Decorating with ribbon

                                                                             

Today starts a photo challenge that my co-writer is doing on my sister site KiKi Love Creations. It sounds like it will be a neat photo experience. 

Also my readers are going to get a sneak peak today at Tomorrows post  which will also be found on my sister site. My Husband and I did a remodel on my crafting studio this week. I am so happy that it's finished. I love that all my stuff has a place and the flow over has containers. Everything is color coordinated and organized properly (at least for the time being.)


Today I am going to do a small tutorial and sneak peak at part of my studio.


Decorating with Ribbon

I am not a fan of ugly wood edges like this.

So what I like to do is jazz them up with ribbon or some sort of embellishment. The first thing is to make sure you measure ALL your ribbon to the length of your wood edges. I do this first to make sure I have enough ribbon to cover the whole project.

My table lengths measured to 54 in long and they were 1/2 of an inch thick. So I used 3/4 inch white ruffled ribbon and 1/4 in blue ribbon.

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Next I used my Tacky Glue and squeezed a line of glue onto the back of the ribbon. Then I took the ribbon and placed it on the edge of the wood pressing firmly to get it laid out nice and smooth. I choose a ribbon that stuck out over both edges and 1/8th of an inch.

Then I did the same with my smaller ribbon gluing that to the center of my first ribbon. This makes a nice accent piece to bring out the colors that are on my fabric lined shelves. 

  




Last but not least I added some buttons as an extra added embellishment. I love buttons so it was only fitting that they were involved in this project. 






I hope that you join me in tomorrow's reveal of the entire studio on my sister site KiKi Love Creations. I always love to hear from my readers so let me know what was one of the ways you personalized your crafting area.

              Happy Crafting!

Fathers Day Gift Ideas

Happy Father's Day !!!!

Check out my latest posts on KiKi Love Creations!

These are some great gift ideas from the Kids to Dad 

Framed Hand Print

     

Clay Imprints

Happy Crafting!

Mario Inspired Goomba Crochet Pattern

I would like to present to you pattern number 4 in the Mario Inspired Character Collection. That's right it's Goomba!! Since my very first pattern my Husband has been asking for a Goomba. I knew I had to finish him by father's day since the quilt I am making for him would not be finished in time. It took me nearly 9 hours from the design table to the finished product.

 I had a lot of fun while creating this guy. The morning after I finished him my son woke up and his jaw dropped to the floor in sheer joy. I think he was as excited as my husband was when he saw the finished product. I actually have to say that out of all 4 of my patterns so far this one was my favorite to design and create. 


I wanted to share with you how this whole process starts in my head. I understand that it may not be the most conventional way but it works for me. What I did was designed my own graph in Photoshop. After I merged all the graph layers together, then I go through and color in the individual squares with the paint bucket tool, changing them until I get an image that I like. Since I know the size of the image I have figured out that this graph is just big enough for me to lay out the design of just the face and then I color in around it to get a better idea of what it looks like. If I have a pattern that is more detailed I put 4 of these graphs together to make a bigger graph. 

After I am finished with the graph process I count everything out and figure out where it would lay best as a pattern. This is where those years of math in high school and collage that I loved so much came in handy. There is a lot of counting involved in designing a pattern along with making sure that your colors all line up.

I was asked once why don't I make it easier on myself and just attach the face features with felt or some sort of fabric. The reason is due to my son being a bit  rough with almost everything. I would think that he would either peel them off or damage them somehow. I feel much better knowing the details are built right in. 

I always love to hear from my readers so please leave a comment and let me know what you think of this guy. 

This Pattern is for sale in my shops listed below.

ETSY Shop - Buy Now

Raverly Shop - Buy now

Craftsy Shop - Buy Now

     Happy Crafting,

Also make sure you check my sister blog KiKi Love Creations 

for all our great Father's Day Gift and Crafting Ideas!

KiKi Love Creations: A Year of Scrapbooking! Introduction: Part 1 of 5

My Co-Writer for our crafting blog is doing a great scrapbook series over the next few weeks and if you are interested in joining her or just following along hope on over. She is just getting started so you have plenty of time to start if you are interested in joining along. Come check it out at KiKi Love Creations.

National Fishing Week

As we celebrate National Fishing this week I would like to share one of my latest fishing trips with you. You will find this story featured on my other blog site KiKi Love Creations. I would like to share one of my favorite photos from the trip and if you are interested in seeing more and reading about our family fishing trip then click on the photo below.

Happy Fishing

Our Huge Announcement

Ok all you Smalltown Dream Fans

Here is our big announcement. All our DIY crafting has moved to our new blog page  Smalltown Dreamz is staying right where it is, however it will return to being just my blog. Photo Jewels and I decided that we wanted something that was a part of both of us.I would like to present to you KiKi Love Creations.

There is so many great things to come for KiKi Love Creations and Smalltown Dreamz so don't leave me but please go check out our new Blog Page and go fan our new FB page.


For those of you that may be wondering what will happen with Smalltown Dreamz well I will be using it to share my patterns and items that I make for my shop. I will still add my personal stories and some other fun things. I am so please with this new adventure and I hope that you will all join us on the ride.

Until next time Happy Crafting.

Also just a reminder to everyone we still have the Blanket Drive for the children at Children's Hospital for more information Click Here.