TopNote Mini Treat Purses

Good Morning!

I love making mini treats and today I'm sharing the Stampin' Up! top note mini treats.  You can fine the  tutorial here.  I like purses so I made mine into purses.  I put mini Hershey crunch chocolate in there.

You see why I needed lots of crochet flowers.  I used them on almost everything I made now.  I hope you've  enjoyed looking at these cute little purses.

Thanks for stopping by.

Helen

Lots and lots of Crochet Flowers, Oh My!

Hello Blogger Friends!

Look at what I had been doing for the month of May.

During the second week of May Joann online had the crochet threads on sale for 25% off.  I thought it was not bad. So I bought this first box.   There were 15 balls total.

 I haven't receive my first order yet and the crochet threads went on sale again the following week. This time they were 50% off.  How can I resist such a sale!  So I ordered  more crochet threads. I didn't even know how many balls I ordered.  See the tiny balls in the plastic bag, I didn't know they were that tiny. They were the size of a goal ball and the thread sizes were much finer too.

 After receiving the two orders, I realized I didn't order any neutral colors so here they are my third order.
I believe there were 15 balls in there.  I thought I order some green for the size #3 thread but I didn't. Oh, well.  May be I'll place another order. lol

I had been making large crochet roses.  These roses are about 3 inches big.  I turned them into brooches.
Crochet flower utorial here.

 I believe the roses in the pictures below are called the cabbage roses.  Correct me if I'm wrong.  I love them! I will be making more of these.  I couldn't help it! I just love them!

 The following crochet flowers are smaller.  I used them to embellish cards and boxes.  I am going to make them into hair accessories also.

 These gold flowers were the hardest to crochet.  The thread kept tangling.  I am glad I bought only 1 ball.

 These purple flowers were made using the DMC thread. The tiny golf ball size. The flowers looked big here but they were only about 1 inch.

 I was trying to make sunflowers.

Testing the pink shade thread.   Tutorial

 These white scallops are about 2 inches.

Crochet scallop tutorial 

I have more to share but I thought I will keep it for another post.

Thank you so much for looking.

Helen

Quilling Red Grapes Note Card

Hello,

Sharing another quilling grapes note card.   I like this one better than my earlier post from a few weeks ago.

Thanks for taking a peak!

Helen

Small Gift Purses

Good Morning!

I bought these purse templates from here last year because I didn't feel like spending hours making the template.  Plus her price was reasonable.   I didn't like the original purses size so I changed the purse size to fit small gift instead of just gift card.

Yellow is my least favorite color.  I had yellow papers more than I needed and I wanted to get rid of them so I made them into purses.

Thanks for stopping by.

Helen

Quilling Olive Note Card

Hello,

This quilling olive is another design that I got from the Thrilling Quilling book by Elizabeth Moad.

I am not really please with this one and I have another card in mind  but I didn't feel like making another one yet.  So I will have to share this one and wait for another one next time.

Make It Monday

Secret Crafter

As always thanks for visiting.

Helen

Quilling Peas

Hello,

Is it June already? Oh, my!

Sharing a quick quilling peas that I made a few weeks ago.  These quilling peas came from a quilling book that I bought when I first learned to quill.  When I first started to quill, I wanted to buy all the quilling books out there. That would mean I need lots of these $$$$.  It took me a long time to decide to buy this book. It is called Thrilling Quilling by Lizabeth Moad. I wanted to buy a quilling book that gives me lots of different designs and I think this book gives me what I was looking for.  Also if you google "quilling cards",  you will get more quilling than a quilling book can offer..  No more buying quilling book!

Thanks for looking!  Have a wonderful weekend!

Helen

Cheep Talk Note Card

Hello,

This is an old stamp set from Stampin' Up! called Cheep Talk. 

 It is hard to see but the wing was popped with dimensional.  I stamped the image the second time on a piece of pattern scrap paper and cut out the wing.   I can't finish the card without using one of  my many, many, many handmade crochet flowers.

Make It Monday - anything goes


Thanks for looking!

Helen