Valentine's heart

With Valentine's just around the corner, I started looking for some ideas... I came across this cute heart - made from felt.. It makes a cute basket that can be filled with little treasures, chocs or notes for your Valentine

 

(you can see the post here at mama smile's blog: http://mamasmiles.com/valentine's-day/)

I thought this was so cute and such a good idea, so off I went in search of a tutorial - and Voila! I found one here at Crafty B's blog

Kelly drew up a tutorial on how to make these hearts - and the best thing is you can make them without pasting or sewing anything!! The parts just get woven together..  Perfect!

3 rabbits - mirror stickers

When we first got the mirror material in stock, I made up some simple shapes that ended up in our bathroom, which my son ended up using as a mirror for brushing his teeth..

I wanted to make a mirror rabbit family, and I thought that they'd be great for replacing the star and circle mirrors... I used a template from Cindy Ferguson's blog (see the tractor post for link). I resized the rabbits to give me three different sized rabbits and I also did a mirror image of one of them.. Here's the rabbits in the making:

And here's the end result in our bathroom :)
I think they look much cuter than the previous mirrors!

Toy making products - in use!

I just had to share the project one of our customers made using our toy making products..

It's an adorable sock monkey blankie toy Jingles!

Samantha managed to incorporate five of our toy making products into the toy - squeaker, jingle column, teether, rattle ring and triangle shape..

Here's the link to  more pictures and Samantha's blog :)

Nappy Cake

With more of my friends having just had babies I was looking for some ideas of things to make for them, so while searching through the pics of things I've made over the years I came across the pics of this nappy cake I made a while ago...

It was my first cake I make for a custom order and used a number of scrapbooking products to decorate it - I like mixing things up a bit and thought the paper flowers worked well with the ribbons and general feel of the cake... But see what you think...

I decorated the top with a rattle cube I made... 

Baby Inspiration - nappy cake, posie, card

Thought I'd share some of the pics of things I've made in the last little while as gifts for the 'new arrivals' and their parents..

I made this nappy cake for my nephew. It's made of rolled nappies, which were arranged into tiers and decorated with sock and singlet flowers. I used a face washer, muslin wrap and clothes to wrap each tier.

I was quite pleased when I found the giraffe baby booties, which I thought looked great on the giraffe's feet!

 Here's one of our baby cards...

The latest 'baby creation' has been sock posies.. When I gave this one to one of our friends who recently had a baby girl, at first she thought I gave her a bunch of fabric flowers, as she didn't realise that there were socks in the posie!!..

Fancy Packaging

Our friends' daughter recently had a birthday and I purchased a T-shirt for her. I wanted to pack it nicely, so I thought of putting it into a clear plastic cube box.

I folded the shirt to create a rectangle, which I then rolled into a tube. I placed this inside the box and put tissue paper in the middle to help it hold shape. I popped one of the TOMNI design flower hair clips on top of the shirt and put raffia around the box to hold it all together. I was really pleased with the result!