Home sweet Home ATC swap...!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I participated in the 6th ATC swap, hosted by the lovely Ali who blogs over Very Berry Handmade.

I was able to finish my card just in time to I post within the deadline... However, and how I explained, all the hurriness caused some slightly imperfections... However I am still very happy with it:

The whole process of creating this card was a learning curve... Next time I will remember to leave some larger margins... I was not able to stitch both parts together from the wrong side and turn it over, and the border that I ended up creating was stitched over some parts of my design...

And here it is...My very first ATC leaving the nest by mail...:

It reached its destination the following day, and my partner was happy with! So I was happy that she was happy with my little creation....

And since this is a swap after all.... On the very same day, even before I posted my ATC card, I received a small package on my mail box....:

With this little beauty inside:

These terraced houses aren´t the cutest? The colours of the ATC I was given even combines with my books that are displayed on the shelf... This little card was made by Jenny who blogs over at the Ginger Bread House.

I have to create more room in the shelf as I surely will be taking part of the next ATC swap!

 

 I am linking up with:

Preparations for another baby mobile!

My family just keeps getting bigger! 

A new member of my family was born,  this time is a baby girl! To celebrate this new arrival I will be sewing another baby mobile, but in pink and white tones. I know, its too girly, but after making mobiles for baby boys I am loving embracing pink tones, just to be a bit different!

And this will be very very girly! This is not the very first baby girl arriving, but my crafting abilities (and time) were not available at the time to celebrate the first baby girl. So, only now I will be crafting heart shapes with  pink tones... As girly as possible! I have to admit that I was longing to craft girly stuff... Here are the fabrics that I will be using:

And I will be sewing a flower headband to my older little cousin.... I found this amazing felt flower tutorials that I am anxious to try....! I will post about this project later on.

What about you? Thinking about new crafting projects to tackle? Let me know about them!

 

Baby Mobile tutorial

 

I have been quite stressed lately…and  nothing works better for me to relax than to begin a DIY project! I was thinking about doing another baby mobile for a while ...! 

 I never mentioned this before but I am about to become an aunt, and I wanted to offer my little nephew (yes, it’s a baby boy!) something more personal, and as I love to offer handcrafted gifts (especially if I am the one crafting), I thought about making a felt mobile.

I knew that the parents decided to use grey and yellow as main nursery colors so I used similar colors on this mobile. I had a little Pinspiration when deciding what the general look of the mobile would be…

For this project I used felt sheets, fishing line and cotton threads. I hand drew the patterns for the moon, cloud and stars…

 After the patterns were created, I cut the felt sheets.

Then, I hand stitched the felt stars, moon and cloud with blanket stitch.  I hand stitched the moon to the cloud using a simple running stitch. After all was stitched, I attached the stars first to each other in columns and then to the moon and cloud, using fishing line.

And here it is the mobile!

The stars look amazing when hanging from the ceiling; they look like little felt constellations of light yellow and grey…

I hope my nephew enjoys his little moon and stars mobile!

What about you? Did you finish any DIY project lately?

 

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