I won a wonderful giveaway....

I was a winner of a bead giveaway over on Inspirational Beading blog. She had a giveaway from MarutiBeads for 60 beads.

This is what I saw when I opened the box. I was like WOW!!!! I must have not looked at the description about the giveaway since it was for 60 beads. Check out the other pictures.

 

They came in pacs of either 5 or 6 beads which were individually wrapped.

 

These are a couple of  pictures of the beads I received. Now I have to be real creative and find ways to make some things with them. The beads are handmade. Yes Handmade.

Crafting Hugs and Merry Christmas.

 

12 Days of Christmas Swap....

How can we not love Splitcoaststampers???  I really love swaps. Who does not love to get something special in the mail. So here was a swap to do 25 Days of Christmas. Can you believe all of the ladies in 3 groups made 25 items for 25 ladies. WOW! and fun.

So I thought and thought what to make. I took a class to make some wonderful Christmas Tags and these are a product of ideas from that class. I.  kind of lost some of the tags so I was not sure what some were. But the poinsetta and tree were the newest ones. My poinsetta is a cut from a Cricut Cartridge. It is so pretty and I thought the best.

My day was the 21st so I made a tag and put the number on it. I then added the tags to a glassine bag. See the bottom picture.

Hope you enjoyed looking.

 

Crafting Hugs and Merry Christmas,





Christmas Tea Cups

My Best Friend/Adopted Sis is having a Church Tea and needed some tea cups. I made 30 for her daughter in laws bridal shower and she asked me for these for the tea. How could I not say no and since I really needed something new to do.

You always want things to be perfect for that someone special. Right???
Well I found the perfect paper, since the theme was Holly and Poinsetta's, how is this not great? I ran the flower under an embossing folder and then used a brad from Stampin Up.

The tea cup is from My Time Made Easy. She has alot of templates for sale and they are only $5.00. She even has a Tea Pot.

I did add a black scallop botton square. I did sponge the cups and bottom with black ink. This gave it a vintage look.

Supplies:
Paper:Stampin Up Cherry Cobbler and My Mine Eye "Christmas" 6x6 pad
Template: Mt Time Made Easy Tea Cup

Crafty Hugs and Merry Christmas!

Sunrise Bracelet

I so a beautiful tutorial for a seed bead bracelet from eebeads tutorials.
http://www.eebeads.com/ideas/655_braid.html?source=pinterIdea





















This is eebeads bracelet. Made by Allie in customer service. Nice-right?



I really loved the colors and after looking on Etsy for the seeds beads at a $1.00 a bag. I got to work.

Here are the pretty beads I used.

 

 

I used 2 colors of peach and a pink with gold bugals. Very pretty colors.

Here is my bracelet I think I will take it apart and redo it. I needed to add jumprings to the clasp and did not. Also the clasp is a new item I have not used and not sure of using it also.

Thank you for looking.

Crafting Hugs,

6 Strand Paracord knot bracelet....

Good Morning,

I have my second knot bracelet for today.

Paracord is very soft and feels nice next to the skin. I found this knot site and made the 6 strand but had no idea how to finish it off.

http://www.seekyee.com/Slings/howtos/6strand1.htm Tutorial


I thought about it for a long time and after looking at other tutorials, I came up with tying  3 strands in a knot and then the other 3 into a knot. I then cut 4 strands and melt the ends. Took the other 2 strands and added a button.

Having a button at the end is great. So many fun buttons out in the world now you can have any theme.

I decided I needed to add something else to it and added the chain. It really does finish it off.

It looks a bit big and is but really no problem.

 

 

 

I did buy the above paracord at Michael's but I have bought on Ebay,
At czar_of_russia, great prices and wonderful colors.


Crafting Hugs,

Trilbite Bar two color paracord bracelet....

Good Afternoon,  It is a bit overcast today and we have some depression down further south. Most likely we will have some rain.

I have my first paracord bracelet. I love this bracelet knot due to it being wide.
I did find this first on "remarkably domestic" blog. She has a great tutorial herself.  I like hers alot.
http://remarkablydomestic.com/2012/08/27/how-to-woven-cuff-bracelet/


JD Lenzen has great tutorials on YouTube.
http://fusionknots.com/graphics/gallery/knots/Trilobite%20Bar%20-%20two%20color.html
His website is fusionknots.

You tuck the loop in the back and melt the ends.

Adding the button with a shank is great. Just sew it in.

I am showing my work at the start. She works upside down.

I have a tray that is working great for this work.

 

 

I bought by paracord from czar of russia on ebay. Great prices.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/350510334050?var=620027901536&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Remember to check out the above sites for great ideas.

Crafting Hugs,
Stephanie

Paracord bracelet life....

It seems that all the rage of Paracord is coming back to the 20th century. Now you can find all the cute colors and add chain to a bracelet.

If you have not found Fusion Knots, he has some awesome tutorials and does a great job. His name is JD Lenzen. The tutorials on YouTube are awesome. JD does a slow job and very useful.

I cannot crochet and would love to make some with paracord.

I will be adding pictures and show you what I have made.

Check it out soon.

Crafty Hugs,