Color Combos & Sew Cute Things

If you don't know already Simply Scrapping Crafts has closed it's site and it was so sad to see it go.  Judy (the owner of the site) was a really sweet lady but had a myriad of problems concerning her health and was unable to keep up with the daunting task of running such a huge site.  It was a sad day for many of us but upward an onward we go.

You know the say that when one door closes another one opens and so I am excited to say that another site has been developed by two of the former DT Stars at Simply Scrapping Crafts, Angie and Doris.  These ladies are fantastic and I am so thrilled to be working with them again.  The new site Crafting By Designs is small right now but we're just getting started, but it is generating much creativity already.  We had a beautiful color combo challenge that I would like to share with you today.

We needed to choose at least two colors from the picture to create a card inspiration.

 Here is my take on the color combo

If you take look at the color combo picture that was given for inspiration, I chose to use the colors from the striped pillow cushions.  I used the white, light blues, light tans & cream colors.

Next I'd like to share some of my sewing creations.  I am really excited about these creations.  I wanted to find some beautiful materials so I went to Memories by The Yard.  I rarely go in there because I am not a seamstress and frankly I am quite intimidated.  It's like going to French restaurant in France and not knowing the language and you don't have a clue as to what to order.  Well that would be my analogy for going into a specialty fabric shop...I DON"T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE!!!!  Anyway I managed not embarrass myself and bought a fat quarter of material ( yes I learned the term fat quarter.)  Here are the little pillows I made with the material:

Lastly I want to share a purse that I learned how to make from a tutorial on Angie Juda's site called Chic'n Scratch.  You can click the link and it will take you directly the tutorial.  She is a Stampin' Up demonstrator and she does amazing projects.  Remember I am not a seamstress but I followed her tutorial step by step and look what I created!!

Well That's all for now folks!!  Until next time I pray that you will be richly Blessed!!!

Pardon Me But Has Anyone Seen MAY!!

This is absolutely crazy I looked at my last blog post and it was last updated May 1st.  I almost panicked, I couldn't believe that it had been that long since I posted.  This has been an extremely busy month as is most months, but being a homeschool mom I have really had to batten down the hatches with my children to finish up for Summer.  I'm sure this year we'll have to do some classes through the Summer to catch up.  But no worries it keeps them engaged and their young minds from being idol.

Simply Scrapping Crafts News

I have a couple of things to share today as well as some crafts I'd like to post.  As I told you earlier this month I am on the design team with Simply Scrapping Crafts and there's a lot going on with updating the site and it looks great!  This site is packed with so much information and Judy Law ( site owner) who is also a very godly woman desires to make this site a "Stop, Crop & Shop."  It's really great and the other design team ladies are wonderful.  My group is still a work in progress but my first Card Workshop is scheduled for June 5th.  I will be posting Greeting Card Workshops every Sunday and I hope that you'll stop by, join the site and participate.  I'll post more information soon!!

I have been busy working on different projects to go in the store and I actually finished some UnFinished projects that I had been working on for a while so I felt pretty good.  The first thing I want to share with you is a cute little brag book.  If you know anything about me I really like making little things and brag books especially because you get to decorate them continually adding a little bit of this and a little bit of that until you just have to say FINISHED!! 

 

Inside Pages



Inside Pages





Inside pages



Next I'd like to share a few other designs.  Simply Scrapping Crafts recently had card challenge using buttons and bows which inspired me to make this card.  I didn't submit this card but I'll also post the one card that I made for the Challenge: ( which I entered "just for fun & inspiration").  I also created a flowerpot bookmark and next some framed art which I used an embroidery hoop as the frame.  This was such a neat idea that I got out of a craft magazine.

I recycled the button packaging for an embellishment for my card.

When you pull the flower out it is a bookmark.  Sorry I didn't show it :-(

The background paper is from The Girls Paperie, "Cute" banner from Lost & Found

Lastly I'd like to share a few of my creations for my Sew Cute line.  A Silly overstuffed Strawberry, A lovely little pillow using lace and one snippets of a fabric floral trim and lastly my favorite an overly stuffed Simply Plump Heart with beautiful layers of fabric floral petals.

 

Very Silly Strawberry

Little laced pillow

Lovely plump heart.  I LOVE THIS!

