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Hi everyone,
We would all like to wish you a lovely Christmas Day! May you have a lovely time with family and friends no matter where you are around the world! Stay safe and if you are travelling be careful on the roads!
" We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"
xoxo Fiskars Craft Ambassador TEAM
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For the New Year I have decided to do some quilting.... real quilting... no more barbie sized ones I'm doing... Baby sized ones... ;)
For a while I have had a Fiskars -Donna Dewberry square quilting ruler.....
And really - wasn't sure how to use it... was sitting in its packet for a long time but I have decided to crack open the packaging and put it to good use and make some baby quilts for babies of underprivileged families.... This being my New Years project concentration. Hopefully I can make at least 10 for 2010.
What I am relying on is fabric and batting given to me.... So far its been flowing in and I'm finally cutting....
As you see there are two pillow cases, two sarongs, scraps of material and an old bed sheet. This is the type of things I'm using to make these quilts with. I'm also using sweat-shirting material for batting for the one I'm currently making and for the back of the quilt I'm using an old table cloth that was given to me. Yes I'm using anything. lol
Don't worry its all very clean and very snugly.
Here's me using the square ruler from Fiskars...
cutting 8" squares.
I love the grid on this ruler. Its very easy to find a straight edge and cut along two edges.
I'm also using the Fiskars rotary cutter. Brilliant tool! with the Fiskars 12" cutting mat. Although I really need a bigger one this one will suffice till I get another.
And here is the squares I've cut....
Ok above you see:
2.5" wide strip
5" square
5x 8" squares - each pile is about 12 squares.
2 piles of 6" squares.
I'm only using the 8" squares for the first project.
Out of that cut up lot I have however got enough to make another quilt top. Just need some more batting. But I'm sure that will come. I just need to keep asking.... Something like sweatshirting/old but clean single or larger Dacron quilt inners... that sort of thing.... off to post it on Freecycle. ;)
Here is the quilt cover pieced together. Not "quilted" or finished yet but on its way....
Now to pin or tack the top/batting and backing all together to anchor it together so I can start machine quilting. (drawing different designs over the fabric with the sewing machine).
Then I'll be binding it together with the left over blue material used in the quilt top.
You know, for the next quilt I may try triangles.... ;) this is fun!
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Just received this lovely email from Tara in NSW.........so thought I'd share with you all......thanks Tara! Just love what you have done.......what a lovely table setting you now have.....and don't laugh I also do the dry run test.....LOL! Had mine all set last night as I have been out all day today....and I have the family for Christmas Eve........yikes....that's tomorrow.......LOL!
Hi Lyn,
thought I might share with you my xmas table setting for this year. I just did a dry run of the table for xmas day(sad ...yes I know!!!) and realized just how much fiskars products I used!
I used my apron lace border punch for the napkin rings and name placecards, my fiskars trimmer for cutting the card etc, my fiskars 12in 1 tool for sewing, my donna dewberry roatary blade for cutting fabric my rock paper trimmer for cutting some of the fabric.
Any way here you are......Oh the paper is kaisercraft Q2 range and material??? I picked it up from craft depot got to love the cat print!!!!
Merry Xmas Tara Capewell
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I know.... its very late to start and I'm doing a scheduled post on this one - its the 19th as I'm typing this....
I'm doing my own table settings this year....
So far I've been working on the fabric napkins.
The red one is the bauble from the Christmas - 1 template.
Striped green from the tag template.
Yellow from the new Journal plates template.
Green patterned from the leaf template.
All from scraps of fabric left over from quilt squares etc.
And of course you need napkin rings....
these are done with the Fiskars Portable rotary trimmer and the Fiskars Sealed with Approval XL squeeze punch from old Christmas cards. Easy peasy!
And here they are together...
Now all I have to do is work on the place mats. They are all cut out and ready to sew together. I'm just wondering if I will actually get them done for this Christmas or not. lol
Here are the pictures of most of the tools I used....
Forgot to photograph the Heidi Grace scissors and Portable rotary trimmer with it all but here are the rest anyway......
Leaf template, Christmas-1 template.
XL sealed with approval squeeze punch, rotary cutter.
Fiskars cutting mat, Donna Dewberry square ruler.
Tag template, journal plate template.
All the best and I wish you a very very merry Christmas.
Debbie
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Hi, Jo here, just popping in with a quick card I whipped up using scraps of pp from my stash and some gorgeous glittered snowflakes that gave me the inspiration to create some cards in non-traditional colour schemes this year.
