Fiskars Summer School: Embellished Fabric Postcard
I am so excited to share that I had the pleasure of doing another project tutorial for Fiskars Crafts. This project is a part of their Summer School series of tutorials on their website. The line up of projects is so fun and vary from sewing to paper to more.
For my project, I did a tutorial featuring a vintage image printed on fabric and then embellished with embroidery.
The tutorial includes step by step instructions for completing the project. I hope you will stop by and check it out. If I do say so myself, I think it is a fun little project that is both fun and easy.
The image I used is from the free image section of my site here.
Playing with paper!
Well, kind of. At this point, it is just paint, but I will be covering the insides and outsides with a little Lemonade!
It is that time again, time to play with new products for CHA (the Craft and Hobby Assoctiation summer trade show). Once again, I am thrilled to be creating show samples for BasicGrey. I wish I could show you some of the goodness they have in store for you, but it is top secret. Instead I will give this small sneak peek of one of my projects in the prep stage.
I am so exicted about this project and can’t wait to share it soon. Hopefully it will be as cute when it is done as it is in my head right now.
Tales From the Yellow Bungalow: Garden Words of Wisdom
Have you ever considered adding Gooseneck Loosestrife to your garden?
While it is a lovely plant with a very pretty bloom that is truly unique. . .
I have one bit of advise for you . . .
Be sure to plant it in a space that you won’t mind if it takes over. This whole section of my side bed is filled to the brim with Gooseneck Loosestrife that came from just one small start only a couple of years ago. Believe it or not, this is after having trimmed a lot of it back last year. It is completely crazy!
Poppy with Leaves Flower Girl Basket
Here is the second of the two new items I have added to my shop this week. I had a customer ask for a flower girl basket so I decided to add one. This is what I came up with:
Like most of my other wedding items, it is available in other fabrics and ribbon colors.
I really love the handle on the basket. It is heavy gauge wire that is wrapped with green thread. Two strands of the wire are intertwined and then comes down onto the basket in curly tendrils. It also has ribbonwork leaves sprouting from the stem handle.
I really love how it turned out. I plan to make another basket in the same shape with silk ribbon embroidery on it also so look for it soon!
If you would like to see more photos of this item and read a few more details, you can find it in my shop HERE.
Wedding Guest Book- Poppy with Leaves
Yesterday I shared a photo of the prototype of my new fabric guest book. After tinkering and fussing a bit, I am so happy with the final results and want to share:
I have been picturing this book in my head for a while and just had not gotten the time to sit down, draw out the pattern and then figure out how I wanted to assemble it.
The cover has heavy mat board inserts that have been covered in batting before being covered so it has a solid structure but is padded and soft.
I made the sample in white silk dupinoi but can make it in any of the other fabrics and colors I offer. The flower color can also be any of the 41 colors I offer.
The silk cording stem on the cover winds around to the back of the book with an additional leaf.
The inside pages are stitched together and then adhered to the inside book binding. The pages are blank and have a deckled edge and are slightly staggered from one page to the next. I left the pages blank so that the book could be used as a guest book, a journal, a photo album, or scrapbook. I like the idea of using blank pages for a guest book so that wedding guests can write messages to the bride and groom rather than just the traditional single signature line.
You can find the book and additional photos of it in my shop HERE.
