Hello, my friends!
How could Christmas possibly be over?! It does go by in a blink, doesn’t it? Hope you enjoyed—and are STILL enjoying—every single moment with your families…
…I sure have been! Here we are—taken last week in my “office”…the beautiful park where I take sweet little school children on field trips & teach them about our local wildlife…not a bad job, huh?!
I finally took a little creativity time for myself this morning, and this is what I came up with…
…a very easy bag made with prints from Crafty Secrets’ new “Creating with Vintage Illustrations” CD—I had so much fun with this!
I can’t even tell you how easy it was—I already had a canvas bag (from Michaels) all ready to go…a striped piece of muslin for the background…
…then a print chosen from the CD for the background, printed on printable cotton—so fabulous!
…then the main image, also from the CD and printed on cotton was added on top. I just typed up the word “Supplies” in a lovely vintage font, and that was it!
Everything was quickly stitched together with the sewing machine, and all that was left was embellishing!
Some pretty, older lace was dyed with Glimmer Mist (one of my favorite things to do!), then vintage mother-of-pearl buttons were added on top…
…sweet, very shabby handmade roses were added next, made with old scrim given to me by my mother, and also dyed with Glimmer Mist…
…a bit of chocolatey seam binding added here & there, some Platinum Stickles framing the main image, and that’s about it!
I thought it would be fun to give one of these wonderful CD’s away so YOU could have fun creating with it, as well!
***To win, all you have to do is leave me a comment here—let me know if you’re a follower & I’ll count you twice!***
The winner’s name will be drawn at noon on New Year’s Day—not a bad way to start the year, huh?!
Meanwhile, I’ve got my new bag stuffed with yummy yarn…a warm, wintry scarf being made while I watch late night movies with my family…
…can’t wait to hear what you create with your CD!
Wishing you a wonderful last week of 2011…see you soon with something new!
Julie
