with love...

I've been flat-out sick for the last 2 weeks and was getting so bored I just had to have a little play this weekend to keep my sanity! 

My collection of Tammy Tutterow flower dies calls out to me- all the time...
When I'm feeling like making something. 
When I'm thinking about making something.
 When I'm dreaming about making something. 
...maybe I'm a bit obsessed. 

I grabbed some polyester/rayon blend lining material (it was such a gorgeous golden color) and a tea light, plus the Shabby Posies, Pinwheel Posies and Frayed Posies die sets. The dies cut right through the fabric with no trouble at all; once they were all cut out, I held each flower over the flame from the tea light and watched closely as the heat melted the raw edge of the fabric. It also gives a slight curl to each petal. 

I made whole stack of petals so that there would be lots of layers! A couple of them were cut from a deep green and also a few from some heavy duty woven interfacing. Once they were done, I piled them up, ran a few stitches through the center to hold the whole thing together and then used a zipper to create the center of the flower.

This paper bag envelope was made with vintage sheet music and I love it so much! The die made this really super simple and it turned out perfect- in about 2 minutes flat. 

Once the flower was glued on, all it needed was a little snip of a tag to stamp with a sweet sentiment. I used some heavy watercolor paper to cut out the Shortie Tab- the weight of that paper really makes a beautiful tag.

Made with love.

xo, 

pretty junk...

So... I was digging through some junk the other day and I came across these old pins. I think my step-mom gave them to me? Anyway, I remember tucking them away thinking I'd find something neat to use them on and I finally did!

When I was playing around making flowers a couple weeks ago, there was this one pretty blue flower that didn't get finished. It needed something for the center but no matter how many buttons 'auditioned' for the part, nothing looked right.

Enter the vintage pins!

After playing with a few, I settled on this one.

I can't wait to wear this pretty thing!

xo,

purple posies...

More posies today! I had so much fun making the paper ones yesterday that I grabbed some fabric and started all over again...

This time I cut random circles from some rayon lining, used the flame from a tea light to 'melt' the edge and then snipped into the circle to create petals. Once again I used the flame to melt the edges. A side-effect of the fabric as it shrinks is the nice crinkle it gets!

      A few layers of paper flowers between the fabric petals brought it to life! After I glued the layers together I tucked a couple leaves underneath and added a beautiful bling-y button from Melissa Frances.

I can't wait to wear this!

xo,

paper posies...

Fun little project today... paper posies!
Using the Tim Holtz 'distressed flowers' die, I cut a pile of flowers using some vintage book paper and corrugated cardboard.

I added just a little smidge of white paint on the cardboard and crumpled up the book paper before layering the pieces together.

After gluing the entire thing together, I topped it off with a small button...

I glued a pin backing to it and voila! 

xo,