Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

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Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments Release- Now Available!

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Hi friends! The new Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Moments release is now live, and it’s filled with all kinds of gorgeous springtime goodies that are sure to inspire! (Check out the full Beautiful Moments release HERE!) I am always up for a good excuse to pull out my felt, thread, and beads, and the darling new Stitching Bunny die from the Beautiful Moments release was just too adorable to resist. I created a piece of pretty springtime (or Easter!) decor, adding some pretty flowers and foliage to the soft bunny. Let’s get started with the details!

To begin, I die cut the precious Stitching Bunny from creamy ivory felt twice. I adhered them together with small dots of felt glue. When I’m out and about, I’m always on the lookout for inexpensive cloth that I can use for embroidery projects, and I found some sets of these beautiful mauve linen napkins on clearance for .99! I thought that the pretty ticking stripes coupled with the linen texture would add some beautiful visual weight behind my bunny. I used coordinating ivory embroidery floss to stitch the bunny to the embroidery hoop, adding some warm pink die cut felt details to the ears and toe beans and adding those with more felt glue.

After I had finished adding all of the bunny components to my hoop, I die cut some springtime flowers and foliage to create a lovely little nest in which he could nestle down! I die cut some foliage using the Abundant Leaves, layered flowers from the Exotic Blooms set, and a couple of larger flowers using the Layered Dandy Flower. I arranged the foliage around the bunny, adhering it with more felt glue, then adding the flowers. I made sure to use small dots of glue to adhere each piece so that the dried glue wouldn’t interfere with the beaded embellishments that I intended to add!

After everything had dried, I stitched on some beads for eyes, as well as some creamy whiskers. I also added lots of beads and floral sequins to the floral arrangement, creating some shine and texture on my springtime decor!

Well, that’s all for my project today! You can check out the entire Beautiful Moments release HERE! Don’t forget about the two-day Blog Hop happening this weekend. You won’t want to miss such a huge display of inspiration using these marvelous new goodies. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Fun with Felt: Elastic Bookmark with Simon Says Stamp!


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Hi friends! I have another Fun With Felt project for you today, one upon which I’ve been ruminating for a few weeks! My daughter loves to read. As a shy child, I always found escaping into a book to be such a comfort, and I am so glad that she has developed a love of reading, as well! I want to nurture and encourage that as much as possible, so I decided to make her a pretty bookmark that she can use to keep her library books neat. I saw a neat bookmark using etched leather and a piece of elastic on Etsy, and I thought that I would try to create my own verson using felt and dies. Let’s get started with the details!

For today’s project, I began by die cutting one of the Chunky Scallop Circle dies from the Heart to Heart Release from Simon Says Stamp (click HERE to check out the entire release!) three separate times from pale pink felt. I used felt glue to adhere two of the felt pieces together and left them beneath a heavy glass paperweight, then while they were drying began to cut my other pieces. I die cut the Plentiful Petals floral dies from pink and green felt, then die cut the detail layer of the new Jewel Heart die set from some metallic pink felt as well.

On the remaining pale pink scalloped circle die cut, I used more felt glue to adhere the metallic heart in the center of the circle, then added a few bubblegum pink blooms, tucking vibrant green foliage amongst the flowers. I love the contrast of the muted blush scalloped circle and metallic heart with those vibrant flowers and greenery!

After I had finished adhering all of the die cuts to the top layer, I used the felt glue to adhere the top scalloped circle to the bottom layers, sandwiching a long strip of elastic from my stash between the layers with a bit more glue. I used that glass paperweight to hold everything together securely while drying, then used some coordinating pale blush thread to add some extra security to the elastic, hopefully keeping it firmly in place while holding the place in a book.

Well, that’s all for my project today! It’s such fun to find new ways to use my dies for items that can be super useful and pretty at the same time! If you haven’t tried felt, I highly encourage you to choose one of the fun new felt palettes from Benzie Designs (click HERE to see them) that are new at Simon Says Stamp. They’re super affordable and such fun to play with. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Fun with Felt: Valentine’s Day Edition with New Simon Says Stamp!

