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{Colorful} April Showers

April 25, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

3D Rainbow Mobile

Our April showers in the midwest have included not only rain, but much to my dismay even SNOW! For today’s Felt Fun Friday project I thought I’d put a colorful spin on the April Showers theme with a 3D Rainbow Raindrop Mobile.

3D Rainbow Mobile

I’ve had the idea of a cloud with rainbow raindrops floating around in my head for awhile, and at the last minute I thought about the 3D aspect, so I gave it a shot.

3D Rainbow Mobile

I think it turned out pretty cute, don’t you?

3D Rainbow Mobile

It could be cute as a baby mobile, but since our girls aren’t babies anymore, and we just took down the crib :::sniff, sniff::: I hung it from the fan pull.

3D Rainbow Mobile

I really like it, and I’m inspired to try more 3D applications with felt. What 3D creations have you made with felt?

Filed Under: Felt Fun, Home Decor Tagged With: Felt Fun Friday, gift idea, rainbow

For My {Easter} Peeps

April 18, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Felt Peeps for Easter Basket

I don’t know about you, but my kids get more than enough candy at holidays so I’m always looking for some fun alternatives that won’t rot their teeth. Today’s Felt Fun Friday project is another quick and easy project just in time for last minute Easter basket additions!

Felt Peeps for Easter Basket

Make a dozen of these little cuties to stick in baskets or hide around the house along with eggs and candy! I made mine single sided but you could make them double sided very easily by adding another colored piece of felt on the back side. =)

Here’s a free printable pattern:

Felt Peeps Pattern from Candyland Studio - Print & Cut

Similarly, you might also be interested in these adorable Peeps Spring Paper Doll printables I found online!

Filed Under: Felt Fun Tagged With: etching cream, Felt Fun Friday, gift, gift idea

Interchangeable Felt RainBOW Hair Clip Set

April 11, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

Felt Rainbow Hair Clip Set by Candyland Studio

Felt is a wonderful material for teaching tools, but it’s also a very fun medium for making your own fashion accessories, too! If you haven’t noticed from some of my other projects, I LOVE COLOR! This is one reason I love working with felt so very, very much…there is such a HUGE assortment of colors and patterns you can select from when working on your projects. Today’s Felt Fun Friday project is great for those who can’t decide on just one color. =)

Interchangeable Felt Rainbow Hair Clip Set by Candyland Studio

Feeling a little blue today? How about pink? Maybe green? What little girl wouldn’t love a whole pile of these vibrantly colored rainBOW hair clips to mix and match with a favorite outfit, currently holiday, or mood?!

RainBows by Candyland Studio
An interesting feature of these hair clips is that they are detachable and interchangeable. So you simply pull one off and attach another in no time at all!

Detachable Bow Backs

Plus, the clips are fully lined and have a no-slip grip so they work great if your kids are like mine and have really thin, or barely-there hair!

RainBOW hairclips by Candyland Studio

Interchangeable Felt Rainbow Hair Clip Set by Candyland Studio

Felt-RainBOW-Set-Candyland-Studio

RainBows by Candyland Studio

Ahhhh…so cute!! I’m looking to add these to my online shop(s) soon. =)

*Big thank you to Ali Brown Photography for some beautiful shots with her adorable model!

 

Filed Under: Accessories, Felt Fun Tagged With: Felt, Felt Fun Friday, Felt Set, gift, gift idea

Felt Bookmarks

March 28, 2014 by admin Leave a Comment

 

 

Personalized Felt Bookmarks

I did a little experimenting with today’s Felt Fun Friday post. I found these felt bookmarks and thought it would be fun to personalize them. Of course I could cut my own, but these came in assorted colors in a package of 16, so I figured I’d give it a shot and report back to you.

blankbookmarks

Cute, right?

Of course you could cut other felt pieces to decorate, but this is also a perfect opportunity for those of you with cutting machines, whether you have an actual vinyl cutter, or a Cricut or Silhouette machine. Grab your scraps of heat transfer vinyl (you DO save all your scraps so your work space looks like an episode of Hoarders…It’s not just me, right?!)

Make your cute little design or quote. DON’T FORGET TO FLIP THE DESIGN IN REVERSE BEFORE CUTTING!! (Yeah, I’ve forgotten to do that once or twice.)

Weed the vinyl, lay onto the bookmark, press and remove. Easy peasy, right? Well, not exactly. Take a look…

Melted Felt Bookmark

Bad Bookmarks

The bookmark with the strips must be painted or something because the coloring sort of melted. :-/ Then on the bottom photo the felt was sort of, um, warped I guess is the best word I can come up with to describe it. And it smelled like burnt plastic.

