Tutorial-Crochet Doilies and Flowers



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There is a mini red crochet doily in the inspiration kit this month...if you know how to crochet, here is a site with patterns for LOTS of doilies and mini doilies-Crochet Doilies




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Once again, there are flowers throughout the inspiration kit and add on kits this month.  So we included a few new flower tutorials...

• Here is a link for DIY flowers like the green and ones in this month's inspiration kit-DIY flowers 
• This is an WONDERFUL link to some "not so average" paper flower tutorials-Paper Flowers Tutorial
• And a link to flowers made from recycled dryer sheets-Dryer Sheet Flowers 

Fabric, Burlap, Ribbon, and Rick-Rack Tutorials

Using fabric on your layouts...

Twisted Fabric Flowers Tutorial 

Fabric Birdie Tutorial 

Pretty cool "homemade stamped fabric ribbon" idea...Ribbon from recycled pillow cases

Stitched Fabric Embellishments
An example of this type of embellishment (I created this with multiple layers of fabric instead of paper towels)...

Fabric Birdie

Using Burlap on your layouts...

Burlap Flowers Tutorial 


Sherri's Burlap Flower


You can stamp an image on burlap, as demonstrated here...Stamping on burlap tutorial

OR

You can stamp a texture WITH burlap.  Simply wrap a piece of burlap tightly around a kitchen sponge, lightly dip it in acrylic paint, and stamp onto your paper for a great, unique texture.  (Idea taken from The Stamp Artist's Project Book by Sharilyn Miller)


Embellishing Rick Rack and Ribbons...

Crocheting on Rick Rack Instructions

5 Creative Ribbon Techniques

Have you ever used double sided ribbon and tried to tie a knot so that only ONE side shows?  I know I have had this problem before...I have found a You tube tutorial for a solution to this problem!!!  Tying a knot with double sided ribbon, so only one side shows!

A cool look that never occured to me...Fraying Ribbon

And finally, you can stamp on ribbon as seen here... Stamping on twill tutorial

"Sunny Clearing" Tutorials

Here's a link to the original "Sunny Clearing" Kit.  Here are our Counterfeit Kits...

Sherri's "Sunny Clearing" Counterfeit Kit:

"This is my favorite add-on!  I used similar coordinating papers, plus some Cosmo Cricket Elements from another line.  Instead of the calendar paper in the inspiration kit, I stamped a doily on yellow cardstock and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I also added some colorful chipboard accents, ribbons, and a little set of number and alpha stamps.  I will be adding some crocheted flowers and button clips, too, like the ones from the inspiration kit."  For more information on Sherri's Kit visit her blog at http://sherrithompson.blogspot.com/.

Meridy's "Sunny Clearing" Counterfeit Kit:

My favorite part of this kit might just be...all of it!  I LOVE this old line of Cosmo Cricket, I think croched flowers are so cute, I was waiting for the perfect papers to match to the vintage notecards I found a a thrift store a while back (the little boy and little girl ones), I'm excited about every piece in here. I can't wait to start using this kit!!!

Bethany's "Sunny Clearing" Counterfeit Kit:

I love the bright colors in this kit!  It reminded me of some BG sets that I have, so I used those.  By this kit, I felt pretty free to skip stuff I knew I wouldn't use without feeling guilty.  LOL  Check out my Blog for a complet list of my kit contents and more pictures.

Mini Doily Tutorials:
There are multiple was to go about re-creating the mini doilies.  I grabbed some stamps, a scalloped punch, and various colors of ink and went to work stamping images in different colors and punching them out. 

Create your own mini paper doilies
Printable mini doily designs
More printable mini doily designs

Another variation:
Do a Google "Images" search for  Spirograph Images or Spirograph Designs...100s of images in lots of colors will be available.

Printable Labels:

This piece of paper might be the one thing I "have to buy" from this month's kits...I ablsolutely LOVE them!


Inspiration Cosmo Cricket "Salt Air" Elements Paper

Cute "counterfeit" labels to download are found here...

I was inspired by the "beach theme" in the Cosmo Cricket Paper and found the following images.  I found all of them on multiple web sites, so I decided to include the images, rather than the links...

Crochet Flower Patterns:

I think mini croched flowers look so cute on a scrapbook page, or layout...I just wish I knew how to crochet!  Here is a link to insturctions for making 100 different croched flowers!
100 Croched Flowers

"Number" Stamp:


"Lickcurl" Font

Here's the link to download the free font (above) which looks similar to the number font in the original kit...
Lickcurl Petite Font Download

Altered Paperclips Tutorial:

Clips from the original kit

Making your own altered paper clips is as easy as adhering qnything you want to some office paper clips.  You can add silk flowers, felt designs, buttons, bling...any tiny embellishment will look great adhered to the end of a paper clip!  Here are a few cute examples...

http://www.moonlightstamper.com/blog/altered-paper-clips
http://creativepad.typepad.com/creative_pad/2009/01/altered-item-thursday-paper-clips-match-book.html



Meridy's altered paper clips

I hope you have as much fun with this kit as I did!