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A ribbon heart can be made in just two steps and under two minutes.
Step1:Â Simple knot
Step2: Fold it down
When ready you can either use fabric glue or stitch to keep the heart shape.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
This is the 2nd last and #7 Micro DIY in the series that I created for Valentine’s day. Some of my earlier posts in this series are –
Stir & Wrap
Cozy Times!
Love!
Sweep with Love
Valentine Candle
Sweet Love
Love NecklaceÂ
This DIY is a follow up to my previous blog post. This DIY is even simple and a lot more fun. All you need for this one are the following items –
You can draw with permanent marker any face or cartoon character of your choice on the Ornament ball. Use felt to create hat and beard and then glue them to the ball. I created few of them and enjoyed each one. Every time you will create something new and different.
I would love to hear about your experiences. Please leave your comments about my blog and DIY projects and feel free to share yours. Go and have some fun.
We all know “Christmas†is around the corner and just ready to knock on our doors. I have been fascinated like many other craft junkies with the desire to never stop making Christmas ornaments. So this time I have a DIY to design your own Christmas ornament and give new look to your decoration or your tree. This is going to be a short, sweet and quick project for the whole family including the kids.
I wish this DIY Christmas ornaments may festoon your Christmas tree with joy and love.
Now let’s start cranking!!
#1: First choose your Christmas ornament design.
I know choosing is hard and even harder is the question of where to find these designs/patterns? Well I think I can help a little bit to get you started there. One of the easiest and most creative way is to draw a design/pattern by hand. Of course that ain’t easy and if you are like me then you would rather prefer a pre-made design or pattern . Who doesn’t love easy, premade, free stuff? I do!
There are numerous such resources on the internet. Check out few of the awesome resources listed below –
#2: Choose a Holiday/Christmas pattern fabric
You can buy this from your local favorite craft store or from stores like Joann. Below is one such pattern-
Simplicity Pattern 2723-Christmas Decorations-One Size.
#3: You would need a Pellon Iron-on-backing (Single Sided Fusible Ultra Firm Stabilizer) and you get it from your local craft store or from Joann.
#4: You would also need Satin ribbon.
#5: Lastly you would need a Scissor or Precision Knife. If you already have one then we all are set to start creating our DIY project.
Here are some of the Christmas ornament designs.
Christmas Ornament Designs
In the following image you can see all of my 5 items – Christmas Ornament Designs, Holiday themed fabric, Iron on backing, Scissor and Satin ribbon.
List of items for Christmas Ornament Design DIY
Step1: Apply Iron-on backing on the back side of the Holiday themed fabric to strengthen it.
Apply Iron-on backing
Check procedure of using pellon iron on backing  from the picture given below.
Instructions for how to use Pellon Iron-on backing?
Step2: Trace your designs on the Pellon iron-on backing i.e. on the back side of Holiday themed fabric. See ‘1’ below.
Now cut the fabric along the trace line with your scissor or precision fabric knife as shown in ‘2’ below.
You’re done cutting the design. Your ornaments are almost ready and will look like as shown in the image below.
Christmas Ornaments
Step3: Now we just need to thread the Satin ribbon through needle, then poke lightly with the fabric knife somewhere near the top of the ornament to make a small cut. Pass the satin ribbon through the cut and repeat the same for all other christmas ornaments.
You can hang the Christmas Ornaments garland around the Christmas tree or above your front door or porch or on any wall in your home.
You can also stick single ornaments any where in your home or even hang them on the Christmas tree.
The same above steps can be repeated for any ornament design. You can create single ornaments or a garland (kind of banner bunting) of Christmas ornaments.
Christmas Ornaments Garland
For your kids room the ornaments can be made with baby Christmas fabric designs & patterns.
For this DIY imagination is the limit to what you can create, depending on what theme you want to choose. I have few more DIY projects to share  that are related to this idea only and will be back soon to do that.
Happy Crafting till next time!
Hello dear friends I have a fun DIY to share. Holidays are all about celebrating life and thanking the people that matter in your life. There are different ways to express thanks, thank you notes, tags and thank you necklace is just one of them.