Well that about does it for me today, I have been sitting at this computer since I came home from church at 8:30pm ish and it's 12:45am now.  I need to get up and stretch.

Blessings ALL!!







Sew Much Ado About Everything

Hello just posting a little love today.  My crafty pals who know me very well know that I am a person who knows nothing about sewing, but I try so very hard.  Well last week I made this Super Sweet plump heart pillow and it turned out great.  Most of the time my sewing machines don't like me and they give me a really hard time because they know I don't know how to fix the problem, but this particular day I was feeling rather ambitious and stuck with it.  The end results made it all worth it.  The fabic came from Hobby Lobby and I used a huge chipboard heart  as the template for my pillow.  I ran several different pieces of fabric through my die cut machine for the flower.  I used a button for the center of the flower. 

Plump pillow with fabric die cut flowers & button embellies

Stamped scripture on fabric with Stazon & also die cut layers of fabric

Lastly a pal of mine gave me some beautiful fabric from Joann's Fabric and I just had to do something with it. So I made one of my old creations, a post it note holder.  To embellish, I cut several flower petal and layered them.  I used a beautiful blingy button for the flower center.

Thats it for now have a Blessed Week!!

I'm OOBER Excited!!

"OOBER" meaning extremely excited, which is the vernacular of my 25 year old daughter, who is visiting me along with her hubby and new born baby Israel. I'm oober excited about two things, the visit of my oldest daughter and her sweet little family and the fact that I still have some creativity left in me.  It has been such a world wind for me these last couple of months, I find myself trying to come up for air to breath.  I have been so busy with special orders and the new baby that my creative juices haven't been flowing lately, but alas on last Saturday, the day before my daughter arrived, the creative bug hit me and I was on a crafting rampage.  I was working on two and three projects simultaneously and literally turning around in circles trying to figure out what to do next.  My mind was racing 100 miles per hour as I could not keep up with myself.  With beautiful soothing Christian classics playing and a mess of crafting supplies and embellishments just calling my name, I set out on a journey and here's what I came up with:

Bliss Banner



I made this banner with my Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge and embellished with coffee stained lace.  Each banner has a  piece of the organza rose trim Fleurette's, the bows are seam binding and the letters that spell BLISS were also cut out using the same cartridge.  The letters are glittered with chocolate glitter and I mixed in a little bit of gold glitter to give it a rich look. 




heart in nest basket

 This little beauty is actually and altered project, I found this cute basket in the shape of a nest and their were two eggs in it.  I removed the egg and added this papermache heart, which I painted with a mint green and lightly dusted with stardust glitter.  This glitter is gorgeous it actually looks like chips of crystals and it is very sparkly.  I added a butterfly which many of my friends know I am terribly afraid of and this butterfly was so life-like I was actually afraid to touch it, so I put a rose in the center of it.  I used one of my favorite scriptures to finish it off, "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding," Proverbs 3:5.

Birdcage with eggs & scripture

close up of tag & eggs

Closer look inside the nest, a few gems, pearls & feathers

I was really proud of this birdcage because I bought it last year and new that one day I would do something with it, I just didn't know what.  I knew I wanted to make a nest and I made one several weeks ago and it just sat on my craft shelf waiting to be put somewhere and this is what happened when fate met fate.  Remember those eggs I told you were in the nest basket?  Well here they are!  The scripture I used for this project was Psalms 84:2, "Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God." This is such a beautiful Psalms, King David truly was envious of the birds who were able to be so close to GOD and dwell near to Him and that was also his desire. 

Little glass jar



semi side view

 This was pretty quick to make but I really like jars, so I altered this a bit by adding ribbon, a mulberry rose, leaf and lace around the top base of the jar.  I like the little birdie on top.

Deco wall hanging

I thought this was a pretty sweet wall hanging for a little girls picture.  It is loaded with embellishments. The mat itself is cut from chipboard and a cricut die cut (can't remember which one.) Distressed & Shabby, just the way I like it!




Cutesy little pincushion

 This is probably by far the funnest thing I like to make.  It's small, It's super cute and useful.  It is so easy to make using a yo yo template.  I topped it off with a very blingy button that I layer on top of another button and then put that on top of a tiny yo yo.  Pretty sweet!
 
