Our Spot: DCB

Saturday, June 6, 2009

DCB

10 comments:

Alyce Dribnak said...: Ok, I was so wrong. What a cute little family you have. The 3 musketeers! Let me know when things settle down and I'll swing by for a visit.; June 6, 2009 at 9:55 AM
***Julia C. Greenfield Vanikiotis*** said...: Aww just look at him - what a sweetie pie!! Now you HAVE to let me do some newborn/family pics!! Love you guys and we hope youre doing well!! Congrats!!; June 6, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Cami said...: Congrats! So glad he is finaly here.; June 6, 2009 at 12:51 PM
Courtney said...: Congratulations Amy and Lans. We're so happy for you!; June 6, 2009 at 2:59 PM
kg said...: Congratulations, what another cutie!; June 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM
April said...: YEAH!!! I'm so excited for you all. Beautiful Baby!!; June 7, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Ambrose Ambush said...: Oh My, He's a doll! Thank goodness your hair was done in time!!!congrats to you and your fam!; June 7, 2009 at 9:17 PM
The Boys Club plus a girl! said...: Congratulations to all of you! What wonderful adventures you will have to tell! Catch up on your sleep when you can! We miss you guys!; June 8, 2009 at 7:05 AM
TamBaum said...: Congratulations! Glad he got here sooner than later. Guess that means I better get to work on your announcement...; June 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM
cupcakefitz said...: I didn't even know that he was here! I'm glat that I checked your blog! Congrats! he looks just like you, Amy.; June 9, 2009 at 10:55 PM

Spotlights

Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.