Felt Christmas Mittens

 I saw this video awhile ago and I fell in love with these adorable mittens and decided to make some for the family this Christmas.  The die set is from Memory Box - Plush Frosty Mitten Style 99308.  They have additional dies that can be used with this die to decorate the mittens, but I only used this one.  It was hard to photograph them, but I finally decided to hang them on some skewers I had.  When I was photographing them, the song about the Three Little Kittens that washed their mittens and hung them out to dry came to mind!  LOL!

I thought it would be so cute if I tied these mittens on the presents for the family.  

I had a bunch of different colored felt in my stash, as well as embroidery thread so I was all set to go.

I also used some buttons in my stash as well as some of SU's Christmas Decorative Designer buttons.  I didn't get a close up of the light blue mitten I made for the baby.  I used a giraffe button I had in my stash.  It looked so cute!

Here is a closer look.  I used some of SU's Christmas ribbon for the hanger.  I used the mitten, cuff and snowflake dies before I sewed them together.  I was only going to make a few but once I got started I couldn't stop!!  

I'm not an expert seamstress but following the video they came together pretty good!  This is what I have been doing instead of making Christmas cards!  

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We are getting our first snow flurries for the season.  Jennifer and her friends enjoyed the Christmas lights this past weekend, as well as the ice skating rink that was set up.  They made it of acrylic.  Not as good as ice but they had fun!  

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Thanksgiving Cards

 It has been a busy week so far. but I wanted to post my last Thanksgiving cards that I made.  I really enjoyed putting these cards together.  

I used SU's stamp set Gather Together again along with the Woodland embossing folder.  I'm so glad I got this folder as you can use it on so many different types of cards. 

I decided to use different colors for my leaves and cut them out with the matching die. I used SU's stamp set Painted Harvest for my sentiment, and  I added some gemstones and tied some twine on the stems.  These cards came together so quick.  Sometimes I find myself struggling to put everything together, but not with these cards.

For my inside sentiment, I used another Michael's stamp and stamped some pumpkins.  It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is only a week away.  Everyone is coming here for the holiday so lots to do.  It is so nice here today but unfortunately bad weather is coming in tomorrow.  My daughter Margaret and her husband have been in Florida for the week, so I hope it clears up before we pick them up on Sunday.  

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Heartfelt Creations Birthday Card

 In the midst of making some Thanksgiving cards, I made this card for my friend's birthday.  I used some of my Heartfelt Creations dies - Elegant Pocket, Diamond Basic and Lacy Diamond.  Their dies never cease to amaze me.  The base card was also made from one of them as well.  

I was so happy with how this card turned out.  I used the Tweet Cherry Blossoms stamp set and dies for my flowers.  This is one of my favorite sets from Heartfelt.  

We had a busy weekend.  Jennifer went rock climbing.  I get dizzy just looking up but she absolutely loved it!  I don't know how high it is but she went right to the top!

Saturday was our 56th Wedding Anniversary.  Ask me where the time has gone!  I feel like it was just yesterday that we got married.  We all went out to dinner and had a great time.  My daughter posted these pictures on Facebook.

Looking at them we wondered who are those people!  Jennifer was looking at our wedding album and said - Nanny you and Poppy look so skinny!!  Out off the mouths of babes! LOL!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Jennifer's Birthday Card

 Happy hump day! When I was working this day meant the weekend was almost here!  This post is about the card I made Jennifer for her birthday.  Those that have been following me since she was born on Halloween know that every year I incorporate the number of pumpkins of how old she is on her card.  Every year it gets a little more challenging!  Here is the card I made this year.

I first used a stencil and blended in some colors to make a background.  Then I used a tree stamp and filled the branches with some cute little pumpkin stickers I had on hand and put the number 8 on the trunk.  For the sentiment and decorations I used some peel offs.  

For the inside sentiment, I used one of my favorite Halloween stamps and some more stickers!  I just loved how it turned out!  It was a busy weekend.  Here is a picture of Jennifer coming home from her Halloween Party at school. She was a witch this year.

We had her family birthday party Sunday at our house.  I had to get a picture as everyone was together which doesn't always happen!

Jennifer is quite the baby hog!  She wants to hold the baby all the time! 

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

I entered this post at the - Two Bats Halloween Challenge