Funky Felt

Happy Friday! This week was the turn of uber-talented Gillian to set the dare for us cardmakers.

FUNKY FELT

that's right..... felt is just so HOT at the Moment....
so you can create what ever sorta card you like, just as long as it has felt included....

ideas... cut flowers with your U-Bute Cutting Machines... or hand cut them...Borders cut with pinking shears... lots of Naive stitching with embroidery floss onto it... check out all the different types of felt you can get these days..
And I believe you can even buy premade scrapbooking felt flowers..( not that my LSS has them..grrrr...)
oh and don't forget to have fun

Hmm well as anyone who knows me understands I have a bit of a sensory, tactile obsession. Somethings I can touch for hours (freshly cut mens hair, paper, suede) others I cant bear touching (corned beef, certain plastics) unfortunatly felt also falls in the second heading. So imagine if you will, a lone crafter stood at the table, tools in front of her, paper pattern attached to said felt, scissors in hand..... and this is how it went

Step 1 - pick up felt whilst pulling faces


Step 2 - Cut felt for as long as can bear


Step 3 - drop felt, shudder, shout "urrrrgggghhhhh"


Step 4 - Repeat until piece cut!

Yes trust me I looked a sight! So onto this weeks dare......

CUPCAKE


Using a piece of scrap paper I quickly drew out the shape of the cupcake, which i then cut out and put the relevent part on the right coloured felt and pinned it in place. Following the above steps I cut each piece out. I found a piece of white embroidery floss in my craft box and (repeating the drop, shudder, urrggghhh technique) and used it to roughly sew the outline of the cake case, and again round the edges of the icing. I made a sprinkle topping by using aforesaid thread to sew little beads randomly to the topping and a big heart bead at the top.

I drew roughly round the offending item ( ;o) ) on white card, cut it out and edged it with pink ink then 3d mounted the cupcake on it. I then cut a piece of pink felt and a piece of Rasberry Ripple Sassafras Lass Paper from this months self addressed kit and mounted it all together. I attached the whole lot to the white square papermania card base with 4 mini pink brads by makingmemories.

And there we go, a pretty pink cupcake card for any occasion. Dont forget to hop on over to the blog to see what other felt creations the design team have designed this week.