A Monogram with Bling!

In working on the accessories for Little Cutie’s room renovation and redecorating, I wanted to make her some new throw pillows for her bed.  I’ve seen a bunch of great initial pillows made of various sized buttons on Etsy and in catalogs and originally thought to go that route, but then I thought some more about Little Cutie.  Since this room will be a surprise reveal for her I really and truly want it to be “very her” and there’s nothing that screams Little Cutie more than some bling.

As always with my initial projects, I printed a large letter on cardstock {this is Times Roman at about 650 pt}.

Then using my small craft scissors {or you could use an x-acto knife} I carefully cut out the initial, leaving myself a negative template.  I pinned it to the center of the piece of fabric that will be the top of my pillow.

Using an assortment of rhinestones, I “filled in” my template completely, leaving as little space as possible.  When I had finished, I simply lifted the paper template off and had my initial perfectly created in bling!

All that was left to do was to sew up an envelope style pillow cover, flip it and fill it!  This whole project cost under five dollars {$1.79 for the pillow insert at Ikea, $1 worth of fabric and less than $2 worth of rhinestones}!

And here it is next to the fun bedding ~

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