use an old kitchen sponge or a paint brush. (just make sure you wash everything out when you are finished other wise your tool will dry stiff and be ruined.)

 

Then I placed the wood board into the center of my fabric. I had previously cut my fabric into squares that were slightly bigger than the boards, allowing space for a boarder that could be folded around the back of the board.  I then flipped the board over and applied Mod Podge around the boarder.

I then folded the fabric on to the back and painted down the sides with more Mod Podge. Then giving it a few minutes to dry I flipped it over and painted over the front.

After letting it dry, I got out my hottie glue gun, slapped some glue on the back with ribbon that I had premeasured and cut (so that they would all hang at the same length) and Ta-dah! I had matching  decor to go with his bedding.

Also shown in the center  is a name frame that I made.  This came from the stencil canvas project I was telling you about earlier.  I tried to use paint and stencils.. and it was a nightmare! The paint smudged everywhere and ruined the canvas. So then I tried using markers on fabric I was going to cover the canvas with, but then with my pregnant brain I somehow spelled Griffin's name wrong I think twice before I finally gave up on the stencils lol.. So finally, I ended up taking more leftover fabric and wrapping it around the edges of the wood that the canvas was on (since by now I had cut off the canvas b/c of my previous mistakes :)), and I used more Mod Podge to hold it onto the frame.  Then, I went back to Michaels and bought iron on letters (no painting required thankfully).  I placed the letters onto another leftover piece of fabric, hot glued it onto the back of the frame, and finished up by gluing on more ribbon to the back of the frame to hang it from.  Funny that when working on projects sometimes your favorite things come out of the mistakes you make. I am so happy that I made such a mess with the stencils, because I love the name frame way more than my initial idea.