Another post from my wonderful Mom! She cross stitched/embroidered pillow cases for Alice to go with her quilt. The edge was raw and we found matching ribbon in my ribbon stash. I’m not sure if you can tell on the picture but the ribbon background is brown and the flowers are pink and orange – perfect match! I finished one of the edges last week and then the second one over the weekend. It wasn’t too hard once I managed to coax my sewing machine into sewing longer stitches.
Via one blog to another and then on to Teresa’s blog
When my Mom came to visit she brought the kids quilts she made for them. I’m not sure when she started collecting the fabric for them but she collected various flower fabrics for Alice’s quilt and ocean fabrics for Jake’s. She got them done and quilted and they are now here and the kids have been using them every day.
Alice’s Flower Quilt
Jake’s Ocean Quilt
I kind of went crazy with the watermarks, but that’s okay! Aren’t they beautiful? My Mom is so talented!
I’ve had this picture forever and had to post about it. The stamps in the Stampin Up Holiday catalog are die cut – meaning they are cut already and you just pop them out of the surrounding rubber. Crazy stamping person that I am, I still have this extra rubber.
I don’t know why! I have no problem throwing away rubber when I have to cut the stamps apart! I think I got the stamps at the end of July and here it is the end of September and I know they are still on my stamping table.
Okay I’ll throw it away today. Especially since I never cut it up into anything! I’m sure I could take the corners and use them as little photo corners or something, but I know I never will.
Just one step toward realizing how easy it is to get rid of ‘stuff’ – especially since this is trash!
Check out this great slit punch scalloped flower tutorial I found tonight. I don’t have any scalloped punches yet but they are so cute and so popular! Every time I see a card designed with one I feel the need to rush out and buy one that very second! My craft store doesn’t carry any though and I admit I haven’t taken the time to find them online, though I know they are all over the place.
But this tutorial uses a slit punch – which I do have! And I have other circle punches, a Creative Memories one plus the Creative Memories shape cutter thing (from my days of attempting to be a scrapbooker – yeah that didn’t work…) so I should be able to work this out with what I already have. I love super easy tutorials and can’t believe I didn’t think of this – I mean how obvious right?
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