Whisker Graphics

As promised, here is another Halloween freebie for you.

Some ideas for using the 3" square tag/label.

This is a 3″ square design that comes 6 on a sheet. This PDF is editable, meaning you can enter your own text and format it how you like (font:style, size, color and alignment; the design is not editable). Enter and format your text, print on card stock or full sheet labels, trim and enjoy. Download tags HERE.

Here’s the BONUS. Over on Skip To My Lou you can download coordinating cupcake toppers and editable invitations (no need to handwrite your party info).

photo courtesy of Skip to my Lou

Photo courtesy of Skip to my Lou

Click HERE to visit Skip to my Lou and download the invitation and cupcake toppers.

Last Saturday I went to garage sales (again) and this time I scored some fabric. I ended up paying $9 for the fabric in the photos below.

3 yards of patterned fabric and 4 yards of cotton stretch fabric

4 yards wide wale corduroy and 2.5 yard buffalo check

I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to make when I bought all this, but I went ahead and stopped by the fabric store on the way home and spent another $9 on thread and elastic.  I got home and started thinking and came up with quite a few ideas. I then spent the rest of Saturday (about 8 hours) making stuff. What stuff, you may wonder? Stay tuned. Each day this week I will reveal a project.

Disclaimer: I’m not a sewer (a person who sews, nor a waste-carrying pipe), but I have a sewing machine and determination, so the projects I do are very, very easy.

Little Cat A is a crafty girl (on several levels) and when she sets her mind to creating art, the results are very often quite delightful. Last week, she and her friend decided to design clothing for fairies. They gathered their supplies; cupcake liners, crepe paper, glue, pipe cleaners, various yarns and threads, pom poms, you know, the stuff that all the finest fairy clothing is made from these days and set to work. Here is her creation.

Dress + Coordinating Parasol for the fairy queen, Queen Clarion

I particularly like the Suess-esque-ness of the parasol and how the dress seems to have a Wonder Bra built in.

Little Cat A starts middle school in September. I figure I have another year, maybe two, of this kind of sweet art. Sniff, sniff, dab, dab…

After seeing this post I had a STRONG desire to make some tissue paper flowers. So, last weekend I went to the Dollar Tree (I love that place!) and bought supplies: 1 package of multi-colored tissue paper (40 sheets) and 1 roll florist wire. I won’t show you the process here because the above linked post does an excellent job of that, but here are my results.

The whole gang.

I tried a variety of colors, sizes, and cuts. On the larger flowers I used different shades of a similar color to try and add some depth. I also cut the tips to be pointed. On the large white+light blue one (it’s kind of hiding) I painted the tips with some light blue shimmery watercolor paint. I must say, the results were less than stunning. Quite average. really and not worth the trouble of taking the extra step to paint, but you never know unless you try.

Flowers made with different shades of tissue paper per stem.

A sweet bunch of the little guys.

I also tried using 5 layers of tissue instead of the recommended 4; not really much of a difference. I did discover that when the tips are trimmed to a point (green flower in above photo), it’s more difficult to separate the layers without tearing.

Embarrassing sidenote: I actually made more than shown in pics. No, that’s not the embarrasing part. The embarrassing part is that I made them while watching a America’s Next Top Model marathon (do you know how many hours that is?).  I know. Still only semi embarrassing. Here’s the kicker. The marathon was from the 2006 season! Pitiful, just pitiful. I hate when I get sucked in!

I just discovered that Paper Source has a blog. Who knew?? Looks like they started in May and already have some cute DIY projects posted.

click on image to go visit the Paper Source blog.