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Oh, Christmas Tree...

and drum roll, please......

This is the gift Gayla received at our Christmas party which was created by another one of our friends and fellow stamping buddies, April Schoenberg.

 

Didn't she do a great job!  The pillow is made with the Deck the Halls fabric and the SU! Scallop Square Big Shot die.  It is made just like all those fabric bags you have seen over the last year.  The Christmas tree in the center is made using the Pennant die.  Notice, there is even a brown tree trunk made with Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon.  The finished pillow measures about 10-1/2" square.  She washed all the square before stuffing to give it that old, vintage look - love it.

I'm so happy that I was fortunate enough to get your beauitful creation and you did a beautiful sewing job, April!

Gayla

Let is Sew! Let it Sew! Let it Sew!

It's time for you all to see another totally awesome project that was made by our good friend, Diane Noble, as one of the gifts for our Christmas party.

If you love fabric and sewing you are going to LOVE this!

 
If this cute sewing bag isn't enough, check out the coordinating gift bag.

And now for a peek inside....

 

Can you see...let us just tell you what all was in there.  A matching pin cushion that was attached to the bottom of the bag with velcro, thread, needles in a matchbook style holder (which she made).  We all want one!  What a fun way to keep all those sewing essentials organized and handy.

Stay tuned for a few more ideas.  Melissa and Gayla

Mitten, Mitten, Who's got the Mitten?

 
Believe it or not, it's time to start decorating for the holidays.  So, why not start with these!!

 

A red one for you and a ....

 
cream one for me.  These mittens were made using the template found here(View this photo) and stuffed with a little batting.  The mittens were hand-sewn using a blanket-stitch but you could easily use a sewing machine. They have been embellished with glitter, ribbon, buttons, bells, whatever you have and love.  You can make these any size.

These would be adorable on a tree OR added to a package or gift bag!  You still have a few days...get started soon!!  Melissa and Gayla

 

 

Royal Blog Tour & Morning Cup

Welcome to the Royal Blog Tour on MeGa Stampin' Studio.  We are featuring the Stampin' Up! stamp set, Morning Cup.  We have also incorporated the coordinating wheel, Take a Sip.  We have created an ensemble of fun gifts or decor ideas that would be great for your kitchen, a gift for a girlfriend, etc. 

The first gift or decor idea is this 6" x 6" frame that we have embellished with bottle caps, Designer Series Paper, buttons and cut out coffee cups.  We printed a fun quote onto Very Vanilla card stock, layered with coordinating card stock.  Very fun and quite easy to coordinate with any favorite color scheme.

 

Next up is our set of four coasters.  These are made with the regular 4" square coasters, covered with Very Vanilla card stock, sponged and embellished with stamps from the Morning Cup stamp set.  We actually enlarged the stamps and ran our Designer Series Paper (DSP) through the printer so we could paper piece each stamp.

 

Coffee cozies are all the rage so we created one with felt.  We used the enlarged coffee cup as a pattern to cut felt cups and hearts.  The scallop trim was made with felt cut from the Stampin' Up! exclusive Big Shot die, Tasteful Trim.  Notice our cup is sitting on another coaster that was decorated with the original stamps, colored and sponged.

 

For our miniature tree (perfect for the kitchen or a desk), we created coffee-themed ornaments.  All the stamped images were stamped or layered on Very Vanilla card stock. Some were colored and some were paper pieced.  We covered these with acrylic pieces. We added small decorated tea-dyed tags.  Notice they are attached with mini clothes pins!

 

Last, we stamped directly on to a tea-dyed tea towel.   This could be done for a whole set of matching towels, napkins or we actually put one around the base of our tree as a tree skirt!  We did stamp on the towel with permanent ink.

Add a fun coffee/tea inspired card and any or all of these projects would be an adorable gift.  Please check back after the blog tour for a few more details!

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be sure to leave us a comment as this will automatically enter you into the drawing for our blog candy.  Later we will show you everything we are giving away in our blog candy BUT we will tease you with one of the items - a felt coffee cozy!!!  Don't forget to leave your email address so we can contact the winner after the tour. 

 

MeGa Team - Melissa and Gayla 

Take 2 Tuesday - Spooky Spider Gift Tote

 

This little gift tote is the exact size of last week's tote, BUT we did not use the side pieces.  This is perfect for a gift card.

 
The tote is made from purple felt and blanket stitched by hand in black.  Yes, it was a little time consuming and you could definitely use a machine but we love the look.  Even the black "spider thread" is black embroidery floss, hand-stitched.

 
The spider is made using the Big Shot Circles #2 die.  We took 2 circles from black felt and glued eight legs between them.  Our legs are made with Baker's twine.  And, of course, who could resist googlie eyes!

 
Supplies:

• Felt - Black and Purple
• Big Shot Circle #2 die
• Other - Baker's twine, googlie eyes, black embroidery floss, fabric glue

 

If you haven't purchased this tutorial and would like to, just use the Paypal button below and we'll send you the tutorial within 24-48 hours of receiving your $3.95 payment.  Here is the original post for more details.

Take 2 Tuesday - Candy Corn Tote

 
This is Take 2 Tuesday #2 for our Gift Tote tutorial.  Last week we told you that you might not recognize some of our new ideas as the same pattern.  This candy corn tote is one of them.  We sewed the three colors of felt together and then cut out the pattern.  We also shrank the pattern for this tote.  That is one great way to change up the pattern - decrease or increase the size.  The inside is lined with white felt.  We're sure you could use fabric glue or hand stitch this small tote, but we have been wanting to use our sewing machines a little more so.......................

