The Crafty Bug

Its been awhile since I posted a project. With Spring here we are beginning to think of our gardens. This is a fun project but does take some time to do it.  Equipment you will need 5″ tiles, vinyl, a cutter like a cricut, that is what I use. stakes, varish, stain, sander, press drill or someway to drill a hole in your tiles, and screws.

The first thing I did was get my tiles ready to put up. I cut my vinyl vegetables with my cricut and, applied them to the tile. Then I took my stakes and sanded them down and rounded the edges. Then took wood stain that my husband had in the garage, and stained the stakes. Let them dry for a few hours, and then varish them. Now they are ready for the tiles to be put on. You will have to drill a hole in the tile to be able to screw it on the stake.

It takes time to do but it is well worth the way they look in the end. They are so cute to put in you garden, to idenify what you have planted before it grows.

I have the after picture of what they look like.

I have been trying to find this apron pattern , and haven’t been able to find it. Then the other night I was surfing the web and wa la I found it. Oh great lost the url for the site. When I find it again I will post it. Here is a picture of it.

Here is what you will need for the dry board. 12″X12″ paper, scissors, double sized tape, hot glue gun, ribbons, flowers,dry easer pen, self stick velco, and a 12′X16″ picture frame. I got mine at Walmart.

You will want to use 12″x12″ paper to cover the cardboard that is in the picture frame. I used double sized tape to tape my paper to the cardboard. It will take two pieces of paper to cover it totally. Where the two pieces of paper overlap you will add a piece of ribbon to hide that. Snap it back into the picture frame, and add your decorations to the glass. I hot glue my flowers onto the glass. Put the sticky velco on the pen and on the frame. I used my cricut to cut out the “List It” You can have a lot of fun doing this and it looks great when it is hanging on the wall. Here is the what it looks like when you are finished.

for some reason this isnt working right I will fix it when I figure out why it is doing it. Well tonight it has a mind of its own so I guess we will just have to go with the pictures at the bottom. Any questions please contact me.

Today we are going to do a very simple pillowcase. I have lots of pictures to show what I am doing as I explain how to make it. First here is a list of supplies we need: Rotary cutter, mat, rulers, pins, coordinating thread, iron and sewing machine. For the material you will need: body of pillow 24″X width of fabric, cuff of the pillowcase is 12″ by the width of fabric, and the accent piece of fabric is 2″ by width of fabric. My fabric for this project was a valentine print. I hope I don’t offend anyone by it. I hope we all have a sence of humor here.

To begin with you will want to take your 2″ accent piece and iron it in half length wise. Open your body fabric and lay it with the right side up.  Lay the accent piece raw edge together on the body fabric, then take your 12″ cuff piece, lay it face down, and match up the raw edges. Pin it and take to the sewing machine and sew across with a ¼” seam.                      Lay it out flat. Take the bottom of the pillow case and roll it up to the trim piece, as shown in the picture, only roll it up higher to the trim. Then you will fold the cuff over the entire pillowcase. Pin the raw edges together again. You will be sewing at the same seam that you did before, sew ¼” seam, being careful not to sew the inside roll. Now you have a tube. Pull the fabric from the inside of the roll turn it right side out. Trust me it works. Iron your piece flat to make it easier to work with. Now is when you trim it all up, and cut the selvage and excess fabric off. Fold the pillowcase length wise. You will want to make sure that you match your accent piece, and pin so when you sew it together the accent will go nicely around the pillowcase. On this pillowcase we are going to make french seams, so it doesn’t look right, but if you follow the instructions it will come out with all your seams finished. Sew the pillowcase right sides out with your ¼” seam. Do the top and the bottom. Trim down your seams that you just sewed to about half of a seam allowance. Then when we do our french seams you won’t have anything sticking out from it. Now turn your pillowcase right side out and press the seams so they will be flat to sew.  Now sew around your pillowcase outside press it flat. All done I hope the instructions were clear and you have no problem with this. Now you have a beautiful pillowcase, and it was very simple to make. If you would like more project like this please let me know.

I seem to have problems uploading pictures. Great it let me post this time.  I love the candy bar wrappers that I have seen on the net. They are easy to do, or you can really decorate them up.

Cut your paper the size of the candy bar that you want to cover. Just wrap it around and glue or tape it shut. The little critters I have I purchased off the internet. They have all kinds of creative ideas that you can use to decorate your candy bar. If you search the net you can find some free covers also.

Get your embellishments , glue gun, tape whatever you use, and just have fun with them.

Happy Crafting!