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Turn your children's art into the sweetest fabric to use to create custom cushions. Emma Jeffery, author of Hello Beautiful<\/a>, shows us how she used our newest fabric Minky<\/a> to create soft and snuggly cushions for her daughters room featuring her designs!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Today I\u2019m going to show you how to prepare 6 designs for making cushions printed on to Spoonflower\u2019s new, plush Minky fabric. Each finished cushion cover will fit 18\u201d x 18\u201d pillow forms and will be the cuddliest cushions you\u2019ve ever snuggled.<\/p>\n

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I used my daughter\u2019s drawings for 4 of my cushions as well as 2 simple designs I drew on my computer. If you want to use hand drawn drawings like I did, simply scan the images and save them to your computer. If you don\u2019t have a scanner, you can always take photos of the drawings and upload them to your computer.<\/p>\n

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Select the 6 images you wish to use and crop them all to a square shape, using your computer\u2019s basic photo editing software. I also enhanced the color and contrast of my images to make the colors really stand out.<\/p>\n

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Go to picmonkey.com<\/a> to create a collage and upload your 6 images.<\/p>\n

Under the \u2018Cards\u2019 collage heading, select 4 x 8 and set the size of the collage to 3000 x 2000. Lay out your images into 2 rows of 3 by dragging them into the grid.<\/p>\n

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Use picmonkey\u2019s photo edit option to enlarge and centralize your images within each square.<\/p>\n

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Save your collage to your computer using the highest quality download option.<\/p>\n

Open your collage in your computer\u2019s photo editing software and adjust the size to 54\u201d x 36\u201d. Adjust the resolution to 150 dpi. Save your collage.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re now ready to upload your collage to Spoonflower\u2019s website. Go to Spoonflower.com<\/a> to create your custom fabric. Upload your design and select one yard of Minky.<\/p>\n

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When you get the fabric home, simply cut each individually designed 18\u201d x 18\u201d square and use as the front of your cushion piece. I used designs from Spoonflower\u2019s Marketplace<\/a> by Sparrowsong<\/a> and Charlotte Winter<\/a> printed on Eco Canvas<\/a> for the cushion backings.<\/p>\n

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About Our Guest Blogger<\/h3>\n

\"Emma<\/a>Hi! I'm Emma, and as well as working on the Fiskars Design Team, I blog over at hellobeautifulblog.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I'm an obsessive sewer, often leaping into projects with more enthusiasm than talent, more bravado than skill and more good luck than anything else. This technique has worked well for me so far and more often than not, I make things I love, even if they're not absolutely perfect. And though I'm no expert, I have a passion for fabric, color and design. I know what I like and what I like makes me smile.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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