Yesterday I shared an idea on how to make your own storage bin. I mentioned I had a few rolls of fabric laying around from our other house that was never used. Because it involved pink and a raspberry color, I wasn't sure how I would ever work this into anything in our new house. But then I thought why not use these fun colors as liners for the storage bins.
So I started off by cutting my liners, but I was sure it wouldn't be enough. I only had 1 yard of each. My other fabric was a brushed denim I had ordered from Calico Corners in Florida and waited weeks for it to arrive. I was going to make a pillow for our fuchsia and gray family room, but obviously I never got to it. After I ran out of the print fabric, I started on the denim, but decided to use it, wrong side out, because it was a bit lighter in color and would probably wear better than the brushed side. I had another sturdy box laying around that I decided to cover with this fabric...
Then I went online to find some directions on how to make a liner. As a former home economics teacher, I knew there were several ways to do this, but in my search, I found this great video on YouTube. Unfortunately, no matter what I did or tried, I could not upload it directly to my blog. After spending more than enough time trying to do this, I finally decided to just post the link. If you follow this link and watch the video, your liner should turn out perfect...
http://youtu.be/bAW1m-ebjnM
After I sewed my liners, I wanted to spice it up a bit and decided to add numbers to the front of them. I didn't want actual words because I knew that down the road I might be changing around what I put in them. I don't have a die-cutting machine, so I decided to paint the numbers on. I played around with size and printed out the numbers, using the Stencil font...
I rubbed the outline of each number, on the wrong side of the paper. I think I used a number 4B pencil, but any soft leaded pencil will work...
Put the number where you want it to be and trace around it with a pencil...
This will leave an outline on your fabric. Then I just used black craft paint and once it dried, I put a coat of matte Mod Podge over it...
Look how nice my favorite coffee cup goes with the pink...
Here they are on some of my bookshelves...
If I did this again, I would use heavier fabric. The raspberry fabric covered everything nicely and didn't wrinkle or leave bubbles. I would also match up colors before gluing the fabric. I knew things would loosen up a bit when I painted my fabric with the tea, but I picked the best sides and ends to put onto the bookshelf.
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