PTI Think BIG Challenge

Hi! Have you ever seen those cute little headbands they have for babies now? The ones that have a flower almost as big or bigger than the baby's head? See HERE for a sample. I think they are so cute! So when PTI announced the Think BIG Challenge (HERE for details) I wanted to try to make something like that but with PTI felt. It is a PTI challenge after all so I tried to incorporate as much PTI stuff as possible. It is easy to buy a silk flower and headband and glue it together to achieve a similar look.

Here's the flower I made all with PTI felt. I used Nestabilities Big Scalloped Circles Large for the green, pink and the yellow piece on the bottom that I sewed everything on to. Nichole had shown us this for making a flower HERE. You just fold the piece in half and then half again. I just used the largest scalloped die for the green and the 3rd largest for the pink. The small yellow pieces are made from the Beautiful Blooms 2 dies. I used a large needle and yarn to sew it together. Kind of thick but still manageable.

The button in the middle is also from PTI. It had a little indent in the middle so I glued a little SU rhinestone in it.

I thought about attaching the flower to hats and plastic headbands but I really wanted the elastic headbands so I could give it away as a baby gift. I only hope she has a girl! If not I hope to find someone who would give it a good home. I ran out and bought the headbands from Macy's this morning.

I sewed the headband to the flower and then hot glued another scalloped felt piece to cover up all the messy yarn.

Just to show you the size as compared to a PTI stamp set.

Tried it on my daughter's dolly. Yeah, it's pretty big.

Then I thought about how to package it and came up with this. This is the back. I cut one of those clear boxes that PTI stamps come in. I rounded the corners and punched 2 pairs of holes near the top and bottom and tied the headband to the plastic with twine.

The front. I'll probably place it in a clear bag. Just don't have one at the moment.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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 throug...

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one ...

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story...

crafting this and that

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