My New Fave Site: COLOURlovers

If you love patterns and are looking for some inspiration... go over and play a while at COLOURlovers!  This site is awesome... It lets you create your own patterns out of endless colors and designs. You get to save all your patterns on your profile for future reference and you can share patterns you create on Facebook, Pinterest, ETC and you can download your patterns to use for IPhone backgrounds and desktop Wallpaper and things like that.  Here are a few of my creations:

 

 

So whataya think??    Another thing I love about this site is that it is so easy to use.. So what are you waiting for?? Go make some patterns!

We Remember...

Remembering the victims and their families.  Please feel free to take this graphic and post it on your own website or blog.

Crepe Paper Rosettes Tutorial

Crepe paper rosettes embellished with carnations

So I finally dug out those packages of crepe paper streamers I had been saving and this is what I came up with... crepe paper rosettes.  Some of them I used a machine to put in the stitch but on most of them I did it by hand with needle and thread. You can embellish the middles with buttons, foam shapes, etc.. The ones in the top photo are embellished with crepe paper carnations.  If you are interested in making some of these rosettes, there is a link to the tutorial at the end of this post.  Here are some more photos:

Crepe Paper Rosette Tutorial

Thank you for dropping by!

Jamie