Hi Itís Jenny from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.
That season of giving is upon us again, and itís almost Christmas time, and we need some
quick, fun, fast gifts.
Well I have something really fun to show you, really a great idea.
This is a little plate that we picked up at Walmart, these clear glass plates like this,
and we Mod Podged the fabric on the back of them to make a darling cookie plate.
This is Kate Spainís Fa La La Fabric.
Itís just adorable.
They make such quick fun gifts, and weíre going to show you just how to do that.
The first thing youíre going to want to do is protect your area because mod podge can
be a little messy, so weíve got a little piece of paper here.
Weíve got a bottle of mod podge, you can get this anywhere, your local craft stores
or hobby lobby stores.
Actually, you can get these clear plates at any of those too.
So check for the clear plates and the mod podge, and weíve got one sponge brush that
weíre going to use, and Iím going to show you how easily this is done.
If youíre going to do a few of these, you might want to pour this into a bowl, or if
it gets too low down, but Iím just going to reach into the jar and do this.
The other thing is, when you choose your fabric, if you choose a nice, all over pattern, you
can see I have a couple here to show you, you know it really doesnít matter where you
place the fabric on there, but weíre going to use on this plate weíre going to use this
nice little Nancy Hoberson fabric that has a Santa in it, and weíre going to kind of
want to center him up in the middle there, and so weíre just going to lay him on there
and see how that looks and see if thatís the way we like it, and then what weíre going
to do it weíre going to turn our plate over, hold our hand underneath, and weíre just
going to start mod podging this, so weíre just going to brush this on here like this.
Just cover the whole thing with a good layer; make sure you get the edges well, not on the
other side but just on the top side here.
Just cover this whole thing.
Itís so cute.
You know you always need a plate of cookies for somebody, and when you can make it fit
their personality like this, you could do anything on this from cute argyle fabric,
thereís just all kinds of fabric.
Now, weíre going to lay this on here and weíre going to center this over the middle
of this plate.
Then weíre just going to begin to rub on it and really rub it and make sure that there
are no bubbles or anything in it.
Weíre going to rub it down and stick it to that glue really good.
Then weíre going to press it around the edge so that it just sticks on there.
There we go.
We just want to make sure that thatís really smooth.
Then weíre going to flip it over, and weíre going to take a look at it.
Now, you can see where there are some little white places on here where the glue is, you
just want to rub those in so those just kind of melt away.
Make sure that your edgesÖsee, we have a little extra glue up on here, we just want
to wipe that off a little bit because we donít want it up on the front, we just want it around
the edge.
And then youíre going to look and see if thereís any place on here that really is
hanging off the edge, and if youíre ok, hereís a little bit, so weíre gonna just take this
brush and weíre just gonna tuck it in right here, put a little bit of glue in there, because
you want the fabric to come clear out to the edge, and then weíre just going to let it
sit probably for about a minute or so, not very long.
Let the glue kind of get set on there.
There we go.
And then weíre going to take our scissors after itís set up pretty good and weíre
just going to trim along this edge.
I like to tilt my scissors just a hair so that we trim right at the bottom of the plate,
right underneath the lip of that edge, weíre just trying to trim.
There we go.
And you can see how this is going to look.
Who wouldnít want to get cookies on this for Christmastime?
Now youíre just going to want to flip this over, make sure everything is nice and smooth,
and then weíre going to put one more coat of mod podge on there.
Just really glue that baby down there.
You want to make sure if you use your good scissors on this that you rinse them off after
youíre done.
There we go.
And then youíre just going to lay them on your paper and let this dry for a few hours
and it really will be ready before you know it.
Weíve also done one here with birthday fabric.
How fun would that be.
You have to remember with these plates is that you cannot wash them in the dishwasher,
theyíre not washable, but you can wash off the top, the top is just the glass part, you
can wash and clean that, you just donít want to immerse it or put it in.
One more thing I wanted to show you thatís really fun to showcase a line of fabric.
