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Trifold Women’s Wallet

9 May

As I mentioned in yesterdays post my daughter and I Love purses!!

So here is the first in several posts of purses and purse related items.

This wallet has a spot for everything!!

You could easily just grab this wallet and run to town.

Here is how to make the matching checkbook cover

Checkbook cover

If you don’t have the time or don’t want to make these,

you can find some premade wallets and checkbook covers on my site at:

Premade Wallets and checkbook covers

Wallet Project

Supplies:

Printed pattern Wallet

¼ yard fabric

½” yard 20” wide Fusible interfacing

Button

Elastic cording or something to make loop

Thread, sewing machine, iron

Lets get started:

First print out pattern

Lay pattern pieces on fabric and either pin or draw around. Cut 2 of pieces 2,3,4 (piece one will be cut out from extra piece 2) Cut out.

Separate piece 2 into two sections

Use extra piece 2 to cut out piece 1

This saves on fabric

Also cut out a piece of fabric 2 ½” x 1”

This is for the pen holder

Cut out interfacing : cut 2 of piece 3 and 1 of each piece 1,2,4

Fuse to the back of the pieces

On the back of pieces #1 , #2 & one of #3 fold top edge ¼” down. Press

On back of second piece #3 fold top and bottom edge ¼”. Press

Stitch close to the edge on all pieces that are folded

Stach pieces 1,2,&3 on top of each other right sides up

Having bottom raw edges even

Stitch ¼” on bottom three sides.

Draw lines on all three pieces that match pattern

Stitch through all layers on stitchig line

Place finished pieces 1,2,3 on top of one piece 4 right sides up

Having all bottom edges even

Stitch ¼” around the three edges

Fold pen holder in half long ways right sides together

Stitch ¼” from edge

Turn right side out and press

Place second piece of #3 on placement line on piece #4

Place pen holder on bottom edge of piece #3

Sew through three unfinished edges of piece #3 ¼” from edge.

Place a 4” loop of elastic cord in center of the top edge of piece #4

Place second piece #4 on top of stack with right sides together.

Sew ¼” from edge all the way around,

Leaving a hole to turn right side out.

Turn right side out and hand stitch the the opening closed

Attach a button to the front side of the wallet

Closed View

Open View

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Categories Accessories
Author Brandi

My daughter and I LOVE purses!!! So I thought it would be cute to make a purse card for Mother’s day. It really could be for any day but Mother’s day is right around the corner so this is a perfect craft for today!! Super simple and can be decorated any way!!

Supplies:

Cardstock either printed or blank to print the purse template: Purse

Crayons, markers, colored pencils or paint what ever you want to use

scissors

if you want to get really fancy gems, sequins or anything else that you think will add some bling

Glue — if you are using the fancy stuff

Step 1: Print out the template. If you are using the printed paper and want this to be your outside

make sure you print the template on the wrong side of the paper

Step 2: Cut out the outline of the purse

Flip the purse to the other side

Step 3: If you are using blank paper

Color a design for your purse on the paper

Step 4: Turn your purse to other side and cut out handle part.

Only cut on the line do not cut all the way off

Step 5: turn purse over and fold bottom half up to handle part

Fold section under handle down

Step 6: Color the handle and add button on flap

Open the purse and write a message to your Mom

If you want to add extra bling now is the time.

Tags: easy Mother's Day Kids Craft, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Card, Mother's Day Craft, Mother's Day kids Craft, Mother's Day Purse Card

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Categories Kids Crafts
Author Brandi

Monday Madness Free Design with order Week of May 6

7 May

Please do not add these to your cart. I will email you the free designs.

Baseball Mom Free Design with $5.00 order

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Author Brandi

Fun Friday~~

4 May

Dinosaur

Flip Flop APP

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Categories Fun Friday New Design
Author Brandi

Thursdays Tip~~~ How to clean your Iron

3 May

I don’t know about you but it never fails….. When I’m using heat and bond I always get it on my iron. No matter how hard I try something always goes wrong and I iron over the heat and bond. Sticky yucky mess!!

So today I’m going to show you how easy it is to clean your iron!!

This is my NASTY iron!!

Pretty gross!! I’m ashamed to say that I let it get this dirty!!

Oh well! On to the cleaning!!!

Plug your iron in and let it warm up

This is the cleaner that I use,

but any Hot iron Iron Cleaner will work

Place a clean towel on a table.

Squeeze a line of the cleaner on to the towel

Rub the hot iron, in a circular motion over the cleaner on the towel

Gross!!

Move the iron to a clean spot on the towel

Rub in a circular motion again

Yea, all clean!!!

Gross!!!

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Categories Thursday's Tip
Author Brandi

Wednesday’s Wonderful Project~~ Greatest Mom Shirt

2 May

Mother’s Day is just around the corner!! What Mother wouldn’t love a personalized shirt with her little helpers on it?

Grandma would just love one as well.

This really isn’t so much of a project as a tutorial of how to lay out this design.

You can find the World’s Best Mom design on my website at: Worlds Best Mom

The World’s Best Grandma is found here: Worlds Best Grandma

Mom Version

Grandma Version

Here is how you lay out this design

Place large peace of stabilizer on the back of the shirt

I love the hydro stick!!!

Hoop the top of your shirt this is where the world’s Best saying will go

Make sure you rotate your design so that the saying is facing the right direction

Stitch World’s Best Mom

Unhoop and hoop to next area

Move the hand to the position that you want it to be

Stitch Hand. Repeat with additional hands

Unhoop and move the hoop to the last position

Stitch Hands Down

Finished shirt

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Categories Clothes, Tutorials
Author Brandi

Beach Towel Giveaway

2 May

Beach Towel 27″ wide x 58″ tall

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Categories Uncategorized
Author Brandi

Mother’s Day Flower Kids Project

1 May

Mother’s day is just around the corner!! Here is a cute and easy craft project that you can make for your Mom! What Mom doesn’t like flowers, especially ones that are made with your hands!!! You could even add a picture of yourself to the center of the flower!

Finished Flower

Gather all of your materials:

5 sheets of colored paper or enough to make 10 hands

4″ circle cut from scrapes from the colored paper for hands

1 sheet of green paper

Paint stick ( I went to my local Walmart and they gave me one FREE)

Glue

Scissors

Pen to trace handprint

First Trace your hand 10 times on different colored paper.

We used 5 different colors,

and drew two hands on each

Next, Cut out all the hands and round the bottom edge

Lay your paint stick on the green paper and figure out how thick you want your stem

I made mine 2″ wide

Also draw one or two leave shapes out of the green paper

Line the ridged part of the paint stick with the top of your paper

You should have extra paint stick hanging off the edge on top

and then some that is not covered by the paint stick on the bottom

Draw a line on the stem where the end of the paint stick is

Cut off this section.

Glue the paint stick to the Green stem

Turn stem over to the green side.

Cut a 4″ Circle out of one of the colors that you used for the hands

Glue to the top of the paint stick( The part that is hanging off of the top edge)

Starting on the upper left hand edge of the circle

Place a small amount of glue on the front side of the circle

Lay your first hand down.

Continue all the way around the circle until you have all the hands glued down

Space as needed.

Glue the leaves to the stem.

If you want to add a picture add it to the center of the flower.

Finished Flower

Tags: easy Mother's Day Kids Craft, Flower craft, Kids Craft, Mother, Mother's Day, Mother's Day Craft, Mother's Day Gift, Mother's Day kids Craft, paper craft

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Categories Kids Crafts
Author Brandi

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29 Apr

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