Visit the Bella Blvd Blog HERE to see cute projects made with these new crochet hearts
Tiffany
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Bella Blvd New Product Reveals!!!
Bella Blvd is beginning their new product reveals on their blog today!
There will be one new product or collection each weekday until Jan 11th!
Join me for all the fun!!!
Here are some of my favorites
Chevron Combo Pack
I seriously almost died. Chevron in Ice Blue?? And Pickle Green??
Yes, please.
This combo rocks
Also a favorite of mine....
Gray Chevron
And...
Ice Stripe
But really, I love them all. I love all of Bella Blvd's designer tapes.
Are you so excited???
More tomorrow!!
Tiffany
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Bella Blvd Fabric Style- Doggy Christmas Gift Set with a Tutorial!
This month I had a lot of fun coming up with fabric ideas for Bella Blvd.
I'm absolutely loving this opportunity to sew every month. I love paper crafting, but I love sewing, too, and it's such a fun way to create great things for the ones you love.
Our family was fortunate enough to adopt a dog a couple of months ago and he's been such a great addition to our family. He's a sweetheart and he gets along with the kids so well. He's a snuggler, and he likes to be wherever I am in the house all day long- including my craft room. So I thought I'd make him a cute dog bed as well as some other fun Christmas gifts to help make him more a part of our family.
My friend thought I should make him a stocking- since I made all of the rest of us one.
I agreed :)
You can see some of our family's stockings in the Cricut Holidays Idea Book
(they're off my blog for a few more weeks since they were published)
The felt dog on the front of the stocking is actually one of the puppies on the fabric that I enlarged and cut from felt with fabric scissors.
Then I appliqued him onto the stocking in layers.
The bone is also enlarged from the fabric, traced, and cut out. I embroidered his name onto the white fabric with an embroidery machine, and then I appliqued it onto the brown fabric using a satin stitch on my sewing machine.
See? Now his matches ours. (I think his is cuter than ours actually) :)
I also made him a dog bed that matches my aqua craft room.
This fabric is not only adorable but it was the perfect color!
He loves it. He's actually sleeping in it as I type :)
And then I whipped out a quick leash. MUCH cuter than any leash from the store, would you agree?
Here's a few photos of the creative process behind the stocking.
I had a lot of fun with this one, so I wanted to document it.
You can use plain old Elmer's glue to attach fabric pieces before they're sewn on.
As long as the glue is dry you won't hurt your sewing machine. I've even used Elmer's glue to piece quilts if I don't want to sew them. Then you quilt them afterward.
Who knew, right?
Basically I just cut the fabric 1/2 inch larger than our stockings to allow for a seam allowance.
I didn't have a pattern- I made it up as I went.
I didn't have a pattern for our stockings, either. I just traced a stocking from the dollar store when I made those ones.
Once the glue was dry, I pinned the dog to the stocking front and sewed around each layer with a different color of thread.
Here's a look at the embroidery process. I love this machine. Too bad I don't own one.
I have to borrow my mom's.
How fun is that??
Thanks for stopping by! Can't wait to show you what I'm working on for next month!
-Tiffany
Friday, December 28, 2012
Imaginisce Goodbye Blog Hop
Imaginisce is having a mini blog hop to say goodbye to the 2012 design team.
The blog hop started yesterday on the Imaginisce Blog and ends today. Hop along for the chance to win prizes! You probably arrived from Shelley McDaniels blog. If you get lost- here's today's order:
Tiffany Hood- you are here
Here are some of my favorite Imaginisce projects from this year
I loved the swaps. Working with Imaginisce allowed me to work with products from many other companies like Canvas Corp, Tattered Angels, 7 Gypsies, and May Arts.
My favorite paper line this year was Love You More, and they've got some fun new ones coming out at CHA that you'll just love. My favorite tools are probably the I-Rock and I-Top. I loved using the I-Rock to add bling on almost everything and the I-Top for not only brads, but also for buttons and fabric projects and accessories as well.
It's such a crazy thing to be saying goodbye to the Imaginisce Design Team. This was seriously such a fast year. Looking back, I remember so clearly like it was yesterday applying for the team, and it has been a great year working with fantastic people and I have to say that the people at Imaginisce are absolutely wonderful. Cari Locken has been such a fantastic coordinator to work with, and the other ladies on the design team are so sweet and so talented. I wish everyone the best.
Hop on over to Guiseppa Gubler's blog
Thanks again for a wonderful year!
-Tiffany
Friday, December 21, 2012
Pebbles "Let It Snow" Christmas Frame
Three days until Christmas and I thought I was so ready.
We (Well- I- alone- in the cold...) shopped on Black Friday and got just about everything on everyone's lists, so then I sat back and relaxed, knowing that we were done.
Well, turns out we're not done. And so I'll be bringing the kids out shopping for the next couple of days.
We also just took the photo for our Christmas card last night. Maybe I'll make it a "Happy New Year" card.
How about you? I'll admit- I'm a procrastinator. I leave things until the last minute, but I always get them done on time :) Maybe I work better under pressure.
Anyway...
Pebbles challenged us to create holiday cards and gifts without using holiday papers and embellishments, since they don't have a Christmas line this year. No problem.
I dusted off my Cricut for this one. Really, it had dust on it.
I need to use it more I guess.
Isn't it cute???
That darling snowman is from the Winter Frolic cartridge. He's full of dimensional foam adhesive.
Then I cut various shaped snowflakes from the Winter Woodland cartridge.
Wondering where the "SNOW" word art came from?
It's Thickers that I stuck onto Doodlebug Sugar Coated cardstock and trimmed around with my scissors.
Then I stuck that onto a poppy parade piece of cardstock from Stampin' Up and trimmed again. The white and red are separated by foam dimensional adhesive.
The other letters on the banners are Thickers as well. That same pack has the little "burst" that's in the center of the "O." I thought it looked a bit like a snowflake.
The banners are from the Hip Hip Hooray collection. It's a banner kit that comes with tons of banners in different shapes and colors so you can make your own custom banner. I love that little kit. I need to get another one. I popped them up with dimensional foam adhesive and then adhered the twine to the blue paper with liquid glue.
The snowman's made with Doodlebug crushed velvet cardstock in white, and the pearls and twine are also Doodlebug. The picture frame I got at Hobby Lobby and spray painted white.
And the little "snowball" is a dimensional circle from the Hip Hip Hooray collection. The hills are hand cut.
Hope I inspired you to go out and make some homemade holiday decor.
Or maybe you already did- since you're not a procrastinator like me.
Wish me luck on my last minute shopping- and Happy Holidays!
-Tiffany
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