Category Archives: Felt

Upcycled Welcome Sign Using an Old Sign

Welcome Signs for front doors are very popular right now and this adorable upcycled welcome sign is perfect on my door! I’m joining some of my favorite crafters for the 9th edition of Creative Crafts – Recycled Crafts Edition to create upcycled crafts. I made this sign from a sign that I recently took down from my craft room.

Materials:

An old sign
Welcome cut out that I cut on my Glowforge and then painted black
9″ x 12″ craft cut of Kunin Felt® Classicfelt: (1) Peacock, (1) Apple Green
Acrylic Paint
E6000 glue
Paint Brush
Scissors

How I made it:

I started by painting my sign. I picked this bright yellow paint from DecoArt. Bright colors are just making me so happy lately! Before painting, I pulled the wire up front the front so that I didn’t paint the little curls in the ends. I ended up having to do three coats of paint to get it covered to my liking.

Next, I made felt flowers. There are plenty of options for making felt flowers but these are the ones I picked. The first one I cut a circle from the blue felt and then cut it to create a spiral. I then wrapped it from the center outward, gluing it in place as I went. The second flower I cut a long strip of the blue felt, folded it in half and glued it on the ends and along the edges. Using my scissors, I cut short slits in the folded side, making sure not to cut all the way to the edge of the glued side. I then rolled it up, gluing it as I rolled. I cut leaves from the green felt.

Once everything was ready, it was time to glue everything into place using the E6000. You can use any glue, but E6000 is my favorite glue!

Once the glue was dry, it was ready to hang up on my front door! I love how it turned out! I hope you do too!

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Weighted Desk Sitter

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I’ve been really into making desk or shelf sitters lately, especially if it’s words of wisdom or kindness or a word of the year and these weighted desk sitters are perfect!. I created these two desk sitters, one for business and one for fun using Fairfield World’s Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®! I can even use the one for business at vendor events by sitting it on my table; that way everyone will know how to find me on social media! They can even be placed on a shelf!

Materials used:

Fairfield World Poly-fil® Poly-Pellets®
Fairfield World Poly-fil® Fiber Fill
Cutting mat, ruler and rotary cutting tool
Kunin Felt Premium felt 12″x18″ craft cut: Olive, Candy Pink, Orchid
Kunin Felt Classic felt 9″x12″ craft cut: White, Minty, Brilliant Blue
Scissors
Fabric Glue
Sewing Machine and thread
Pins

How I made it:

Step 1: Cut the pieces needed to create the boxes. Two for the front and back, two for the sides and two for the top and bottom. You can make the box any size that you’d like.

Step 2: Using pins, pin the pieces together at the edges. For the green one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the back. For the pink one, I pinned all of the pieces together except for the sides.

Step 3: Sew the pieces together. I did my stitches on the outside. You could do the stitches on the inside and then turn it right side out after you have stitched it. A two inch gap needs to be left opened so that it can be filled with the poly-pellets® and fiber fill.

Step 4: Once all of the sides are sewn, except for the 2 inch opening, pour the Poly-Pellets® into the opening. I filled it about half way.

Step 5: I filled the rest of box with Poly-fil Fiber Fill. I used the handy little stuffing tool to push the Fiber Fill to the sides and corners.

Step 6: Once it is stuffed to liking, the two inch gap gets sewn closed.

Step 7: Using either scissors or a dye cutting machine, cut letters to put on the box. I used my Glowforge laser to easily cut my letters. TIP: You can print out your letters on printer paper, cut them out and use them as templates for your felt.

Step 8: Use Fabric or Felt Glue to adhere the letters to the box and then let it dry flat.

When it’s completely dry, put it on your desk or a shelf and enjoy!

Be Kind A Sweet Berry Designs Desk Sitter

Hope you liked this little tutorial on how to make a felt desk sitter filled with Poly-pellets®!

Felt Rainbow Ornament featuring Fairfield World Poly-fil

Simple USA Banner

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Craft Lightning is here and the theme this time is Patriotic! I’ve created this super simple USA banner that can be left as is or it can be jazzed up with whatever decorations you’d like!

Materials:

Kunin Felt: Red, White and Blue
Scissors
A wooden dowel
Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue Stick

How I made it:

With a 9″ x 12″ piece of blue felt, fold it over a wooden dowel and glue it done on the ends.

Using scissors, cut the letters USA from the red and white felt. Glue them in place on the front of the banner.

Tie a piece of ribbon to the dowel on each side of the banner.

Now it’s ready to hang up! You can hang it on the wall or on your front door!

I hope you like this super simple USA banner.

You can see other Craft Lightning Patriotic projects by clicking on the image below!

Until next time……

For The Love of Coffee Felt Coffee Cozy

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It’s Craft Lightning time again and this one is using felt! I absolutely LOVE felt. I’m even on the Kunin Felt Design Team and use felt frequently!!!! I just recently made a felt coffee gift card holder with a coffee cup on it and I thought that same coffee cup would be super cute on a coffee cozy. With that, I made a For The Love of Coffee Felt Coffee Cozy!!! Check it out!

Materials Needed:

9″ x 12″ craft cut of Kunin Coordinates Felt White Dot on Lagoon
9″ x 12″ craft cut of Kunin Classic Felt in White and Red
9″ x 12″ craft cut of Kunin Corduroy Felt in Sandstone and Charcoal
Coffee Cozy Pattern
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue Sticks
Velcro

How I made it:

1. Print out the pattern and cut the pieces out.

2. Cut the felt pieces out using the pattern pieces.

3. Using your hot glue gun and hot glue stick glue the coffee cup together and then glue it to the middle of the cozy.

4. Using a coffee cup, wrap the cozy around the cup to determine where your velcro pieces need to go. Attach the velcro to the front of one end of the cozy and the other piece to the back of the other end.

5. Place the cozy around your favorite cup and enjoy!!!

Hope you enjoyed this coffee cozy tutorial. With the weather being so cold, I’ve been really enjoying coffee! Now I have this adorable little For The Love of Coffee Felt Coffee Cozy!

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Until next time……

Christmas Countdown Banner

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It’s Holiday Craft Lightning time! Can you believe it’s time to start thinking about Christmas?!?!?! For this Craft Lightning, I decided to make a quick and fun Christmas Countdown Banner. The kids love counting down the days until Christmas! Me, I love counting down the days that I have left to shop!!!!

Materials:
12” x 18” craft cut of Kunin Premiumfelt™ (1) Smoke
9” x 12” craft cut of Kunin Corduroy™ (1) Pirate Green
9” x 12” craft cut of Kunin ClassicFelt™ (1) Yellow, (1) Red, (1) Royal Blue, (1) Fuchsia
Wooden Rod
Ribbon
Hot Glue Gun and Hot Glue
Sharpie or any marker
Tulip Slick Dimensional Fabric Paint
Scissors
Velcro pieces that have the hooks

First, cut out your tree, the ornaments and a star. I folded my green felt in half and just freehand drew a tree. I cut the ornaments and the star freehand. You could definitely make a pattern for it. I wasn’t overly concerned about my ornaments being round.

2. I cut up velcro dots and squares to go onto the back of the ornaments and star. I then hot glued them to the back of the dots.

3. Add numbers to the dots. I put 25 on my star, so that the star gets put on the tree first!!!! You could do it the opposite way and put the number 1 on the star so that it gets put on last!

3. Position your wooden rod on the backside of the banner, fold over the felt and then hot glue the flap down on the backside.

4. Using the Tulip Slick, write the works “Days until Christmas!” at the top, making sure you leave room for the tree and star!

This is super fun for the kids and they can help out as well! You could let them cut our the ornaments!

