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it's back!!!! let's sew wednesday!

2012-03-07T04:25:00.001-06:00

hello and welcome back! sorry i've been gone, but, i'm back!!!! after i finished this project i realized that i'm not a very good blogger. i didn't take pictures of the work in progress, i'm going to work on being a better blogger. (it will take a few post before this happens). my new part-time job is awesome! cause i get great finds all the time! this lovely cup cost me around $3! i made about a 5in yo-yo and filled it with emery. i added a few rocks to the bottom, i glued the edges of the cup and shoved the filled yo-yo in. i glued the cup to the saucer, so i could add extra pins on the bottom. enjoy! lisa

Terrarium!!!!!

2012-02-17T05:15:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! i'm falling in love with terrariums. why? cause i can forget about them and they will survive. pretty, delicate plants come to die at my house. moss and sulcants survive very well! remember the bottle from here, well i have a bunch of them, and a few of the labels would not come off. they were just begging to be made into a terrarium! the moss came from this great etsy seller.

i love old ball and mason jars, so why not turn one into a plant home! (doesn't the green look awesome with the blue rocks!)

this lovely one is in an old mason jar! now that i have you all happy about terrariums here is some info on how you can make your own! and you will want to make more and more and more! next week (hopefully i'll remember) i'll show y'all the super awesome vintage terrarium i got at an estate sale! enjoy! lisa

A quilt in progress

2012-02-15T09:13:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome to let's us wednesday! i have a work in progress today, when it's finished it will be about 2 months late. i'm making this for my great-niece's 1st birthday, which was on dec 31st. i picked this great selection of moda fabrics

i stole the pattern idea from here (she's has great, great stuff over there!) this is super easy to make (or at least so far it is) i picked 9 different fabrics and sewed them into a nine block pattern. i bought 2 fat quarters of each fabric, the store i went to was having a sale on fat quarters so i didn't buy a 1/2 yard. i'm pretty sure they will be enough for a twin size quilt.

after you get your nine block sewed up, cut them into 4 even squares, mine came out to 7 by 7. i'm going to need a total of 88 7 by 7 squares and 22 9 blocks. there will be a 5.5in border across and 4.5in border down (or at least that is how my math came out, i hate math). hopefully it will be finished within a couple of weeks! enjoy! lisa

last day of the smeared and smudged blog hop

2012-02-12T05:46:00.001-06:00

hello and welcome to the last day of the hop. it's been fun! thank you for all the wonderful comments! i did have another piece to go with the tag, but the paint isn't dry (or at least at the time i'm posting this) i'm making a pendant and this is the tag that will go with it. the title of the tag is 'i'll love you till death do us part'. i used the gun shot stamp from smeared ink set chicks dig guns. the images are from lotteria cards. i painted the background with red aylric paint. maybe, some time today i'll be able to post the pendant. enjoy and get to hopping! lisa

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http://ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tori

http://suzy-ikesworld.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ike

http://welcometomydarkside.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sara

http://www.kemperneck.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">MaryKay

http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Alison

http://cromscubbyhole.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Helen

http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jane

http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Black Dragon

http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kapree

http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sugar

http://www.phoebekattebeest.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Monique

http://www.ladybrayton71.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lady Brayton

http://cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kelli

http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lisa

http://dontbeaprude.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Kristy

http://stephscreativechaos.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Steph

http://insanedaze.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer

http://piecesoffatesusan.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Susan G.

http://jamiescrazycraftylife.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jamie S.

http://idontdostraight.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Fiona

http://happycraftings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shell

http://trishliciousandco.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Trisha

http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dianne

Bloody Valentine Blog Hop, with Smeared and Smudged!

2012-02-11T07:59:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! (hello new follower! thank you!) welcome back to the smeared and smudged member blog hop! sadly i didn't get to hop yesterday, so i will be hopping later on today. (there are some good sounding garage sales in my town today) i'm offering y'all an altered light switch cover.

i started by covering it with blue alcohol ink. i then printed out the image from retro cafe art on regular paper, not card stock, i wanted it to be easy to work with. the image is not centered in the middle prefectly because i would have to cut his eyeballs for the screw hole (please don't look closely because they aren't cut out yet)

the image is from stampabilites (or however you spell that) and the glitter is from ms. enjoy and get to hopping! lisa

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Bloody Valentine Blog Hop, with Smeared and Smudged!

