Crafty Gift Baskets

Get Creative with Gift Baskets

With the holidays just around the corner, and I'm sure many of us having been invited to many Bridal Showers and Baby Showers in the past year, here is a unique idea to make your gift ever-lasting and memorable!!

Here are two of my baskets that I've made for friends!

Baby Shower Basket

Supplies Used

This is a Date Night themed Basket...With that being said I decided to add 2 DVDs a few board games, deck of cards, candy, popcorn, and of course wine glasses that I ended up decorating!

Flower Accents to decorate the basket

Basket- self explanatory

Fabric to cover the basket...I ended up only using the red fabric
I CUT THE FABRIC AND HOT-GLUED IT TO THE BASKET INSTEAD OF SEWING

Card Stock for Banner

Letters for Banner

 Finished product without gifts

 Finished product with gifts

Baby Shower Basket

Supplies Used

For this Baby Shower basket I decided to use the theme "Bath Time". With that being said, I used bath products, little towels, robes, bath toys etc.

Luckily for me with this basket I found a basket at TJ Maxx that seemed to work out perfectly!

Used card stock and decorated it with fun stickers and used glittery letters

Please note that the gender had not been known at the time, so I tried to make it as neutral as possible

....And TaDa!!!

These baskets are pretty easy to make but do take time to shop for and create, if you need help or would like me to make one for you please feel free to email me at easypinnings@gmail.com or Direct Message me on my Facebook FarahStacy

DIY Bat Gear

 

SnapBacks & Muscle Shirts 

This is a fun activity that you can do with your kids or simply for the fact that you rather make your own apparel and not spend a fortune. My reasoning happened to be both! 

DISCLOSURE: This is not an activity for the impatient!

Materials Needed:
Batman Snapback
-plain black snapback (Mostly any arts & Crafts store)
- DC Comics Batman Patch (Joann-Fabrics)
-Studs (Joann-Fabrics has the best variety for what you prefer) 
Batman Muscle Shirt
- Any color T-shirt **I prefer obnoxious colors for the gym**(Any craft store that sells shirts)
-Scissors OBVI FOR CUTTING THE SHIRT  
- Transfer paper of your choice, ***I prefer using JOLEE's Easy Image transfer paper for Dark T-shirts. I love the brand because they make it so easy for you, they even have their own website were you can make your designs, so you don't have to buy software to create designs (I mean unless your a pro like that)***

Making both the SnapBack and Muscle shirt were fairly simple, just tedious and very time consuming. I bought the Studs that have the sharp ends so all I had to do was poke through the visor, so that made it easier than ironing them on.

For the T-shirt if you decide to use Jolee's website the website is:
http://joleeseasyimage.com/
From there they will give you instructions on how to get your image started

Prior to printing figure out what way you have to insert your paper in order for it to print on the side you want. The transfer paper has a back side with lines on it, that is the side you will want to make sure isn't printed on!

Once you get that squared away, you are ready to print!

So now that you have your sheet in front of you, you probably think 
"oh ok all i have left to do is iron it on" WRONG 

The first thing you must do now, is to figure out whether you want the white to be ironed on with your decal 

Lining up the cut letters and decal

NOTE: IF YOU WANT JUST THE DECAL TO BE IRONED ON, YOU MUST CUT OUT EACH  DECAL AND PLACE IT ON YOUR SHIRT AS YOU WISH! THIS INCLUDES CUTTING OUT EVERY LETTER YOU HAD! REASON WHY I SAID ITS TEDIOUS!

FAST FORWARD HOURS LATER:  You are now ready to iron it on!! YEY!!! 
Place the 1-100 decals how you want on your shirt, once they're all fitted, lay a thin towel or some type of clothe over it, and place your PREHEATED iron over it. Make sure to apply full pressure on the shirt with the iron. Easiest way to do this is by using both hands on the iron. This will make sure that the whole decal is getting the love it deserves!

AND WALLAHHH YOU ARE DONE!!
 IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR INQUIRIES PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT BELOW OR EMAIL ME AT EASYPINNINGS@GMAIL.COM 


  

The Ultimate Tie DYe Cake Trial

For the record...I am NOT A BAKER...I REPEAT I AM NOT A BAKER!!!

I've been trying to debunk random recipes, and I think I've seen enough FAILS for this, that I was intrigued to trying it myself and sharing my experience!

So the picture above is one of the many fantasy pictures that they use to give Pinterest users false hope on becoming a baker.

Just a snapshot of my confusion during this baking situation

I have decided  to take this as my civil duty to either continue to give fellow pinners like myself hope that we can bake, or totally crush everyone's dream in realizing that whoever made that Pinterest cake probably had a Food Network show, either way lets find out, shall we?!

Supplies Needed:

-Duff's Tie Dye Cake Mix

-3 Eggs

-Icing of you choice

-Decor of your choice

-1 1/3 cups of water

-2 tbsp of oil

To get full instructions please follow the tutorial below.

Tie Dye Snapback

I've been in search for a fun Snapback for this summer and either I struck out searching or the one's I found were around $50. Yeaaaa sorry not happening! So I decided to take matters into my own hands and make one myself!

I had a tie dye style in mind, so my first thought was to look for a tutorial on Pinterest and to my dismay I could not find one tutorial on the task. That's when I figured I should go ahead and not only make this hat but also help my fellow pinners and do one myself!

The whole process took 1 hr prep time, and full day to let the hat dry!

All my products were bought at JoAnn's Fabric but you can definitely find all these products at an AC Moore or Michael's. I'm sure if you have a decent local craft store you'll find these products too. The total amount that I spent was around $15 give or take, unfortunately didn't save my receipt haha.

Supplies Needed:
-Tulip Tie Dye (whatever colors are your preference)
-Plain white SnapBack
- Iron on Studs
-Iron
-Tacky glue or hot glue gun if needed

The most important thing to know is when tie dying forget about being a perfectionist, get messy with it and have fun!

          To get full instructions please follow the tutorial below.

TUTORIAL VIDEO