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Until next time……

Mother’s Day Flower Bookmark

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It’s time for Craft Lightning again! I love quick and easy crafts and there are some great ones that can be done in 15 minutes or less. The theme of this Craft Lightning is Mother’s Day! As a mother, I love getting little handmade gifts from my boys.

For my Craft Lightning craft, I did a Mother’s Day Flower Bookmark using Eileen Hull’s Pansy Flower die (which I am obsessed with) and Kunin Felt!

Materials Used:

12” x 18” craft cut of Kunin Premiumfelt™ (1) Violet Sky, (1) Olive, (1) Candy Pink
Ellison/Sizzix Die Cut Machine with cutting pads
Eileen Hull’s Pansy Flower and Leaf dies from Sizzix
Hot Glue Gun and Glue Stick
Popsicle Stick
Buttons

How to make it:

Cut your felt pieces using the Sizzix/Ellison die cutting machine, cutting pads and the flower and leaf dies.

Using a hot glue gun, layer the flower petals and glue them together in the center.

Glue the leaves to the back of the completed flower.

Glue the popsicle stick to the back of the flower.

Glue a button to the center of the flower.

Using a marker, write a little note on the popsicle stick.

Now you have a quick and easy Mother’s Day gift!

I hope you liked my Mother’s Day Flower Bookmark!

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Until next time………

Kunin Felt Welcome Banner

Kunin Felt Love Banner

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It’s time for the Valentine’s Day Craft Lightning series! And since I’m obsessed with banners lately, this was an easy one for me! It really takes less than 15 minute and even the kids can help out with it.

Materials needed:
Sizzix Cutting Machine (I use a Big Shot)
Kunin Felt
Dies:

Felt Glue (I use Beacon’s)
Jute Rope
Clothespins (I like the medium sized ones)

Step 1: Using the Big Shot machine and dies, I cut all of my pieces. Lori Whitlock’s Banner die is my favorite die ever, especially with the banner craze that I have right now!!!! I also love Laura Kelly’s Lemonade Alphabet! The Sizzix Wavy Frame is so versatile! I cut the frame out in two different felt colors.

Step 2: Lay your design out. At first, I wasn’t going to add the inside of the frame piece, but then I decide to. I like it! Once you have it laid out the way you want it, glue it all down. I glued the frames down first and then added the letters.

Step 3: Let it dry and then add it to your jute rope using clothes pins. Then hang it up! Another option is to cut small cuts into the top of your felt banner and then slide it onto the jute rope. I like the clothespins, simply for the fact that I like to make banners for different occasions and I can just switch them out! I love to use Command Strips to hang up my banners. They are easy to remove and you can put them wherever you want!

I hope you like this adorable LOVE banner made from Kunin Felt.

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Easter Egg Place Mat

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Easter is right around the corner, as in this upcoming weekend! Everyone will be sitting down to have an Easter meal with the family! Why not brighten up the table with an Easter Egg Place Mat! This one is made with Kunin Felt!

Materials needed:
Bright colored Felt (Kunin is my brand of choice! I used Eco-fi Plus for the mat and ClassicFelt for the eggs and grass)
Scissors
Sewing Machine
Thread

First, I cut several pieces of felt that were about 6in x 2in. Then, I cut little strips to use as the decorations on the eggs. I made some zigzag, some curvy and some straight.

Once I had them all laid out, I sewed the strips onto the 6in x 2 in pieces using my sewing machine. Then, I cut out the egg shapes. Once they were cut, I placed them on my Eco-fi Plus piece of Felt and then sewed them down.

With my green felt, I cut strips to use as grass. I snipped the sides different lengths and then rounded the edges. Using the sewing machine, I sewed down the grass. I sewed a rectangle along the bottom of the grass, so that the fringe would move. Once my eggs and grass were all sewn on, I did a decorative stitch around the outside of the mat.

This was a really simple project. Perfect for beginners! The kids will love it!
I have attached an Easter Word Search! If you’d like to do it, Click HERE and print!

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Until next time…….