In this DIY (Do It Yourself) project I’m going to show how to create a beautiful flower tag with any message that your heart desire.
Step1)Â Material List for DIY thank you tag
Step2) Take your designer fabric strip, make sure the size is 4″ x 18″Â
Step3)Â Cut fabric strip straight with the rotary cutter.
Step4)Â Take needle and yarn for the running stitch [for me this was a difficult step because I couldn’t decide which yarn to use, which is obvious since my yarn box is a mess, I’m sure your’s is not :-)]
Step5)Â Connect corners of the fabric strip together with running stitch to make circle . Fold the strip and run stitches for gathers.
Step6)Â Pull thread from both the corners to pull gather in the middle and now you can see the flower shape. Tighten the knot then cut the extra thread.Â
Step7) Use Iron to press down the flower this will help to give flower a better shape .
Step8a) Now we will need a piece of sponge foam. Spread some fabric color of your choice smoothly on the foam. Tap on the color few times to smoothen the colored surface.
Step8b) Tap the “thank you” block/stamp on the sponge few times. Make sure your stamp is evenly dabbed in color.
Step9) Don’t forget to put your fabric or vinyl on hard surface before stamping
Step10) #1Â Draw a circle around your “thank you” stamp, with the help of compass.
Step10)Â #2Â Use super glue and stick the cut out in the centre of your flower.
 Step11) Tuck satin ribbon to the back side of the flower .
Step12) Show that you care and add personal touch to any gift with this “Thank You” tag. I used mine on a wine bottle as a gift.
I also used this flower gift tag with a necklace as shown below.
You can tuck the necklace to the flower tag with thread, needle and Jump ring.
A “thank you” Â tag is a fun and loving way to show your love, support, encouragement or gratitude for anybody whom is important in your life. So don’t wait, go ahead and create some fun tags.
Did you like this DIY? If you did please put few words or leave a comment. Even if you didn’t like this project, that’s cool too, still leave some suggestions.
Happy Holidays!
Inspiration:Â It’s all around but sometimes it can play hide and seek with us. All I need to do is look closely into things that people do and make. Whenever I need inspiration I go to Etsy or Notcot and try to follow people whose work is so incredible and amazing that you not only get motivated to do something but it makes you get up and start doing it NOW!
In the last few months I have been creating banners and buntings for Halloween. During this time I have come across some epic creative banners, buntings, home & party decor, gifts etc. on Etsy. Later when I created banners I wondered how would somebody else make these if they have to. I take classes every now and then at McLean Country Art Center and teach young girls and women ethnic art work like Batik and Tie & Dye. I always enjoyed those classes since I had to put some order and process to my chaotic work-style of doing things and that was challenging but fun too.
So today when my friend’s daughter Meg asked me how can she create some Halloween party favor, I came up with the idea of Neck Garland or Necklace with a hand-painted leather/vinyl pennant strung in a satin ribbon. So here we go –
Material List for DIY Halloween Neck Garland
You’ll need:
Image1 - Material List (DIY Halloween Neck Garland)
Last week I had a great time creating fun jewelry/accessories like holiday forehead bands, jingle bells bracelet and Christmas stockings with custom names on them.
toolsofthetrade
I have been thinking that may be I can take this idea a step further and can make something similar for babies and pets so that they can also say and share the spirit of Christmas. With that in mind I have started to work on hair clips for babies and scarves for pets. How does that sound? Here is the picture of all my tools of the trade that I am using. Pretty simple, right? Well tomorrow I will post a  picture of the first finished item. I hope it comes out good!
I have been playing with many ideas since last few days and wanted to create some artwork in the spirit of Thanksgiving and the Holidays. Every time I would sit on my desk, draw some new designs and then would drive up to Hobby Lobby to find items that I can use to create these designs. My good friend Morgan has helped me so much every time I am there, answering all the silly questions I have with the same enthusiasms and happiness on her face. I realized then that I should come up with something that reflects and states loudly “happiness and fun”. Something that you can wear and show it to all. Like a headband, bracelet or jewelry. Like Morgan’s smile!