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Hi friends! I am back with another Fun with Felt post, this time Valentine’s Day style! I am always up for a challenge, and finding ways to put my papercrafting products to use with anything other than paper is such a pleasure. I love the beautiful details on the new Flourish Heart die from the Heart to Heart Release  from Simon Says Stamp (click HERE to check out the entire release!) and thought that it deserved some special treatment with sparkles, beads, and felt.

*I have gathered links to all of the products used at the bottom of the post for your convenience, using affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you for shopping with my links! I truly appreciate your support for my work!*

I created two different felt projects that can be used to add a little love to your Valentine’s Day outfits: a pin and a purse charm! Let’s get started with the details!

To create the purse charm, I used the solid shadow die from the Flourish Heart die set to die cut solid maroon felt, solid maroon glitter felt, and a layer of Simon Says Stamp’s 120 lb heavystock cardstock for added stability. I used a deep maroon alcohol marker to color the edges of the white cardstock so that it would blend seamlessly into the layers! I layered all of these solid hearts together with liquid fabric glue and placed them beneath some heavy paperweights so that they would dry nice and flat. That extra layer of super thick cardstock adds so much support and stability to this purse charm!

For the details on the purse charm, I die cut two of the detail die from the Flourish Heart die set from more maroon felt and adhered them together with a few dots of liquid felt glue. I then used needle and thread to add lots of seed beads and stitched stems with metallic pink thread in order to enhance those beautiful details and make this a special gift! Once I had completed all of the stitching, I adhered this top layer to the solid hearts that had been glued together with more felt glue. I used my super strong hole punch to punch a hole in the top and added a ring so that I could hang it from my purse strap for a festive little Valentine’s Day decoration! It would also be super cute on a backpack or key ring, as well!

For the pin, I decided to create a thinner version of the keychain; the pin presumably wouldn’t be as likely to be roughly handled or jostled, so I used a single layer of felt for the shadow layer and a single layer of metallic pink felt for the detail layer. Before adhering these two heart die cuts together, I used needle and thread to stitch a pin back (purchased from my local craft store) securely, then used more felt glue to adhere the two pieces of felt together, covering up the stitches with the decorative pin front! To make it super sparkly, I used Taffy Pawsitively Dazzling Gems and some other super sparkly gems that I had in my stash to help enhance those beautiful filigree details. Using metallic felt allowed those delicate debossed lines to stand out more beautifully than with regular felt, kind of like using metallic cardstock vs regular cardstock for embossing folders. The metallic top layer just helps those delicate details pop!

Here you can see the back of each project. I think these are so fun and such a neat way to put our dies to use for something other than papercrafting!!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! I can’t wait to give my daughter the purse charm to go with her new Kurt Geiger purse that I found at the thrift store in her Valentine’s Day bag! Have you ever used your papercrafting dies with felt? It’s such fun!! Thanks so much for stopping by, and have a marvelous day!

Holiday Fun With Felt: Day 4- Gingerbread!

Hi friends! I have some more felt projects to share with you today, featuring the sweetest little gingerbread houses around! My first three projects were created using dies intended for stitching, with convenient little holes punched through to make the stitching process as quick and simple as can be. But, I have been collecting a variety of dies over the last 18 months~ that work beautifully for felt projects. All you need to turn a papercrafting die into a felting die is a little felt, some felt glue, and some imagination! I love a good gingerbread house filled with exquisite details, and luckily for me, gingerbread houses are super trendy right now, so these projects will fit right in to both modern and classic decor. Let’s get started with the details on my projects!

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This first project is a little bit simpler, with the majority of the work being done by the sweet chateau from Honey Bee Stamp’s Alice’s Gingerbread Lane. I die cut each of the pieces for the chateau from felt from Benzie Design and Poshta, including a gingery brown, petal pink, white glitter, and shining metallic felts in copper and red. I find that, when using smaller, more intricate dies like those of the windows and other accents, using 100% wool felt achieves good results, and metallic or coated 100% wool felt achieving the best results, as they hold their shape when die cut with minimal fraying. When working with larger die images, however, the felt blends work very nicely! I adhered all of the components with felt glue, using the fine end of a die poker tool to add glue to the delicate lines of the windows and doors.

