Valentine’s Day Shirts for Boys

I love making shirts for my boys, so I couldn’t resist coming up with something for Luke to wear to his Preschool Party. 

It took a while to think of a good idea for the design, but I saw phrase “Loads of Love” on a stamp once with a pick-up  truck and hearts falling out.  {I think it was a Stampin’ Up stamp that my friend had.}  So I found a good picture of a truck for an example and drew it in Photoshop and then added little hearts in the back and falling off the truck.  I used the font Lemondrop for the wording. 



Sam’s shirt was a bit trickier.  I couldn’t decide what I wanted to do.  I thought about “Heart Breaker” or “stud muffin” but wasn’t in love with either.  Then I thought of Love Boat!  Perfect!  Drew up a little boat and added some hearts to it also!  Decided to nix the actual wording—figured the boat with hearts is pretty self explanatory.  I will have to snap a picture of Sam wearing his shirt tomorrow—he was way too grumpy to attempt it today! 

I got these red t-shirts at Walmart for $3.88/ea and then washed them.  It’s important to wash them since they may shrink a little after the first wash.  Unless you plan never to wash the stenciled …

I cut the stencils using my Sure-Cuts-A-Lot program and my Cricut and I used Freezer Paper for the stencils.  Be sure to cut out the right side.  The shiny side is what gets ironed onto the shirt, so make sure the picture isn’t reversed when that side goes down.


Then a couple coats of Tulip Fabric paint and let it dry overnight. 

In the morning I carefully pulled off the freezer paper—the most annoying part.

I need to remember next time to make any skinny lines much thicker.  Skinny lines have a bigger tendency to bleed and are a lot harder to remove after you’ve painted.  I had some trouble with bleeding and getting the freezer paper off because of my skinny lines.



I’ve made the skinnier lines thicker in the downloads, so if you attempt these I’m hoping I’ve fixed the problem.

That’s it!  Cute shirts for my cute boys!



Now my Valentine’s Day gift to you…my files for these stencils! Hopefully you can figure out how to load these into your various programs and cut them with your electronic cutters.  I used SCAL with my Cricut…so if you don’t have those, I won’t be able to help you with any questions {I don’t know anything about the Silhouette, for example, so I can’t help you there!} I’ve made the skinny lines a bit fatter, so hopefully you’ll have a little better luck and not have any bleeding like I did!

Loads of Love
Love Boat

These files are for PERSONAL USE ONLY! You can not sell these images or use them for anything being sold.  Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Tis The Season...for another free printable

I'm kind of addicted to making things look like a chalkboard in Photoshop right now...so you may be seeing a few more of these popping up this week!

8x10

{for personal use only}

TIPS on DOWNLOADING:
 {in Firefox Browser} Click the image, then right click and "view image", click again to zoom to full size. (it should look pretty huge on the browser screen) Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer.

{In CHROME browser} you need to click "open image in a new tab" instead of "view image" all other instructions are the same.

If you are using Internet Explorer these instructions will not work. 
Use Firefox {which is what I use} or download Chrome.

Christmas Subway Art Revisited - Chalkboard Style

I’ve taken my ever-so-popular Christmas Subway Art,

{that I just so happened to created exactly 2 years ago today...}

and with a little bit of tweaking here and there 

I transformed it into the ever-so-trendy Chalkboard style!

And, I decided to keep this one free, too!

{11x14}

What do you think?

[for personal use only please!]

*To Download*

Click the image, then right click "view image", click again to zoom to full size. (it should look pretty huge on the browser screen) Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer.

{8x10}

Free Printable Halloween Subway Art

Helllllloooooo....

Sorry for the little break there...I've been super busy working on lots of fun projects lately!  Instead of blogging I decided to just bust out a ton of projects and blog about them later which is what I'll be doing all next week!  I'm so so so excited about some of these projects and I can't wait to share them with you! 

In the meantime, I've busted out this Halloween Subway Art for you to enjoy as a little bribery--forget that I've been a sucky blogger this summer and this month especially and enjoy this little freebie!!  The long hiatus will be worth it in the end, promise!


Thanks for sticking with me!  Happy Halloweeeeen!!

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{All free printables released on this site are property of Smile Like You Mean It and are for personal use only!  If you use this image elsewhere on the internet please link back to this post! Thanks!}

Click the image. Then right click the image and click "view image"), click one more time to magnify to full size. (it should look pretty huge on the browser screen) Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer before printing or getting it printed.  

8x10 Printable

11x14 printable

16x20 printable

Free Valentine’s Day Subway Art Printable

Tis the season of love! Here’s my newest printable for Valentine’s Day!

Click the image, (you may need to then click "view image"), click again to magnify to full size. (it should look pretty huge on the browser screen) Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer.

[for personal use only please!]

linking up to TCB, T&J, Somewhat Simple...

Autumn Printable

We are more than ready for a little Fall around here, (except for maybe Luke who still asks to go swimming everyday regardless of what time it is or how cold it is outside). We are excited to see changing leaves, more cooler weather and cozy up with warm blankets and a good book!

I made this to help get you in the mood for Fall too! Enjoy!

{click image, right click & select "save image as"}

{8x10}

{for personal use only please!}

linking up here, here, here, and here

soap art with free printables

I made these really cute neighbor gifts for Christmas, and I'm still getting some questions on them, so I decided to post about them again with some updates!

You can make your own, but you will need transparency sheets, and a laser printer. Or you can take it to get it printed somewhere like FedEx.

Here is the Clean Hands artwork that I created for my Christmas gifts:

• Click the image and save it on your computer.
• Then open it up using www.picnik.com
• Click on the "Create" tab at the top, then click "Text"
• Click the text box at the upper left, above the options for fonts. Type in the name that you want to use to personalize your soap and click 'add' (you may have to change the color to black in order to see your text)
• Then you can play with the fonts and sizing and pick what you like best. {i used the font called Pupcat for mine here}

• After you are done, then click on the Save and Share tab at the top.
  I always save at the highest quality out of principle.
• Then, to print, I plugged the jpeg into a word document because I wanted to fit a bunch on one sheet, but do whatever you need to do. The picture should be about 2.5 inches wide and 3.5 inches long in order to fit in the same kind of soap bottle that I used.
  

Same idea for this frame (which is just a digital scrapbooking frame by Summer Driggs), just plug in an initial using Picnik:

Like this example:

OR, if you just want to print it out without personalizing, here is the image for that:

{it should be good for an 8x10, even better if it's smaller than that because that is what it was made for}

That's it! Let me know if you have any questions! Happy Soap-making :)

{if you use these images, please use for personal use & gifting only! No selling!}

8x10 Springtime Printable

click image. right click > view image.
click to magnify. right click > save image as.
save. then print on card stock.

{for personal use only}

Christmas Tags

Another free printable! Yay!

Here are some Christmas Tags to help you spread the holiday cheer this year:[for personal use only please!]

Click the image, click again to zoom to full size. Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer.

Merry Christmas...a little early.

**Update** See my new Chalkboard Style 
version of this subway art HERE!!**

i am ready for December and Christmas and all things jolly.

so i worked on this subway art as

my early christmas present to you:

8x10
11x14
[for personal use only please!] 
 {in Firefox Browser} Click the image, then right click and "view image", click again to zoom to full size. (it should look pretty huge on the browser screen) Right click, select "save image as" and save it to your computer.

{In CHROME browser} you need to click "open image in a new tab" instead of "view image" all other instructions are the same.

If you are using Internet Explorer these instructions will not work. 
Use Firefox {which is what I use} or download Chrome.