Card Making - Cute But Very Simple Greeting Card

Hi guys!! I made a card the other day, and I thought I would show you it... it's extremely easy. :)


1) Start out with the colored paper you want the card to be. I am using black cardstock














2) Cut and fold the card the way you want it to be. I wanted mine to open vertical.















3) Measure the length of your card and cut a piece of cardstock in a contrasting color or a patterned paper.














4) Run a glue stick over your other paper.















5) Then glue the paper on to your card. I put it further down the bottom instead of directly in the middle














6) I used a punch that had several different flowers and cut it out of the patterned paper and the colored paper





























7) I started to layer the flowers, but I felt like it needed to have some more dimension.















8) I used some of these foam sticky squares.




























9) After sticking it all together, this is what I was left with.















10) Here's the finished results! Enjoy your card.














If you have any questions just let me know.

Abby :)

Crochet - Very Easy And Simple Crochet Heart

My mom sent me a link on how to crochet a heart. She found it on a blog called Little Birdie Secrets. Here is the post on the crochet heart. She made a video of it and she also put the written pattern below. I'm not going to show you how to crochet it, but here are some hearts that I did. They take about 2 minutes per heart (for me) :)































I also put them on some cards (I just made up my own design) but she has some more detailed ones... mine are just really simple, as that's usually how my mind works ;)















Here's a close-up on the bigger card... my mom recently bought some new scrap booking, or in my case card making, paper and I thought this was really cute paper for Valentine's Day.















I also sewed a button on the middle of this heart. (These smaller cards open horizontally, not vertically.)















Of course they are blank until Valentine's Day gets here!!















Let me know if you have nay questions :)

Abby

FINALLY what I made my family for Christmas!

Hey guys! So FINALLY I am going to post what I made my family for Christmas! I thought it would be a good idea to post it before next Christmas, don't you think? ;) Haha, anyway this has been on my mind... since... well since Christmas! Lol, but I just never did it, and I am sorry for that!!

Anyway, I am going to start with my little sister Amelia. She's 4 years old :)

I made her 2 American Girl Doll skirts. She doesn't have an American Girl Doll, just the Bitty Baby, but she has 2 dolls that are the same size,
just not the American Girl brand... but the skirts I made will fit both Bitty Baby and the 18" doll.


Since she is in the the Princess type stuff, I made her this doll skirt...














...and this one. The skirt has glitter on it, and it is more pink, but the camera doesn't pick that up real well.















Also, I made her these pajama pants for her doll.














I also made her this purple scarf that I crocheted. (A tutorial on this scarf will be coming soon if you want... they are extremely easy and they only take about 2 hours to make! :) I also made me one)















Here's a close-up on the scarf.















I also got her a pack of gum... both my little sisters LOVE gum :)

Ok, on to my other little sister who is 7 years old.

She has Felicity, the American Girl Doll, and the Bitty Baby. I made her some of these pajama pants for her doll also. (I also made my doll some... and several other pants, skirts, shorts.... and a bunch of stuff! lol! Maybe I will show you some of those sometime... if you want)














And I made her this pink plaid skirt. I thought she might like something a little more "grown-up" if you know what I mean :)














And I made her this hot pink skirt, also.















I also made her this multi-colored scarf.






























I also got her a pack of gum, too.

Alright, now for my mom.

I made her a scarf, also. I chose to do a "tanish" color for hers. My mom thought she looked bad at the moment (of course, she looked beautiful, and I have no idea what she was talking about!) so I had to model for hers :)















I also made her a pot scrubbie out of tulle fabric. She had said she wanted one a while back because they lasted longer than the store bought ones. I'm not sure if this one will work... but I thought I would try it!















Here's how thick it is.















OH, and I was going to show you something that my mom made. My little sister asked for a cloak that was Felicity's from the American Girl store. Unfortunately, it was like $25. So, my mom decided to make her own! She made 2, one for each of my little sisters. She had a patterns, but it was really hard, so she used the pieces and made up her own.

At American Girl Felicity's cloak was red, so my mom made it out of red fleece.














And she made Amelia's out of white fleece.















Here's a close-up on the bow. It snaps right behind the bow, so it is easy to take on and off.














Aren't they absolutely beautiful!! They look MUCH better than the one at American Girl! When the girls opened their gifts, I told them that my mom made it, and they were like "No she didn't Abby. Stop tricking us!" Lol! They wouldn't believe that my mom made it until my mom told them. Lol! I thought they were really gorgeous!


