New Catalog Party (and Free Give-Away!)

Everything is in place for the Stampin Up New Catalog Party!  Here is glimpse of the new catalog and some "goodies" for my guests!

Here they are intently looking through the New Catalog!  Oh, the possibilities of all of the projects that we will make this year are endless.  :)

No party is complete without some good food!  And there was a lot to choose from!  Thank you to all of the ladies for the delicious food and drinks that they brought.

We had some games with prizes and stamped the Happy Owl card. 

Melissa's Mom, Lillian stamped her first card today!  Doesn't she look so proud? 

 I love making cards and other crafty projects with my friends.  

What a fun time we had!

Here is photo of one of the prizes that I made for my guests.  They are key fobs (didn't I tell you that I would be making more?) made from Stampin' Up fabric.  Each guest got to pick one to bring home with them.

 

Didn't get to come to the party?  The good news is that you can receive one, too!  Just leave a comment on this blog page before Monday, June 16th (at 9:00 am EST) and I will put you in for a drawing to win one of these key fobs!  You can put keys on them for your purse or hang them up at home with your spare keys on them.  This drawing is now over.  Mary Beth is the winner!

If you are interested in learning to stamp, let me know!  It's a lot of fun and you will meet some great people.  :)

Gifts for the Sewists

 

The past few weeks I've been as busy as an elf working on Christmas gifts!  Pictured here are some gifts that I have made for the women who come over to my house to learn to sew.  I had a lot of fun making them and love watching the ladies choose a Christmas gift from the "gift basket!"

These were my favorite ones to make- a little quilted pincushion!  Easy and fun to make, they will make a great addition to anyone's sewing basket.  One of the fabrics is from Stampin' Up's Sew Suite collections of fabrics.  Can you guess which one?  Note the cute little stamping tag, too!

I only made 6 of these little pincushions, but let me tell you, they are addicting!  I could have made a TON more! They use just scraps of fabric and showcase those pretty buttons that you have laying around in your sewing drawer!

 Next up I made fabric needle cases.  They have 2 pockets on the inside for assorted sewing and machine needle packages and a felt insert to hold the spare needles.  What an easy way to keep track of the needles.  (I use mine all the time!)

Here is a photo of what the front of the cases look like.  I held them together using a hair tie in the seam to wrap around a button closure on the front!  These are all made with Stampin Up fabrics!

A lot of the time the ladies who come over to sew need some sort of a book to write down the measurements and instructions (and homework!) for their projects.  I had some small composition books in my craft closet and took them out to make sewing notebooks!  I found some cute papers, added some cut outs and sewing sayings.  Then I sprayed the books with Krylon sealant and added the ribbons.  What a great rainy day project!

Mostly I don't like to make any projects exactly the same.  Here are some variations on the notebooks.  Although you can't see it from the photos, I decorated the backs of the books, too.

I put the books into clear envelopes so that they don't spilled on or get damp.  The envelopes also protect the books from getting dirty.  They display so nicely in the envelopes.

Which book do you like the best?  I think that I will keep the orange one on the top row for jotting down my crafty notes!