Fabric Flowers....Banners....Garland....It's All Fun!

I made this garland for my daughter for her dorm room so just hung it temporarily to take some pictures.

 

It's entirely possible that making banners and garland could end up being as addicting as fabric flowers!

I made the hearts and round flowers for this out of a clothing catalog the girls received in the mail awhile back, called Free People.  The images, colors, and the feel of the paper was just too pretty to throw in the recycling bin.  I save Anthropology catalogs too for projects.

I just cut freehand, four different sized hearts  then folded each one about 3 times.  I unfolded them, then stacked them and sewed them together with a vintage button on top and just let the floss I used dangle from the button.  Folding/unfolding the pieces helped give them some dimension.

 For the circular "flowers" I did the same thing, making sure my circles weren't truly round-like that was hard-  Then I crocheted red and black yarns together for the cord.  I made knots in the cord every so often and then by hand, I sewed my hearts and flowers on between the knots (yes, right through the paper) and mailed it off.

I love fabric, but working with paper like this as though it was fabric was really fun.  Especially, because it had such a nice feel to it and both sides were printed with beautiful images.  It's great not needing to worry about the "wrong" side.


Just a reminder that "Junkle Bells, February Edition" will be starting Monday!

Love Was In The Air.....(so was a lot of snow!)

My daughter received tulips from her boyfriend yesterday....so today, while she was at school, I played with them.  It was really a treat for me---I want Spring!  We had a late start for school again today because of more snow and wind yesterday--uhg.

Happy Monday to you!

So If You Haven't Been Out Shopping...

...for a card....for that special someone...I thought I'd get my Wordle Fix and help you out!

I think love can be expressed in black and white, don't you?

But, maybe you'd prefer pink and reds...

Just click on an image to enlarge it to save or print, and go  make a card for that someone special.  Not that they weren't special enough for you to remember to get a card for, or that they weren't special enough for you to go out and spend $5 on a card, but that they ARE special enough for you to send the very best--made by you! 

Now, if you don't quite like what you see above, but still want to give it a-go---just copy all of the text below then go over the Wordle site and make your own version.  Remember, if you don't like a word in your wordle on their site, you can right click on it and get the option to remove it. 

love love love love     adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, cherishing, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering,  infatuation, involvement, like, lust, mad~for, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft~spot, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning,   admirer, beau, beloved, boyfriend,, darling, dear, dear~one, dearest, flame, girlfriend, honey, inamorata,  loved~one, lover, paramour, passion, spark, suitor, swain, sweet, sweetheart, truelove, valentine     admire, adulate,  be~crazy~about, be~enamored~of, care~for, cherish, choose,  delight~in, dote~on, esteem, exalt, fall~for, fancy, glorify,  have~it~bad, hold~dear, hold~high,  long~for, lose~one's~heart~to, prefer, prize,   treasure,  wild~for, treasure beloved sweetheart

Patina Soul Giveaway

 

There is an incredible giveaway going on over at Patina Soul and thought you might like to know about it.   She is giving away some really great gifts like gift certificates to Simply Me Art on Etsy where the photo above came from.

There's also a gift certificate to shop anywhere you want on Etsy!  (...and those printer's blocks she used on her blog just happen to be from my Etsy Shop!)

There's more, just head on over and check it out.

The giveaway continues until the 13th so you still have plenty of time to enter--and you can enter more than once!

Patina Soul