E Pattern and DIY

I made this new e pattern for you ladies.  Im making this one available on my sidebar for $5.00.  This e pattern includes how to make these 4 feedsack panels.

Check out my DIY tutorial for this Here. 

Recap #2 The Tutorials and Patterns

Tutorials:

 I have done a bunch of tutorials for all of you. Remember to check them out and use these ideas for your Christmas Craft Shows.

Tart Tutorials

How to make Reindeer Food

Decorating little Christmas bags and selling them

Painting and Crafting Santa Buckets

How to make hair bows

Making beaded and lighted garlands

How to make room sprays

New Christmas Patterns:

All of these new Christmas patterns are available on my website at Samanthas Accessories  The Prim patterns are available for $5 e patterns and the stitchery patterns are available for $2 e patterns.

#18 Christmas Word Tags 2

#213 Christmas Bobbins

#214 Santa Kleenex Cover

#215 Christmas Applique Pillows (3)

#216 Santa In A Bucket

#217 Christmas Mice

Day 21 Rag Garland Tutorial

I have had a wonderful fellow blogger request for a rag garland tutorial.  The picture above is a rag garland on a strand of lights.  To make the lighted rag garlands I use a 20 light strand or sometimes 35.  But today, I am showing you a beaded rag garland tutorial. 

I start by using 6 different fabrics. Usually 3 different colors.  2 Reds. 2 Greens. 2 Blues.  Tear fabric into 1.5" -2" strips.   Rip and cut off all the stray and fray edges and ends.

Take a set of read beads, you can usually find these beads at walmart at Christmas time.  Cut the set of beads in half.  Then cut a piece of jute.  I usually make my piece of jute a little too long, but I hold the jute in one hand and stretch it out to my other hand, twice.  So I'd say about 5 ft to 5.5 ft long. 

Tie a knot with a loop at the end of one side of the jute.  String on all of the red beads.  Do NOT tie off the other end of the jute. 

Start by tieing a piece of fabric onto the jute with the beads.  I place a bead - fabric - bead - fabric - bead - fabric etc.  And when you get to the end of the the beads and fabric, tie a knot with a loop at the end.  Make sure again to cut off all frays in the fabric.   

And you are done. I hope this tutorial was easy enough for you ladies to follow!

Today is the last day to sign up for my giveaways! Remember this is my last one for Christmas in July.  The giveaway ends tonight and I will announce the winner tommorow afternoon.  One winner will recieve this Santa Bucket with tarts and room sprays and the other winner will recieve this bear on his box!

Day 19

I decided to make up some Christmas bags to show you ladies. These take NO TIME to make at all.  They are great to put gifts in at Christmas time.  I bought these small brown paper handled bags at Hobby Lobby last week with mom. 

I found these small felt Christmas stickers* in the Christmas section of Hobby Lobby.  Take a couple of these and stick on to the bags for decoration.  A few of the Merry Christmas ones and tress didn't come "pre sticky" so I used a dab of white glue to attach them.

And your done!  Add some ribbon or rafia to jazz it up if you would like!

Don't forget to sign up for my giveaway! We are giving away a bear on a box, and a santa gall bucket full of tarts and a couple room sprays.  All you have to do is be a follower and leave a comment on the giveaway post.   You can find this giveaway post HERE.

Day 11 Tutorials

I've started making bows to little girls hair.  I am making the majority of them on barettes.  I use thread to keep the ribbon on the barette and a dab of hot glue over the two thread knots.

I am also placing bows on to aligator clips. These are great to use in little girls hair bc they don't require much hair to stay into place! You can go to this website here and check out all of tutorials they have available on all sorts of types of bows! Click Here!

Today is the last day to enter my giveaway for this Prim Snowman Ornies.  Click Here to Enter. Remember if you have any issue leaving a comment to enter just email me at samanthaschmidt90@live.com.

Day 10 Paint Cans

I made these Santa Paint Cans this weekend.  These are great to use to give a gift in.  Just add some tissue paper and a tag.

Take a paint can or sap bucket and spray paint with dark red paint. Let dry.  Paint face onto can with flesh colored acrylic paint. Let dry.  Dry brush cheeks with reddish or brown colored paint.

I used this side view for you to see where I placed the tagged onto the bucket.  Hot glue (2) black buttons in place for eyes. Glue 1/2" wooden plug for nose. Hot glue sheep's wool around face. Make a moustache from wool and glue below nose. I took a little sheeps wool and make eyebrows and glue them in place. glue holly and berries to top of forehead on side. I used spray and sprayed face and can then sprinkled mica flakes on can.

Don't forget to enter my Snowman Ornie giveaway. Click here to enter.

