Paper Projects

Just a few minutes down the road from me is a wonderland of fun... well a paper outlet any way. Or more specifically the S.E.I scrapbook outlet. (1717 South 450 West Logan, UT 84321). So FUN! I just can't say "no" to darling paper for 10cents a piece. Every time my sister Wendy is in town we seem to make a trip there. Here are a few projects we have been working on together.

Paper Flowers and Matching Cards

I used a template from Stampin' Up for the cards.
I found instructions for the flowers at
http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/09/todays-guest-lil-luna.html
They made Halloween ones, but I though fall ones would be fun, and I could have them out on display for longer. I'm thinking Christmas ones would be darling too, or Spring ones for Easter... oh the possibilities.

They were so fun to make I decided to make more flowers to add to my collection.

Paper Monograms
I love this idea! I'm decorating "H's" for the different holidays and seasons to hang in our entry way. Fortunately H is reversible. This one is for fall, on the back I have made a Halloween one. More picts will be posted later when I've finished.

They are easy to make. I buy the letters at Hobby Lobby. The paper is obviously from. S.E.I. I simply use spray adhesive on the back of a piece of paper. I then carefully place it on the letter H. Next I take the metal file from Ryan's tool box to get all of the extra paper off. I can get a nice clean cut this way. To finish it up I add embellishments, hot-glue on a ribbon, and call it good.

Paper Pumpkins
So fun, So inexpensive, and So CUTE!
Wendy and I saw these at S.E.I and simply had to make some. Using a variety of papers we trimmed them down into thin strips of varying sizes. We then hot-glued them to the top and bottom of fake pumpkins. BUT THEN... with the help of Wendy's hubby Chris we figured out how to make them without a fake pumpkin underneath!

We simply cut out two, 2" circles and placed a bamboo skewer through them, leaving 3 or 4 inches between the two circles. We also left some skewer on top to use for the stem. Once the circles were secured with hot-glue, we were able to glue the papers to them to form the pumpkin.

This one has a pumpkin underneath.

This one does not.
To cover the skewer on top we just wrapped paper around it and added curling strips of paper for vines.

You can have a lot of inexpensive fun with paper! I can't wait to get going on my Christmas projects!

Postage Stamp Quilt

Every year my Grandparents send a little money to buy books for the boys for Christmas. I LOVE shopping for their books, and it is something I look forward to each December. She also sends a little gift money for me, but without instructions on how to use it. Last Christmas I had a GREAT idea. I went on line and bought myself this jelly roll of moda fabric and had it sent to my parent's house for Christmas. On the order their was a place to leave a message for the receiver. I had myself a little fun and wrote myself a note something like this:
"Dear Karin, You are such a great grand-daughter. We love you so much! Keep Sewing! Merry Christmas. Love, Grandma and Grandpa Andersen. " Hee Hee!
When my mom got the package and saw the note and what I had done she transferred the message to a real card and wrapped up the gift and set it under the tree. Christmas morning I got to open my gift and ooohh, aaaww at all the pretty fabric. I had already found the pattern I wanted to do: the Postage Stamp Quilt on modabakeshop.blogspot.com, and it made for one fun Christmas morning.

Sooo, I finally started my quilt in October. (It's been a busy year!)

It was fun to unroll the fabric and start pairing colors together.

I had the top pieced in a couple of days. It took me a few weeks to get back to quilting it. Once I did it didn't take too long from there. It then took one day to machine quilt, and two days for the hand binding.

And the end result: AWESOME if I say so myself!

I decided to use a "double bubble" pattern for the quilting. It was pretty easy to maneuver the fabric with my darning foot to get the effect.

Undecided on if I like the front or back the best.

Such happy colors! The fabric collection is called "Fresh Cotton" by Moda.

It's perfect for snuggling too!