Once I had adhered all of the felt components to the gingerbread house, I added it to my oval embroidery hoop, which is about 4.5″ x 6″ and filled with a minty green fabric from my stash. These small embroidery hoop projects are a great way to use up fabric remnants that are frequently in the clearance bin! I also have thrifted old cloth napkins, tablecloths, and handkerchiefs to use in my embroidery hoops. Once all of the felt glue had dried, I added lots of sparkling seed bead and bugle bead embellishments for snow, Christmas lights, and the pathway, stitching them individually using coordinating embroidery floss. I also added a few glass gems to my bunting and stitched a few freehand snowflakes. The final touch was a silky ribbon loop for hanging and a brown velvet bow!

My second project is a bit larger in scale, featuring the Yuletide Lane die set from Concord and 9th! This die set is intended to create a shaped accordion style card, but I decided to modify it a bit to create this detailed gingerbread house hoop. I thought that the simple and clean images would work perfectly with felt!

Before beginning my project, I selected a beautifully festive tartan fabric from my stash and filled an 8″ round embroidery hoop with it. I then selected coordinating felt shades, with a gingery brown for my house, metallic red for the door, white glitter for the snow, and three different shades of green for the greenery. I die cut the individual pieces for the house and adhered them with felt glue, again using the fine tipped end of my die cut release tool to precisely place the glue on the more delicate pieces. I arranged the assembled felt die cuts on my plaid embroidery hoop and adhered them with more felt glue.

After I had finished adhering the felt pieces to the hoop, it was time to begin embellishing with beads and other bits of sparkle! I die cut gold metallic bells and green wreaths, added different types of ribbon and trim, metallic thread bows, snowflakes, and lots of individual bugle and seed beads. I made sure when adhering my felt pieces to the hoop to use small drops of glue around the edges of the images so that my beading needle could easily pierce through the felt and fabric, making it easy to add these shimmering embellishments! I just adore how colorful and yet still elegant this project is, not to mention incredibly festive. It fits perfectly with that “Ralph Lauren Christmas” theme that I’ve seen going around social media!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! I wish that I could spend the next several weeks letting out my creative energy in felt form, because these hoops and ornament projects are just so much fun. If you haven’t looked through your standalone dies yet to see if they will work with your felting projects, I highly encourage you to do so! It’s a great way to get double duty out of your papercrafting stash! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

Holiday Fun with Felt-Day 3: Holly Berries!

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Hi friends! I am back with another installment of my Holiday Fun With Felt series, this time finishing off my trio of pillow ornaments using several of the new stitching dies from the Simon Says Stamp DieCember release! (Check out the full DieCember release HERE!) As soon as I saw the stitching dies, I knew that I wanted to create a little coordinating ornament suite, because as much as I love kitschy, eclectic Christmas trees, I also love a beautifully curated themed tree! (We actually have one of each-a family tree with colorful lights and popsicle stick ornaments, and one sparkling, crystalline white tree with pearls and white velvet!) Let’s get started on the details for the last of my stitching die ornaments!

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To begin, I die cut one of the smaller Chunky A2 Scallop Rectangles twice from some pale blue felt. These scalloped rectangle dies are not technically intended for felt crafts, but I have found that basically all of the dies that we use for papercrafting can be used for felt, as well! It makes for such versatility and can be such a lovely creative palate cleanser from paper to work with felt, thread, and needle.

Before stitching the two scalloped rectangles together, I used felt glue and thread to add the new Stitching Holly & Berries die cuts to one of the rectangles, adding embellishments with seed beads and silver thread. I stitched up the scalloped rectangles with coordinating pale blue thread, adding some silky white ribbon to create the hanger for my ornament.

Here are all three of the ornaments together, and I just think they look so sweet as a group! I love creating coordinating, but not necessarily matching, decor. It’s super easy to create cohesive sets by keeping the color palette simple and consistent throughout each individual project. These can easily be customized to fit your own holiday color palette, as well!

Here they are on my super skinny craft room Christmas tree. Don’t they look so cute together?

Well, that’s all for my trio of felt ornaments! I have been felting up a storm, though, and have some more projects to share with you that combine tons of different companies. Those projects combine dies that are not created specifically for stitching, and I am so excited to share the versatility! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!