Cute Crochet Earrings! Sat Chat 2/10/24

Hi friends! I have been playing around with crochet this week. I find it calming when I have an anxious mind. I made some small hearts from craft thread and turned them into earrings.

Here are the instructions if you want to make some. All you need is craft thread or embroidery floss, a small crochet hook, ribbon, earrings, and glue!

For the heart: make a magic ring, pull up a loop from the ring and chain 2, make 3 treble/triple crochet in the ring, then 3 double crochet in the ring, chain one, triple crochet in the ring, chain one, 3 double crochet in the ring, 3 triple crochet in the ring, chain 2 and slip stitch in the ring. Chain 1 and pull the ring closed with the loose end and chain 7 for the stem. Weave in ends.

Attach the end of the stem to an ear wire, secure it with a dab of glue, and add a bead if desired over the glue. Tie a small bow on the stem.

Make 2 or make a bunch to give to your GALentines! Now, here is sat chat!

Stuff I mentioned:

• Free Michaels class
• Altenew watercolor Playdate class is next week!

That’s all for today! I hope you are having a great weekend and finding ways to keep the winter blues away, I’m trying with crochet! Happy crafting!

A wonderful time!

I had a great time yesterday teaching a colored pencil workshop for the Society of Decorative Painters! We FINISHED 2 colored pencil paintings in just under 7 hours (lunch break included!) It was such fun to spend the day with these lovely ladies, here is what we painted:

If interested the illustration for this piece can be purchased in my Fancy Flowers digital stamp set. Pencils: Prismacolor, Paper: Canson Mi Teints

This illustration for this painting can be found in my set "Pretty Primitive", click on to photo to go to my shop:)

How about trying a colored pencil painting on colored paper? It is great fun and the Lindsay’s stamp Stuff digital stamps make excellent patterns! In fact many of my digital stamp designs started out a sketches for my paintings.  I do hope you will give it a try!

*PS, I am thinking of branching out into fully detailed painting instruction packets, if that interests you let me know by leaving a comment 🙂

If you are looking for projects from my Junior DT today you will have to wait until Thursday, they have moved up the ranks to Sr. DT members and will post their fab work with the rest of the team on Thursdays! Thanks for stopping by and till next time happy crafting!

Craft this card for $1.07!

In these economic times we crafters need to tighten our belts right…it’s so hard with all the yummy new papers, stamps and embellishments on the market…and we can’t possibly create something beautiful without at lest spending $5 right? Wrong! This is my first project for Creative Cuts and More, I’m a guest Designer for the month of February, isn’t this die cut lovely:

Die cut: Creative Cuts and More, Stamps: Inkadinkado, Inque Boutique, Ribbon&Pin: Dollar Tree

I used the Square Scallop 5 1/4″ Dress Card cut from Diamond white Bazzill Bling cardstock. The card is $1 but if you are buying 10 or more it drops to $0.80.  How cut would this be as a bridal shower invite? Here is the cost for this card: (Not counting Pearl-Ex, stamps and ink: they were part of my stash already)

die cut: $1

Ribbon: 0.o5 *14″ off a 6′ roll from the Dollar Tree

Stick pin: 0.13 *one out of an 8 pack purchased at the Dollar Tree. The pin had the flower and white ribbon attached.

Pattern Paper: 0.20 *bought at a 5/$1 sale at Joanns years ago, although one sheet would make 5 cards!

Glue stick: 0.05 *to make the self adhesive pearls, I did not use the whole stick though!

Total: $1.43. If you were making 10 they would cost $1.07 because of the pattern paper being split between 10 cards and the die cut price dropping to 80 cents each! You probably have ribbon, paper scraps and hot glue in your stash already so use it up for crying out loud!

To make the card:

Cut strips of pattern paper 1″ wide and fold them the long way. Print out the pattern below and tape the dress card over it so you see the iris folding pattern through the window.

right-click on this pattern to save and print

Glue the strips of paper down in the order shown on the pattern. Trim a piece of pattern paper to cover the folds from behind. *note: I used a small heart punch to add detail to the scalloped sides. Stamp flourish. Stamp sentiment on a scrap of purple, cut out and adhere with foam tape. Wrap the fold edge with ribbon and tie a double knot then stick the pin through.

squeeze tiny drops of hot glue onto a silicone mat and let cool for about 30 seconds then use a small paintbrush dipped in Pearl-Ex to add shimmer. Adhere to card (I touched the hot glue gun to the back of the “pearls” to attach them.

Fun, cheap and easy…now that’s my type of craft! Thanks for stopping by and until next time happy crafting!