How to Make a Rolled Flower

Today, we’re going to be making a very simple rolled satin flower.  Here is what the finished product looks like.

I love to make these for headbands, necklaces, scrapbook pages, or even cards!  I am by no means an authority on this subject and the end product will not be a perfect flower, each one will be a little bit different.  You can experiment with different types of ribbon: I like to use satin ribbon or organza ribbon. 

Supplies: What you’ll need to make this flower:

felt, your choice of ribbon, a hot glue gun, and scissors (the Prima flower centers are optional, I didn’t end up using them for mine)

 

 

1. Cut a circle from your felt about the size that you would want your flower.  Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be a  

     perfect circle.   

 

 

 

2. Take the end of your ribbon piece and fold it so that it makes a triangular point.  (Somebody needs a

    manicure…despeartely:) but I digress.

 

 

3. Put a dab of hot glue in the center of your felt circle and adhere the pointed end of your ribbon.

 

 

4. Begin twisting your ribbon as you go and make a circle around the center.  You can add dabs of hot glue here and

     there to adhere the ribbon, but you don’t need to glue every single inch of ribbon.  Continue twisting the ribbon as

     you make a circle.  Whether you twist the ribbon tightly or loosely will change the look of your finished flower. 

 

 

 

5. When you have finished covering your felt circle, tuck the end of your ribbon under a portion of the flower that is not glued down.  If it just so happens that the area near where your ribbon ends is glued down solid (which with my luck usually happens!, you can just glue the end of the ribbon to the felt under the flower and place a dab of hot glue to hold it in place.

 

And our finished product! 

 

Now you can add your flower to a headband, bib necklace, scrapbook page or handmade card.  The possibilites are endless.   If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve the tutorial, let me know in the comments.   Happy Crafting!

Flower Headbands

What did you do on your summer vacation?  Oh me…I made tons of little headbands.  Once you start it’s addicting, I tell you.  They are so cute and you can experiment with so many different types of flowers, it’s amazing what you can pull off with a hot glue gun some ribbon and some felt.  And, if you are a scrapbooker or a cardmaker you probably have so many ribbons or fabric pieces that you have items that you’re willing to learn with.  And then there’s always those Prima flowers you haven’t used yet that could be used in lieu of making your own.  I even made some Cheer Bows for my nieces, but more on those later.  Here are some of the headbands:

 

Stay tuned for a Tuesday tutorial on how to make a basic flower headband.  Hope you’re having a beautiful weekend!

3 years later…

No exaggeration….it has literally been 3 years ago this month that I started this album in a class with Margie Romney-Aslett at Scrapbowl. Morgan, Vee, and Natalie I bet you thought it would never happen;) And while I do find Margie super inspiring and I loved the product for this particular class. I am just not a class kind of girl. I like to do things my own way, in my own time, with my own music:) You know what I mean? I am very happy about the final product though, the album shows our old condo and even though Jack doesn’t remember his old house (he doesn’t even believe me that he once slept in a crib!) it means alot to me and Chuck it was our first home together – the place we brought Jackson “home” after he was born. Stuff like this is why I love scrapbooking.

If you want to see the whole album, you can check out my Two Peas gallery.

As he turns 4….

On Tuesday, we will celebrate the day that our lives changed, the day that we met this little guy. Upon turning 4 he:
-makes us laugh everyday
-is soooo talkative
-makes me feel blessed beyond thought
-is kind and polite
-calls his Leapster a DS and I’m not going to correct him:)
-asks us everyday for the last 2 months when it will be his birthday
-dances every morning
-plays with trucks and dinosaurs
-eats pancakes for breakfast most mornings
-tells me “Mommy I think Daddy should buy you princess things, for your birthday I will buy you a pink dress and some shoes….do you want a crown?”

We love you so much Jackson. Happy Birthday.