Well that's it for now and  hope I inspired someone else today!  Until next time,
 
Blessings,
Tammy

Sew Cute Creations

Early this morning my computer decided to cease to function and of course that sent me in a tizzy for several reasons which I will spare you all the gory details.  Well I decided that since that was the case I would spend my day simply crafting and so I DID!!!!  Well I had a great time and even went to a craft class this morning at the Alamo Craft Co.  Kim a blessing of a friend of mine taught the class.  We made something really cute and I'll share it a little further down on my post.

The first thing I would like to share is that fact that I serve an Amazing GOD!!! who makes ALL things possible because if it weren't for HIM I would be lost.  I am also grateful that he gave my Wonderful husband the wisdom and the healing touch to get my computer running again which is how I am even able to do any posts today.  Thank You Punkin' !!

I found some really cute material today at Hobby Lobby on the 50% off rack and I bet I'll regret not buying the whole thing there was on a little left but me an my frugality's.....  Anyway Here's a the cutesy tissue box cover and little plush pillows with flowers that I die cut with my Big Kick.  These are super easy to make they measure 4 1/2 x 5' squares.

I also pressed out my flowers with this really cute little iron my dear friend Louise bought for me. 

She knows how much I love gadgets.  I wonder would that make me a gadgeteer. 

Lastly here is the sweetest, cutest, miniest, felt craft I made today....I really like cupcakes, so I think this looks like a cupcake, how about you???

Well I guess that's it for now....Have a very Blessed week!!!

Sew Cute Tissue Box Cover

Check out these cutesy tissue box covers.  I believe this pattern has been around awhile, but can easily be brought back with a fresh new look.  There is really nothing new under the sun, but sometimes old patterns can be brought back to life with a fresh new look.




Hey, why don't you pull out some of those old ufo's and get to updating!!!!

Sewn Crafts "Sew Cute"

It's Sew Cute!!

Okay I don't want to brag but I am so excited about this little ensemble, you see I am not a seamstress by any definition of the word I just like to make cute things.  I also like to experiment with colors and designs.  Shown here in this picture is a table runner with two little pillows to match, I have embellished the pillows with lace, felt flowers with a button.  If you look closely you can also see the two pin cushions, one is a small flower and the next is  a very large pin cushion that stands on a small pedestal.  I sale my items at Alamo Craft Co. in San Antonio, Texas and I have also named my fabric line " Sew Cute."

I really enjoyed making this purse, it was alot of work and there were many steps.  I followed a tutorial on line by a Stampin' Up  Demonstrator named Angie Kennedy Juda.  Her site is called Chic n' Scratch  http://chicnscratch.typepad.com/ and she is not a seamstress either so it was quite fun making this purse along with her because she didn't use sewing terminology that I couldn't understand.  I really need one of those Sewing Books for Dummies.  I know there's one out there.

I Have Arrived

I am so excited I spoke with Becky one of the ladies I work with at ALAMO CRAFT CO. ( plug-plug) and she told me that I sold my quilt runner!! I screamed, I was so excited and now I feel like I am officially apart of the sewing world ( I'm not sure what you call a person who sews stuff.) This is the first large piece that I have actually made by myself and now sold. This was truly a great feeling.

Okay next....I made the cutest little mailbox that I got from Target and it was so much fun but it took me a little while. I used paper from Stampin' up, I like the weight of the paper because you can shape it quite freely without it bumping or crinkling. I use modge podge for my adhesive. I added decorative touches with the Bazzil pom pom ribbon ( it is soooo cute .) K & Company has a beautiful slab of paper for Valentines and I used my 1 1/2 inch scalloped square punch for the little bird from one of the papers. The heart die cut and the little cup cake were done with my Cricut. This was lots of fun!! Have a blessed week!

In The Pink

For all of my friends who know me, there's one color that they would say is my favorites and that is pinks and pastels. I am so excited that I am back, "In the Pink." It's hard to do those colors during the fallish and winter time, but I think I do pretty well but now I can unleash that pink side of me. Although pink is not for everyone, it just makes me happy. I have posted a small section of my a little of my booth at, "ALAMO CRAFT CO" (plug, plug) and check me out, I'm doing a little quilting as well. I like to expand my horizons and try new things even if it is out of my element. There is one thing that I know above all things and that is,

" I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME,"

Philippians 4:13.

I am thinking of having another craft class at mi casa ( that would be at my house :-) ) hopefully in February so stay tuned.