 
The original tote pattern measures about 6" tall (does NOT include the handles) and this reduced size is about 3-1/2" tall.   We filled our festive tote with a cello bag full of fun Halloween mix.

 

Here is the recipe for this yummy treat!  This can be made for any holiday by just changing the color of "embellishments".

Halloween Chex Mix (from the Chex website)

• 9 c. Rice Chex cereal
• 1 c. white vanilla baking chips
• 1/2 c. peanut butter
• 1/4 c. butter
• 3/4 c. powdered sugar
• 1/2 c. orange, yellow and brown M&Ms
• 1/4 c. orange, yellow and brown sprinkles

Place cereal in a large bowl.  In a small microwavable bowl, melt vanilla chips, peanut butter and butter on High 1 to 1-1/2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth.  Pour over cereal, stirring until evenly coated.

Place half of the cereal mixture in a 1-gallon ziploc bag.  Add powdered sugar.   Seal bag and shake until well-coated.  Spread on waxed paper to cool.

Meanwhile stir M&Ms and sprinkle into remaining half of cereal mixture.  Spread on waxed paper to cool.

To serve, mix both cereal mixtures together.  Store in airtight container.

 

 

The Gift Tote tutorial is available for $3.95 and can be purchased by using the Paypal button below.  If you would like to see the original tutorial, go here. 

 

Let us know if you have any questions.  Be sure to check back next Tuesday to see what we do next.

MeGa Team - Melissa and Gayla

Take 2 Tuesday - Candy Cane Christmas Cupcake

Take 2 Tuesday - Candy Cane Christmas Cupcake

Here is our last cupcake "remake" for September.  While these cupcakes are designed to be pin cushions, there is no reason you couldn't just make these for decorations or party favors.  Who wouldn't love to have this sitting by their place setting at a holiday, birthday, graduation, etc. party.  Any color theme works.

This fun cupcake was made with the following supplies:

• DSP - Candy Cane Christmas
• Other - white fleece, Cherry Cobbler vintage ribbon, acrylic circles, Crystal Effects, Real Red re-inker

 

For this cupcake, we embellished the white fleece with these non-SU flat-back acrylic "dots".  These were clear and we colored them with Crystal Effects and Real Red re-inker.  We love the polka dots!

 
This cupcake is available today on Etsy....we only have one!!!  Of course, you can purchase the tutorial, and make your own.  Check back next Tuesday to see what we have in-store for our October "remakes."

Melissa and Gayla
 

Candy Cane Christmas Fabric

We had some fun playing with the new Designer Series fabrics!

This is the cutest pin cushion jar.  There is no sewing and very little gluing.  These are very quick and easy and adorable.  This is a 4 ounce jelly jar.  We put some batting between the fabric and the jar flat.  We then "stuffed" it up into the jar ring.  We did end up using a little glue to hold the fabric to the jar ring.....but not much.  We glued on red rick rack.  Be sure to check out the new Big Shot die, Tasteful Trims, so you can cut your own rick rack or other trims.  You can find the fabric and the die in the new Holiday Mini Catalog that started on September 1st.

This small jar is the perfect size for your pins, needles, buttons or odds-and-ends.  You could even fill these with candy, marbles...use your imagination.  We thought we could create a new lid for each season or holiday.  This one will work through the winter but get ready for a fun Valentine jar "topper".

 

Take 2 Tuesday - Christmas Cupcake Pin Cushion

 
Well, we did say it would be fun to have a cupcake for every holiday......this is our Christmas Cupcake pin cushion.  Supplies used:

• DSP - Jolly Holiday
• Other - Ivory fleece, Cherry Cobbler Holiday vintage ribbon, button and button twine

The "topper" on this cupcake was made with Cherry Cobbler ribbon from our upcoming Holiday Vintage sampler.  We embellished it with a button and button twine.  We kept it simple but elegant.....our favorite.  You can see how nice the pearl-topped pins look on the cupcake. 

You can purchase this one-of-a-kind Christmas cupcake today on our Etsy site.  The tutorial is still available for those of you who want to make a cupcake for every occasion!

   

Take 2 Tuesday - Halloween Cupcake Pin Cushion

 

Week 2 of our Cupcake Pin Cushion remake.  Wouldn't it be fun to have a different cupcake for every holiday and occasion.  Here is our version for Halloween.  Supplies used:

• Card Stock - Basic Black, Elegant Eggplant
• DSP - Regals Patterns Designer Series Paper Stack
• Stamps - Wicked Cool and retired spider
• Other - Beaded trim, Crystal Effects, bling, spider web fabric , Halloween brads (non-SU)

This cupcake has six different Halloween-themed decorated pins.  Some are stamped, cut out and covered with crystal effects. The others are fun Halloween brads that have been added to pins.  You will receive all six! 

 

It is probably hard to tell, but this Halloween fabric has lightly flocked spider webs and purple sparkly dots.  Very festive.  This Halloween cupcake will be available on our Etsy site today.  We only have one so hurry!  However, if you miss it, you can purchase the tutorial here.

 

Melissa and Gayla