"Gold" Throw Pillow

This has to be one of the easiest projects I've done, but it is by far one of my favorites! Really, I can't take much credit because my Cricut did all the hard work. 

I found this lovely pillow at Walmart of all places! $10! I chopped off the tag (after I bought it of course) and set it aside. Plugged in the iron, set it to the cotton setting and set it aside too. On my computer I went to Cricut's website, designed what I wanted, put the gold iron-on material on the cutting mat, pushed "go" and away it went! After it was done, I removed the unwanted pieces of iron-on and placed the letters on the center of the pillow. Cricut suggests that you iron your fabric on both sides to ensure that the iron-on sticks well, and since I had a premade pillow, I couldn't do that. So instead of using a towel in between the iron-on material and the iron I used a cheese cloth dish towel. Since the dish towel was thinner, the material would get a good amount of heat. WORD OF CAUTION: the clear plastic that holds the iron-on material together WILL take coloring out of your fabric. So be sure to move your iron around by pressing and not sliding and do not hold your iron in one place for too long. Also, you can cut the plastic down close to the wording to lower the risk of fading your fabric in one spot and causing a line...no bueno. You can test your iron-on material periodically by trying to peel the plastic up. If the wording doesn't stick to the fabric, iron a little longer. Once the wording sticks, peel off slowly. As you can see, I used gold wording and its glittery. I was a bit skeptical about using glitter but I was pleasantly surprised to find that the glitter doesn't flake off! No matter how hard I scratch at it! I let the pillow sit for a day before I put it to use just to make sure everything would sit well. It has been beyond sturdy! And I just love how it turned out! :)