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Handcrafted Felt Ornaments

Hello & Happy Monday, Crafters! The new October Essentials by Ellen release products are now available in the Ellen Hutson LLC shop! To find out more about this release, please visit the Ellen Hutson Classroom blog. There, you will find info about the super fun release prizes ... One random lucky commenter will win $25 to the Ellen Hutson shop and one will win the whole October Essentials by Ellen release! To enter for a chance to win, make sure to leave comments at each stop along the release blog hop list from yesterday, HERE! To be entered for the prize drawings, please be sure to leave your comments before Thursday, October 10th at 11:59pm PST. To help assist in your felt project crafting, Ellen has just put together a wonderful assortment of wonderful Felt and Embroidery Floss collections! These items are available in the collections, as well as individually. So if a particular collection happens to be currently sold out either just click on the "Notify Me" button OR just make note of the colors listed in the collection product descriptions and those can be purchased individually! <<-- Great for mass productions! Now on to my ornament! To create... Read more →

Sew Cute Stitching Dies for Cardmaking or Felt Crafts - EBE October Release!

Hello & Happy Sunday, Friends! Today the October Essentials by Ellen release is available over at the Ellen Hutson LLC shop ... NOW! You'll find a wonderful new selection of holiday, fall, and general stamps and dies HERE! Come hop along with the Ellen Hutson team today, to find some fantastic inspiration! Links are listed below. For today's project, I stitched a paper snow-woman for you! Even though she is made with paper, you could easily make her from felt and have her be a removable holiday ornament! It was super easy to build this sweet snow-woman! First, I used the previously-released Stitches Cover Plate on Neenah 100 Lb Solar White cardstock to create a quick and easy stitched background. Then I die cut the background using the new Sew Cute-Snowman die. The rest of my snow lady's ensemble was also die cut from cardstock and assembled, then stitched together with DMC Embroidery Floss. To anchor snow lady to her Oyster Gray card base, I created some "snow hills" at the bottom using a Stitching Lines die and adhered her with Foam Mounting Tape to the card base. To finish the card, I added Stardust Stickles to the holly berries... Read more →