Continuing in my series about the Rubber Ducky Baby Sprinkle I threw in April for my friend Jennie, today we’ll talk about the clothing gifts I made for baby Colin & his big sister Joy. Of course, putting together this whole shindig wasn’t enough for my crazy ass. I had to go overboard and test the waters of heat transfer vinyl by way of onesies and t-shirts for the kiddos.
Even with my old Cricut Expression, I never cut any vinyl or iron-on material, otherwise known as heat-transfer vinyl. So I bought a pack of one-piece jumpsuits and a t-shirt in Joy’s size and went nuts with the Cricut Explore. Throughout her pregnancy, Jennie had regaled us with tales of Joy acting out, which she suspected was because of the baby. So I wanted to put together a little goody bag for Joy so she wouldn’t feel left out. If Colin was getting 5 jumpsuits, then a Big Sister Joy shirt was a must, right?
I ordered some light pink, dark pink, & blue heat transfer vinyl from Happy Crafters and was very happy with the results. It’s probably been over a decade (at least) since I attempted any sort of iron-on project, and I know it’s been more than a year since I last used my iron. Since this is an iron I’ve owned for nearly 20 years, I took precautions against gunk transfer by ironing on a towel and using a paper towel in between the old iron and the clean white shirt and one-piece jumpsuits. Here’s a taste of Joy’s Big Sister shirt using my own font and an image from the Design Space library. I found a generic bow and added that onto the Y there too. I was a little worried if the HTV would layer well like normal vinyl would, but it worked perfectly. I just hope that the shirt lasts through the wash & some wearings!
I stuck with a monochromatic blue for the jumpsuits and only personalized the one, using the same font of course. I love that I can use my EXTENSIVE font library on my computer in Design Space! All of the images I used for the clothing were from the Design Space library. In fact, except for my own fonts, I didn’t upload any special images for anything I did for this rubber ducky baby shower. I really like the slight sparkle to the blue, which was unexpected, but I think works well. There’s a little bit of shimmer to the pink, but it’s not as noticeable in my picture. I did order some full-on holographic purple heat-transfer vinyl from Expressions Vinyl for myself, so I’ll be sure to share the results of whatever project I use that for later!
I decided that I needed to add some kind of touch to whatever I was going to wear for the baby sprinkle as well. Since I already had my nails planned out, and I’d already purchased the rubber ducky ribbon to “do something with” (it ended up on the drink dispenser, too), I made hair bows. I’ve had these blue buttons FOREVER but never used them because I only had 3. So I made two little bobby pin hair bows and one larger bow on a French barrette hair clip (not shown) so I used all 3. They were a nice, subtle touch to my otherwise plain blue shirt that I wore.
Speaking of my manicure, I posted it already in my latest manicure catch-up post, but here it is again. I used some yellow vinyl I got as part of this 40 sheet assortment to cut the same rubber ducky silhouette used on everything else. I used Pure Ice Castle of Dreams as the blue background and Zoya Purity for the polka dots. Then, slapped on those duckies with some tweezers, added a coat or two of Glisten & Glow HK Girl top coat, & headed out the door to get everything going at the park (yes, I did this the morning before the party)!
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