Tutorial: pocket valentines

I was at Michaels with my sister a few weeks ago.
(Something I don't usually get to do so that was awesome! :) :) Thanks for coming to Logan to play with me Annie Carie!)
While we were there we found some cute scrapbook paper that looked like stamps.

You can't beat 25 cents so I figured I could cut each one out and make them into valentines. They ended up being pretty small so I revisited a past project and made pocket valentines again! 

The idea is to make the tiny valentine be bigger, and cuter, by sewing a heart pocket to a piece of card-stock for the tiny card to fit into.

1. First I cut the paper into smaller pieces with postage stamp scissors.
2. Then I used spray adhesive to attach book paper to the card-stock for a vintage look ( If you want simplicity you don't have to do this part.)
3. Then I cut the card-stock into 4x5 in pieces. (I didn't actually measure so I'm not sure the exact size.)
4. After that I cut out a bunch of hearts from pink paper. (Regular weight, not card-stock.)
5. Then I laid the heart onto the card-stock piece, sandwiched the tiny valentine in-between the two (but peeking out a bit), and sewed a straight stitch around the valentine to make the pocket the right size. (Another way to do this is to trace the outline of the tiny valentine onto the heart, and follow the lines on with your sewing machine. Erase all pencil marks when you're finished.)

 You're done! Aren't they adorable?!! Kids will want to take it out of the pocket and put it back in over and over! Enjoy!

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from the library: Patchwork Style by Suzuko Koseki

Trent and I almost always have both our library cards maxed out. Patchwork Style is one of my recent favorites. I am loving quilts and quilted things right now.  I just started a quilt inspiration photo file in pintrest and hope to fill it with all my favorite quilts! If you haven't tried Pintrest yet go and do it! It's free and it saves the site info of where you found the picture. I had been saving my inspirational photos on my hard drive but was having to type all the urls into the file names and use up my storage. Pintrest is so much easier for me!

These bags are so pretty!

The photography is really pretty to!

Thanks for stopping by! Oh and I have been working on something for Celebrate the boy so keep coming back. :)

Tutorial : How to make a window in your origami box

Remember when I figured out how to cut a hole in the top of my origami boxes? Ever since then I have been wanting to make a video. Well I finally did!

I have a tripod now so the video isn't as wobbly as my other video so thats nice. I don't teach how to make the box itself in this video so to learn how to make the box go here. I made some as gift boxes for Christmas presents for my nieces. I put little recycled Rosette hair clips inside them. It was because of the window that they turned out so adorable I think! I am so excited to share this with you all! Lets get onto the video!

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