Ingredients for this card were
Used my all time favourite Fiskars punch "threading water" to give the card a bit of texture and finished off with a bit of doodling around the edge to tie it all together.
So if you still have a few cards to make go to your scrap paper stash and find some non-traditional colours to play with......
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This time on Christmas Eve I hope to be arriving in New Plymouth, Taranaki to spend Christmas with our families.
For those of you not familiar with New Zealand, it's the bump mid way down the left side (West Coast) of the North Island. I was born and lived here until my husband brought us to Auckland for work. I now feel like I have 2 homes.
Apart from spending time with my parents and sisters, plus my parents in law after Christmas, we're attending a family reunion on Dad's side of the family and as part of that we're visiting Mt Taranaki (hopefully there won't be snow like this!!). The kids are excited about that as they've only been there once before. For me growing up, it felt like it was in my backyard sometimes!! We'll be driving around the coast & visiting the surf beaches. Walking along the beachfront walkway, visiting the Festival of Lights at Pukekura Park and probably (hopefully) relaxing.
The presents are wrapped and the countdown is on. These photos are taken - top one from my parents kitchen and the bottom one from my in laws place. They get awesome west coast sunsets.
Wishing you all a Wonderful Holiday Season. Stay tuned for more stories from the Ambassadors!
Donna xx
ETA: Forgot to say that this is where most of The Last Samauri (with Tom Cruise) was filmed and Fleetwood Mac just had 2 concerts at The Bowl of Brooklands there last weekend. Shame we missed that!
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Have you suddenly remembered you forgot to send someone a card and you haven't got much time....??
Why not grab a few punches from your stash.....including a Border Punch if you have one.
White cardstock always looks great with punches......and its amazing how you can turn a plain piece of cardstock into an elegant card by just punching along one edge.
Grab another couple of punches and look through your stash for some embellishments...
I found a left over butterfly from my Christmas Wreath I shared earlier this month as well a a Tree Lazer Cut I had over from some earlier cards.......
This is the card that I gave to my good friend Stacey Apeitos last weekend at the PAPERIFIC STAFF CHRISTMAS PARTY........pics are on my blog
Punches I used were:
Fiskars Border Punch - Flowers
Fiskars Seasonal Punch - Cardinal's Song
Fiskars Squeeze Punch -Cameo Appearance
This is my last Card share for awhile....hope you have been enjoying all the Cards and other projects that have been shared on here the past month in the lead up to Christmas.
I'll be back in a couple of days with a special post!!
xoxo
Lyn
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Don't you just love how Robyn has created two such similar yet different cards by the placement of Bauble and some gold stickers and kindy glitz!
Robyn has used the Fiskars Ultra ShapeXpress and the Fiskars Christmas Template to create these gorgeous Christmas Cards!!
So if you still need to make that last minute card...why not try one of these.......or click on the links below this post and you can see what you have missed the past month.......ENJOY!
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Hi everyone. Just needed to share with you what I've been up to...
And just in time I've finished!
I've decided to have a homemade Christmas this year.
I made Barbie clothing and the packging to go with it for my daughter...
I used an A4 ziplock bag.
Plain cardboard (non corrugated).
Covered the board with pink cardstock (Cloud9 Alyssa's Garden)
Stapled the clothing to the board.
Added the packaging topper - used fiskars corner squeeze punch and Fiskars Corner boarder punch - lace and lattice (the boarder punch available through wholesalers now) - I did however take of the lattice bit of the punch.
Printed out the barbie logo from the net.
I used Heidi Grace No8 Fiskars scissors to cut out the fabric pieces.
and various tools from the Fiskars 12-in-1 sewing tool.
The ribbon on the skirt is from Li'l Davis Designs - rockstar ribbon ruby (old stock)
Top, trousers, jacket, skirt and "blouse" - all made by me on the sewing machine for Barbie.
Now I think a Five year old will be happy with this. ;)
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If you're like me, I can bet you've either not gotten around to making ANY Christmas cards this year...or there's a few you've forgotten. Well, never fear, here's a really quick and simple idea for a stylish Christmas card.
Gather together :
Cut your paper/s to size using your Fiskars trimmer and sand the edges a little if you wish, punch the white cardstock with a Fiskars Threading Water border punch, paint your chipboard reindeer (if you have one - otherwise use a sticker) and add a red rhinestone nose, then assemble your card as pictured.
See...I told you it was quick and easy !
♥ Cindy
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