Glittery Christmas Pillows

Christmas decorating is in full effect at our house.

I whipped up a few pillows today to help spruce up my living room.

A few weeks ago, I got an AH-mazing package of goodies from Tulip.

Check out my very first haul video.

You can see all the goodies that I received.

{do it quick or my eyes will probably stay like this!}

The one product I was most excited about was the fashion glitter shimmer transfer sheets.

I immediately thought I would make a vintage glittery Santa pillow

I noticed on the Tulip Shimmer Sheet directions that they could be used with most die cutters.

Challenge accepted!

{if you don't have a die cut machine, keep reading!  I have a tutorial for you too!}

I found an image I liked and made it into an image that I could cut in my Silhouette SD software.

I placed my tulip shimmer sheet on my silhouette cutting mat and started cutting.

Even setting the sheet on a slower double cut, the image didn't cut out completely.

BUT, it did make an easier image for me to use to cut on my own.

I cut my image out with small scissors and weeded out the parts that would leave me with the best silhouette image of my vintage Santa.

After I was done with that, I made a simple envelope pillow case.

I had a 16x16 pillow form that I picked up at a garage sale this summer for 50 cents.

With that in mind, I cut a long rectangle about 28x18.

I folded over the short ends and hemmed them down.

Once the ends were hemmed, I folded the pillow case to the measurements of the pillow, overlapping by about 3 inches.  Make sure your sewed end seems are on the outside.

I finished sewing the case by sewing both of the side seems together.

There you have it!

The inside of the envelope slip cover pillow.

Flip your pillow case inside out {or outside in...} and iron flat.

Place your cut image on the front of your pillow case and position it where you want it to stay forever and ever.

Cover with a thin cloth 

Heat dry iron to cotton setting and iron design in place for about 40 seconds.

There you have it!

A beautiful vintage looking glittery Santa pillow.

I realize that not everyone has a die cut machine so I also made a tutorial for how to make a design without a fancy machine.

I used a font that I liked and mirrored that image and then printed it out.

I used spray adhesive on the back of my printed page and adhered the printed page to the back slick side of the Tulip shimmer sheet.

I cut the image out with my small scissors

Once my image was cut, I peeled off the paper backing.

I followed the above envelope pillowcase tutorial using the measurements of a pillow form I bought at Goodwill for $1.

I placed my design on the pillow case, put a thin cloth over the top and ironed it in place for about a minute.

Viola!

A beautiful hand cut glittered Christmas pillow!

Aren't the tulip shimmer transfer sheets amazing?!

The possibilities are endless for not only amazing Christmas decor, but beautiful fabric gifts year round.

Much more Tulip inspiration can be found in Tulip's social media resources here:

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I wrote this post as part of a paid campaign with Tulip and Blueprint social.  As always, the opinions in this post are 100% mine.