Guest Blogger - Easter Angel Craft from Christianity Cove

Today, we have Mary here from Christianity Cove with a great little craft to help the kiddos remember the meaning behind Easter. What a sweet idea!

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“Angel Who Rolled the Stone Away” Paperweight Easter Craft

The most important part of Easter is that Jesus arose! This craft will help childrenkeep in their hearts the image of the angel who met the people at the tomb to give them the good news!

Materials

§ Large garden stones, perhaps the size of a baseball, 1 for each child

Note: If stones aren’t feasible, similar sized lumps of play dough can be used, 1 for each child

§ Small-sized coffee filters, 2 for each child

§ Cotton balls, 2 for each child

§ Toothpicks, 2 for each child

§ Thin gold ribbon, 12” for each child

§ Yellow pipe cleaners, 2 for each child

§ Pencil

§ Markers

§ White play dough (even if you’re using real rocks) 1 small clump for each child, the size of a large marble

Preparation

1. If you pick rocks from your garden or a nearby pond, scrub them well so as not to fear getting Easter outfits soiled.

Instructions for students

1. Take one of the coffee filters and spread it out on the table.

2. Place the two cotton balls in the center.

3. Gather the filter fabric around the cotton balls and gather firmly beneath to make the angel’s head.

4. Tie the gold ribbon in a bow around the angel’s neck, then flounce out the filter skirt beneath.

5. Insert one toothpick under the skirt up into the cotton balls through the neck, then the second tooth pick. Spread them slightly like little legs.

6. To create the wings, fold the second coffee filter in half. Then pinch it in the middle. Wrap around the pinch the first piece of yellow pipe cleaner, leaving the ends the same length. Leave them dangling for now.

7. To create the halo, take the second piece of pipe cleaner and form one end into a circle around your pinky finger. Let the rest run straight down your finger to create an extension on which you can attach it to the angel’s neck.

8. Push the extension edge of the pipe cleaner down through the gold ribbon until the halo rests on the angel’s head.

9. There should be a 3-inch piece of straight pipe cleaner now sticking down into the angel’s dress.

10.Use the extension piece to wrap around the wings and keep them in place behind the angel.

11.To keep the bottom ends of the pipe cleaner from looking disorderly, wrap them around a pencil so they make circles like curling ribbon.

12.Write on the rock HE IS NOT HERE; HE IS RISEN.

13. Roll the small clump of play dough into the rock and stick it firmly on top.

14.Plant the little angel’s toothpick feet firmly into the play dough, and spread the skirt out around the rock.

Give the little angel to Mom or Dad as a paperweight!

Mary Kate Warner

Mary-Kate is a regular blogger at Christianity Cove ( http://www.christianitycove.com/).  You can often find her writing about Christian Parenting, Homeschool Teaching, Bible Study and Sunday School Activities, Faith and inspiring children to love God.  Follow her at @SundaySchoolGal  Facebook  Google+ & Pinterest

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Thanks, Mary! Mary also has a Mom Challenge going on to help encourage her readers (and herself) to be a more effective and Christ-like parent. What a neat idea! Go check out her blog!

Crafting for Baby - Personalized Wall Medallions from FTTDWYW

You guys are in for a treat today! Leigh has a super cute piece of wall art that is adorable in the nursery!

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Hi, Everybody! It's Leigh here from Fun Things To Do While You're Waiting! I'm the one on the left! Fun Things To Do While You're Waiting is lifestyle blog run by my way-back-highschool-bestie Coralie and me.

 

We talk about a little bit of everything on our blog: clean recipes, think-pieces, and DIY Lifehacks... to name a few. We also talk a lot about crafts. We are both lovers and artisans of an assortment of crafting mediums- from Appliques to Zippers... and everything in between. When Coralie signed us up to Guest Post for Someday Crafts "Crafting for Baby" series, we put our heads together about what craft we could share with y'all. The submission request was for an original/never-before published idea for a baby craft. A lot of previous baby crafts I had made (like the Star Trek: TNG Captain's Onesie) were variations on already published themes. But for the Someday Crafts audience, we wanted to do something really special. So, without further adieu, may I present a FTTDWYW original craft: Personalized Wall Medallions.

 

 

As Coralie was/is one of my closest friends, when she told me she was pregnant with her son, I knew I wanted to create something special for her and her baby. I wanted to do something of heirloom quality that could be used more than just once. As I had learned my lesson about never making hand-crafted baby clothes again, I searched the internet and Pinterest for ideas. I wanted something versatile that would grow with the baby.

I had recently finished a scrap-busting, decorative pillowcase project for our couch made by connecting yo-yos. If you aren't familiar with them, yo-yo's started as a popular quilting technique in the 1920's. There is a great tutorial for making yo-yo's here at prudentbaby.com. Although most quilters make uniformed-sized yo-yos, I found that I really liked the look of varying the size of the circular templates. Do you see how some of mine are larger in the photo above? Not only that, but I was also inspired by the blank canvas that was the BACK of the yo-yo that was disappearing from view when assembled traditionally.

See? Look at all that room on the back of that yo-yo! As I had recently taught myself the art of hand-embroidery by closely following Jenny Hart's amazing book Sublime Stitching- Embroidered Effects: Projects and Patterns to Inspire Your Stitching, the idea of merging the two crafts struck me as a super idea. My original concept was to make a baby quilt made of both plain and embroidered yo-yos. I went to my local fabric store and picked out several different fabrics that I thought would be versatile, fun, and perfect for a boy's room. I also used some left over fabric from dress shirts and khakis my boyfriend had outgrown because I love re-using things... almost to a compulsive level. Something I had learned from the above pillow project was that certain fabrics, although beautiful, do not make good yo-yos. So, choose your patterns thoughtfully. I played with various circle template sizes, enlisting everything from a 7-11 Big Gulp cup to a large salad bowl. For the embroidered pieces, I knew I wanted personalized information both about the baby and his parents. I researched fonts and animal patterns and hand-drew patterns with an water erasable fabric marking pen onto pieces of yo-yo fabric that had not been cut into circular templates yet. Once I had hooped, embroidered, and then unhooped the piece, I would then center the template over the embroidery pattern, cut, and then stitch into a yo-yo. Over the process of weeks, I stitched ALL OF THE YO-YOs and vowed I would never do another yo-yo project. As I began laying out the embroidered yo-yos to see how I wanted my quilt to shape up, I noticed that I actually really liked the organic way the yo-yos were forming around the embroidered pieces. I began hand stitching the yo-yo's together by inserting a threaded, knotted needle inside of the hole of the completed yo-yo exiting the yo-yo on the circle's rim. Using a hidden stitch, I began attaching yo-yo's around all of the embroidered medallions. As the pieces began to grow, I kind of grew to love the look of them on their own, not muddled together in a quilt. And since fabric, nursery wall art is a thing, my quilt became wall art and I couldn't be happier with stepping outside the crafting box. After connecting the yo-yos in the pattern to my liking, I stitched loops on the back of the pieces to make them easier to hang. For sake of anonymity, we have blurred out some of the personal information in the below pictures, but we think you can get the idea. What makes this project so versatile is that it can be made to suit any child. You can change the colors or the embroidery to what ever your heart desires. The options are limitless.

 

 

The above was the centerpiece of the collection. I embroidered the baby's name and birthday on the center yo-yo, and made two additional embroidered pieces: one of the state of Alabama, with a heart over Gulf Shores (where they reside), and another with the parents names, birthdays and wedding date "carved" into a tree.

For the other "medallions" as I began calling them, I stitched a cute, woodland fox, the Alabama state flag, and an alphabet sampler.

I mailed them to Coralie for Christmas (two months after the baby had been born, and loved what she did with them. In fact, she is the one who took most of these pictures! Despite me living in Southern California, and her living in Southern Alabama, our blog is marvelously collaborative!

Thanks for reading! And please come visit us as Fun Things To Do While You're Waiting!

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Oh my goodness! I'm loving the hand embroidery! I love that it's so personalized and I love all the prints. So fabulous! Thamks, Leigh.

Looking for other nursey décor ideas? Then don't forget to check out all of the other posts from our Crafting for Baby series and the Crafting for Baby Link Party. So many good ideas!!

Crafting for Baby - Baby Room Decor from Me & My Free Time

Someday Crafters!! Welcome back to the last week of the Crafting for Baby series. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am. So many good ideas and oodles of inspiration. Today, Terri from Me and My Free Time is here showing us how to make a simple piece of wall art for a nursery.

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Crafting for Baby - Décor for Baby's Room from Me and My Free Time

 

Hey everyone! My name is Terri from meandmyfreetime.com. I am so excited to be guest posting here at Someday Crafts. Today I have a super cute shadow box frame I made for some added room decoration to a baby's room. This would also make a great gift!

 

Supplies: Shadow Box Frame

2 colors of coordinating cardstock

Adhesive

Dimensionals or Foam Mounting Tape

Stamps ( or a printed image from your computer)

Die Cuts (optional)

 

 

First you will need to cut your cardstock. My frame is 8 x 8, so I started there. Here are my measurements:

 

Brown cardstock: 8x8, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2, 7x7, 6 1/2 x 6 1/2, 5x5, 5 1/2 x 5 1/2.

 

Green cardstock: 7 3/4 x 7 3/4, 7 1/4 x 7 1/4, 6 3/4 x 6 3/4, 6 1/4 x 6 1/4, 5 3/4 x 5 3/4, 5 1/4 x 5 1/4.

 

I used 6 pieces of each color, basically you'll start with the size of our frame and go down a 1/4 of an inch each time. Make sense? I hope so :) Then jut use your adhesive and attach all the pieces together arranging from largest to smallest.

 

Here's what it should look like when your finished.

 

 

Next I used my Big Shot and the Labels Collection Framelits and cut out 4 of them, 2 in each color. If you do not have any dies or a die cut machine you can easily do it without them by continuing to make squares.

