Printing Fabric

Our dance group is participating in a dance festival this week and I was asked to make a quilt block to represent our group.

I grabbed some fabric scraps and searched for a quick pattern. I ended up making my own variation of a 12 inch Churn Dash.

Mom suggested printing the middle block. So I did!

I took a piece of card stock paper and put double sided tape all over it- smoothed out fabric to fit and voila! It was quite fun. My points don't match up, and I used red thread (my signature) to sew it together. I think it'll work out fine, after it is all quilted.

Glitter Stamping

My little sister recently received Martha Stewart glitter stamps as a birthday gift. Here are my thoughts on the product:
The idea is really cool. Their is a pad that you spread some glue on. You choose some rubber stamps, and stick them onto a plastic block. Then you stamp the stamps in the glue pad, and press it onto your paper.

Shake the desired color of glitter onto the paper, and tap off. This leaves the design on your paper.

They work pretty well as long as you have enough glue on the pad.

But there are a few problems...the glue pad gets covered with glitter really quickly. And you have to add glue to the pad all the time. Also, the glitter comes out of the bottle really quickly. You have to shake the glitter onto a paper plate, and then dump it back into the bottle. But young kids CAN'T do this.
Only buy this product if you like glitter. Glitter seems to float everywhere, and everything in the house becomes sparkly. My fiance's feet were all sparkly the other day...=)

But the colors of glitter are really pretty and shiny. And they are lots of fun to use. So on a scale of 1-10, I would give this a 6.

What are your thoughts on this product?

♥Autumn

Pretty Paper

Do you hate how store bought paper is always perfect? I mean, when you buy polka-dot paper, the dots are always perfectly lined up, and nothing is ever random. If you have wrapping woes, brighten up your gifts with some homemade paper!
Starting with plain white paper, here are a few ideas:

•Use rubber stamps to make a pretty design
•Scribble all over it with different colors (trust me, it actually looks very cool)
•Use a needle to pierce patterns in it
•dip the end of a paper towel tube in paint and print circles all over the paper
•Place stickers all over it
The possibilities are endless. If you are out of white paper, newspaper looks very unique too.

This paper was made with rubber stamps.

You can use these same ideas to make note cards!

Don't contain these ideas to Christmas only. Vary them to make paper and cards all year long!

♥Autumn