Life's Trivialities

A Little Behind

I had a post go up on Monday for Imaginisce that some of you might have seen using the i-Top tool to make hair accessories.I am only now remembering to share that project... Life as the school year winds down always seems to ramp up and move at even faster than normal break neck speed. More and more people are requesting my therapy services (not a bad problem, at all), the kids need a little more help getting organized and staying focused as the weather gets nicer and their heads are constantly outside playing and just getting to and fro and here and there. There is little down time in our schedules these days...

The Twist Daddies are interchangable hair accessories that can be attached to headbands and alligator clips. There are also Snap Daddies that can be used with bobby pins. I know a little girl who is all about fashion and matching her hair pieces with her outfits. With the Twist Daddies, you can quickly whip up any number of "toppers" that are easy twisted onto/off the headbands and alligator clips depending up the mood.

I made a little tutorial that teaches you how to make these lovely interchangeable felt and ribbon flowers.

Gather your materials:

- wool felt

- iTop

- button Daddies, medium

- Twist Daddies, medium

- glue

- fabric scissors

- tulle

- yarn

1.            Cut the wool felt  so that you have a rectangle approximately 9 inches long and 3-4 inches wide.

2.            Place fabric glue along one edge and fold the wool over.

 

3.            Use your fabric scissors to cut down (but not all the way) strips into the folded edge. Don't go too wide or too narrow. I went about a quarter of an inch wide.

 

4.            Layer your tulle then wind your ribbon. If you'd like, you can glue this. It didn't stick well with the glue I was using so I used the sewing machine to stitch it down.

5.            Apply another line of glue at the edge, on top of the tulle and ribbon.

6.            Begin rolling, keeping the bottom edges even and aligned.

 

7.            In order to make things more secure, I put a few stitches using DMC floss to secure everything.

8.            Use glue gun to adhere a button made using your i-Top to the front center.

 

9.            Flip over and use your glue gun to adhere the backing of a Twist Daddy to the back of the flower.

 

10.          Voila! Interchangeable headband and Alligator Clip flowers!

I hope you are inspired to create some fun hair accersories of your own! What little (or big) girl doesn't love to accessorize?! I would love to see your creations, feel free to link me up! Thanks for stopping by this Friday - I hope it's a great one!

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Core'dinations Intro

Today is my day to introduce myself/be introduced on the Coredinations blog!! Though this is my first official layout for Core, I feel like I've been a part of the team for ages. Ellen and the ladies have been so warm and welcoming! The work is so easy to do as Core was already a big part of my stash.

I used all kinds of Coredinations on this layout. I sanded it, I embossed it, and I most certainly love it! I'm not so sure you'll ever hear of me tearing it... I know that's the other part of the tag line. I just have this thing about tearing perfectly good paper... It goes against my grain... Someday, maybe...

Those of you who know me also know my penchant for fussy cutting. I notched each and every angle of that zig zag. I also cut out a few of the flowers from the Fancy Pants Park Bench collection as the piece that pulled the colors together.

When you have all those amazing textures and nooks and crannies from the embossing and sanding, writing isn't easy to do. Have no fear, vellum is here! LOL! I wrote my random bits about myself on vellum that I attached to the layout via the use of the brads as anchors on the sides. Liquid glue is strategically placed underneath a letter to hide it and secure down a little better.

These bits are literally random facts about me. The first few things that came to mind were penned immediately. A stream of consciousness type activity. Random?! I know, right? I did say they were random facts!

If you get a chance and have the time, be sure to swing by the Coredinations blog! Each and every day of the design team intros there is a new give away. Coredinations in extremely generous, you won't want to miss this opportunity!

Little Miss Personality

I'm up on the GCD blog today sharing a layout about "Miss Thang" as she is occasionally referred to around the house. She isn't particularly fond of that nickname. But she most certainly owns it some days. When that sassiness rears... Watch out world!

This layout, however, is about a different quality: Mia's enthusiasm. She has an over abundance of bounding enthusiasm. For life, for animals, for books, for her brother, for her family, for everything. I can always count on Mia to get us excited or find interest in the most mundane of activities. She can make a blade of grass interesting!

The title is a combination of bits and pieces: a cut out from the Journal Tags, letters cut from the Crossword patterned paper and a cut with shadow using my Silhouette. The font Billabong is turning into a cherished, well used font in my world!

Hmmm... Just dawned on me that there isn't a lick of journaling on this page... Better get to that, hadn't I? Sigh...

Winner!

Sorry ladies for the tardiness of this post! Friday's are a paid-in-love work day for me (Ie, not working as a Physical Therapist) and I thought I would have more time than reality besot.

And the lucky winner is...

Drumroll please!!

Taunya Butler said...   Love that big ampersand in the middle of your layout and the flower is gorgeous!! Thank you so much for sharing and for the chance to win!!

Tanya if you would please email me (suzannalee72 at yahoo dot com) your snail mail address, I would be happy to send you the Heidi goodies I promised!

Mothers Day with Imaginisce

Over the past 2 weeks, Imaginisce has been featuring projects about Mother's Day on the blog. There are some amazing projects, from gifts to cards to layouts. These ladies really love their Mom's and really know how to show that love.

I created a layout about my Mummy. I am half English, my mother is English. Born in England and raised English. I grew up calling her Mummy, as most good English kids do. I thought nothing of it until I moved here to the the US when I started college. And I still struggle with calling her Mummy in public. That's what rolls off my tongue yet I see the strange look it receives. Either way, I decided, this marvelous woman is my Mummy and I will continue to call her that and accept those strange looks!

I love how that purple Jillian Spotted Coredinations cardstock just makes the colors of this layout POP!!

Mixing up the electronic die cutting with the hand cranked! Memory Box dies are the best! The Silhouette has some definite advantages for adjustability and diverse range of images but there is no cleaner cut than the hand cranked metal dies. In my opinion.

Mixing and matching collections again! It's what I love to do! I sanded the edges of the banners to grunge things up a bit. The sanded edges work well with the tree stumps we are sitting on. I cannot for the life of me remember where we are in this picture. I know it's in Indiana, where my parents live. But where in Indiana?

I hope you have some great plans for your Mom/Mum/Mummy/Mother/MaMa on mother's day! Have a wonderful weekend!