I Love Applique!

I am really enjoying doing applique.  Here is a t-shirt I've made for my daughter.  She loves it with her name on.

Here is a closer look at the stitching after quite a few washes, it is still holding together! Yay!!

Meet me at Mike's: Mirabel Softies

I was recently blog hopping when I happened upon the Make a softie for the Mirabel foundation idea: here. I had a softie already made (pattern from Home Sewn magazine) that I didn't really have a home for (my daughter has way too many soft toys as it is!) so I thought I would send it in. Here it is.

Anyway my daughter caught sight of it and had an almighty tantrum because she wanted it, even when I explained where I was sending it to, it still continued! I thought the cause was lost on a, soon to be, 6 year old. Then a little later I heard her calling out that she would give it to the other kids but that it was "soooo beautiful!" So then I suggested she could help make one to send along with it. She did the design process (she said I should make one like her (much larger) Bunny blankie) and I made it! I prefer this one, even with it's wonky ears! It's made from a re-purposed fleece, a bit of red felt and embroidery floss.

Think I might make some more of these!

RaRa Skirt from Recycled Jeans!

Welcome to my new blog! This is where I intend to post about things I have made that involve sewing. I have been using my sewing machine for sewing in my papercrafts, but lately have started sewing fabrics too!

Here is a Ra Ra skirt I made from a pair of my daughter's old jeans that were too short for her but still fitted around the waist. The striped fabric was a shirt from a thrift store, too small for me but I just loved the fabric! I also appliqued a t-shirt to match her new skirt. She loves it!


I cut the jeans off at the crotch.

like so....
And voila here are the finished items!

First Blog and some old work!

Welcome to my papercrafting blog, a place I intend to put pictures of my papercrafting bits & pieces! Here is a few pieces of old work.

Here is a set of cards I submitted to a magazine. They published the birdie ones!  There are a mixture of stamp sets in here: October Afternoon, Kelly Panacci: Giggle, Stampin Up, and Autumn Leaves.
A journal I made for a friend of my Mum's.  I was inspired by a card I saw in a magazine or online somewhere that used a circle punch to make a tree like this one.  The person this was for loves all things to do with cherries, this paper is by Stampin Up.

A card made from a printout of fabric swatches that I just love, these are the Darla collection by Tanya Whelan. I just love her fabric designs. Thought it would be fun to use them on a patchwork style card.

Male cards can be so difficult at times!

I love these stamps together this has got to be my most repeated card!  This is CosmoBella from StampingBella.  The sentiment was from somewhere else (I don't remember where now) but I do know that stamping bella do one with the same words now.