Saturday, January 23, 2010

Shabby Scallop Square Bag



I will be the first to admit that I am not a quilter and I've only been sewing for about a year. That's not quite true, but I figure the little teddy bear purses I made in 3rd grade with my mother's sewing machine don't count!
Recently, I saw several stampers with these cute shabby bags & thought well I can make one of those. Sure enough it was easy as baking a cake from a box.
I used 3 different fabrics and needed about 1/2 a yard of each, plus an extra 1/4 for the handles.
As my batting I used the "crib" sized quilt batting.
Of COURSE I used my Big Shot to cut out my squares. Why go through all the trouble of cutting out all those squares when I didn't have to, plus the Big Shot can cut out 8 layers of fabric at a time. For this project I used the Scallop Square Die and the Flower Folds die.
After I had sewed all the squares together I then washed it and dried it to shabby it up a bit. After all that I added my cute flower. I feel this bag turned out great for my first ever quilting project!
Here are the details for the Big Shot & Dies (Click on the pictures of the product and it will 'click through' to my website)
Big Shot Die-Cut MachineScallop Square Clear Bigz DieFlower Folds Bigz Xl Die

Vintage Vogue







I will be the first to admit that I usually lean toward more modern style stamps but LOVE the new Vintage Vogue set. This set is so versatile and will be a fav for a long time to come!
Here are the details of each stamp (out of the Occasions Mini Catalog) Clear Mount Price is: $17.95 Wood Mount Price is: $23.95
Vintage Vogue by Stampin' Up!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

New Catalogs!

There are a ton of new products that are for sale starting 1/5/2010! Geeze, 2010 seems like yesterday that it was just 2000, Y2K has come and gone forever ago.
Anyway, to check out the new products just click on the icons to the right of this post. Lot's of great surprises in there.
So, did you check them out and your wish list was really really long. Why not hold a workshop and earn free products. I still have a few open dates for both January and February.
Remember too, that Sale-a-bration is going on starting Tuesday (1/5) till the end of March. For every $50 you spend you can pick out one free item out of the sale-a-bration catalog. This year there are also set out of the main catalog that you can chose. If your a hostess there are even more extras!
Contact me at taraangus@gmail.com to plan your next workshop!