I am absolutely in LOVE with this DIY craft project! Take your family photos, your wedding pictures – whatever you want and make it into a customized pillow! It was so much easier than I would have ever thought and the tutorial is right here!
How to Make Your Own Photo Pillow Place the muslin fabric and the Freezer Paper on a hard surface {I used a cutting board} and iron the pieces together. When placing the muslin fabric and freezer paper together, make sure the shiny side of the freezer paper faces the fabric. When ironing the pieces together use a HOT iron and pay particular attention to the edges. Those are the most important parts that need to stick!
Once the muslin fabric and the freezer paper are molded together place the paper into your printer so that it will print on the fabric NOT the freezer paper!
Now, the hardest part – deciding WHICH picture to use! Using Microsoft Word on the computer I uploaded a picture from our wedding day and stretched it to fit the entire page. I created a text box to put the word LOVE above and that was it! Easy!
For the wedding day collage pillow I got a little fancier with the editing skills and I used an amazing site called picmonkey.com to create a collage of pictures. This website is free and is SUPER easy to make collages with! I definitely recommend it!
Once you have your picture edited and ready to go you are almost ready to print! To get the best results change your print settings to “photo paper” and the quality to “maximum dpi” You will want your printer to put out its best work for this project! After you have adjusted those settings – hit PRINT!
It should come out of your printer looking something like this! So cool right? Here are my two photo pillow projects right out of the printer:
Now that you have these printed, peel away the freezer paper and you now have the front fabric for your pillow! You can now put this piece together with the backing fabric of your choice and sew them together to create a pillow. If you are new to sewing a pillow, THIS site has a great step by step tutorial to walk you through it OR you could ask your nice neighbor to help you {thanks Marlys!}
Not too hard right? And SO cool! I had no idea my printer was capable of doing this! These pillows are so cute and they make GREAT gifts! I had so much fun making these (and had so much fabric and freezer paper to spare!) that I made one for my mom as a thank you gift.
Think of the possibilities for your kid’s rooms, your home, gifts and more! There are SO many things that you can do with these pillows and they turned out so cute!
If you love making personalized gifts and projects from your pictures you will want to check out this darling DIY heart-shaped poster. Good luck creating your own! Please share with us your final projects – we would love to see them!
