Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Project Parade~ Day Two

Welcome to day two of this month's Project Parade.  All of the Divas have great "Sizzlin' Summer Fun" projects to share in the upcoming days.  Did you see Charmaine's yesterday?  WOWZAS is that ever cuu-uute and creative!

I have been loving all of the fabric flowers that have been sprinkling the blogs over the past weeks.  I first really started to notice them about a month ago and went to You Tube and found a couple tutorials.  Here are a couple of the ones that I found that helped me create my flower....

Fabric Flower tutorial #1

Fabric Flower tutorial #2

Now that I have totally gotten into making these, I headed to Hancock Fabric this past weekend and picked up some fun summer-y type fabrics to create these fabric flowers.  I did mine in two layers; using 2 different sizes of scallop circle Nestabilities.  This is the flower that I came up with...



I thought this would be a fun gifty to someone going on vacation.  It's the perfect addition to a little sundress, sweater, purse, beach bag or you could even attach it to a headband for a cute hair accessory.  I attached the flower to a tag with coordinating papers and ribbon to complete the gift ensemble...






It's hard to tell from the photo above, but I added some clear embossing using the wave/flourish image from the set HAPPY DAYS to give it a little added dimension and texture...





Here are a couple more shots of the flower that I created...








Tag, you're it!  Come play along with the Divas for a chance at an awesome prize!

1. Play along with us and link up your new Sizzlin’ Summer Fun creation (posted May 17 or later) to the linky widget on Yesterday's (DAY ONE) parade post before midnight on June 7th. One lucky stamper will win a $30.00 gift certificate to the Verve Store. Verve Stamps are not required, but we LOVE to see ‘em!

2. For another chance to win, be sure to give the Divas a little shout-out in the comments section as we parade our Sizzlin’ Summer Fun creations. One lucky commenter during the course of the parade (May 17 ~ June 4) will win the Verve stamp set of their choosing!