Giveaway Day!
Welcome to anyone stopping by from Sew, Mama, Sew!
It's finally Giveaway Day! Are you excited? I am!
I've been working busily all day to get this finished up for each and every one of you - yes that's right, everyone's a winner here!
It's like a giveaway buffet (well, more like a two-course giveaway meal). You have a choice between a Christmas stamp design, or a Christmas quilt design... or you can join the rest of us in the silly season spirit and go nuts and pig out on both!
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This is a two-stamp set, so you can stamp the ribbon in whatever colour you'd like! I chose red to match the cute mistletoe berries but you might like to match it to your gift wrap.
This one is a little fiddly to carve at this size so feel free to blow it up to whichever size you feel comfortable with!
Some tips:
Carve inside the berries and leaves before you carve around them - that way, if you make the inside a little bigger than your transfer you can always compensate when you carve outside.
To get smooth curves, turn the rubber and keep your carving tool still.
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And for the quilters out there... My first foundation pieced (paper pieced) quilt!
A Christmas wreath for your front door (or a gift? Who knows!). The best thing about this is you only need to cut out two template pieces - the circle for the middle, and a triangle! I'll be posting a tutorial tomorrow (hopefully) but as long as you can count to fifteen and sew in a straight line, you're all set for foundation piecing!
( Click the picture for full-sized pattern )
Please excuse the blurry photo! I'm sure when you make yours it'll look fabulous and certainly not blurry at all!
For those who have never paper/foundation pieced before, Craft Blog has recently done a lovely helpful post with a lot of beginner links to follow.
(Please note: finished items aren't available as prizes, although I will have a few stamp sets up in the shop for those who don't want to carve but love to stamp. The giveaway prizes are the digitial patterns - just right click to save! Patterns for non-commercial use only.)
If you make either of these please do leave a comment with a link - I'd love to see what you crafty types come up with!
EDIT: I just wanted to reiterate - I'm not doing a pick-a-winner-from-a-hat, mail-out giveaway... Things are tight down here so I couldn't afford postage, but that works out great for you guys because in this giveaway EVERYONE wins! Just right-click to download the patterns :)
It's finally Giveaway Day! Are you excited? I am!
I've been working busily all day to get this finished up for each and every one of you - yes that's right, everyone's a winner here!
It's like a giveaway buffet (well, more like a two-course giveaway meal). You have a choice between a Christmas stamp design, or a Christmas quilt design... or you can join the rest of us in the silly season spirit and go nuts and pig out on both!
* * *
This is a two-stamp set, so you can stamp the ribbon in whatever colour you'd like! I chose red to match the cute mistletoe berries but you might like to match it to your gift wrap.
This one is a little fiddly to carve at this size so feel free to blow it up to whichever size you feel comfortable with!
Some tips:
Carve inside the berries and leaves before you carve around them - that way, if you make the inside a little bigger than your transfer you can always compensate when you carve outside.
To get smooth curves, turn the rubber and keep your carving tool still.
* * *
And for the quilters out there... My first foundation pieced (paper pieced) quilt!
A Christmas wreath for your front door (or a gift? Who knows!). The best thing about this is you only need to cut out two template pieces - the circle for the middle, and a triangle! I'll be posting a tutorial tomorrow (hopefully) but as long as you can count to fifteen and sew in a straight line, you're all set for foundation piecing!
( Click the picture for full-sized pattern )
Please excuse the blurry photo! I'm sure when you make yours it'll look fabulous and certainly not blurry at all!
For those who have never paper/foundation pieced before, Craft Blog has recently done a lovely helpful post with a lot of beginner links to follow.
(Please note: finished items aren't available as prizes, although I will have a few stamp sets up in the shop for those who don't want to carve but love to stamp. The giveaway prizes are the digitial patterns - just right click to save! Patterns for non-commercial use only.)
If you make either of these please do leave a comment with a link - I'd love to see what you crafty types come up with!
EDIT: I just wanted to reiterate - I'm not doing a pick-a-winner-from-a-hat, mail-out giveaway... Things are tight down here so I couldn't afford postage, but that works out great for you guys because in this giveaway EVERYONE wins! Just right-click to download the patterns :)