My friend Brittney has a love for all things PINK. Her hubby is a huge fan of soccer, and after a fateful trip baby clothes shopping, I came across the cutest HOT PINK PUMA sweat outfit! SO after deciding that this was THE outfit, I decided to try to wrap it in a clever way.
Below is my attempt at a "onesie bouquet" but made out of the outfit instead. I also wanted to make the canister into something she could use and decided to make a headband holder and make her some bows for baby Sophie.
The canister is just a empty formula canister that I ripped off the labeling to. I have heard you can also use empty Granola canisters to make this project.
I took the lid off and cut a piece of fabric to fit around the canister and have a little bit of overlap. I used Elmer's spray adhesive to keep the fabric in place without going with an alternative like glue that may seem through the thin white fabric. I used some ribbon on the bottom of the canister to decorate it up a bit.
The lid (not pictured) I decorated with a circle cut out of fabric and spray adhered to the top. This she can use once the "bouquet" is taken apart and she can store flowers, etc in to keep it all together.
Next I put a piece of green flower arranging foam in the bottom of the canister so I could keep the wood dowels in place with the pieces to the Puma outfit on top. I then stuffed with rolled up newborn diapers and raffia to decorate and put the set of three headbands I bought around the canister to show its purpose.
I made two flowers and a bow and attached to the headbands and was done! I thought it was a fun spin to a baby gift, and something that might prove useful later on with all of the cute accessories this adorable baby is sure to have! :)
Mallorie's baby Rylee has an amazing purple/brown/green nursery in the works with accents of cute owls! Here is my gift to Mal at her baby shower.
At seven months along, Mal had moved in to a new house and didn't have much time to get her nursery done. She had picked out a super cute purple paint and we did one of her walls as an accent wall that color in her nursery. She had asked me to make something with Rylee's name on it for above her crib since she was running out of time. I happily (and quite honestly probably "pushed" my way into) this project! I have ALWAYS wanted to help decorate a nursery!
The name was just done with a series of five frames found at Deseret Industries. I found five of all different sizes that I liked that looked like the meshed well together-then I primed and spray painted them in "Ivy Leaf" by Krylon. Once dried I antiqued with a dark antiquing paint and sprayed with a gloss sealant to make the color pop. I attached chicken wire to the back of each frames and created loops out of ribbon so she could hang each picture (I later took the loops off and attached hardware to the back of each frame instead).
The individual wood letters were bought at Hobby Lobby and spray painted white and glued on by a hot glue gun.
The bow holder was done with the same idea as the name frames, but with a larger frame and I used printed green ribbon as the holder instead, and simply tied around the top of the frame in knots.
The owl was made from a curved wood block that is sold at "The Wood Connection" in Murray. I experimented with the scrapbook paper and the design, and chose paper that is similar to that in the pictures she ordered off Etsy.
Inside, two outfits, two bottle brushes, a shopping cart seat cover, another formula canister turned headband holder (like the one featured above) and a bunch of rolled up newborn diapers completed the gift. The basket from TJ Maxx held a TON of stuff, was SUPER cute and could be reused in the nursery as well.
I can't wait to see what Mal comes up with for the Nursery. Knowing her, it will be amazing!
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