I "sew" need a vacation ...

This is my card entry for TGF's Farm Fresh Friday challenge for the week. It's my first FFF. I don't know why I wait til almost the last minute to participate. It's the pressure of the deadline, I suppose. So the challenge was to incorporate some sewing or even faux sewing on 2 layers of DP or cardstock. I have a sewing machine under my craft table and I haven't used it at all! It's a few years old already and I bought it cause I wanted to learn to sew but never really got around to it. I didn't use it for this challenge either. I used my paper piercer that I just got and hand sewed the outline of the clouds in the sky and some of the "waves" in the ocean DP.

So while I was cleaning out my storage room this past weekend I found all this felt! Ahhhh! So I made a little palm tree for Dress Me Ian to cool off under. There's some hand stitching on the leaves and the tree trunk.

I used some yarn for the bottom scallop portion and just weaved it through. Don't look too closely at my coloring on Ian. I was running out of ink in my Copic pen. But I'm happy I just got new ones from All That Scraps today! It's always fun to get new crafty things.

Anyway, hope you're having a good summer. It's almost back to school for the kids. Thanks for reading!

Comments

Cheryl said…

Oops, I forgot to comment here too. I'm noticing now that you cut Ian on the black lines, after I emailed you. That looks pretty time consuming. Plus your edges look really smooth. Plus all that stitching! I haven't used my sewing machine for a while too, I keep saying I have to fix some pants, but never get around to it. Mine is probably frozen now, I keep taking it in every few years to get it cleaned and unfrozen, then never use it and it gets frozen again. Anyhow, hope you win!

July 7, 2010 at 7:28 PM

eva said…

actually i usually leave some white border when i cut but thought i'd try cutting close to the line this time. the secret is to cut as close as you can and then i take my black copic pen (if i used black ink to stamp) and just color the edges to make it look clean.

July 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM

~Tammy~ said…

This is adorable, and I always wait to the last min to get submissions in too! Ha!

July 10, 2010 at 8:29 AM

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

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Knuffle Bunny

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