Rosettes

If you've seen some of my prior posts on my friends frames, you've seen my fun little rosettes I've been making. The best part about them is that they can be used for anything! Right now, I have one decorating my purse (or suitcase as my husband lovingly refers to it!).

I made the above one for a friend's birthday and she asked me to make some for her niece. Apparently, her niece LOVED the one I made for her, so I happily obliged.

Hot Pink, Purple, Black, Blue, Orange and White. And a little clip on the back so she can put it wherever she wants. She even got a skinny little headband so if she wants, she can put them on that in her hair!

friends

I had to print a picture out for Lexi. She needed a family picture to take for preschool. Yes. Preschool. I can't believe it! Anyway, while I printed out one of the three of us, I decided I needed to update a few pics I have in frames. I did one of my friends and I on our girls trip to update another one I had of all of us about 2 or 3 years ago. However, after printing and going to put it in the frame, I realized it was a 4x6 and my frame was a 5x7! So, you know, instead of making myself a mat, I had to just make a whole new frame!

This started out as an ugly light brown frame. I sprayed it black to go with all the rest of the black frames in my house. It's a fabulous frame as it comes with a 4x6 mat that has two layers on it! I knew I wanted to do something with the mat...I couldn't leave it alone :) So I pulled up my SCAL, and cut out friends in my wish i were taller font, which is one of my faves! The paper is Jillibean Soup, Blossom Soup.

Then, I thought it needed something else....so I pulled out some green and white fabric that went with the Blossom Soup and made some fabric flowers to put on top. Love how it turned out! A simple project made with everything I had on hand :)

And, yes...my friends and I have a thing about pyramids....whenever we're together in a group, it seems we have to do one :)

Hair do-dads

Back in September, I made a fun little hair thing for myself (sorry, no pics). I wore it to work a few weeks ago and one of my co-workers wanted me to make one for her. I already had fabric in my stash, so I sat down one night and cut up a few different circles and then figured out which ones would go together. Here's what I came up with:

Not sure how well you can see it, but the back layer is a smokey shadow color with black leaves on it. I topped it with a True Black matte button.

This one is topped by a Raspberry Fizz button (which was very hard to match to my fabric, if I may say so!).

Here you can see the gray/black fabric better. I added 3 Raspberry Fizz rhinestones to the middle.

Here's how I do the back: it's just a small circle of felt that I adhere inside a bobby pin and then attach the fabric to the felt. These are all about 2 inches, so not huge. And, yes, I know that they are not all symmetrical, but that's what I love about them!