Mommy Saves Money: Swaddling Blankies!

I never swaddled with Carson, he slept with us and all that jazz. This time my main goal is to keep Oliver in his own crib/pack and play.  So I figured, I should buy some swaddling blankets. But then the ones I wanted, These ones are not cheap. 

I still wanted swaddling blankets, even if they weren't going to be cheap. Well today while I was at Joann Fabric (I hate this store with a passion but they have a HUGE selection of fabric) I had a 50% off coupon so I wanted to purchase a nice thick piece of fabric for a backdrop for Ollies newborn photos.  I ended up getting a really big nice fluffy brown blanket material type fabric 

I think it will make a nice backdrop. They had a TON of colors I might go back and buy a few more colors as I snag some coupons.

Back to todays project. 

I wanted to "test" out my stamp. I didn't want to ruin the Muslin if it didn't work. So I ran and grabbed a cheap plain onsie and well, it turned out pretty stinking cute

Here are my homemade stamps. Just hard felt spray glued on to styrofoam board. Super cheap.  I free handed and cut these out myself.
I love owls and elephants

Ooops its a shirt not a onsie. I painted the fabric pain on to the stamp. I think a little foam roller would have worked a bit better, but I have tons of little brushed from all Carson's artwork

BAM! I put a bird on it! 

Now that I new it worked. I washed and dried the Muslin. It washed up SO soft. I love these already. I am going to make like four more. 

Its so boring all plain

I finished the first one in about 20 minutes. I love the owls and Elephants! 

This is the second one. It got even easier and faster.

Over all this was a really fun easy picture. If you aren't artistically inclined you could die the Muslin fabric. I might do that with Carson. Get a tie dye kit and let him go to town making brother some swaddlers. 

For $3 a piece I got organic, unique swaddle blankets for Ollie