Valentine roses and Table runner

Valentine table runners and place mats

Friday Jan 30th

Lisa Berrett

Supplies
Material

Place mats

Scissors

Glue gun and glue sticks

Olaf cutter

Ribbon

Felt

Beads

Buttons

Rose petals

　



Instructions
I cut my material with my Olaf cutter this way I have straight strips
I like to cut different sizes of material it gives my table runners a fun look I like to cut a lot of material at once so I can just create.
You need a lot go glue for this project but it’s so worth it.
Start at one end and kind of gather the material and start gluing it on the edge until you have gone all the way around.
For the felt roses I cut ¼ inch strips and start twisting the felt and go around in a circle twisting as you go and it will start to look like a rose. Then I use a good amount of glue to hold it together.
Add a bead in the middle of the rose to give it that cute look
I like to add a few buttons to my table runner you will just have to hand wash it so the buttons don’t come off.

Tips
You can add a small piece of felt to the back of your rose to hold it all together
I like to cut my place mats in half this way I can put it up against a wall and then you have two.
I think its really cute to use rose petals around some of your placemats.

Valentine Sock Monkeys

Valentine sock monkeys

Good Things Utah

Lisa Berrett Friday Jan 16,2015

Supplies

Socks

Sewing machine

Fiber fill

Scissors

Buttons for eyes

DMC floss

Permanent marker

Instructions
Turn your sock inside out and sew the legs of your monkey leaving a ¾ space in-between so you can cut the legs sew till you are about 1 away from where the heal is.
Turn right side out and stuff your body to desired fullness and when you have it where you want start sewing up the legs with a slip stitch.
Determine where you want the head and tie a ribbon around the neck.
Cut the other sock and turn and stuff. Look at the drawing to see what I mean.
Place the mouth on the face and pin so it doesn’t move when you start to sew.
Place your ears where you want them, pin and sew.
Place the tail and sew in place
Now its time to pin and sew your arms.
Now its time for the face, take 3 ply black embroidery floss, stitch the smile, nose and then sew the buttons eyes. You can add eyelashes if you want.

Tips

I like to use a wooden dowel to help stuff the tail and arms it does get a little tricky.

My Valentine tree and a few craft ideas

Valentine ideas that I've done

LOVEeeeee these little hats....just had to add them to my Valentine tree...I had so much fun making them

love love my Valentine tree I made felt hearts and stitched a blanket stitch around the edges
Made these little hats that I just love....

A little hair bling

Love "HEARTS" for Valentines

I made this little Valentine "LOVE" that sits in front of my photos of my precious "Bitty bums"

This is a love album that has blank pages inside that I added my special peeps to....the kids love to look at this....of course because they are the stars of this book

Aly and I made these fun flower pillows (that we got the idea from pintrest) we changed it a little but soooo love them

A closer look at the love Valentine book

Valentine "ROBOT"S" soooo much fun

OK sooooo I had so much fun creating these Valentine ROBOT'S  this week....

I love to think about what I want them to look like...

and how happy the kids will be to take them home...

 then I begin to draw .......

after a while  (OK sometimes hours) its time to go out in my garage and cut them out....

then sanding them so the edges are smooth...

now I'm ready to pick out colors and embellishment's that I love...

I so love love to paint and make them come alive...

this is Penny and Benny yep.... I named them

They have a little back pack to put all their Valentines and candy in....

Valentine LOVE......and a Valentine tree for your kids to create

Valentine LOVEeeeee door hanger

Had so much fun making this Valentine door hanger...
the idea was one I saw from a friend and of course I changed it to have the look that I wanted...
The roses are made with toole so soft and cute...
I crackled the board to have that old look and added LOVE glitter letters to the project...
This was so fun to create....ENJOY!!! and Happy Valentines Day

This is one of the craft projects in my kids classes...
the kids have so much fun creating a Valentine tree just the way they want

Can's......made cute

LOVE a simple project that turns out cute

with a little paper... beads...buttons...ribbon and a hot glue gun

this is what I came up with...

A fun can to use as a pencil holder...

A great gift with some candy or jewelry in it

or just about anything

Valentine's Jewelry.....so cute

Valentines Jewelry.....

I know Christmas just got over and some of us still have our tree up...

yep that's me......I'm taking it down tomorrow...Thursday the 5

but that brings the excitement for that clean fresh feeling when everything is put away and time to think of the next holiday...

today I started to create this fun Valentine Jewelry...

This is just the beginning of fun creations for you..your bitty ones...
and friends for Valentines
Have a great day creating and HAPPY NEW YEAR friends