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Sunday, March 9, 2014

March Blog Hop - Lori Whitlock Design Team

Welcome to the Lori Whitlock's design team blog hop for March!

Here is the order of the hop

Natalie Graham **** you are here****

For today's project I took the regular svg file and used it for little out of the box thinking. It's a little girls headband with a shamrock center.

You can use it to cut fabric, which isn't to unusual, but to use a border to create a shamrock, well, sometimes you need to stretch your mind a tad. I used the file from Lori's store here. These are the same borders I used for my flower pots in this project here.

Here is how I made it...

I added some fabric stabilizer on the back to make it stiffer and easier to cut.

I cut two 12 inch borders from fabric.

Cut them into two bump pieces.

Then hand sewed three together to make the shamrock.

Then when it was all sewn together, I glued it, along with two flowers, some lace, ribbon and rhinestone on some felt, and attached it to a metal headband. Perfect for St. Patrick's day.

My daughter was thrilled and has been wearing it all day. I am sure we will get some good use out of it between now and St Patrick's day for sure.

Now for some more fun stuff.... Lori has some fantastic freebies going today on each stop of the hop.... some fantastic Photo Prompt Tags. My tag to give away is this darling Photo Prompt Growing. I used it on a Project life card below.

~~You can download it for free today only~~. (sorry this has expired) Make sure to stop at all the design team gals and collect all of them and look for them coming soon as a collection on JessicaSprague.com soon.

And don't forget the sale going on over at Lori's shop...

Next stop ..... Traci Penrod

Monday, January 13, 2014

January Blog Hop

Happy New Year! Welcome to Lori Whitlock's creative team blog hop.

Here is the order of the hop...

Natalie Graham *** you are here****

I am excited to share with you a little project I made for my girls. It kind of makes me giddy and happy just looking at it. Possibly because I would have loved it when I was a little girl, so of course making it was just as fun. My girls love their American Girl dolls. It seems like every birthday and Christmas we collect more clothes and accessories for them. This Christmas we picked up these doll bed at IKEA, which were the perfect size for the American Girl doll. So with a little stash of Lori's Simply Sweet Collection for Riley Blake Designs, this little beauty was born.

All this bedding was made from fat quarters from this collection. Which makes it easy to cut and collect multiple pieces from the line of fabric.

I made a foam "mattress" cut from a piece of foam to fit the bed found from my local craft store. I covered that with two fat quarters, using the left overs for the small pillows.

For the sheets, I used plain broad cloth trimmed in ric rac, folded over to create a hem just like you would find on real sheets.

For the quilt, I cut various sized strips of fabrics ranging from 1 inch to 3 inches, sewing them in random order, occasionally adding ric rac or trim. After it was the size I wanted, I added batting and added an additional fat quarter as the backing.

As much as this project would seem like it would have taken a long time, it didn't, I made two full bedding sets in one night, including the mattresses and pillows.

My girls were thrilled to get these. They love it, and hopefully enjoy them for years to come.

So along with this hop, Lori is having a sale, so make sure you stop by her store to check out all the wonderful things she has going!

Thanks for stopping in!

Next stop ... Traci Penrod

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Ruffled fabric flowers

I'm excited to share with you this cute little project. I would bet you would have never bet that this was made from my silhouette? When I saw the rolled flowers in Lori's shop I knew that I wanted to try them out of fabric, and they worked. The key is to use either stiff fabric with some stabilizer under it or, use this thin fabric to cut from. The fabric I chose was thin polyester lining. It's used to line skirts or dresses with out adding a lot of bulk. I came in an array of colors, and it was super cheap. I cut the fabric 12x12 to fit on my cutting mat, then cut out the shape with my silhouette. There were a few places that didn't cut all the way through, which I hand trimmed, which is OK because these are not suppose to be perfect. After I cut them, I grabbed my lighter and singed the edges, making them pucker and curl. Then I got a needle and thread and had sewed the curls into place, then attached the rhinestone button. Then hot glued a clip and some felt to clean it up. Now I have some cute little flowers for my girls hair. I think they turned out darling, now only if I had the time to make about 100 more!

The file I used was from Lori's shop and you can find it here.

Thanks for stopping by, let me know if you have any questions on how to make them!

Monday, June 25, 2012

Summer Blog Hop! Happy 4th of July

Welcome to Lori's blog hop!

Here are the fantastic ladies joining in on the fun for today's blog hop...

Lori Whitlock
Natalie Graham (you are here!)
Corri Garza
Joy Dickson
Krissy Clark
Lisa Bell

Oh it's good to be back where the forth of July is celebrated. It is one of my favorite holidays, mostly because of family traditions, but who can beat summer fun. So what could be more summer than pinwheels. And Lori just made making them a whole lot easier!

I used Riley Blake's Stars and Stripes fabric collection, which I picked up some fat quarters to make it simple and cheap. I then used fusible webbing (wonder under) to iron two pieces together. I trimmed the pieces to 12x12 and sent them through my Silhouette Cameo. After a couple trial and errors, I figured out if I used painters tape to secure the fabric down, and did a double cut, it worked out just fine. I sewed the flaps down, and hot glued various centers to the middle. I then hot glued wooden downs to the back, and stuck them on a pail of red and white beans. If you didn't want to go through the hassle of the fabric, some cute double sided paper would work just as easy. I just wanted mine to last more than one season. Because I haven't yet figured out how to keep my paper projects from getting squished until next season, but that is another post...

What makes this project even better - the files is FREE today, so hop back to Lori's blog and pick up the free file, so you can make yours too! Hurry, it's only free today!