Weekly Challenge | In the Fringe

It's time for a new release and a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Into the Fringe--fabric or paper fringe. I used this super sweet Crafty Mouse Coordinating Set and created a scene for Crafty Mouse with my GIMP free GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's hard to see in the image but the fabric is frayed a little creating a "fringe." I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking!

Digital Delights Stamps : Crafty Mouse Coordinating Set

Card stock : Bazzill Basics

Markers : Spectrum Noir

Accessories :  Beacon 3in1, buttons, fabric, punches, 3DGlueDots

This weeks theme :

On The Fringe
(include fringe - either paper or fabric)

Challenge Rules below

We have a new sponsor this week.  Delightful Challenges welcomes

http://stampingscrapping.com

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Now it's Your Turn!

You are not required to use a Digital Delights 

Image to join in the fun 

but if you do, you can enter TWICE.

To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image,

for your 1st entry use your card link.

For your 2nd entry use your blog address

 and add "2nd entry" after your name

**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme and rules or it will be removed.

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Alter Your Creativity Challenge #6| Red Heart~Golden Festival

Today on the Altered Pages blog I share how fun it is to experiment with Crafter's Workshop Stencils and paints, inks and spackles. I then created this art tile for the Alter Your Creativity Challenge on the Altered Pages Challenge blog. Join the Altered Pages Design Team and enter your own Challenge Projects! Thank you for looking, I hope you enjoy my project.

 

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A Cinco de Mayo Ruffle

A letter came home today with Sam's backpack saying that she needed to wear a skirt to perform a dance for Cinco De Mayo. Sam really wanted a traditional Spanish Folk Dance outfit but her teacher and I convinced her that a shorter skirt with a ruffle perhaps would be perfect as she needed to be able to shuffle her feet for the dance.

I went to my stash of fabric from my mother-in-law's quilting days and found this beautiful colorful striped piece. We decided to add it to Sam's denim skort and make a new Cinco de Mayo ruffle skirt!

fabric and skirt before.



I cut strips of fabric about 4 inches wide and then attached them end to end to each other so I would have  a long enough strip to ruffle. Next I did 2 running stitches on about 10 stitches per inch to have strings to pull up to make a ruffle.

adding straight stitching to make a ruffle

 Once pulled, I placed the ruffle on the skirt, insured I had enough to have a full ruffle all the way around the edge and stitched it in place.

fabric gathered and ruffled

 After successfully stitching all the way around the skirt to add the ruffle, I folded over the bottom hem and stitched,

ruffle added to skirt and now being hemmed

I really love the look of the completed ruffle on the skirt! 

finished ruffle

My little amiga does too! She and I wish you a very happy Cinco de Mayo!

One happy amiga ready to dance with her amigos!

Gracias amigos!

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