Vintage

Kennedy's nursery has an alphabet puzzle play mat in front of the crib. Now this appeared to be a real challenge. I search the web for an image of the play mat that would be facing front and not photographed at an angle. No such luck on finding that. Asking Chris to photograph the entire play mat is not an option either. Finally, I found a website in the UK that sold similar play mats. Their image of the product had 4 puzzle pieces, facing forward and interlocked. Using Photoshop, I edited each individual puzzle piece in the colors that were as close to the real play mat as the photos I could find of the play mat in Kennedy's room. The image on the left shows a paper printed copy of what I came up with. After getting the size that I felt would be close to the original, I transferred the image to both decal paper for placing on a thin sheet of craft foam. If that doesn't work, I also transferred the image to an iron-on transfer sheet to iron on cloth. 

I couldn't figure out how to transfer the decal, so I used the iron-on transfer and did a heat transfer to white material. Next, I glued the fabric to a thin piece of yellow craft foam. Trimmed the miniature play mat and there you have it... a miniature version of the alphabet puzzle playmat.