Hand Stamped Sentiments #120 - Anything BUT A Card

This week over at Hand Stamped Sentiments, we've stepped completely out of the box with an 'anything BUT a card challenge'

Once I had the felt, thread, needles, scissors, buttons, SU! goodies and hot glue gun out, you obviously can see that I couldn't stop with just ONE piece of wearable art! My lovely daughter happily modeled each piece for me and couldn't WAIT to wear them all to school, although I had to ask her to wear just one and not ALL at once, haha!

The ribbon, pearl center, and crocheted flowers are all SU! although I'm sure retired...

I can't keep track anymore! 

If you're feeling like you'd like to step out of the box we'd love to have you play along over at Hand Stamped Sentiments. Come check out what the design team has whipped up this week too!

HSS #91 - Color Challenge

We've got a cozy color scheme this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments...Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Wild Wasabi and Very Vanilla.

 I've been eyeing those cool "door" cards for quite some time now and finally put one together myself. Isn't that wreath fabulous?! I'm on a bit of a felt kick lately since my Pinterest inspired wreath and wanted to create a smaller version for my card, so I made these sweet felt flowers in a mini version. I wanted the leaves to stand out, so I punched a scrap of Wild Wasabi with my 5-Petal Flower punch and snipped off the sections I wanted to keep. I'm a sucker for LOTS of Cherry Cobbler around the holidays, so my Real Red was pulled into the card as the door kick plate, where I added a Season's Greetings Rub On sentiment. 

Can't wait to see all of your fabulous creations, put some tunes on your ipod and jingle your way over to Hand Stamped Sentiments to play this week!

SU! products used:

Paper - Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Real Red, Wild Wasabi

Accessories - Stitched Felt Wreath, retired Season of Cheer rub on

Punch - 5-Petal Flower

Pinterest inspired Wreath

My new obsession with Pinterest has actually caused me to be even MORE productive if you can believe it! I made this sweet yarn wrapped wreath, felt flowers included, by checking out this fab tutorial HERE. Only one blister was had and I LOVE the results, the best part is whenever I see this wreath, I can proudly say, "I made that!" which I've been doing over and over again in my head, hehe...

 (a close up shot of the felt flowers and leaves)

I'm entering my DIY fall colored wreath in the following challenges this week and hopefully I'll inspire others to pull out their own yarn and felt as well!

The Shabby Tea Room

is asking their readers to create a "Homespun Fall" themed project using the above photo as inspiration. I think I took the homeSPUN quite literally since I spun my yarn, around and around and around my wreath!

The Paper Players
are hosting an "Anything Goes" challenge this week and our projects are to contain a fall element.

I've also linked my little wreath over at the Fall Pinterest Challenge at Young House Love and you can check out Sherry's cool Pinterest inspired ornaments, 38, to be exact. Also Katie, Ana & Erin have some awesome projects to check out as well as the rest of the Young House Love followers who have linked all of their lovely creations!

Happy Fall Y'ALL!