Canuckian Crafting

I found these flowers on thefrugalcrafter Lindsay Weirich's channel. Here is the video here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg1x7rdkHY0 Here is my video. I used my cuttlebug to cut the circles just because I got a new die cut for it that does circles. The pack of 8 was around $2 USD from Aliexpress.com . So if I was going to do this video again, I would make the slits in the felt a whole lot shallower. and I probably wouldn't cut the felt to be such a wide strip. It would probably be fine being 2.75" wide (and then folded in two) and 11" (or 12") long. That would mean that you could get 3 per piece of felt. Here are the results: I am going to make the rose ones next. They will look so pretty together. Here is the video I am going to try for the rose felt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIILNFsLr8

 This card is kind of neat. I used the plastic part from a glue tape roll and put a dice in that. I glued it to a piece of cardstock and then put a black ring around it to give it a finished look. The concept of the dice is that my son rolls it and then looks up the dice roll on the list that is a pull out from the side. I think lots of us get many of these plastic bubbles from various goods. What I did is to scan the plastic bubble and then pixel traced it in Make-The-Cut (MTC). It will have an inner shape and the outer shape. The inner shape gets cut out of the middle of the card. The inner and outer shape get cut out of the contrasting colour. For the slide out part, I attached a piece of ribbon to the back of the pull out and then fed it through the left of the pocket. I did this because I didn't want the insert to come out all the way. The MTC file for the project is here:  https://www.dropbox.com/s/schkshtl5hz29an/Murdock_Birthday_share.mtc?dl=0 The SVG file f

We gave away bags filled with yummies at a Thanksgiving dinner we had at our church. I made these tags to go with them: We made 40 of the bags and 60 people showed up to share in the feast. And it was like the fish and the loaves. We expected 40/50 and enough food for 80 people showed up and we were able to feed another group the next day. SVG of the Canadian Thanksgiving tag MTC of the Canadian Thankgiving tag

You will need: Paper (pretty paper is essential) digital cutter (I have a zing but anything that takes an SVG file is great) laminator ( I am using a hot laminator which makes laminating just part of the project at a time easier) baby buttons and applicator (these are the snaps that you put on baby diapers)  2 tiny brads Lately I have been trying to memorize verses of scripture on my walks and I am making a box for all the ones I have memorized so that I can keep track and keep them fresh. I am going to resurrect a file from last year and see if I can remember how to put it together. I made this version last year for a group of ladies in an AA group. The front of the tiny index cards had a motivational saying that came from different AA pinterest boards and then the back had a verse from the bible that supported it or was in a similar vein. I included the files for these below (as well just in case you can use them). So I wanted to pick some awesome paper. But

I have a friend who was asking for a commercial oven for her birthday. Umm, I love you my dear, but my budget doesn't stretch that far. So I made her this and put a Starbucks gift card in it for her *addiction. I think to put the box together is fairly simple. Here is a diagram of where you glue.  The front of the oven tucks into the rest of the box. The control panel is attached by gluing the tiny tab to the top of the stove and then gluing the larger tab on the back of the oven. If you want you could also make a muffin holder, but I think with the standard sized muffins you would have to make the oven deeper to fit the cupcake in. Here are the files: SVG for the box, handle, oven mitt, burners SVG for pretty paper to cover box MTC file for whole project

These were quite fun to put together. As usual I didn't take a picture of the final project but what I really wanted to show you today is how to make the tassel. In order to make the tassel, you are going to start with 16 lengths of whatever string you are using. If you want a thicker tassel, use more lengths. Here I used kitchen twine. So the length of each piece of twine should be length of twine= (the length you want for the tassel)*2 + about 5" for the knot.  We are going to be following this knot type (it is called the Josephine knot): So here is what it looks like when you are doing it with a group of strings as opposed to just one. So to start you will split the pieces of twine into two piles (group A is the top one and group B is the bottom one): Then you will make a loop with group B: Then you will put group A under both parts of the loop of group B.  Then group A will go over top the right tail of group B. Then group A will go underneat