Jenny's Crayon Collection: Crafty

How to Make an Eras Tour Shirt

I really wanted to take my 5 year old to the Taylor Swift Era's tour movie, but there was no merch on Taylor's website at all for 5 year olds. I had merch for my 12 year old daughter and I that we got on her website and from The Eras tour in person, but not for my 5 year old. I decided to take matters into my own hands and make her her very own Taylor Swift The Eras Tour Movie shirt. We paired it with a gold and cream skirt and she was ready to go. In this blog post I will show how I made this shirt.

Supplies:

To start off with I got some gold iron metallic cricut material. The hardest part was using cricut design to make the Era's tour logo. I can share what it looks like, but it will be needed to be created because the font is not native to Cricut. The font used for the Eras Tour posters and merch is Pistilli Roman. The font can be downloaded here. Once it is downloaded open it as a system font in Cricut.

To make the Taylor Swift larger the width and height need to be unlocked and the height made double. In my case it was 1 to 2. Then space The Eras Tour and Movie to desired width. I made them as wide as Taylor Swift because that is what she does on her merch. After that I welded the whole design, otherwise when when cutting it would throw the words everywhere. This way the design will stay in place and only needs to be ironed not rearranged on the shirt.

After that come the fun part of weeding. Some of the letters had really small widths and came off during weeding. I have a fix for this next.

I did not grab a picture before I fixed it, but the M, A, V, W and some other letters had thin portions and did not weed out very well. I took a gold Posca pen with a Yasutomo brush and painted those portions of the letters back on.

Here is the end result. Can you see where I painted it on? The A, W, V, U and M. I let it dry before wearing it.

Here is the completed shirt. It looks like it could be from Taylor Swift's online store. I am so glad my daughter had something to wear to the movie. She loved wearing it and she fit right in. We were able to watch the Eras tour movie together. And I will say for a 5 year old I prefered the movie to the concert because she would have been tired, it would have been expensive and it would have been very loud. I am so glad we got to experience the concert together at the movies. If you make this let me know and tag me on instagram @jennyscrayoncollection.

How To Make Friendship Bracelets (Taylor Swift Eras Tour Version)

Recently I had the opportunity to go the Taylor Swift Eras Tour in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Allegiant Stadium. This was the 2nd stop for the Eras tour and I had heard that people were going to exchange friendship bracelets. I knew I wanted to make some and exchange them. In this blog post I will show you how I made the bracelets and then what I wish I would have done differently in exchanging them.

To make friendship bracelets for the Era's tour any type of beads will do as long as there are letters. Letters are what is used to make the different song titles for each bracelet. This is a kit I picked up at Target with white, silver and black letters. I did not use it for the Las Vegas stop, but I am going again in New York and will make some more bracelets.

Find some bracelet supplies on Amazon. Buying at Michael's and Target was convenient, but the beads were a little more money. But on Amazon to save some money, especially if making a ton.

Letter beads

Colored beads

Colored beads with butterfly, stars and other shapes

Colored beads and lettered beads.

Get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

I picked up some beads, letters and string from Michaels. I wish I had had more letters to choose from. I am excited to use the above kit because the letters are available in alphabetical order and I do not have to base the bracelet based off the color of beads I find. I chose the stretchy string because it is easier to fit onto different sized hands. I also found that some holes on the beads were too small for the string. I am going to have to buy smaller string to use them.

The key to making these bracelets is to come up with cool sayings in the middle. These can be song titles, initials of the songs, random inside Swiftie jokes or allusions from the songs. Click here to get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

To get started I measured the string a little longer than my wrist.

Then I tied a bead to one end of the string. This bead will change later, but it helps the beads from coming off when they are being put on.

I tried to make color patterns with the beads I had. I really want to do another Me bracelet. I love this color palette.

I took the bead off the end and then tied the bracelet together. I then tucked the ends of the string into the beads.

I then put them in a plastic bag to bring with me to the tour. I put these beads in a clear purse and had no problem getting in.