2012-02-10T07:03:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome to the february member blog hop with smeared and smudged forum! today i have an altered canvas ;) i started doing something different then the way this turned out. i had some lotteria cards cute out to make a cool collage, started glued and placing, then didn't like the way it look, it look way better in my head

so, i left what i already glued down, took off the rest and painted. i really like how the imprint of the cut out images showed up under the paint, it was super thick, so i didn't think they would show up. i think the heart came out the best!

this looks so plain in the picture, but the texture in real life comes across great! i can't remember where the stamped image came from, but the camoes are from retro cafe art. i made up a little story about how they were lovers in a past life (image under the paint) but he cheated on her with the other guy in the corner, so she cut out his heart. enjoy! and get to hopping! lisa

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let's sew wednesday!

2012-02-08T04:02:00.007-06:00

hello and welcome, sadly i have nothing for you today :(. but the awesomeness above is from saqa and it's a quilt! today i'm going to share a list of sewing bloggers that i love. you will get loads of ideas and have tons of eye candy!

http://sewfunbymonique.blogspot.com

http://www.cluckclucksew.com

http://annamariahorner.blogspot.com

http://whynotsew.blogspot.com
http://bitsnpiecesquilting.blogspot.com
oh, and here is my pinterest sewing page on pinterest, http://pinterest.com/piflower/sewing feel free to follow it ;)
now, there is a few more, but those will need to be saved for another wednesday that i might not have a finished project for ;) enjoy! lisa

let's sew wednesday!

2012-02-01T05:55:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! sorry i wasn't here last week, i started a part-time job and as soon as i did my business picked up all crazy-like. when i started this i had the yo-yo's placed on black and white background fabric, but it gave me a headache the more i looked at it. so, out cane the red and white fabric! there is a total of 42 yo-yo's on the pillow. (what can i say i LOVE yo-yo's).

i love doing the back of a pillow in the slip type, it's so easy to do! since the pillow is 14x14 i cut one piece of fabric 14 1/2 by 8 and another 14 1/2 by 9. sew a seam on one side and sew the other 3 sides to your pillow (i know this wasn't the best description, so one week i'll have a tutorial with pictures)

instead of hand sewing the yo-yo's on, i machined sewed them. i'm planning on doing one with black and white background with red and white yo-yo's! enjoy! lisa

recycle and be cute!

2012-01-20T01:34:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! what we have here is... a recycled belt turned into a cuff! santa brought hubby 2 new belts, when i went to steal the old one, he was still wearing it, because it was already molded to him. i cut it at about 8 in. and out of the one belt, i can get about 3 or 4 cuffs out of it. for the pendant i used hello dollie from retro cafe art, and if you head over to their facebook page they are having a contest/giveaway until feb 14th. the words are from lotteria cards and the glitter is ms.

this is the funky flower that the pentdant sits on. it started out as a roselet, but i wanted to make it more curvy, so i sewed it and rouched (don't know how to spell that word). i glued the pendant in the middle and then glued/sewed the entire thing on top of the belt.

i used a button hole and placed another hole to sew the button on. used a piece of fiber for the tie! enjoy! lisa

let's sew wednesday!

2012-01-18T08:01:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! today i'm bringing you a yo-yo pincushion. i was tried of losing my hand sewing needles in my larger pin cushion and i wanted to keep them sharp. one day, a long time ago, i bought some emery (the link tells you a little about it). those who have been reading know i love to make yo-yo's and one day i found my emery and was bored, so, yo-yo pincushions were born! i filled them with a small funnel (if you don't have one, roll a piece of paper into a funnel and use that!). I sewed a button on top to keep it closed and for some added cuteness. the pink one i made for a friend and the black one is mine! these may be poping up in my etsy shop one day. enjoy! lisa

smeared and smudged blog hop!!!!!!

2012-01-12T08:45:00.001-06:00

hello and welcome to the super awesome smeared and smudged blog hop! (can you tell i got a new camera!!!! it's my new very best friend!!!!) the theme for the hop is mesh it. well, i've been trying very hard to get myself cleaned and organized and i know i had mesh somewhere, sadly i can't find it and i'm wondering if it ended up in the trash :(. but, you can mesh together stamps, images,, etc. so, i meshed together a stamp 'flying skull' from smeared ink and a 'hello dollie' image from retro cafe art. i also meshed together tim holtz inks (like where i'm going with this) for the background. i used red, blue, and aged paper (the only one i can ever remember the name for). sometimes when i like my fortoune from my cookie, i keep it for later use.

