sweet Snowman

Here is another sweet Holiday D-I-Y couch buddy or gift.

I made these at my last show and they sold like crazy and really quite simple to make.

I thought I would share with you how to put one or bunches of these together.

its the smaller one

 

 

Here are the supplies you will need not forgetting the glue gun and the sewing machine

You'll need to some white chenille or any other white thick fabric, a little bit of orange felt, lots of black felt  and some vintage trim for the hat.

 

 

 

I sewed an orange triangle together  on the machine and sewed an oblong circle out of the vintage chenille and left an opening for the stuffing

 

 

I used black circles cut from the black felt for the eyes and the mouth.

I made a hat using the black felt too and just cut out a square  wide enough to cover the top of the snowman's head and a rectangle to act as part of the hat...and just glued it in place

 

the finishing touch is the vintage holly & berrys that I added to the hat to give it that vintage feel.

 

 

What do you think? Cute right and super simple....

 

I am linking this up to the following weekly parties:

 

market yourself Mondays

craft-o-maniac

made with love Monday

creative corner hop

make it pretty Monday

made by you Monday

masterpiece Monday

handmade Tuesdays

show me what you got

too cute Tuesday

 

Here's wishing you a wonderfully crafty week

 

xo

 

 

 

 

 

 



TOO sTINKING CUTE

I wanted to share something I made recently - which was a custom request for a dear lady friend of mine. It's a paper bag album but this one is special because it holds an ENTIRE years worth of photos. 2 pages for each month - well here let me show you...

 

here is the cover page

 

and each month the pages reflect that month

 

with some cute little subway art details ( for girls I would add more flowers, of course)

 

Cute right?

 

And the best part of the whole book is the BIRTHDAY LAYOUT - in this case - it'll showcase Ryan's 1st birthday = how special is that...

The cool thing about these albums is that you could take JUST 2 photos a month for a year and by the end of that year you would have a full documentation of your child's growth and keepsakes of memento's throughout the year...how incredibly cool is that...

 

I have these listed in my Ebay store - come by and order one for your special little one and let me know who I can dedicate it to--- these make great presents for new parents or for the grandparents who can't  be there to see the child grow up first hand.

 

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

 

WHAT I WHIPPED UP WEDNESDAYS

OVERFLOWING W/ CREATIVITY

KEEP CALM & LINK UP

A CRAFT SOIREE

FREESTYLE FRIDAY

friendship Friday

 

 

have a crafty day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Crafting

Wowzers who could believe that Christmas is a month away---so now the fun

Christmas CRAFTING begins...love me some Holiday Crafting for the pure JOY of it!

 

To start off I started to make some Christmas cards and some all occasion cards too-maybe I will group some together and give them as a gift. Cool gift right? Handmade is ALWAYS better!

 

 

Sweet and with a touch of vintage ---Love it! Simple vintage image accented with some hand dyed ribbon and just some glitter dots around the edges - not to much just enough!

 

Gosh it feels good to make something that offers quick and INSTANT gratification!

 

Best yet it qualifies for the following challenges:

 

the crafty pad - add glitter

stampin sisters in Christ - xmas card

crazy for challenges - put a bow on it

one stop craft challenges - vintage xmas

delightful sketches - red & green

bloggers challenge - Christmas

 

here's to your own Holiday crafting

 

xo

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Boy am I stuft! I woke up early to put the turkey in the oven and get the side dishes started
and set our table - of which I sewed up last night.

WHat do you think?

 

I used some burlap and made some ruffles for the edges of the table runner

 

I cut out some leaf shapes from felt and then used my sewing machine to add some accents stems and decoration to each leaf...

 

Because I wanted this to be versatile I didn't sew on the leaves just laid them on the runner.

 

 

Then I just added my other decorations to the top of the runner some handmade fabric pumpkins and some smaller stuft leaves...

 

It was a great addition to our table but I would have added some more length to the runner because the edges just ended at the end of the table so when you sit down to eat you have to lift up the table runner so that the plate doesn't wobble over the ruffle.

 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch and I hope you did too...

 

the kids table!!

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

xo

tina

 

Project life

Oh my - time has flown by. Project life has taken a back seat but I am finally done crafting for bizness and now can enjoy what I love to do and that is to play with paper and scrapbook and paint and just create - FOR me...

 

I have been taking pictures with the intent to scrap them...so here I am sharing a few pages that pretty much share the past 2 months - September & October & the beginning of November - yowzers - what a jumbled mess...but I really wanted to stay on top of this so I will carry on...

 

here you go

 

October

 

 

 

 

I really want to work on adding some fun accents to my pics and to take better pics of these pages because they always look so dark - but of course in the interest of getting Project Life caught up - this is what you get sometimes...

 

 

Quick and easy and NO FUSS - is all life has time for.

 

Hope you are having better luck with your Project Life albums..

 

I am linking this up to the following party:

 

one-happy-mama

 

have a great day

xo