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Vintage Love Heart
Create this heart hanger
from scrapbooking supplies
with a few vintage items
thrown in.
Create one for yourself or
give someone your heart for
Valentine's day.
You will need...
12” x 12” scrapbook paper
Piece of sheet music
Selection of buttons
Lace – wide and narrow
Letters – chipboard, Scrabble
tiles, vintage cards etc.
Sewing machine
Big Bite or Crop a Dile
Eyelets
Natural twine
Craft Knife
Adhesives
Instructions...
1. Draw a heart onto the back of your
scrapbook paper. If you paper is quite thin,
back into onto some cardstock first to
strengthen it.
2. Cut out the heart, cover the bottom right
with a torn piece of sheet music – trim to the
shape of your heart.
3. Using double-sided tape, stick your lace
around the edge of your heart, creating folds in
the lace to give a pleated effect.
Note: If you don't have any vintage lace, you
can dye white lace with strong coffee to give it
an aged colour.
4. Using your sewing machine, sew a border round the edge of your heart.
5. Arrange your alphabet letters, lace and buttons on your heart. The length of
your name (or word) will depend on the arrangement on the heart.
6. Stick everything in place.
7. Punch 2 holes and set eyelets at
the top of your heart.
8. Thread your twine through the
holes and tie the ends together to
create a hanger.
You can use vintage items you have
to hand – use a vintage picture
instead of the sheet music or add
flowers in place of the buttons.
You could create a heart to give
instead of a card – for friends and
family as well as partners.
Created by Lisa Swift
http://lisaswiftcreate.blogspot.com
© www.easycraftprojects.net 2009
Courtesy of
Snowman Poop
Santa looked at his list,
Even checked it twice.
And he has seen that you
have not been very nice.
Since coal's so expensive,
Here's the scoop,
Santa's filling your stocking
with SNOWMAN'S POOP!
(Fill a bag with mini marshmallows, top with poem).
Christmas Cookies "Gone!"
Give an empty Christmas Paper plate & a Christmas cookie cutter.
Attach this poem:
I made a plate of cookies and ate just one or two and started feeling guilty because they were for you.
I went into a panic and ordered on the phone, this brand new cookie cutter so you could make your own
The following gift ideas where found on
http://www.bhg.com/holidays/christmas/crafts/
- White ankle sock
- Set of measuring cups
- Plastic pellets
- Polyester fiberfill
- Rubber bands
- Needle and matching threads
- Red or blue infant sock
- Pom-poms: medium white for the hat and small red for the nose
- Scissors
- Buttons: 2-1/4-inch for the eyes, 4-1/4-inch for the mouth, and 3-5/8-inch for the body
- Ruler
- 1/2 yard of 1-inch-wide ribbon
1. Turn the white sock inside out. Pour 1 cup of plastic pellets into the toe of the sock for the snowman base.
2. Use polyester fiberfill to stuff the sock up to the heel for the snowman's body. For the neck, wrap a rubber band several times around the sock at the top of the fiberfill.
3. Pour 1/3 cup of plastic pellets into the sock for the bottom of the snowman head. Add enough fiberfill to the sock to stuff the rest of the head. Wrap a second rubber band around the sock at the top of the fiberfill.
4. For the hat, thread the needle with a double strand of thread that matches the color of the infant sock. Pinch the toe of the sock around the white pom-pom; then insert the needle through the pinched portion and the pom-pom. Take the needle back through, and pull tightly on the thread ends. Tie the thread ends into a knot, and clip the thread.
5. Pull the cuff end of the hat over the top of the snowman's head to cover the rubber band. Use a matching color of thread to sew the hat in place.
6. Thread the needle with a double strand of white thread. For the nose, sew the small red pom-pom at the center of the face. Sew on two buttons for the eyes and four buttons for the mouth. Sew three buttons down the center front of the body, and tie the ribbon around the neck.
