My brother and sister-in-law just bought this amazing new house! They have 3 boys so they wanted to do something “BOY” in the main bathroom, so M suggested Arkansas Razorbacks. Now M has awesome taste in paint colors and picked out this amazing gray color. While we were at Home Depot buying paint, I found a painters drop cloth that really went well with the paint color and it was only $5.00. It was the PERFECT size for a shower curtain. I immediately had a vision and offered to make a shower curtain for them. I was first going to applique a large red and white chevron hog in the middle of the curtain, but when I pinned it all up on my wall of my craft room — it just wasn’t right. After looking at it for about 48 hours, I decided to put the big black grommets in and take a stab at free-hand paiting a Hog. What the heck right, if it sucked I was only out $5.00.
I LOVE the way the Hog turned out. I used regular acrylic paints in which I mixed a fabric paint medium. Basically it made it fabric paint. I drew out the basic outline of the Hog — but from there it was pretty much free-hand all the way. When we hung the curtain though, it was too short…..good thing I already had that awesome Red and White Chevron material on hand. It made a perfect accent to the shower curtain and I could make it just long enough. Sister-in-law bought some great black grommet topped curtain panels to accent the shower curtain and I used some left-over chevron to make the tie backs. Here is the final product.
(Note: It still needs to be steamed to get the wrinkles out, but we just hung it up)
Have I mentioned yet how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE my Silhouette Cameo??? Well I do, I love it almost as much as my Ipod and my Ipad! Ih have had so much fun making various things, fabric appliques, invitations, about a million vinyl projects.
So here is the Fight Song that I made for the bathroom as well. I think it looks GREAT agains the Gray walls. I love buying cheap picture frames and taking the backs off to make great wall hangings.
(Please forgive the picture……since it’s crooked and a reflection in it!)
I can’t wait to make another one of these…….using the different fonts was so much fun!
Hope you like my Razorback bathroom, my nephews sure do!
