My little 3D pumpkin!

Hey everyone! 

I hope everyone is loving the fall weather we're having....at least the wonderful fall weather we've been having in NC has been great!  Well at least here where I live.....but not so much in the mountains where I headed to LAST weekend for the Autumn in Oz party....I ended up unfortunately turning around halfway there because it was 36 degrees, the wind was blowing like crazy, and a rain/snow mix was coming down!  I was soooo disappointed.  Courtney my niece who was dressed up as Dorothy was disappointed too, but not as much as me!  Booo hooo!  So we came home and watched the movie instead.....there's always next year I guess! 

Here is a pic of my daughter Carley and my niece Courtney in the car and all ready to head to the Land of Oz!  (Carley was going to be the Cowardly Lion, but I had figured it would be best to wait until we got there to put on her costume, but you can see how cute Courtney was as Dorothy!)

 And so anyway (yes, I'm still pouting...LOL).......I wanted to share with you a quick project I made this week.....it's a little 3D paper pumpkin!  I found this tutorial to make them because a friend of mine is having a pumpkin patch birthday party for her little boy for his 1st birthday!  It's going to be so cute!  We've made pumpkin centerpieces and working on a banner too.  These 3D pumpkins will be additional decor for the occasion which will I think will be so adorable!  We've used coordinating papers from the Recollections Night and Fall paper pad.

This pumpkin I also made from that paper pad, as it was my first one.  My friend wanted her pumpkins to be slightly larger so I cut strips at 10 inches long instead of the suggested 6 inches in the video.  However, I quickly learned that if you make it larger, then the number of strips needs to be increased as well.  So we're still working on that for her pumpkins. But on this pumpkin, I cut down the strips to actually 7 inches and it worked ok.  There are still some small gaps showing on the pumpkin, but I think it looks just fine.  I just hand cut some leaves and used my white gel pen on them for detail.  Then I made a curly vine out of the same black cardstock I used for one of the leaves by dampening it, then wrapping it around a pen and letting it dry. 

When we get the 'pumpkin patch' pumpkins made, I'll be sure to post all of those.....along with the centerpieces and the banner.

Hope you have a wonderful crafting week!

Shelley

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It's "Sew" Cool!

Sewing that is!  :) 

Now, I don't know why, but it's taken me like 5 years to actually "use" my sewing machine!  Why I let it intimidate me so, I have no clue!  Silly I know......but my mom came over today and we had Sewing 101!  :)  And no, I didn't make a shirt or a dress......but a girl can dream though, right? 

But rather, I had downloaded a pattern from CustomCrops.com like 6 months ago and just now finally made me a Cricut Expression dust cover!  Yay!  I found these really cool fabric pieces at Wal-mart months ago on clearance so I finally cut out the pattern, pinned it on, and cut out my pieces.  So then I started sewing....I was even proud of my zig-zag stich along the bottom!  I'm just so excited that I finally sewed something and now the possibilities are endless! 

I love the colors of course since it matches my "bug"; but I love the contrast of the stripes and the floral pattern too!

Again, I was just so proud that I didn't mess up the zig-zag along the bottom!  My mom said I "rocked"!  Yayyy!  :)  It wasn't that hard to do really......so check out the patterns available on CustomCrops.com and make one for yourself today!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Shelley

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Bows, Bows, and more Bows!

Happy Weekend to everyone!  Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!  I spent this evening working on a project that I've had in mind to make for awhile and finally got the fabric from my mom to make it!  Yay! 

See, when me and my mom did my daughter's room before she was born, my mom kept all the scraps of fabric that was left over (from the bedding, curtains, pillows, tablecloths, etc.) so I was needing some fabric to cover these 12x16 canvases that I had bought.  Well.......she didn't have a piece big enough!  So.......I just used 3 pieces instead!  I made it work!  :)

I made a Bow Board for all of Carley's hair bows because her collection of hair bows have grown since she was born!  Of course, a friend of the family graciously had made and gave her a bunch of hair bows at one of my baby showers and had them on this cute bow holder!

But like I said, the collection of bows has grown so we needed to make another holder to keep some of them as well as the current Princess bow holder!  Now since her room is done in Wizard of Oz and we had some fabric scraps leftover.......this is what I created!  :)

Gotta love spray adhesive, ribbons, and some hot glue!  :)

This board is already almost full!  But there's still plenty of room on the other holder so we've got room to grow!  ;)

Shelley

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My Wreath on the Front Door

So I made this wreath awhile back, but thought......I can post about it too on here, right? :)  Gotta love a hot glue gun, some flowers, and a grapevine wreath!  This is my creation!  Have a great Thursday!

Shelley

A Birthday Gift for Sandra

Hello!  Happy Friday Feb 4th everyone! 

I ventured "out on a limb" and created something new last night for a friend's 60th birthday today!  I've never made anything like this, but had an idea and just went with it!  And believe it or not, I DIDN'T even use my Cricut!  :)  I created a shadowbox using old fabric, ribbon, button, and stickers.  I had no idea what it would look like, but just knew I wanted to create something!  Ha!  So here it is.....I really hope she likes it as well as you too!  Have a great weekend!

My first shadowbox done with fabric, etc.  (I forgot that I did a shadowbox of "Daddy-Daughter" photos for my husband for his first Fathers' Day last year....I'll have to find that pic and post it!)

Close-up

Another close-up.....The letter stickers are K&Company.