You know itís really fun to have that cute plate on your shelf that has the fabric that
you love, and so I wanted to show you how to do that, and right now monograms are really
big, so what Iíve done is Iíve traced the letter E on here for my little granddaughter
Ella, and see itís got this iron on here.
You always iron the bumpy side, youíll see the bumpy side on the bottom.
You iron that down and you trace your letter backwards, so that when you put it on the
fabric, you iron it on, itíll come out right.
So weíre going to go ahead and cut this out.
These are so popular right now, and I love that you can whatever designer you love, you
could have a plate with their fabric on it, put it up on your shelf, your mantel, it would
be so cute.
There we go.
Weíre going to head over to the ironing board and weíre going to press this on.
Ok, so here we are at the ironing board, and we are pealing this off, and you can see this
side of the letter has the iron on stuff on it, this side is good, so we place that down,
and weíre going to place it kind of in the middle of our fabric because remember we want
it to be in the middle of our plate.
This is that darling new bunny hill Lillian Will fabric, and we just are going to press
that down, and itíll just stick on there.
Everythingís done with the right side, and weíre going to set this E right in the center
of the plate.
So letís go put that on our plate.
So we have our E here.
Itís going to fit right in the middle of our plate, right here, and we are going to
go ahead and weíre going to mod podge this plate.
Youíll have something beautiful to put on your mantel.
Some of the fabric is so gorgeous that you just kind of want to highlight it sometimes,
and this is a great way to do that.
If you know somebody whoís a fan of a certain fabric line, they love this as a gift, and
because itís a show piece, you know, you donít have to worry about it too much.
Alright, weíve got all of our glue on there, itís nice and smooth.
And then weíre going to put this E in the center here.
Weíre going to turn it over and look at it.
See there it is, right in the middle.
Then weíre just going to smooth this out, press it toward the edges.
Here we go.
If you get a little rumple in it, just push it down, it just smooths out so nice and easily.
Then weíre going to flip this up, check our edges, make sure we are tight up on our edges.
Then weíre just going to trim this off.
Look how fun this is.
This is so cute.
There we go, weíre just going to mod podge over the back of it, let it dry, and it will
be done.
But how fun would this be, to get cookies on a plate that was designed for you.
Say you have a math teacher, you could do one with numbers.
We also found these adorable square plates like this.
They are just the same thing.
It is so sinchy and so fast, weíll just do another one real quick to show you how that
works.
So weíre coming around this edge, weíre covering it with this mod podje, I mean youíre
going to get excited about these, I mean even the mailman is going to get some cookies,
the scoutmaster, everybodyís going to get some cookies because you can get all of the
fabrics to go with whatever they do.
Itíll just be really fun for you.
Here we have this beautifulÖremember now, you put your fabric on with the print side
down so that it just goes right on there, and we just press it, press it.
Wonít this black be pretty, food looks so pretty on black plates, it just really sets
it off.
Touch it all around the edges, smooth it.
There we go, flip it over, I still have some glue spots, Iím going to want to rub those
out a little better.
With the square ones, you just have to watch right around the edges here where it curves,
you just want to make sure that itís really down there nice and tight.
And again weíre going to take this, and weíre just going to trim it off.
You can do this with scraps of fabric.
We all have loads of little pieces left over.
Just make sure you find one to fit your plates.
If you donít want to make that many cookies, you can get a smaller plate.
Itís whatever youíd like to do.
This is a great, quick Christmas gift; teachers, everybody would love to get a plate like this.
You donít even need to put cookies on them because the plates are so beautiful.
Alright, here we go with this one.
Put our scraps over there.
Weíre going to flip it over, put one more coat on.
Put another coat on here, get all the way out to the edges.
If you find you have any little sharp edges on it when you finish up, you can just trim
those off.
You can also wash these little sponge brushes out.
Theyíll wash out pretty quick if you want to use them again, otherwise, theyíre a good
throwaway.
And there you go, weíve got 2 Christmas gifts look at this one.
2 Christmas gifts quick in one tutorial.
We hope you have a wonderful Holiday and can make some of these gifts for those people
that you love, and we hope you enjoyed this tutorial from the Missouri Star Quilt Company.