Felt Bag

Something different today - no paper involved!  When I was in Florida last month I came back with a whole hoard of goodies - I couldn't actually fit everything in my suitcase and ended up mailing a package home.  One of the goodies was this lovely felt bag.  It was given to me by my friend Kymberlee (The Paper Midwife) - well actually it was from her mum.

I couldn't wait to get it home and start playing with it, but what to do HTV? Rhinestones?  Finally I settled on using some of the mass quantities of felt I'd been given (also courtesy of Kymberlee's mum.)  As the Silhouette does not cut felt (unless someone tells me otherwise) I had to find another method (and no I do not do well cutting out mass quantities with scissors.)  So I turned to one of my Sizzix dies and came up with this.

I cut the leaves freehand and sewed the swirls by hand (as you can tell I AM NOT MUCH OF A SEAMSTRESS.)  Here is a close-up of one of the flowers.

Overall I pretty pleased with the way it turned out - and it's fun once in a while to get out of your 'comfort zone'.

Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle