Neck Pillows

I made neck pillows for everyone in my family for christmas!

I used pattern 3283 from Kwik Sew

DIY Magazine Picture Frame

I used tons of old magazine pages for this.  It took tape and hot glue gun to keep them rolled up! I placed the picture down on a piece of card stock paper and glued rolled up magazine pages around it.  Mod Podge was the finishing touch on top of the rolled up magazines.  Better explanation with more pictures coming soon!

Christmas Tags

These are the Christmas tags I made with my cricut!

I purchased the digital Very Merry Tags Seasonal Cartridge from the cricut website and I was able to use it immediately. 

First you have to cut out the top layer piece with one color of paper.  

Then, you have to cut out the bottom layer piece.  I chose white for this piece.  

I made red ones too!

I used a glue stick to glue the white piece on.  

Burlap Chevron Pillow

I combined many different ideas from Pinterest to make this pillow.

First I made a heart pattern the way I wanted it to look.  I just drew one on a piece of white paper.  I cut it out then traced it onto the three pieces of fabrics using a sharpie to make the three different colored hearts.  

This is the embroidery floss I used to stitch the hearts onto the strip of burlap.  I used a large needle to do this.  Those are the three jewels that will be going into the center of the hearts.  

I only used a tiny piece of this strip of burlap.  

I pinned each heart down onto the burlap as I stitched them on with the string.  I doubled the string when i stitched it to give it a thicker look.  There is a big knot on the bad side.  The plain burlap is not attached to the chevron burlap here.  I just worked on top of it.  Just stitch over under over under all the way around the heart.  

After all three hearts were stitched on, I added the jewels to the center of each heart.  I did this using the embroidery floss again for a stronger hold.  These jewels have loops to sew through.  

I tied knots on the bad side to hold the string in place.  After everything was in place, I went to my sewing machine and stitched this piece of burlap right on top of the chevron burlap because it was fraying pretty badly.  Then, I went back and stitched big stitches with the orange embroidery floss and the large needle around the rectangle burlap as you can see it in the finished pillow.  This orange string doesn't really hold it in place, I just wanted to add a little extra to it!

The bows don't hold anything in place either, I just added them to make it cuter! All I did was tie a knot around the jewel with an extra piece of string.  After the knot, I added a dab of fabric glue then tied it into a bow.  The glue will keep the bows from coming out when you tug on the strings that hang down.