Nursing Covers!

I have been wanting to try making nursing covers for forever now.

I finally got around to it, and I don't know what stopped me for so long- they were easy and fun to make.

Here are the two that I made:

My own nursing cover (that I got as a gift)  is not easy to adjust- which means I never adjusted it. So when I made these I used a D-ring on the neck strap to make it super easy to adjust. 

And do you ever have to try to discretely look for your missing nursing pad after you're finished feeding? No- That's just me? Well in case you ever do find it difficult to keep track or nursing pads during a feeding, I made some handy little pockets on the bottom corner.

 

And, of course, I added boning to the neck to make it easy to peak in and see baby.

For sale now- in my esty shop: JLynneCreations

New Cakes

Here are a few cakes I've made lately- I left the sides completely undecorated, I call the 'open-side' cakes.

Selling Stuff

All hair clips come with a 'no slip' grip inside to help keep it comfortably in your child's hair.

Small flower clips .75 cents each (plus shipping if outside Phoenix Area)

Large flower clips: $1.50

Hand-sewn 'yo-yo' flower clips $2.00 each

This next picture is just to give you an idea of some of the kids of clips I've made. But I can also make the ribbon hangers for you, in any colors of your choosing.

Hair Clip display ribbon: $2.00 each

These are just some of the hair clips I can make!

Inspired by Dana Pt. 4

Another post about a craft inspired by the Fabulous Dana at MADE.

A little while ago, she MADE some adorable ruffle cards. It combined my great love of card making with my newer hobby of sewing!

LOVE!

So I decided to make a few of my own.

I used some pink and brown fabric I had left over from making all of the bedding in my baby girl's room, and I used a tan card stock for the card.

Inspired By Dana Pt 3.

Okay, one last post about re-purposing fabric.

Again, I thank Dana from MADE for giving me the idea that I don't have to go to the fabric store to buy fabric, sometimes- it could just be lying around.

This time I used a pajama shirt that I NEVER wore, and a pair of pajama pants that had been worn a few times, but they had a hole in one knee.

This time I didn't make a skirt.

I made a bib

Double sided

And not one,

But two matching burp cloths.

Here's the whole set. I actually had enough fabric to make 4 of these sets.

I've already given two away as gifts. Should I keep the others as gifts as well, or sell them when I *someday* get my Etsy store going?

Inspired by Dana Pt.2

I love Dana from MADE.

She is so talented, she has two adorable kids, and she has inspired me.

Among other things she makes an awesome shirt dress. I love that she can re-use fabric and make something so cute.

Here I found this pretty silky scarf for 99 cents.

I cut it up, and layered it with a slightly heavier fabric to give it some weight and voila! I have a skirt:

Cute Right?

I hope you all think it's cute- I think I want to sell this on Etsy. If I ever get around to setting up my Etsy shop that is

Inspired by Dana Pt.1

Dana from MADE has changed the way I look at fabric.
She is always re-purposing fabric on her site and it has made me think about doing the same thing.
This may not look like much but I found a skirt on sale for $1. and it was on sale for a reason

The cut was awful- it wouldn't look flattering on anyone- I mean it. Normally I would have walked away- but after reading Dana's blog I knew it had potential.
I turned it into a two-layered gathered little-girls skirt. I made this in about a 2T size.
So I got a CUTE little girls skirt for just a dollar

Cardswap

I found a sketch online for a card. I liked the sketch a lot, so I made twenty cards based on the sketch for my card swap- well I forgot to post my card for the sketch challenge, but here it is now that card swap is this week.
Mostly I'm proud of myself for using two patterned papers in one card. I have a small dot pattern in the background, and then I made two versions of the card with two different patterned papers-
I struggle to use patterns, I tend to prefer solid colors- so this was tough for me to use two patterns in one card- and bonus I did it twice- TWO different versions!

My Brest Friend

When I had my son two years ago I got a boppy pillow, and I liked it. Then I heard some women say that a brest friend is much better so I got one when I had my little girl a few months ago.
I loved it- it was so much better than a boppy- the only problem was that I had to undo the Velcro when I was done feeding her and if she had fallen asleep it would wake her up.
So I decided to modify my slipcover.
I cut the strap:

Cut back some of the Velcro to leave room to sew more easily:

Then I just folded the fabric over some buckle closures that I got for a couple of bucks at Joann's and stitched a straight line. SO simple!


Now it is so easy to undo without making all the noise of undoing the Velcro

I found out that some of the new covers are already made this way, but if you get one that doesn't have the buckle, you can easily modify it.

Even my daughter likes it

Birthday Cake

Here's a birthday cake I made for my son when he turned two
A toolbox cake, covered with fondant.
I made the tools out of rice krispie treats and covered them with fondant also. I used edible ink markers to write on the ruler.

