Felt plushies

Hello people,

It was my childhood hobby to make cute felt plushies. These are cute, little, fun tiny miny things to make on a weekend.

(Few of the colors available at Itsy Bitsy)

I have used the thin cut heart dies in different sizes to cut through felt. And these dies cut the felt like butter. 

Lets start making these....

I have used blanket stitch to sew together the bigger pieces and fill the plushie with cotton. Blanket stitch is the easiest when it comes to putting these little pieces together.

You can either choose a same color thread or shaded thread for a cool effect.

                                  

                                   (pic courtesy Google Images) 

For the base of each plushie cut 2 large heart pieces in yellow, pink, blue colors.

Notice the intricate scallop design in the smallest heart also. That is how fine these dies cut.

 

  

 For the blue felt plushie I have white crochet lace between the two pieces. The little bee sticker is turned into a resin embellishment.

These days there is an ongoing shaker mania, so here is a cute little felt shaker.
For this have cut the center using the second largest die in the set and used ohp sheet and filled granules & sequins. Have used blanket stitch to sew the edges.
The best part about shaker embellishments is you can pretty much put anything inside the belly. 

 Here are the little felt plushies...

 Hope you enjoyed these and would love to hear more from you.

Color Splash

Hi crafty people, 

Here I am playing around with the new Itst Bitsy sprays.These are ideal for your mix media, scrap booking projects. These are rich and vibrant in color. I have used few Color Splash sprays for this mix media project. Working with these sprays and whitewash alterable box.

 

I painted the box with black gesso. These sprays are rich and vibrant even on black gesso.

I have used  modelling paste and chevron stencil to create a wonderful texture on the box lid to give a little dimension. Once dry used Lemon Zing,Hot Pink, Ocean Mist color splash sprays.

 I used these sprays with crochet lace and they work wonderfully dying the lace trims.

I am amazed at the versatility these sprays have. They remain true to color with even these jute burlap flowers.

Since these react well with water you can use them directly for vibrant color or dilute them with little water for a more subtle shade. You can spray two shades to form a new color. 

Used silicon glue to stick the flowers, lace trim to the box lid.

Also added resin dots I made with Resin and some pearls.

Added quilled fringe flowers along with burlap flowers.

Hope you liked the little color splash ...

Thanks for stopping by and would love to hear from you.

Fun Resin Embellishments

Hey people, I would be playing with Resin today ...

Do u miss adding enamel dots to your projects, now you can make your own sparkle dots, dew drops. Mix resin Glitter dust with Resin and use Toothpick to pour little drops over a plastic sheet. For dew drops just pour clear resin.

Next I played with chipboard designs,iron on stickers,3D stickers to make resin embellishments,stamped images.Any simple sticker/chipboard can be transformed into pretty embellishments.

 For these chipboard designs chipboard owl and garden bird chipboard, I painted them with  metallic paints and backed the bird with ohp sheet. 

Next I made small batches of resin and added different colors of glitter dust for all the small areas of the design. Use toothpicks to pour the resin as the area is very small and more precise coverage.The resin gives a glass like finish. Only important thing is to remove the bubbles (use straw to pop the bubbles)

Next made these little sparkly resin tiles using stickers and chocolate molds and for one tile I inserted a very pretty pink shell .

After the resin cures fully you can remove from the mold and sand the sharp edges using a fine grit emery/sandpaper.

 Another experiment I did was using resin with these iron on stickers.

The left has little glitter dust mixed in resin and the right is the original sticker with silk thread. I love the glass finish and now it can be used as a pendant/key chain(since I added a jump ring before pouring the resin).

Next I stamped the flower image and fussy cut it. The left has clear resin,I totally love the resin rose. You can use it with any of your card making or scrap booking projects.

 And now comes the most adorable part. I took these 3D stickers and since these are in two layers I removed the top and than poured the glitter dust mixed resin for some sparkly stickers. Let these stickers sit on small pieces of foam tape so any extra resin at the edges can be easily removed once dry.

 Layered these birds back to the original bottom layer of the sticker.

 There are endless possibilities with resin. Just play along with any little pieces lying there in your stash.

Hope you liked my little experiments with resin. Do leave some love and do not forget to join our CHALLENGE here.

Chipboard Album: Damask

Hi people, here with my new post and today I would be using some bold prints with the new launch from Itsy Bitsy..

Its none other than the chipboard album and metallic paints .

In my last post on these lovely metallic paints and quilling flowers I had mentioned about the lovely sheen these paints have and must have for your collection..

Lets move over to the chipboard album,this can be painted, decorated with papers etc...

Here is my take on this lovely damask design I got in my DT kit. The album comes with 6 pages...a lot of space to create some wonderful albums.

I first painted the album front and back cover in broccoli metallic paint (I love the name).

Next took silicon glue and stuck organza ribbons and satin ribbon at the back of the cover page.

For decorating the cover page I have used hand cut quilled fringe flowers and very pretty pink flowers from  margarida cornation collection and rhinestones.

Also have stamped the pages with bold sentiments from hope and smile stamp set. 

There is space to put photos or write or it can be used as personal journal.

Here is the complete look...

Hope you liked this album..Do leave some love in the comments

Keep Crafting!!

Quilling Love

HI, 

Its been a while since I took up my quilling tool and some paper strips..

Few days back a friend demanded a card especially with quilled flowers on it..So here I am sharing my pretty little card :)

I have used the Papericious Wooden collection- one collection I totally love..

I am addicted to malaysina flowers when i get to quilling..and this time also it proved right :P I could not stop myself from executing another set of Malaysian flowers.

The stamped sentiment is from Altenew and the birthday diecut from Technique Tuesday.

Entering the card in Papericious July challenge

 
(I have used papericious wooden collection, mulberry flowers from the mood board)

Do leave some love :)
Keep Crafting.

Inspired Me!!

Hi there, 

I saw this video and blog post on a quick die cut and watercolor effect card on K Werner Design Blog and YouTube channel..and was inspired to try few on my own.Since i loved making one tried few others in different colors..you can say practicing them :P

For these I have used Technique Tuesday 'say it-Birthday' die and some distress inks( mustard seed,peacock feathers,salty ocean,mowed lawn,picked raspberry,vintage photo).

Have used black adhesive glitter paper from a local brand for edges and die cutting the sentiment. Next stuck some sequins and the card is done!!..

The coordinated sentiments come from a mix of stamp sets i have.(Winnie and Walter, Avery Elle,Mudra stamps)

Hope you like my trials..
Do leave some love in comments :)
Keep crafting!!