the eye stamp came from sideshow stamps, which i added some ms glitter to and also to dollie's necklace! now get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

http://ndustrial-lemon.blogspot.com/ (tori)

http://lynsblogger.blogspot.com/ (black dragon)

http://idontdostraight.blogspot.com/ (fiona)

http://www.phoebekattebeest.blogspot.com/ (monique)

http://jcocraft.blogspot.com/ (jane)

http://www.scrapvamp.blogspot.com/ (celina)

http://welcometomydarkside.blogspot.com/ (sara)

http://kristyleesworld.wordpress.com/ (kristy)

http://stampdetails.blogspot.com/ (heather)

http://kc-consultant.blogspot.com/ (kapree)

http://cromscubbyhole.blogspot.com/ (helen)

http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/ (alison)

http://sugscardsnmore.blogspot.com/ (sugar)

http://dkspinner.blogspot.com/ (dianne)

http://www.ldfdesign.blogspot.com/ (me)

http://sharonsahl.blogspot.com/ (sharon)

http://dieverdog.blogspot.com/ (pam)

http://suzy-ikesworld.blogspot.com/ (ike)

http://kemperneck.blogspot.com/ (marykay)

it's lets sew wednesday!!!!!!

2012-01-11T10:51:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome! today i'm bringing you an awesome pillow!!!!! i'm not catholic, but i love virgin mary images (maybe that is why i married a catholic). the fabric is from robert kaufman, it's a panel of 4 different images, printed twice. this was super easy to make into a pillow. i cut the image from the panel and measured it. then i decided what size i wanted the pillow to be (based on the pillow forms that walmart had) i then cut the boarder accordingly. the boarder fabric came from walmart, i think it goes wonderfully with the image! this was super easy to make! i made a couple of them for my mother-in-law for Christmas and she loved them! come back tomorrow for a smeared and smudged blog hop! enjoy! lisa

let's sew wednesday!!!!!

2012-01-04T08:53:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome back! with the start of a new year, comes the start of a new let's sew Wednesday! today i bring you two onies i made for my great niece (i think it is so awesome that i'm a great aunt)

the first was super easy to do! i embroidered the hummingbird image on to a green piece of fabric.

the image came from urban threads. the reason i did it on a separate piece of fabric is so the back of the image won't irrate her skin. it is sewn on using a decorative stitch! super easy and super cute!

i love to make yo-yo's when we go on long trips, so, i have a ton of them. while surfing the web i saw some super cute yo-yo oneis, so i stole the idea!

both of these took about an hour to make! not to bad, it almost makes me want to have a girl! but my other niece is pregnant, so hopefully another girl is on the way! (we find out next week!!!!!) enjoy! lisa

day 2 of the 12 days of Christmas!!!!

2011-12-03T10:04:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome back! today is smeared ink day!!!! so, i've made an emblishment from bo peep's mini skull using mirco beads. skully santa's hat did come out a little funky looking, it kinda of looks like more of a night cap, so i gave myself an E of effort on this one. i'm not sure what i'm going to use him for yet, poor thing may sit in my emblishment drawer until next year. hopefully on monday i'll have something with more awesomeness! head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

Day one of the 12 days of Christmas!!!!!!

2011-12-01T08:54:00.000-06:00

hello and welcome to the first day of the 12 days of Christmas!!!!! There's a fabolous group along this blog hop! (head on over to the sidebar to check the rest out). today i have a tag made with tim holtz inks, retro art cafe image and a dollar stamp! the stamp is embossed with gold powder and i added mirco beads. if you would like more info on the hop go here. sorry i've been gone, but i've been busy with my business. (www.thealchemyfactory.com) (website is down at the moment :(. i'll be bring let's sew wednesday's back in janurary. enjoy! lisa

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!

2011-10-31T08:58:00.000-05:00

hello and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!! can you believe it's already here! wow, we made it 31 days!!!!! remember all the dominos that i've made through out the month? well here's 3 more and the finished project! i used the fly stamp from yesterday (someone asked me where i got the stamp from, it came from a scrapbook store that has since closed :(, and i don't remember the company, i'm sorry)

i'm sorry for the pictures, but i tried really hard to get good ones for y'all. the base of my tree is one of my glass candle jars. i shoved a stryofoam ball into the jar. cut out 9 pieces of bailing wire out and glued and shoved them into the ball and spray painted the whole thing black

i hot glued moss to the base to hide the mess. (for this project i did use good spray paint) i added a bunch of glue, before adding the moss, around the ball to make sure it would sit right.

guys, i had a blast! thank you all so much for the kind and wonderful comments that y'all have left for me! it was an honor being apart of this hop and i can't wait until next year!!!!!! head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! i hope y'all will come back for 'let's sew wednesday' on wednesday ;). enjoy! lisa

day 30!!!!!

