I have another quick little tutorial for you today! I’m trying to get everything i do and put it into a photo collage so I can post more often

This is a shield I made last minute for my son, Gavin. He is going to be a Spartan! I seriously went to 10 different stores looking for a shield he liked and found one they wanted $20 for…I hate telling my kids that’s too expensive but having a large family & shopping for 8 costumes gets to be a bit overwhelming. So knowing my son, I knew he was going to be happy when I told him lets go pick up a few items and make one of our own for a third of the cost of this one! I LOVE to admit when I said “let’s make our own,” my son got so excited because he knew I rock at this kind of shit!

I got the gold spray paint for $3, the “lap desk” for $3 at Michael’s craft store and had the red paint already at home from a previous project! Any color would do but he wanted red. The pic really explains it all. I just spray painted both sides, let it dry, painted an upside down V with gold glitter paint, let dry again, then outlined the glitter with red. Mind you this is all fabric paint I had used for T-shirt projects over the summer!! Anything will do. After all is said and done, my husband says “all this money for a two hour event?” Yep. The things we do for our kids 😉

I hope this helps & enjoy!