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Sewing Sunday - New Products in my Sew Many Ruffles Shop

You may or may not have heard that I have been turning my attention more and more to my sewing machine and have opened up an Etsy shop called Sew Many Ruffles. I really enjoy all of my paper projects but wanted to add a little something else to my crafting pursuits.

I really am not new to sewing at all, and have made many a baby quilt, bags, pillows, costumes and other things for around the house or for fun.  I think I probably made my first stuffed doll when I was under 7.  In the last couple of years though, my machine had seen a lot more paper than fabric and so I decided I wanted to change that.

So you are probably wondering, how do you get from playing around with a sewing machine for fun to opening an Etsy store selling handmade custom boutique dresses?  Well, I don't really know except that I seem to have the entrepreneurial spirit ingrained in me and when I love making things I just have to share them.  Since I can't really afford to just give them away, "Hey a girl's got to be able to buy new fabric!",  I decided that it would be best to try to sell them, and so Sew Many Ruffles came in to being.

I am still doing all of my other crafty pursuits, having lots of fun creating for Lori Whitlock and Petaloo and teaching Scrapbooking and Silhouette classes monthly, so you will see be able to come here for inspiration in those areas but now I'll also be sharing a little bit of my sewing projects as well.

Please help me spread the word about my Etsy shop, Sew Many Ruffles by liking me on Facebook.  I have a Facebook Fan Page here as well as a blog dedicated to Sew Many Ruffles here.  I'll also post specials and discounts here and on my Facebook Page so be sure to choose notifications when you are there "Liking" me.

Have a great day!

Lori Whitlock Spotlight- Card Carrier and Matching Card

I'm going to let the pictures do the talking today.  If you would like more information about either the card box or the card, click on over to Lori Whitlock's blog and you will see a few instructions about how I created them or , as always, please feel free to leave your questions in the comment section.  I'll get right back to you!

Thanks for stopping by.

Lori Whitlock Supplies used:

Stationary Box

Layered Flowers Set 2

3×4 Quote Cards

Celebrate Today phrase (Silhouette store, Design Id #9382)

Other Supplies:

Sweet Girl paper paper collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Sweet Girl Cardstock stickers by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Sweet Girl Chipboard Shapes by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Sweet Girl Brad collection by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Sweet Girl Washi Tape by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

Silhouette Cameo

 

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A Mother's Day Gift using Petaloo and Simple Stories

This week on the Petaloo blog and Petaloo Facebook Page you will see some beautiful projects created by the designers for a special team up with Simple Stories.  There is also a chance to win $150.00 in Petaloo and Simple Stories products.  

To learn more about my project and to see more closeup pictures please stop by the Petaloo blog here.  I really enjoyed working with all of these lovely products and hope that you will be inspired too.

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Lori Whitlock Spotlight- Scrapbooking "Project Life" Style

Hello everyone.  I am sharing a scrapbook page today that I created using some new die cuts from Lori Whitlock.  The "Project Life" style of scrapbooking is new to me and I am enjoying learning how to manage the supplies and photographs and how to be "creative" with it.  

So I had a little fun with some diecuts from Lori Whitlock's store.  I combined some shapes and used some fun negative space technique.

To see more closeups and to learn more about how I created a few of the 3x4 cards, please check out my blog post on the Lori Whitlock blog here.

Lori Whitlock supplies used:

Remember This Title

4x6 Life Frames 2

12 Arrows

3 Labels (Silhouette store Design ID# 14672

Wonder Layout

Other Supplies:

All About a Boy paper collection and chipboard embellisments by Lori Whitlock for Echo Park

All About a Boy washi tape

All About a Boy decorative brads

Ali Edwards Just Awesome Tabs stamp set

Aunt Jana Sketch Silhouette font

Silhouette Cameo

Silhouette Sketch Pens

Becky Higgins Project Life Photo Sleeves

Night of Navy Stampin Up!  ink

 

Petaloo and Bella Blvd Team Up This Week

Well, I'm a bit late with my blog post but you still have time to hop on over to the Petaloo blog and comment to win!  

I already had a post schedule for Tuesday so I had to wait until today to tell you about the team up with Petaloo and Bella Blvd.  

We are having a party all week at the Petaloo blog, sharing projects for birthdays.  Home decor, gifts and gift bags, cards, anything to do with birthdays.  The Bella Blvd design team is also sharing their birthday projects using Petaloo flowers too so you'll want to stop by their blog as well for more inspiration and of course more chances to win.

So I am going to share a little sneak peek with you here so you'll have even more of an incentive to hop on over to the Petaloo blog. :)

 

Have a great day and have fun soaking up all of the beautiful projects from both teams.

Petaloo Supplies used:

Petaloo Floradoodles Embossed Mulbery Paper Daisies in YellowPetaloo Floradoodles Embossed Mulbery Paper Daisies in FuschiaPetaloo Dazzlers Birthday - Gift Boxes

Other Supplies:

Bella Blvd Birthday Girl Paper and Sticker Collection
SVG Cuts "B is for Birthday" digital cutting file
Silhouette
misc buttons
Stampin Up! ribbon

 

Lori Whitlock Spotlight- Flip and Swing Birthday Cards

Today I have another project for Lori Whitlock.  Have you taken a peek at her store lately?  It is so full of fun things.  It seems that I am on a birthday kick this week as I have two birthday cards to show you today and some more birthday projects later this week for Petaloo.  Be sure to come back to see that.

Let me tell you a little bit about these cards.  I am totally addicted to this style of card.  It is an interactive swing flip card and it opens up by pulling both sides out at the same time.  I wish I had made a video to show you because they really are adorable.  Everytime I have shown them to people, I always hear a bunch of oohs and how cute!

The card is actually very easy to put together.  On the girl birthday card I used the scalloped circle flip swing card.  By the way each of these cards come together as a set so if you buy the file you will get both the scalloped circle and the rectangle.  The scalloped circle card also comes with a mat shape so that it is easy to layer different papers on top of each other.

This is what the card looks like, pulled apart, on the inside.  As you can see, you can decorate both the front and the back of the scalloped circle.  Here I used some pretty stickers and another digital die cut sentiment that I found in this card kit.

The papers that I am using are all from Lori Whitlock's new Sweet Girl and All About A Boy paper and embellishment collections.  I love the happy colors and the double sided plain colored cardstock that coordinates with the set, is perfect for this card that is decorated both inside and out.

And here is the boys card.  I loved the extra mats that are included in the cut file.  They really bring it all together for a nice finished look.  I added some chipboard embellsishments from the collection as accents.

Then as you pull on both sides of the card, the inside is revealed.  I used the same sentiment on this card as I did the other but just cut it a little bit bigger.  Some more chipboard embellishments and some fun washi tape and it's done.

Here is a quick peek at what the back of the card looks like.  

If you have any problems with putting your card together, don't forget that Lori Whitlock has a fabulous You Tube channel where her videos are all about putting her files together.  Believe me, I've had to watch a couple and you know they are pretty fun to watch and very informative.

Supplies Used:

• Flip Swing Card Set 2  (See the assembly video at this link too)
• Happy Birthday Cards  (Happy Birthday sentiment)
• Sweet Girl paper collection and embellishments by Lori Whitlock for Echo Paper
• All About A Boy paper collections and embellishments by Lori Whitlock for Echo Paper
• Silhouette Cameo

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