This is when I realize they must be made of some different kind of felt than I normally use because this has never happened before. But I kept experimenting. I decided not to use the painted/striped felt if I was going to heat press it. So I cut a new iron-on decal and pressed it on one of the solid colored felt bookmarks.

Heat Transfer Vinyl

I’m sure the majority of you use a standard household iron, and while I do use that sometimes, I often will use my commercial heat press since it’s already turned on. Either way, if you’ve ever worked with heat press vinyl and different materials it usually takes some testing to find the right temperature, pressure, and length of press time. I found that I did not need to press very long, which worked great so I didn’t melt/warp the bookmarks. The other key is to let the piece cool before peeling…sometimes the vinyl peels better hot, sometimes warm, sometimes cool. This application worked best once it had cooled off a bit.

So I kept experimenting. I had these little reject iron-on logos I made awhile back. They were rejects because do you see that little tiny bit at the bottom of them? Yeah, that drove me nuts. I didn’t cut them in complete circles. But as we all know I hate throwing anything away when I might find SOME use for it someday. Today was the day.

Iron On Logo Tag

I put them on the backs of the bookmarks, pressed for a few seconds and voila! It worked great!

Iron On Logo Tag

I had been using ribbon to tie to the bookmarks but I thought the bookmark that has the really pretty sparkly pink lettering needed a little something different, so I made a quick yarn pom pom and tied it to another piece of yarn tied to the bookmark.

Yarn Pom Pom

Making a yarn pom pom is very easy…wrap it around your three fingers many many times, slide it off, tie a knot around the middle, snip the loops on each side, fluff and trim.

I love it!

Yarn Pom Pom

So here are my finished bookmarks:

Finished Felt Bookmarks

I REALLY loved using the sparkle vinyl. I only have some small pieces of that on hand because I never know what to make with it, but I love it so much!

This was the second “Oscar” bookmark I made…the first was one of the melted/warped ones because I had iron-on adhesive on the back of the purple layer and I pressed it too long. The second time I heat pressed the white lettering to the purple layer, then hot glued it to the bookmark.

It really wouldn’t take long to cut your own bookmarks, these were approximately 2″ x 6″. But, if you want to buy a packages of pre-cut bookmarks I would highly recommend using felt or hot glue to decorate these as opposed to using iron-on adhesive, it just wasn’t working so well with this application. Or you could sew or embroider design on them…so many options, really!

So what do you think? What would your bookmark say? How would you decorate it?

Filed Under: Felt Fun, Other, Tricks & Techniques Tagged With: Felt, Felt Fun Fri, gift idea, vinyl decals

Braided Felt Dog Toy

March 7, 2014 by admin 1 Comment

Today’s Felt Fun Friday post was inspired by our recent situation with our dog, Lucy. :-/ It’s not like she doesn’t have a hundred OTHER dog toys from which to choose, but she didn’t have one of THESE yet!

It’s a VERY simple project, so simple that you don’t even need a pattern or anything. Just choose your color(s), cut your pieces, knot, braid and knot. Fringe the edges if you want to get fancy, and you’re DONE!

Pink & Purple Felt

I chose three colors: purple, dark pink & light pink.

Felt Strips

I cut my strips about 2″ x 14″.

Braided Felt Dog Toy - Knotted End

This was a big clunky knot I started before braiding.

Braided Felt Dog Toy - Fringed End

I knotted the other end a bit differently, and decided I preferred this one to the former.

Braided Felt Dog Toy

And here’s the finished toy. Lucy is still recovering, but hopefully she will get some use out of it real soon. This is actually the first time I’ve ever seen these made from felt, I more frequently see them made from fleece, or old t-shirts, and you can make them any length you like.

BONUS:

Here’s my first Felt Fun Friday FAILURE!! (At least the first I am sharing, haha!)

Since I cut way more felt strips than I needed for my rope I thought I might try this project I saw on Pinterest, originally from CraftedNiche.com:

Easy enough, right? I’ve got this. Or so I thought…

I stacked my felt strips, then I simply tied them with

embroidery thread (that snapped)

another felt strip (which ALSO broke!)

ribbon (FINALLY WORKED!! Sort of…)

Tied Felt Strips

And I tried to fluff the pieces, which resulted in this hot felt mess:

Hot Felt Mess

 Bahahaha!

My felt strips were too long and thick. I was too lazy to cut them down and try again, so I scrapped that idea and decided to show you anyway, just to prove that I’m not perfect, not all my projects work out as planned. =) But that’s okay.

 

Filed Under: Felt Fun, Other Tagged With: dogs, Felt Fun Friday, gift idea, tutorial

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