Sweet Shoppe Designs – The Sweetest Digital Scrapbooking Site on the Web

Hello, It’s my turn (Andrea) to take over the blog for the day again. I am loving reading all the new daily blogposts and generally having a bit of a nose into everyone elses lives. Last month I told you I was planning a new craft room and today it is almost finished, just the finishing touches left to do now. We have built onto the back of our house, adding on a large conservatory which now has a dining table as well as comfy sofas and arm chairs – no television in here so if people want to watch television they have to go in the living room at the front of the house – and the room that leads into the conservatory which was a bedroom has had it’s window and wall removed so that it leads directly into the conservatory and is now the new craft room.

I have to say that I absolutley love our new rooms, they need pictures and photographs, a clock and all the stuff that makes a house a home but at the moment we are happy to just live with what we’ve got until we see just the right pieces to go into the rooms.  Our red sofa and armchairs are adding a nice splash of colour and at the moment we’ve kept the walls cream just like the rest of our house.

So, now that my craft room is at the stage where I can get in there and actually do some crafts I thought I would share my first craft project made at my new desk 🙂

I used Melissa Bennett’s Proud 2B American digital kit for the papers and elements and Dani Mogstad’s Scrappers Tools: For The Love of Banners for the banner template (I just made it bigger in Photoshop)

I started by creating the banner digitally in Photoshop

When I was happy with what I had I placed all the layers onto a new document the size of my printer paper

After printing I cut all the pieces out and glued the banner, star and wordart onto chipboard then cut out these shapes

I used my sewing machine to stitch around the edges of the three chipboard pieces. If you’ve never used your sewing machine with chipboard then you really should have a go it is very easy, just remember to go slowly and take care not to stitch too close to the edge. Sewing through paper and card will blunt your needle so you should keep a seperate needle for fabric/paper.

Next I flipped the banner over and added coordinating paper to the back to cover the back of my stitching and punched holes in the corners with a Cropodile

I cut out the seperate mini banner elements from Melissa’s kit and glued them to a length of bakers twine

I added twisted wire to the top of the banner to hang it up

A crystal swirl sticker added some bling and then I glued on the star and word art

Supplies:
Proud 2 B American digital kit – Melissa Bennett
Scrappers Tools: For The Love Of Banners – Dani Mogstad
Crystal swirl, bakers twine and ribbon – Ribbon Girl
Chipboard, glue and sewing machine

If you would like to own my 4th of July banner I am giving it away to someone who leaves a comment on this post. Just leave me a comment and I’ll do a random drawing on Wednesday and post it off to the winner – if you aren’t a member of the Sweet Shoppe Designs forum then I need to be able to contact you to get your address if you win

Love Andrea xx