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Remember my Felt Label tutorial?

I followed an advice from a good friend of mine, mba Dini Capungmungil, to submit it to Linda Lanese at the Craft Gossip and here it is! [mba Dini had her own tutorial featured here earlier]

Mad Crafter at Work has a FELT LABEL – Just for the Fun of it tutorial that may get your creative juices flowing.  This is an adorable project we can all do. 

Thank you, mba Dini and Linda^^

Want to share your own original tutorial at Craft Gossip?  Just submit by clicking this 'Send Us Gossip' folder. You would need to fill in a simple form (i.e.: email, link to your blog, simple description on your tuto. etc/ :)) and click to send ^^ 

Happy Sharing (and crafting!)

FELT LABEL - Just for the Fun of it!

An easy tutorial for the weekend ;)

Materials:

1. Hard (used) paper for pattern;

2. Felt (duh, of course!)

3. Pen

4. Hole Puncher

5. Embroidery + sewing threads [if you like]

6. Embroidery + regular sewing needles

Step 1 & 2

Step 3

Step 4

Step 5 & 6

Step 7

Add more embellishment such as buttons, rick racks, lace, ribbons, use different stitch patterns and just HAVE FUN with it!

My Sue Sunbonnet creation for the Indonesian Crafter Monthly Challenge :D

Take a peek here to see the lovely handiworks of other IC-MC participants {heart}


Happy Crafting y'all! ^^

The Angry Birds Experience *_*

THE GOOD NEWS

Just last week I got an order for 60 pcs of 'Angry Birds' keyrings as birthday goodie bag filler from my favorite customer - yay! Officially the first big order for BBC! ^_^   

{well, maybe not much for a wedding souvenir supplier, but for a single fighter like me, this was quite a BIG job plus I hadn't done this before, heh heh}

And sure enough ... I was pushed almost to my limit since I had to divide my time between doing the motherly and wifey chores, caring for my 4 children (including a 2 year old little miss want to know it all plus a nosy brat of a cat), and meeting the deadline for the birds.

Deadline ... Ooo, what a scary word .. and this is my closest brush with Mr. Deadline :)

THE DOs AND THE DON'Ts

I know that this will not be pretty, but I had to admit that I did procrastinate in the beginning {ouch!}. 

I shouldn't have done it - cuz if I hadn't, I would have more time to sleep, less crankiness in the morning, well, you know ... the whole package that comes with them. Worse, there were several times that I panicked - like when the pickup guy was supposed to arrive in 3 hours and I haven't even started on the last batch (the bomb bird). Oh dear!

But then I remembered seeing this saying at Shabby Blogs so I repeated it several times in my head:

After taking a few deep breaths, I finally calmed myself and carried on ...

and finished all 50 birds and 10 pigs! Tadaaaa! What a RELIEF!!

 

My moral of the story: 

Rule no. 1:  NEVER ... with all capitals ... PROCRASTINATE! 'Cuz if you combine it with DEADLINE and your other RESPONSIBILITIES, they don't mix well together ... :P

Rule no. 2:  DON'T PANIC, you may make mistakes when you do. I did attached two keychains on the birds' butts, not the heads, lol!!  So, remember to always 'Keep calm and carry on ...'

Rule no. 3: WORK WITH A SYSTEM, i.e: when working on big orders like these, cut all the basic patterns first.  This will make it easier (and faster) to assemble later. It may be a little boring at the beginning but you'll appreciate it later.

Well, I think that's a wrap, hope you all enjoy reading this post :)

Happy crafting! ^_^

Proud 2 B Me

Proud 2 B Me_picnik, a photo by my felt frenzy on Flickr.

Neon Owlies r in town! (SOLD OUT!)

New / custom order is now OPEN :)

Salley Mavor's Rabbitat Movie - MUST SEE!

OMG, finally, the 7.25 minutes movie is done!

I am soo excited to see Salley working on her Rabbitat piece and her beautiful narration just carried me away.

If you are into fabric relief art, then you know that this movie is priceless!

Click here to link up to her blog to see it. Enjoy!

My Wedding Banner II

At last .. I finally found the perfect embellishment for my banner: 

6 purplish-colored fresh water pearls

(that had been sitting in my little bead drawer for more than a year! Yee-haw!)  

Bought them at Studio Manik at Blok M Plaza (don't know if it's still in there, but I hope they are). 

Sooo glad that I can finally use them on my creation - I just scattered the pearls around like this (see image above) and sew them on. 

Simple and super easy! ^_^

And here's how it looks like right now.  

Not bad eh, for an experiment .. 

{in my book, that means I gotta make another one! :P}

XOXOXO!

My Wedding Banner

Been awhile .. I know.

All the designing work for FB profile has been really draining - felt like my brain is overheating ... ugh!
I've been itching to create something real with my hands, something that I can touch and not only see .. you know the feeling.

Well, inspired (again) by Salley Mavor's wedding banner, I wanted to make my own. Heyy, come to think of it, this would make a great anniversary gift also!

So here's what I did for my banner:

I randomly chose purple cotton yarn for our names since I only have 6 colors to choose from anyway (eek!) ... and I don't have the green florist wire as well so I used whatever wire I have from my beading supplies ... Why I chose green and purple felt? I didn't.  Those two were sitting on top of my felt stack (talk about uncomplicated).

For the wedding date I used my green colored cotton yarn and burnt orange thread for contrast ...

 I don't have the cool celtic accessories made of bones like Salley either (great stuff!), so I came up with these from my stash ...

Very fitting, as the four red stones represent our four children (yep, they're ALL ours .. lol!)

And VOILA! Here's what it looks like ... still unfinished though :(

I'm thinking of putting more embellishment around the wedding date area .. more sparklies maybe?
Dunno.  But I know I'll come up with something .. :)

Meet My Idol --> Salley Mavor

No, I don't know her personally.
But yes, I super admire her amazing skills at making fabric relief (blush blush) - if you never heard of her or had not seen her marvelous work, then you must 'meet' her here (click the link below):

Meet the illustrator of 'Pocketful of Posies' --> Salley Mavor

Her works are very inspiring - well, she did inspired me to do a simple fabric relief series called the 'Red Riding Hood Series' an adaptation to Lila Prapp's illustration in '1001 Stories'.  Here they are:

They're not as intricate as Salley's work (yet!) but they're my first darlings (and will be on their way soon to grace the studio of a very talented lady, the owner of Sew Stories. ^O^)

More on Salley Mavor's exhibitions:

July 15, 2011- March 4, 2012, Salley Mavor – Sewn Stories, an exhibit of Salley Mavor’s fabric relief artwork ( including 9 original illustrations from Pocketful of Posies) at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Oct. 10- Dec. 16, 2011 at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut  (26 or more pieces will be shown). Salley Mavor will give a presentation at UConn, during the Connecticut Children’s Book Fair, Nov. 12th, 2011.
July- August, 2012 at the Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, New York (25 pieces), Talk by Salley Mavor- Wed., Aug. 29th, 7:00pm
Oct. – Dec. 2012 at the New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, Massachusetts (25 pieces will be shown)
Feb. 23rd – May 5th, 2013 at Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois (25 pieces)
July 13- August 11, 2013 at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, Massachusetts (25 pieces will be shown)
Sept. - Oct. , 2013  at Historic Highfield Hall, Falmouth Massachusetts  (all 51 pieces will be shown)

Stay tuned for my next fabric relief project!