Wanda's Whimsical Wonders

This weeks challenge is to create a pennant.  The 4th of July inspired me.  I made my pennants out of triangle pieces of fabric folded over.  I cut the letters with Pooh Font cartridge.  Then ran them threw the cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder.  I glued everything together with fabric glue.  When it was dry, I ran a blue and silver cord threw the top hole. 

Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be doing my first tutorial for you! For this weeks theme of Embroidery, I thought it would be fun to make a gift box with little note cards inside. I started off with a yellow prism gift box. I choose my colors I wanted to use to match. The pattern I choose to use I got from Darsie Bruno. You can find lots of fun patterns on her website, A Sticher's   Dream . First size your pattern to fit your project with your favorite photo editing program. Print out the pattern on regular copy paper. Lay your pattern over your heavy card stock. The side your finished project right side up. You start punching little holes in each place marked. (I use a needle that I glued a wooden bead to the end) When this is completed careful remove your pattern. Your ready to start embroidering. You'll want to use a long bead needle to embroidery with. If your pattern calls for 1-3 stitch. That means you will be sewing between 3 holes. For example you'll bring the...

Boy am I excited.  This is my first Challenge as a Design Team Member of Cuttlebug Challenge.  It is such a honor to asked to join this fabulous team.  The challenge for this week is Photo's.  I first thought of Father's Day coming up so I decided a wonderful gift for my Dad was in order.  He absolutely loves his Grand kids so I decided to make him a Post-it note holder.  I used an acrylic photo frame 5X7 for the base.  The leather looking paper is a paper sack that I cut to 5X7 and ran it through the Cuttlebug with the Hounds tooth folder.  The I used umber Versa Color ink pad and ran it over the top.  I used Stretch Your Imagination cartridge and cut out the wonderful photo book.  The whole in the middle wasn't quite big enough so I used small scissors and cut up both side about 1/2 "  then folded it back and taped it.  I placed the picture behind the photo book and taped them to the "leather paper".  I added a piece ...

This is a cute little Birthday Card I made.  I dry embossed the vellum with the Happy Birthday folder.  The image is by Dustin Pike.  I just love his little dragons.  I colored him using Bic markers.