Fun with felt

Simon says stamp blog Wednesday challenge

is "fun with felt".
Over Christmas time last year I made a whole lot of felt tree ornaments. I had some oddments left over so when I saw this card I decided to give it a go.

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This is my version

 

I put a dab of craft glue onto the back of each felt circle to hold them in place before I secured them to the card stock by stitching on a button. To complete I did some faux stitching around the edges.

 

 

Supplies:

Card stock: 160gsm in white

Oddments of felt

Buttons from my stash

Paper: Grey 80gsm

Pentel felt tipped fine liner in black

Craft glue

 

 

Felt that

Simon says stampblog Monday's challenge is

 

Felt that

This is a perfect opportunity for me to show you the rest of the little felt tree ornaments which I made at Christmas time but didn't get around to blogging about.
I made  these to put on my gifts but today's ones were for my tree.

and a closer look......

I put off making this heart as it looked rather fiddly but once a got going it came together really easily.
The bell on the bunny is off a Lindt choc bunny I got for Easter last year.

I took my inspiration from similar ones seen on Pintrest.
I am very happy with the outcome
 

 

(24 may)

Parcels

Well now that Christmas is over I can show you what my gifts for this year looked like.

Every year I choose a colour scheme and wrapping style and try to stick to it.

This year the colour was silver and I made each person a small felt tree ornament which I used as part of the decoration. I then used a satin ribbon in a matching colour to pull the theme together.

 

Here are a couple of my gifts

 

 

and up close (be warned this is a photo heavy post)

 A Christmas pudding

 

 

Father Christmas (as we call him here in South Africa)

 

 

A selection: two hearts, an owl and a tree. Love the owl.

 

 

more hearts

 

 

and finally some cats

 

 

My youngest sister lost one of her cats earlier this year and so decided that she wanted a new kitten for Christmas (don't worry this one will be loved for life!). The problem was that she rescued him from a shelter about a month ago and so he won't be wrapped up and under the tree on Christmas morning. I wanted her to have something to open so decided to make her three ornaments, one for her boy who has passed on and the other two for her present babies. I embroidered their names on the back of the ornaments.

 

 

I have fun making all these ornaments and they were all very well received.

I got my inspiration from Pintrest.

If you would like to see what I did last year click here.