I had no idea what to make my dad and older brother, so I cheated and bought them something! Haha! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this post! Here's one more pic of me that I got today :)















If you want, leave a comment below :) Thanks for reading!!

Abby

Crochet - How to crochet a snoflake... very easy

I found a pattern online on how to crochet a snowflake. The pattern was a little hard to follow, so I just kinda made it my own a little bit. But I can't take the credit, because I just changed it a smidge. Its very easy and only takes about 5 minutes to make :)

1) Make a slip knot and put it on your crochet hook.















2) Chain 3 and join with a slip st to form a circle. Do 6 sc in the circle.
















5) Chain 5 (counts as your first dc, ch 2) *dc in next sc, ch 2; repeat from *5 more times; join with slip st in the first ch of your ch 5.















6) Ch 1, sc in same st as joining. *2 dc, ch 3, 2 dc in next ch-2 space sc in dc space; repeat from* around; join with slip st in first sc. You can stop here if you want, or you can keep going.















7) *Ch 4. Sc, ch 3, sc, ch 5, sc, ch 3, sc in next ch-3 space, ch 4, slip st in the stitch that is right before the ch-3 space. Repeat from *around. Once you've gone around the whole thing, DON'T ch 4 after you've done the sc's and ch's, instead slip st in the hole I am pointing to in the picture.





























8) Ch 10 and slip st in the hole I was pointing to in the picture above this.















9) Fasten off and weave in ends.















10) Hang it up on the tree!















You can experiment with different size hooks. On the left is an I hook and on the right is a H hook. Obviously the snowflake with the I hook is larger.
















Hope you enjoyed! Let me know if you tried this and how it turned out. If you have any questions, just leave a comment below. Thanks for reading!

New blog

Ok, so I went ahead and made a new blog... just for nails. This is the web address:

www.simplenaildesigns.blogspot.com

I also got asked to do some hair styles sometime, but I dunno.. haha! Ok, I have a TON of new requests that my friend told me over the phone.... so they will be coming on that blog. I am super excited about my new blog, and once sickness and the holidays are over, I will blog more. I have been doing my nails all the time, I just didn't video it. So I can find the time to do my nails, I am just a slacker on videoing it and editing it and stuff.

A Winter Must Have: Almost No Sew Scarf

I am in a G.I.R.l.S. Club (you can read about that on my other blog). We always have a "Secret Santa" where each girl picks another girl without telling anyone else but her mom. And then you buy her a gift and we give them on a certain day and we have a big party with food, cake and a little bible study. It is a lot of fun. This year we are having it at our house, and we have to hand make the gift instead of buy a gift. The party is in almost a week, and I didn't even decide what I was making her in till today. I am making her something else to go with it, but this is what I made her...















My mom and I went to Joann's Fabrics and bought this really cut striped pink and green fabric. We stole the idea at this blog. We changed it by cutting the strips half of an inch, so they weren't and thick, making it more like fringe. Her's lied more flat. You can cut the strips thicker and it would end up like hers, for you can cut them skinnier and it will end up like mine. I personally like the fringe, but that's just what I like. It is SUPER easy, and you barely sew at all. I measured and drew a line where I was going to cut, so it took even longer, but it made it nicer than if I would have just guessed. Go check out her blog, because its super cut and easy, and it doesn't take that long. Here are a few ways I like to wear it...


Just open and around my neck:















The classic "around the neck"
















And this one is probably my mom and I's favs... it goes around your neck, and then tied.















And here's another one: put it on your neck, then wrap it a
round again...














So, I won't be doing a tutorial on this, because it wasn't my pattern, but it is super simple, so go check her blog out if you haven't already.

BONUS:
Here is a little scarf trick I will show you... not how to do it, but I will show you what it is.

ANOTHER blog?!

Ok, so I was thinking I might make another blog just for nail tutorials and nail stuff.... I'm not sure though. 3 blogs is kinda something that is hard to commit to (for me, anyway) but I do really enjoy doing them, and it just seems kind of weird posting so many on my craft blog. So.... I am also trying to think of a name. Any ideas? I might do a name related to nails, but I'm not sure. I am going to say right now that I will not post on that blog as often as I do on this one and my other one.... I know, I have been very busy (Thanksgiving we had/have family over to help with my grandma (you can read about that on my other blog) but they also came to see everybody.) They are still here, so it is still busy but it is slowing down. Ok now back to what I was actually posting about... my new blog. I am still deciding on weather I should make one or not, but I decided to go ahead and post that I might. Alright, I think that's it.... oh, and Merry Christmas!