 

 

Then you will stamp your image in the smallest shape. You could also just print an image from your computer, if you do not have any stamps.

 

 

Layer all of our die cuts together using dimensionals or foam mounting tape to give it some depth. Add your die cuts on top of your squares and your all done!

 

 

Now you can go make your own for your darlings room or make a few gifts. Until next time, keep creating!

 

 

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What a cute idea! I love that she showed us how to do with without a craft cutter. This can easily be done with stencils and it's just as cute!

 

Don't forget to check out all of the other posts from our Crafting for Baby series and the Crafting for Baby Link Party.

 

Crafting for Baby - Doily Collar Onesie from The Elephant of Suprise

 

We're back today with another fun project from Aimee at The Elephant of Surprise. Let's see what she's got for us...

 

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Hi, I'm Aimee. I love to throw a pretty party, create things for my kids, and make over spaces in my home. And all while staying within a starving student budget! Come see what I'm up to at The Elephant of Surprise!

I have two boys, but just for fun I thought I'd whip up a little girly project. I love Peter Pan collars. I love doilies. Put them together and what do you get? This simple diy onesie!

What you'll need for this project: a onesie, paint and fabric medium, foam brush, doilies, and a piece of cardboard.

Step 1: Insert a piece of cardboard where you'll be painting. You don't want the paint to leak through.

Step 2: Lay your doilies in position, and if you prefer, tape them down to your work surface (making sure not to cover any of the lace pattern).

Step 3: Sponge on the paint of your choice (mix your paint and fabric medium beforehand according to the instructions on the bottle).

And that's it! Pair with a pretty bright skirt or black leggings. Thanks so much for having me on Someday Crafts! 

 

 

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What a cute idea to dress up a plain jane onesie. I think it really adds some glamour!

 

Don't forget to check out all of the other posts from our Crafting for Baby series and the Crafting for Baby link party.

Crafting for Baby - Easy DIY Applique for Baby Clothes from Mommy Like Whoa

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Someday Crafters!! Berta from Mommy Like Whoa is here showing us how to make a personalized shirt for St. Patrick's Day. She even does it without a craft cutting machine (Cricut, Silhouette, etc)

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Hello Lovelies! I'm Berta and I blog over at Mommy Like Whoa! It's nice to meet you today! and pssst... Happy Saint Patrick's Day too! When my daughter Abbey was a baby, I loved making her awesome baby stuff. I would make things for hours, and then I would make more for my friends and family having kids as well. I went a little crazy with it. One of my favorite things to do, was applique. I still do it now, on bags, and shirts and pretty much anything I want to add a special touch to. It's super easy, super cheap and 100% customizable, which makes it AWESOME! Ever see an adorable shirt, and say "Oh man, I wish I had that shirt!", well now you can make it! And I'm going to show you how! All you need is; Pattern for your shirt (words, a picture, icon etc...) Fabric of your choice Wonder Under, Heat 'n' Bond or similar fusible webbing iron on backing Scissors Shirt/Onesie/Bag/Whatever Iron

That's it! And if you're a crafter like me, you probably have most of that laying around the house, but if you don't you can find ALL of it at Joann's or another Fabric store. Take your fabric and iron it nice and flat. Use the appropriate heat setting for whatever fabric you're using. Following the package directions for your fusible webbing, iron it onto the wrong side of your fabric. (That's the side WITHOUT the design) Let it cool.

Now on the other side of the backing is paper. It's very easy to write on it, draw on it, trace a pattern onto it etc. Since it's Saint Patrick's Day, I thought I would do something festive!

When tracing letters, or numbers or anything that has a "right way" and a "wrong way" make sure you flip the image, because since you're writing on the BACK of the fabric, it needs to be mirrored. I wrote "PINCH PROOF" and drew a little Shamrock in block letters, backwards, because I like that "homemade look", but if you have a paper cutting machine, you could use that and trace the letters out, or use a stencil. Once the fabric has cooled, trace your pattern onto the paper part of the fusible. Cut out with scissors.

Arrange your images onto the shirt, so you can plan where you want everything to go. Make sure you put a bit of parchment paper or something similar between the layers of fabric on the shirt, so you aren't fusing the shirt together by accident too!

Piece by piece, remove the paper backing and place your applique onto the shirt, ironing it into place by following the heat recommendations on the package, each brand is different so please make sure you check your specific directions first.

Once you've arranged and ironed down each piece, you can stop here, but if you're handy with a sewing machine, or with embroidery, you can always add some top stitching around the letters for extra "hold".

I recommend this especially if you're making something you might be washing a lot. If you're appliqueing a bag, you might be able to skip this step, but with clothes it really makes your effort worth it. And you're done! How cute is this little shirt! Now you know how to make your own iron-ons! Go on and applique your little hearts out!

Thanks for reading!

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What a cute idea! It's still early enough in the day that you could whip this up for later today, or save it for next year!

If you've missed any of the previous days in our Crafting for Baby series, you can easily catch up. You can also check out the Crafting for Baby Link Party!