I made the mistake of putting these beads in my bag and not on my wrist. In order to see other people that want to trade the bracelets have to be displayed. I would recommend putting the ones to trade on one wrist and the others to not trade on the other wrist.

Since I did not find anyone to trade with I found people to give them to that had cool costumes. Here are some girls that had steller outfits!

Here is a mother daughter duo that were sitting by me. It made me wish my daughter was at the concert with me.

I found someone celebrating their 50th birthday at the concert. How cool is that?

Lastly I found someone that was super pregnant and super cute and gave them a bracelet.

Here is someone I wished I had given a bracelet. She had a super cute outfit. I also gave one to my sister, and a friend and her daughters, but do not have pictures of that.

It was so fun to give these bracelets out at the concert. I would highly recommend it. Everyone was so happy to receive one. Next concert I am going to I will make 20-40 bracelets and trade away. What concert are you going to? Are you going to make bracelets?

Find some bracelet supplies on Amazon.

Letter beads

Colored beads

Colored beads with butterfly, stars and other shapes

Colored beads and lettered beads.

Click here to get over 100 bracelet ideas or over 550 bracelet ideas featuring songs, albums and inside Swiftie jokes.

Here are all the friendship bracelets I made for the Eras Tour. I can not wait to make some more.

NEW Mildliner Highlighter Colors: Gentle Pack

I was so excited to hear that Zebra was coming out with a new package of Mildliners this year 2023. They are the "Gentle" mildliners. The colors are: Baby Pink, Honey Orange, Sherbet Yellow, Soda Blue and Lilac. This will make for a total of 35 mildliner colors available in the United States right now. There is one color Rose Pink that is not available yet. I am super excited to have them and have already started planning with them.

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The only place to find these right now is Target with the neutral colors. They should be available other places later this year.

Here are the swatches for the colors. They are super light and provide a subtle highlight.

Here are the Gengle Mildliner colors with the names.

Creating a Fall Pumpkin Display by Color Matching Paint and Markers

Do you like to paint? I love to paint, but it can be overwhelming trying to figure out what colors to get. But guess what? Artists and crafters do not need to get 100 colors to paint, just the basic colors and then the rest of the colors can be made from that. For this project I chose a palette from markers and tried to recreate them with paint. I have a blog post all about color theory. It is super helpful to know how to create all the colors. The advantage to paint over markers is the paint can spread faster and the paint can be any chosen color. The possibilities are endless. When I was using the colors I wanted a more teal color than I had. I had to blend two markers, but with paint I could make it whatever color I wanted.

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Part of the advantage to doing something with markers instead of paint is if a mistake is made then a canvas is not wasted, just paper.

To start my project I made a template of the project I wanted to paint. I used markers to make it. See how I tried to blend the markers because it was not quite the teal I wanted? I also changed the vines to be brown later because I didn't like the orange.

Here is what I ended up making with paint! I think the colors turned out pretty good. Read on to see how I figured out how to make the colors. I was nervous, but most of the colors I got on the first try.

The base colors I had were blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. Here are some of the starter colors for gray, red and teal.

Here are all the base colors mixed with my guesses for the colors. For the teal I did a little green, white and blue. For the gray I used a tiny amount of black and then white. For the orange I did yellow and red. I do not have any fancy stir sticks so I used toothpicks. The tray is from Yasutomo.

Here is my first attempt at colors. I love the teal and gray. The orange was too red.

I had no idea what colors for the brown. In my color theory post I knew that brown is a mix of all the primary colors. I decided to try it. And then I added more yellow to the orange.

The brown worked and the orange was much better!

I then drew my template in pencil because I am not good at free hand.

I used two brushes to get the wide and skinny part of fall.

Here is the finished piece! I decided not to add the black outline, but I may do that later. I was so happy with how this turned out.

Here is the comparison of the two. Which one is your favorite. I hope this helps and see that it is not scary to mix paint colors!

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