Princeton Paper Source

photo from: www.paper-source.com

I think I’ve shared it here before that I LOVE Princeton, NJ. It is my favorite city in New Jersey(now, my home state) with the exception of the beach towns of course. I love Princeton: the old beautiful big houses, the sidewalks, the trees, the real estate signs with Albert Einstein on them:), the big fountain on Washington where the kids splash, , the little restaurants on Nassau, the ice cream at Halo Pub, the bikes, the new Fruity Yogurt (but I digress)

It just has a unique feel. I was walking around during lunch time a few weeks ago and wandered into the Princeton Paper Source (yup, they have that too!) ….amazing. I seriously spent way too much time staring at the paper. I ended up purchasing a cute little academic calendar for this coming school year (perfect size in my opinion and love the typography…all numbers) and picking up the book “Listography” and am having so much fun putting my life in lists, I love making lists.

I also picked up this very cool package of letterpress sentiments.

They are completely assorted and come in cool colors. I made quite a few cards with them, so easy.

Man, I need to take better photos of my cards:)

Happy Wednesday!

Captain Adorable

Man oh man I miss that little shirt. He is so little in these pictures, but I came across them the other day and just had to glue them down on paper:) Check out how big and clunky that cell phone is, now Jack is all about operating his Dad’s iphone. Time Flies. Speaking of time, Go See “Inception” best movie I’ve seen in a long time. Hope you’re enjoying the weekend!

The Importance of Appreciating the Ordinary

On my way to work last week this had me in tears….such a perfect message, for me at least. Listen to it: NPR Story Corps: Lillie Love

And a layout about our ordinary days:

Supplies: Patterned Paper (Crate Paper, Sassafrass Lass)

Cardstock (Bazill)

Label Stickers (Fontwerks, October Afternoon) Border Sticker (Basic Grey)

Letter Stickers: (Sassafrass Lass)

Other: Buttons

Hope you had a Happy 4th!

The Best Date

Every summer we go to Dorney Park, just us (yup the 2 of us) and ride all of the rollercoasters, go on the waterslides, eat funnel cake and just have fun. Every other time this summer we’ll be there for our son’s enjoyment: kiddie rides and baby pools, but once every summer we try to go for ourselves…………too fun. We went yesterday and it was a great day. Here is a layout about our trip last year. Journaling is on the back though. Happy weekend!

The Mini-Album

We love my Father-in-Law. He is probably one of my best friends. To honor him on Father’s Day we made him a quick little album full of his favorite little people.

I’ve been saving these Scenic Route papers for just the right project ( I love these papers, man I miss Scenic Route!) Anyway, one of the things I love about this hobby is the ability to make a heartfelt, personal gift….Happy Friday!

You Can’t Win ‘Em All….

Every few years after teaching a few hundred kids, one person is not impressed, not satisfied with your unrelinquishing work ethic, your long hours after school helping students, your patience, your strong commitment to reaching all kinds of kids. Your dedication to the profession, your colleagues, and your students just doesn’t cut it for them and they inevitably wait until he last day of school to well, complain. It doesn’t matter if this person has taken action on the child’s behalf (or is guilty of inaction) they will complain and you will consequently have to take the hits and be made to appease this person (i.e. give the student a free pass) even after you have extended many a fair opportunity for the student to “pass” by extending deadlines, offering help, contacting the parent. It doesn’t matter – it just doesn’t. It isn’t fair for anybody involved, including the other kids who earned their grade, but this is the way it is. If these people would use some of their energy during the year to work with teachers and help their children by checking in with them at home, by setting limits, by requiring “X” amount of study time a night, by studying with the child, the experience for everyone would be so much more positive and would emphasize the value of hard work, preparation, and education itself. But instead, they will blame the teacher the last day of school teaching their child the “life lesson” that when you don’t meet your obligations don’t take responsibility simply put the blame elsewhere…….you’ll get what you want.

Written by a very saddened teacher on the last day of school……..stepping off of the soapbox now.