Our Spot: My Newest Little Sweet Hearts Photo Shoot!......Incredible!!!

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

My Newest Little Sweet Hearts Photo Shoot!......Incredible!!!

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11 comments:

Alyce Dribnak said...: Love them all!!! Your so lucky to have a photographer in your family! She does great work.
One of my fav's is "the great dane"; June 23, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Sara said...: Awww, so glad the great dane onesie made an appearance. Great photos, you look beautiful as usual!; June 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Sara said...: Oh man, I just went back and looked again and that nursery is absolutely A-MAZ-ING. One of the best I have ever seen.; June 23, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Heather said...: Amy,
How did you do the wall of the nursery with the giant squares, they are so cool!; June 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Brooke said...: Love the photos... what a darling baby boy, you look great and the nursery is fabulous! :); June 24, 2009 at 7:20 PM
Michelle said...: Amy they turned out so good! I love them!; June 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Vicki said...: Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!! You are very lucky to have a photographer in the family. You look amazing Amy, for just having a baby!; June 26, 2009 at 1:24 PM
Ambrose Ambush said...: WOW! your pics are incredible!! cutest family ever!; June 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Unknown said...: What, when did your hair get so long? It's gorgeous, and the pics are beautiful!; June 29, 2009 at 10:20 PM
cupcakefitz said...: Amy,
The one of you and Dane is the best. He is your mini-me in boy form!; June 30, 2009 at 9:28 PM
bledsoeblog said...: Your sister-in-law takes amazing pictures. Your nursery turned out so beautiful. It belongs in a magazine!; July 24, 2009 at 5:44 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.