2011-10-30T09:47:00.000-05:00

hello, just coming in under the wire again. we had family with us this weekend and i almost forgot, it was a crazy weekend. this is made using a stryfoam base and tree thing, i wrapped yarn around the tree form and spray painted the whole thing black. with this project is realized that cheap spray paint is NOT the way to go mid-range price is best. i hot glued some moss to the bottom stamped the fly and glued it on. after taking the picture i think it needs something more, i'm not sure yet. wow, one more day to go! head on over and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 29!!!!!

2011-10-29T08:11:00.000-05:00

hello and welcome! today i have an altered light switch cover for you! i tried to making into a dead of the dead them using a sugar skull stamp from bombshell stamps. the back is covered in alochol inks, orange, red and green. i stamp the image with staz-on and for the eyes, mirco beads! i just need to seal it, but i wanted to take the picture before i did. wow, only 2 more days left, crazy. head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 28!!!!

2011-10-28T09:21:00.000-05:00

hello and welcome! again, i'm late my time but early est time ;) today is brought to you by smeared ink. i used the bench and moon from shadow things. the skeleton (now in full size) is from retro art cafe. i embossed the stamps with a blend of black, gold, white and blue embossing powders. the images are from loteria cards. i painted a small canvas black and placed them all together. head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 27!!!!

2011-10-27T08:21:00.000-05:00

hello and welcome! another cute but simple atc for y'all. crazyness is still hanging around. i miss lazy days. anyway, the stamp is from strange skin, the skeleton is from retro cafe art, he is supposed to be full and i'm going to try and use him again so you can see him in full bloom. head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 26!

2011-10-26T09:01:00.000-05:00

hello! well, i'm almost up 9am my time, but i up way before 9am est so it counts!!!! today i have magnets from yoyo's. i will make yoyo's on car trips, one day i'll be making a quilt and a set of pillows out of them. anyway, i took a couple from my stash, punched a circle out of bat paper and stamp a bat out, added some glitter to the eyes, glued everything on and done! hopefully i'll be able to get something great for y'all tomorrow! head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 25!!!!!

2011-10-25T08:19:00.001-05:00

hey guys! welcome back! i have a tag with the same techinque i used yesterday, if i was going to ruin an ink pad, i'm getting as many tags out of it as i can, and the spider is done the same as the wreath. the spider is from lil bo peep from smeared ink. sorry i'm coping myself today, but i've been crazy busy. i have a new line coming out that i've been working on for about a year now and family coming in, and a party to plan and kiddo stuff and.....the list could go on. sorry i haven't been hopping, i'm hoping to get around sometime soon. by now you know what to do! enjoy! lisa

day 24!!!!!

2011-10-24T06:05:00.000-05:00

hello! can you believe that there is only one week left!!! wow! today i have a tag that may not look too halloweeny but is going on a halloween bottle of wine gift, so hopefully that counts. i love how the background turned out on this one. it's a blend of old paper and the blue distressed inks. i do not go lighter to darker when blending inks. i know it messes up the lighter ink, but i get better results when i go darker to lighter. i did the blue ink and while it was still wet i add the old paper. for the owl, i covered white paper with the old paper ink, to clean off the blue ink on it, so it made a cool looking color. (i hope all that makes sense) i used distressed embossing powder for the owl. added some flowers and done! head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 23!

2011-10-23T05:28:00.000-05:00

hello and welcome, today i'm bringing you a little bottle. at a garage sale i bought this really cool spice holder that came with 12 spice bottles. i got it for the spice bottles :). i inked up a white piece of paper and stamped the spider web from lonely boy and the spider from little bo peep, all from smeared ink.

i added 2 eyelets on each end so i would be able to tie it closed. i had so many issues getting the labels off i wasn't about to put glue on new labels i put on. i like to change things around sometimes, so i thought this would be better. now get to hopping! enjoy! lisa

day 22!!!!

2011-10-22T05:37:00.001-05:00

hello! how's life treating you this fine saturday morning? please don't look at this too closely ;) i had some issues with some of the flowers. if i can find some extra time this up coming week i'll fix this. i found how to make this here. i always thought i didn't need a scor-pal, but between this project and couple of others i'm wanting to do, i think one day i'll need to get one. the spider stamp is from smeared ink, i added some fun flock to it so it could be fuzzy. head on over to the sidebar and get to hopping! enjoy! lisa