Day 7 New Giveaway

For all of you ladies that are just tuning in.. We had a giveaway basket last week of tarts and a room spray. This giveaway ended last night at midnight.  The winner of this giveaway is "Prims and Annies..Maxie"  Please email me at samanthaschmidt90@live.com to claim your prize!

Jesus Tears are an amazing seller at our craft shows also! The saying is a printed template off on the internet. Im sorry to say but I cannot offer this one for free, for it is not my design.  But you can download this template for a cheap price from Sun Flower Friends.  Sun Flower Friends has some great designs available to you!

I've been working on some room sprays for this years shows.  A roomspray can be made into any scent that I have available from my tart scent list.

DIRECTIONS: Blend 3 to 4 parts Modifier to 1 part fragrance oil. Add water. This product will remain clear in water. (Example - use 1.5 oz. of modified Fragrance Oils to 1 gallon of water for a linen spray.)

RoomSpray and Tart Scents Available:

Bakery Scents: Apple Dumpling, Apples and Maple Burboun, Zucchini Bread, Banana Bread, Monkey Farts, Carrot Cake, Pumpkin Souffle, Sweet Pumpkin Spice, Strawaberry Shortcake, Kettle Korn, Carmel Apple, Red Hot Cinnamon, Sugar Cookie, Apple Cranberry Marmalade, Peanut Butter Cookie, Strudel and Spice, MacIntosh Apple, Creme Brulee, Sugar Corn Pudding, Very Vanilla, Gingerbread, Maple Walnut Fudge, Hot Cocoa, Cinnamon Cookie Dough, Grandmas Kitchen, 7 Up Pound Cake, Mandarin Spice, Blueberry Flapjack.

Flower/Other Scents: Amish Quilt, Country Bumpkin, Love Spell, Day At The Spa, Asian Pear and Lily, Honey suckle Jasmine, Gardenia, Blackberry Sage, The Linen Closet, Jamaica Me Crazy, Coconut Lime, Clean Cotton, Country Gift Shop, Hill Billy Homebrew, Grandmothers Toddy, Grandmas Cupboard, Amber Romance.

Retired/Limited # Available: Lemon Lavendar, Buttercream Birthday Cake, Buttered Rum

Seasonal Scents: Candy Corn, Candy Cane, Santas Pipe, Reindeer Poo

This weeks giveaway is for these 4 Snowman Ornies.  This giveaway starts now and will end next Thursday night at midnight. The only rules to enter are that you must be a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this blog post.

Quite a few bloggers had trouble signing up for my moms, and my giveaway. If you are having trouble try this. This might sound confusing, so I'll do my best to explain. When you type in a comment to leave on someones blog, and it takes you back to the sign in screen, (like you aren't already signed in), enter your screenname and password, and make sure you do NOT have the *remember me* option choosen. If you do have it choosen it will keep taking you in circles to that page and will never let you leave the comment. So just make sure you don't have the remember me option choosen and it should let you leave the comment. If it doesn't work, just email me at samanthaschmidt90@live.com to enter my giveaway. 

Rag Ball Tutorial

So I made this tutorial for all you ladies. Super super simple.  Just a couple steps to it and your done. You need:

1. white glue
2.  poly fil OR fabric
3. small strips of fabric

I use small amounts of fabric instead of poly fil because it makes the rag balls heavier.

Step #1

Make a small ball of fabric OR poly fil. Hold it in your hand and wrap the strips of fabric around it. Wrap it enough times that the ball of fabric or poly fil is covered.

Step #2

After you have successfully wrapped the fabric around it the way you want it, the end of the strip that isn't attached to the ball, take a small amount of white glue and glue the edge of fabric down. Put it down and let it dry and your done.

Like I said these are super simple to make. Either they make good decor in a bowl, sell them at a show for a few cents each or sell them as a bag full of them.

Rag Quilt Tutorial

So I made mom this rag quilt for Christmas this year. This tutorial is super simple to follow.  I finished the quilt in one weekend.  I used a total of  48 {9"x9"} squares. So what you need:

5 different patterned/colored fabrics

warm and natural fabric

spring loaded scissors

 So in order to have 48 squares, you have to cut out a total of 96 of the 5 colored fabrics. (2 per square)

 For the warm and natural you only need to cut out 48 squares bc they are going in the middle. I chose warm and natural bc it was warm and coomfy feeling.  You can you flanel, ect.

Piece it all out into the particular pattern that you want and sew together. I chose my quilt squares to be 6 x 8.   After sewn all together, you need to take your spring loaded scissors and cut super tiny slits through out all of the "raw" edges on the quilt. The more slits you cut into it the better. But becareful not to cut through your stitches.

 Once done cutting all slits into onto the edges of the seams, you have to wash it.  I wasn't sure if the colors would bleed together. So i washed it in the machine with cold water for very little time.  Then you just throw it into the dryer.  It will look better and better every time you wash it.