Monthly Archives: December 2012
Cleaning up after Christmas. What a cat!
Link, in his snowplow. What a cat!
Shoveling out. What a cat!
What a great Christmas. What a cat!
He does exist. What a cat!
Ornament Advent: Day 22 Tissue Paper Garland
Cheri-Kristin and I always make similar projects and when I saw her garland from yesterday, I had to laugh. Without even being aware of it we both made garland. Her project is so pretty that it made me a little intimidated to post mine, but here goes anyway. I hope you like it.
Supplies
Tissue paper
Colorful thread
Sewing machine
Ribbon (optional)
This is such an easy project, if you can sew a straight line, you can make these. I stacked a bunch of tissue paper together and cut out several shapes. Circles, squares and rectangles of tissue. I started with the ribbon garland, and just placed one or two of the tissue paper objects underneath the zipper foot. For the garland without the the ribbon, all you do is run the thread over the tissue paper objects. For the tissue paper bows, just bunch up the tissue paper in the middle and sew over it.
It is really simple and sewing tissue paper and ribbon is a really awesome way to combine this medium together.
Merry Christmas
Eeeeek. It’s almost here! What a cat!
Ornament Advent: Day 23 Christmas Wrap Garland
One of the greatest benefits of having a crafting family are how ideas are bounced, re-imaged, and re-shaped among us. I really love the Star Ornaments that Loryn made and I also just love the Chinese Fortune Garland that Cheri made. I decided to do something similar to Loryn’s stars and follow Cheri and make a garland. I am very happy with how it turned out!
Supplies:
Christmas wrap
Paper punch (I used 2″ seal punch)
Glue stick or pen
Yarn, string, or ribbon
I had some really shiny Christmas wrap and also had this 2″ seal paper punch. I used the paper punch to cut around 120 pieces out of the Christmas wrap. I then pulled out some thick crochet thread that is a sort-of soft gold color and is ribbonish (flat and about 1/8″ thick). I spread glue on two cut-outs and glued the crochet thread between the two pieces. You do have to be sparing with the glue as the Christmas wrap is very thin. I left around 1/4″ of the yarn visible between the cut-outs.
My garland is around 12′ long and looks great on a tree! I think this whole garland took me around 45 minutes to make. The other nice thing about this garland is that once you fold up the shapes, it takes up so little space and stores very well.
Happy Holidays and Happy Crafting!
Kristin
Bundled up for the cold. What a cat!
the crafty sisters 