Hair Clip Holders

I needed to find a way to store all of the hair clips I've made for my daughter.
So, I went to Joann's and I bought two matching ribbons, both were brown with pink polka dots.
I got one 3/8" ribbon and one 1.5" ribbon.
I cut the 1.5" ribbon into 18" strips, I folded over the ends about 1/4 inch and just ran a straight stitch across to hold them in place.
I made small bows out of the 3/8" ribbon and stitched them down on to the top of the wider ribbon.
I used small nails to hang them on the wall.

Masculine 'Thank You's

After being laid off a couple of weeks ago, my husband went on the job hunt (obviously).

Well he had an interview today, and he wanted a thank you card to send to them. NO problem! I have tons of thank you cards already made. But, since he interviewed with a couple of guys, I decided not to give him one of my cards covered in flowers or butterflies; instead, I made a couple of masculine Thank you cards, using a few sketches I found online.

First, I used this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch

Then, I made a card following the sketch from CPS

Here's what my card looks like when it's closed

The right hand triangle opens to reveal a 'thank you' as you go to open the card

And when it's completely open it looks like this:

DIY Dish

So, have you guys heard of DIY Dish? Well go on over and check it out... they are giving away two sewing machines- Yes TWO!!! I hope I win the embroidery machine **fingers crossed**
Good Luck!

Baby Boy Shower

I was asked to make the cake for my best friends baby shower. And since she always does my hair for free- she got her cake for free.
The shower colors were green and brown, and her theme was mama bear/baby bear

The cake:

A mama bear and baby bear (sculpted out of fondant) walking together.

I used chocolate buttercream for the paw prints, I used round tips of varying sizes, and then I dipped my finger in cornstarch and then gently tapped the paw prints to flatten them down.
Here are some cake balls:

Using the colors of green and brown.
After making the cake I had some extra batter, so I made 12 cupcakes.

I covered them with buttercream icing and then used chocolate icing to add bear paw prints. (I used the cornstarch again here)

The whole she-bang:

Christmas Wreath

I purchased a wreath and some red and gold Christmas ribbon last year at Michaels. Since I bought it after Christmas it was 70% off.
I just took the ribbon and tucked it into the wreathin random spots. Whem I like dhow it looked I took a needle and thread and just tied the ribbon down, to keep it in place.

Then, I tied a big bow with the ribbon and stuck that on with the needle and thread also.

Lastly, I bought some bunches of berries from Michaels. I tore apart the bunches and then hot glued some of the 'berries' onto the wreath.

Merry Christmas!!

Cakes

So here are two cakes that I made recently
They were both actually for church. The first was for an activity I had with some of the young women; the activity had to do with babies so I made a mock baby shower cake.


I made a lemon cake and used a lemon frosting, which I added food dye to in order to make it a brighter yellow. I formed the blocks out of fondant, and colored three colors of fondant. I rolled out the colors to about 1/16th inch and then folded them over the corner of a box while they dried for a little bit to give them a nice bend. I cut the pieces to size and stuck them on. Then I rolled out some fondant and shaped it into letters, the leftover colors were used to make balls to go for the border.

The next cake was also for the young women at church. The young women work with a program called personal progress, and they have 8 values that each have a color to represent them. So I made a three tier, (two layer each) cake covered with white fondant, and I colored fondant to make swags, and flowers in each value color. I also made balls for the border from each color to match.

Christmas Gift Tags

A few months ago, I found an idea for recycling grocery ads. When i saw it I thought it would be cute for a card, but ended up using the idea to make Christmas gift tags for my card swap.
So I cut up Walmart Grocery ads, since they were glossy, and had lots of red and green in them.

I made myself a stencil, and cut out a folded tag from white card stock and similar shaped tags from red and green card stock.

I drew Christmas trees onto the tags, and cut out the tree using a craft knife.

I glued the strips of the ads to the back of the trees, then secured the tress to the white tags.
Lastly, I punched a hole in the top of the tag and threaded a ribbon through each one.

Little Lion

I made my sons Halloween Costume this year:
Isn't he cute? I bought a Simplicity pattern for this, I'm still too new at sewing to go without a pattern for stuff like this. I enjoyed making it, and it was good practice so that someday I could be great at sewing (maybe). Plus, I love that he looked different from all of the other kids in their store-bought costumes.

Copycat Halloween

So I usually design all of my own cards... to me that's half the fun. This time I copied. A woman at my card swap made a Halloween card and I used her idea for some Halloween party invites I made. I of course changed many things from her idea, but it's still not really an original. I thought I would share it anyway, so that every one can see her wonderful idea.
I used a 4x6 brown card. I cut out 2" squares from orange paper, and 1.5" squares from black paper. I taped the little black square onto the little orange square and then taped those near the top of the card.

I used white ink to stamp a pumpkin onto the black square. Does everybody else have a problem having their white ink show up?? I had a friend use white acrylic paint to stamp, and it turned out much clearer than this, I'm going to try that next time.

Anyway, the white stamp ink shows really well on non-porous surfaces so I stamped Happy Halloween on a 4x6 inch transparency. (I bought transparencies at Office Max and then cut them down.)

Then I punched little holes in the transparencies and the cards, and attached the transparency with brads. All Done!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!