Happy Holidays

Hi everyone!

Welcome to Day 14 of Blogmas… Day 14!! they are flying in!

Today I have a clean and simple Gift tag to share.. A wee stitched tag, a felt christmas tree and a chipboard scribble heart.. and it’s finished, I do like to keep things simple and love how it looks 🙂

Supplies List:-

• Stitched Border Tag Die
• Clearly Besotted Stamp Happy Holidays
• Hero Arts Shaddow Ink in Soft Olive
• Scrapiniec Chipboard heart and holly
• Felt Christmas Tree from Hobbycraft
• Wink of Stella Clear glitter pen (for the scribble heart)
• Tacky Glue
• Lawn Fawn Trimmings Natural Twine

Join me tomorrow for Day 15, as always thank you for popping in

Sarah x

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Handmade Glittery Felt Flowers

I love making these… they are a tad footery to do but love the end result 🙂

First of all take some felt and cut 8 petal shapes, dip the edges in glossy accents and then re-dip into a small container with some fine glitter .. or some german glass glitter and set aside to dry completely… I made these yesterday and allowed them to dry overnight.

Then you need to sew them all together into a flower shape (just imagine the flower below has glitter around the edges 😉  )

Next you need to create the stamen for the centre with some fine wire and seed beads, its  too complicated to explain the process, so will do a ustream tutorial on it one day soon 🙂

Then you need to stitch the stamen onto the centre of the felt flower, and also pick a nice glass bead or button and stitch that to the middle too 🙂

Then your done! … I turned mine into a christmas tag…

Thanks so much for visiting 🙂

By the light of the silvery moon….

2 Cards in one day… i’m on a wee card roll 😉

I made this card this afternoon whilst watching Laurel over on Ustream…. this card is going to be part of a set, and its No. 2 in the 6 part series 😉

The small seed bugle beads are all stitched onto the grey felt by hand, there is something about hand stitching beads to projects that I’m really enjoying!

Supplies List :~

• • Papermania 3″ x 3″ scalloped Edge Cards with matching envelope
  • A4 Sheet Digital Collage Sheet from Lisa’s Altered Art
  • Sheet Music Paper
  • Melissa Frances 5th Avenue 6″ x 6″ Patterned Paper Pack
  • Vintage Photo Distress Ink
  • Lovely light Pink Lace
  • Scortape
  • Grey Felt
  • Silver Bugle Seed Beads sewn on with silver thread
  • Watercolour Paper (leftover scrap)
  

Fabric ATC

Last week I brought some ink sprays and muslin fabric down from the workshop to the kitchen table and played around dying some background swatches… Tonight in the workshop I created an ATC with one of the backgrounds..

I’m still practicing with the whole sewing thing, and have loads of ideas in my head what I want things to look like, but it’ll take me a while to get there so just taking baby steps at the moment… I guess it will be like the very first cards I made, I thought they were brilliant, and when I look back now I cringe lol… This fabric ATC is the same, I love it… but a couple of years down the line I may think differently 😉

There are several layers to this ATC..

• Backing (bottom layer) is non furry hessian with a small weave
• Middle layer is grey felt
• Top Layer is ink sprayed Muslin
• Embelished with Seam binding and satin ribbon offcuts from a project i’m working on at the moment 🙂
• Its all stitched with Silver Gutterman Thread
• There’s some Bugle beads in the 4 corners attached to a small square of seam binding.

Sending You Hugs

Supplies List :-

• American Crafts Brown Textured Cardstock from the Neutrals Pack folded to make a card 3″x3″
• Light Pink Bazzill Textured Cardstock cut to 2.75″ x 2.75″
• Scissors to distress the edges of the cardstock
• Lace
• 6mm Flat Sequin Ribbon? (not sure what you call it)
• Papermania Sentiments Clear Stamp Set
• Sassafras Lass owl
• Stampin Up Dimensional Adhesive
• Felt Border Ribbon
• Colorbox Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink

Sympathy Card

Another sympathy card to share with you, I made this one last night….

Supplies List :-

• Bazzill Dotted Swiss Cardstock in Salt (White)
• Bazzill Textured Light Pink Cardstock
• Felt Self adhesive flowers
• 1 x Pearl coloured prima e.line Pearl
• Hero Arts Everyday Sayings Deepest Sympathy Stamp
• Versafine Onyx Black Pigment Ink
• Stampin Up Dimensional Adhesives

one of a kind

One of a kind it certainly is… tried my hand at watercolouring this afternoon, as this method is being featured over on the Hero Arts Blog at the moment…

Supplies used : –

• Cream Cardstock150mm x 105mm
• Hero Arts Stamp CL338 Be Yourself, 4 different stamps used & one of the blue felt flowers.
• Versa Magic Chalk Ink in Hint of Pesto & Night Sky
• Versafine Onyx Black Instant Dry Pigment Ink
• 2 x Green buttons
• Blue and green printed paper from my collection, stamped with the wing of the bird and cut out to make a flower.
• 1 x Blue Gem from My Minds Eye Bloom & Grow
• Various watercolour pencils blues, greens, purples and pinks
• Pentel Aquabrush
• Glue Dots