Wow…we've come to the end of the Create with Connie and Mary Occasions Edition! It has been an Edition FILLED will awesome projects by our Design Team…Rochelle Gould, Elizabeth Price, Cristena Bagne, Mary Brown and myself! Oh…and special thanks to Debbie Henderson for stepping in and doing a guest designer project for us, too! Love the variety of tutorials we shared and KNOW our subscribers feel they got MORE than their money's worth!
Stay tuned…we'll be back for Summer Edition before you know it! And…if you are a subscriber and played along in any of our challenges, make sure you check tomorrow on the Create website to see if you are one of the winners of one of two $75 merchandise gift certificate or FREE subscriptions to Summer Edition!
AND, don't forget to play along with our Create with Connie and Mary Thursday Challenge each week…we continue with these challenges year-around and have an AWESOME Challenge Team helping us!
Our Design Team had one last challenge…to create a project using sewing or faux sewing…and the Oh Sew Suite products! I had an idea to use our Tasteful Trim XL Die large ric-rac trim to make a flower! I'm pretty happy with how it came out! I have a pin backing on it, but I looped the pin thru one of the Simply Adorned Chains for a little different look as a necklace! Or…wear it by itself as a brooch!
I backed the Sweet Stitches Designer Fabric with Stampin' Up!'s Fabric Adhesive and then yellow polar fleece to give it some extra stability and to keep it from fraying. I used two of the ric-rac strips and stitched one edge together to make the strip longer. It is gathered and stitched together at the base of each of the ric-racs to form a circle. Then I added the Sweet Stitches Designer Button in the center and a Sweet Stitches Designer Fabric Brad. Here is a closeup! Isn't it FUN!!!
Make sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team did this week over on Create with Connie and Mary! We had a LOT of fun with this challenge!
