Symthpay Card

Hello,

I made this card for my good friend.  Her dad just passed away recently.  I  met the deceased a few times.  Therefore, it was hard to make this card even though  it was a quick card.

The embossing folder was from Ac Moore by Darice.

Helen

Lots Of Beaded Flowers

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I tried the beaded flowers before but I couldn't do it.  My fingers couldn't handle the wire or may be because I didn't use the right tool and the right technique.  After I saw Dr. Sonia bead flowers, I wanted  to give it another try.,  I found a few tutorials.

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And this is what I was  doing all day yesterday with my 5 years old helper. She always wanted to help so this time I thought she can actually help and she did.  I had her put the 6 white beads in the wire and I would finish the flower and together we made all these.

 

  I tried these with the color beads on the outside.  I thought they didn't come out as nice as the white beads on the outside.  So I went back and made more like the above flowers.  I also made all white bead flowers. We made at least 100 flowers yesterday.

Then my daughter wanted to make the bead flower all by herself.  I showed her how to and these are her flowers made all by herself. After I took the picture of her flower, she made a lots more. She said that she couldn't help it; it was so much fun. 

Thanks for checking in.

Helen

Baby Shoe Gift Card/Goodies Holder

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I made this since last year but I don't think I ever share this.

The shoes fit gift card perfectly and it can also hold other goodies for baby shower.  I got the template from splistcoast stamper a few years ago. The template is no longer there.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Helen

Crochet Fingerless Gloves

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I've always wanted one of this when it first came out.  I don't know why I didn't make one sooner.  I am glad I finally made them.  They are so easy to make and look so cool when wear them.  With the inspiration from etsy and google I made these.

 Then my two sons wanted one too.  This one is for my younger son.  When I added the thumb, some how they look like tree trunk but they look really cool when he wear them. 

The picture below was my first pair. I used the tutorial here.  The design look nice but when I wore them they look funny. I took them a part.

Thanks for stopping by!

Helen

Altered Wooden Baskets

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I haven't done any paper craft in the past 3 months.  I had these wooden baskets sitting around collecting dust so a few days ago I decided to dress them up.  Boy! I had to dust some dust off my papers and punches. 

All flowers were made by me. :)  The pink and yellow flowers were made using Caron Simply soft yarn.  They were the same flowers that I used to make the rose afghan but I like this tight stitches better.  Tutorial for the flower is here.  The other flowers were made using size 10 crochet thread.

Thanks for stopping by.

Helen

Crochet Scollap Rings

Hello,

I saw this crochet scollops on one of the blogs.  So I went to Dollar Tree and lucky I found a bag of bangle.  It had 12 in the bag for $1.08.  I had to modify since my bangles are almost 3" wide. And these what I came up with. 

The last group here I used Caron Simply Soft and I really like it.

You can fine the tutorial for the scollop ring  here.

I played around with the stitches for different ring sizes. 
Here is what I have:  55 stitches will make 9 scollops
                                61 stitches will make 10 scollops
                                 67 stitches will make 11 scollops
                                  73 stitches will make 12 scollops
so basically if you have a bigger ring just keep adding 6 for each scollops. I wanted to make a wreath for this when I fine the ring that I like.

Another bargain? I bought these Caron Simply Soft and a few Lion Brand yarn from Walmart clearance bins  for $1.50 each.  The price on the yarn mark $2.50 each so I got only 3 balls but when I took to pay it came up $1.50.  You know me I went back and got some more.
                                

Have a wonderful weekend!

Helen

Crochet Rose Throw Partly Done

Hello,

I started this roses afghan back in May.   I stopped because I didn't really happy with the way I crocheted.  I normally crochet  tightly but for these roses tight stitches didn't make nice roses (that was my thought then)  so I crocheted loosely. As I joined the squares together, it became sagging.  I wanted to take the squares apart and redo the entire thing but the thought of it  scared me.  I had 40 roses so far.

You were wondering what is it with the two colors? I love that bright purple yarn but each ball had only 165 yards compare to the dark purple yarn it had 315 yards in a ball and they cost the same.  So my plan was to have the bright color in the center and the dark color around it. I used Caron Simply Soft.

You can fine the rose tutorial here.

Helen