Christmas Snowflake

 Okay, I had a few requests on how to make these beautiful Christmas Snowflakes.  You can make them any size that you want.  All you need is:

6 square pieces of double sided decorative paper
A stapler

That's IT!

Okay, here is a step by step picture instruction sequence:

Start with your Square pieces of paper

Fold each of them into a triangle

Start by making two cuts parallel with the edges up until they almost form a triangle, but don't cut it all the way up.  Leave a 1 inch gap in between the cuts.

Repeat two more times until you have a total of three cuts parallel to each side of the triangle.

Open up your square piece of paper.  Grad the open edges of the smallest triangle and pull together.  Staple them so that they stay.  

Flip your paper over and do the same thing with the next triangle and staple. 

Continue alternating sides and stapling. 

 

Until it looks like this when it is laid on its side.   Repeat until you have 6 of these pieces of paper.

To assemble, start by stapling two together by starting at the bottom and then stapling the middle as well.   

 Once you have 2 halves (with 3 leaves each), then attach the halves together and walla!, you are done!

 You can make these in so many different sizes and colors.  They are great to hang or put as a center piece. Good Luck!

4th of July wreath

This wreath was so easy (and cute...right?!?).   All you need is 1 foam wreath, about 6 small sheets of felt in each color (red, white and blue ), some hot glue, siscors and a pen.
Use the top of a cup or can to trace circles onto felt.  Cot out about 30 circles for each color. To place them on the wreath I folded the circle in half and then in half again.  Then place the pen in the center of folded circle and push the pen into the wreath. I just pulled the felt back out and then hot glued it and pushed it back in with pen again. That way it is more permanent.  I then just eyeballed where I wanted the colors to be place and continued around the whole wreath. Add a couple of stars and you are done.

M is for Moss

I saw this Moss letter on a blog the other day and loved it. I finally got around to making it.

Here is a quick and easy tutorial on how to do it.

I used sheet moss. Laid it out with my letter and trimmed the excess.

Cut slits in between openings in the letters.

Fold the moss over and glue.

And walla! So simple.

A simple headband.

I wanted to make a quick headband for my daughter.

I started with a 30" strip of fabric.

I cut the ends thinner so that they can tie behind her head.

Make sure both ends are the same by lining them up and cutting them together.

Then I hemmed each edge about 1/4" all the way across. You could just use that as your headband, but I found a few scraps that I made a flower and two peddles with. Just sew them right on and you are done.

ps... are you sick of the black polka dot fabric yet? I have been using it on all of my projects lately.

Monogram Onsie

I wanted to add a monogram on the front of my ruffle onsie so that it would add a little color and fun in the front as well.

Here is how I did it.

First I cut out a pink circle and the letter 'L'. Then I pinned the 'L' onto the center of the circle.

Then I sewed the two together around the edges of the L.

Next I pinned the circle into the center of the onsie. Then sew the circle onto the onsie.


And here is the final result...

I love it....'L' is for Lilly. Hopefully she makes her debut in the next couple of days.

Ruffle Onsie Tutorial

I am in pure nesting mode lately.

One baby project that I have been wanting to make is a ruffle bum onsie.

If you want to know how I did it, here are the steps that I took:

Step 1: Mark 3 lines of where you want the ruffles to be placed. It is hard to see in this picture, but i just marked 3 lines...the middle one being at the top of the bum flap.

Step 2: Cut 3 strips of your choice of fabric out. I cut them a little longer than double the width of the onsie. They also need to be 2.5 to 3 inches wide. I wish that I had don't 3 inches, but I did 2.5 inches.

Example..I was using a 0-3 month onsie which was about 7 inches wide. My 3 strips were 16 inches in length.

Step 3: Fold each side of the strip 1/4 " and hem. One of the sides you will fold again 1/4 " and hem a second time.

Step 4: Here are my 3 strips hemmed are ready to ruffle.

Step 5: Pin your strip right at the top line that you already marked. As you pin it across the line, fold back to create a ruffle over and over again (as seen below). You will sew the right side down and the double hem up facing the top of the onsie.

Step 6: Single stitch the ruffle onto your top line.

Step 7: Fold over the the ruffle and stitch the ruffle so again so that it folds down into the correct position.

Step 8: You will repeat steps 5-7 again for the other 2 ruffles.

Step 9: On the edges of the ruffles the last thing that I did was sew the width of the ruffles down along the edges. This will help the ruffles stay down.

Step 10: Enjoy your finished project!

Dollar Store Christmas Advent

This was a craft that we did at our ward's Super Saturday.

It was an advent calendar made from a cookie sheet and matchboxes which were both found at the dollar store. I think the most expensive part was probably the magnets and scrapbook paper.

I think it turned out pretty cute. I will probably be putting a strip of paper with a scripture about Christ in each box as well as a 2 little candies (like tootsie rolls, jolly ranchers or small dove chocolates).

White Flower Headband

This is my new favorite accessory..

Especially because it only cost about $.50 - .75 and only 5 - 10 minutes to make.

Here are some step by step instructions for those of you who would like to make your own.