DIY: Family Initials Wall Art

Back in June I shared two tutorials, one on And Sew We Craft

and on here on Actually Amy.

They were for two versions on monogrammed hoop art. The plan was for me to create family initial wall and well, last week I finally finished it. I know, slack!

The reason it wasn't all finished in June was because I had to order some new hoops as I had completely run out and there is nowhere for me to buy them locally.

They arrived in July and simply sat on my shelf. But my Mother in Law is here for a visit and she needed to sleep in my craft room so I had to clean up. And part of cleaning up meant finishing some half done projects.

But it took all of 10 minutes to finish them and hang them up on our wall.

And the kids love it. And so do I!

Now to work on the rest of the walls in this house. They all need some serious colour on them!

Etsy Shop Love: Rubber Stamps

By now you would know that I have a thing for window shopping on Etsy. Here are some rubber stamps I have been lusting over!

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Do you window shop over there too?

Etsy Shop Love: Washi Tape

I love washi tape and I noticed recently that my supplies are dwindling. So off I went to etsy to stock up on some more.

Here are a few that caught my eye:

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11 Egg-cellent Easter Egg Craft Ideas

From Left to Right, Top to Bottom:

1. Rubber Cement Eggs 2. Button covered Easter Eggs 3. Crochet Covered Easter Eggs 

4. Denim Easter Eggs 5.Easter eggs in a jar 6. Black and white Easter eggs

  7. Embellished Easter Eggs 8.Glitter Easter Eggs via Martha Stewart

 9.Foil wrapped Easter eggs 

10. Decoupage Easter eggs 11. Chalkboard Easter eggs

Smiley Happy Giraffe

I really wanted to learn some new craft skills this year, and one of them was to start stitching.

Now I am a complete stitching/embroidery newbie. So I thought the best way for me to start was to grab some simple kits.

Except I couldn't decide on just one or two so I got... 6.

These kits are from here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/rubyinthedustnz

And I started on one yesterday. This giraffe is just gorgeous and pretty straight forward to do.

I made some more progress on it last night. And hope I can show you it all finished and pretty soon.

Do you stitch? How did you learn? 

I am linking up here:
And Sew We Craft
Reasons to Skip The Housework
Tuesday to Do link party
Too Cute Tuesday
My Creative Space

Dreaming

So my craft space is pretty much packed up so instead of doing any crafting I am flicking through my craft books when I get a chance for a coffee.

I am dreaming of the quilts I want to make once I get a craft space in our new home.

I am not sure what kind of craft space I will end up with in our new home. We don't actually have a house yet, but I do know it will be smaller than what we have here...

DAVID TUTERA™ Celebrate Cards #Tuteracelebrate

Last month I recieved a rather large box on my doorstep. It was full of the new range of David Tutera Paper Crafts and I was just a little bit excited by this.

I mean look at it all! How could you not be excited by all that? The new range is called DAVID TUTERA™ Celebrate and the system is really easy to use.

It is a 3 step system- So you select your card and then your layer and then your embellishments and away you go.

And I am not joking, it really is so easy-

Okay so this card is for my Father In Law as his birthday is this weekend coming. So I chose a blue base-

Then a white spotted overlay and used a roll on adhesive to stick it down

And now it seems I got distracted and didn't take any photo's of the next step. But it is easy. All you need to do is stick on you embellishments and ta da! You are done!

There is still a tonne of things in the box that I haven't even opened yet, I have been hesitating because it has been school holidays here and I didn't want to share with the kids!

But now that school is back I have some big plans for all of these products. Not only do I see greeting cards in my future, but some other gorgeous paper crafts too!

You know what else is fantastic? You have a chance to win a David Tutera Celebrate prize pack valued at $300! Details are below!

Three lucky winners will receive a $250 grand prize pack of supplies from
David Tutera’s Celebrate cardmaking line AND a personally signed book from David
20 additional winners will receive a $50 Celebrate prize pack!

Sign up here for a chance to win:  http://pages.exacttarget.com/tutera-optin-blog/

If you would like to keep up to date with the goings on of the David Tutera Celebrate line you can find the details below:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DavidTuteraCelebrate
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TuteraCelebrate
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/CoredinationsPaper/videos

The David Tutera Celebrate line is available exclusively through Jo-Ann's:
http://www.joann.com/tuteracelebrate
 
You can also check out a load of other projects made with this fabulous line below.











I am linking up with And Sew We Craft, My Creative Space, Skip to My Lou, Sew Chatty and Ninth Street Notions
Find my post disclosure here.

Totally Pinworthy Linky Party

I can't beleive it is Sunday again already!

This week my pins have been all over the place. I have been pining fashion, food, home decor, kids craft, sewing. You name it I probably pinned it.

Here are just a few of my most recent pins:

Source: simplyme091909.blogspot.com via Amy- on Pinterest

Source: sewmamasew.com via Amy- on Pinterest

Source: recipe.com via Amy- on Pinterest

Source: runningonhappiness.com via Amy- on Pinterest

Source: bigmakattack.tumblr.com via Amy- on Pinterest

Source: bhg.com via Amy- on Pinterest

What have you been pinning?

So, have you:

• posted about your favourite pins from Pinterest for the week, then link it up!
• posted a Totally Pinworthy post during the past week, then link it up!
• If you have done both, well link them both up!

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Let's get into it!

The rules or guidelines as such are all the same as what they were over at Tina's and if you aren't familiar with them they are:

• Grab the button (from above) and add it to your post and/or your sidebar. Because it’s good karma. A little link love didn’t hurt anyone. And the more people who see the button, the more that might join in and the more traffic we will get – hopefully.
• Add your blog link to the linky below – so other Pinners can come visit you and “pin it” to their Pinterest boards.
• Visit some of the other links, give some comment love and pin as many of the posts as you have time to do.

I will endeavour to visit each and everyone one of you that link up, it may take me a little while as I work some Sundays, but I will stop by within 24 hours of you linking up. 
Happy Pinning!

{Guest Post} The way you craft, you live

Crafting takes some organising for most people. Or maybe you throw the stuff on the bench and just go for it; slips of paper or scraps of fabric flying in every direction. Gung-ho one minute bored the next. Whatever your crafting style I think it says a lot about you. 

My Mother, for example, is obsessive. She scrapbooks with gusto, an all or nothing approach. She collects new papers and adornments as if they were the air she so essentially breathes. She loves it and will often find herself awake in the middle of the night to do just one more page. And that about sums up my Mum. She loves like that, works like that, eats like that... With gusto! 

While I’m the bull at a gate type. A must do it now type! Now, now, now.  And then I’m over it. Something else catches my attention and my efforts are diverted. I’m the two year old of the crafting world. Oh shiny things... Wow. Check that out. In a lot of ways that’s me in real life. I love a good plan. And I love to make a new one. Over and over again. Believe me it surprises no one more than me that I get anything done. 

Now each crafter has a style, as unique to them as their genetics. I love to watch. To try and make myself conform to a new way of creating and it never works. My focus is limited. I love an idea more than I love a finished product. I drive my Mother batty. So I work on focus and try to finish what I’m doing. Maybe one day I’ll be Queen of crafting...

Now that you think about it, do you craft like you live life? 

Melissa blogs can be found over at Suger Coat it, or on twitter as sugercoatit and over on facebook here.  

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