Stamping Vacation's 1st Blog Hop: Homemade with a Hop!

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Welcome to your 8th stop of 10 on Stamping Vacation's first blog hop: Homemade with a HOP! This blog hop starts September 25th at 9 a.m. and ends September 26th at 9 p.m. (US Central time). We're focusing on different homemade embellishments for paper crafting and we have a long list of incredible prizes available to be won on every single blog!

At Aspiring to Creativity, we have two prizes up for grabs: a $15 gift certificate from The Pixie Cottage as well as the Heebie Jeebies stamp set from Lawn Fawn!!

Our marvelous sponsor, Kelly Marie, has this to say about her wonderful company!

Lawn Fawn is a crafting supply company that specializes in high-quality photopolymer clear stamps. Our stamps are cute, fun, and sometimes a little quirky! At Lawn Fawn, our goal is to inspire smiles and creativity in you! http://www.lawnfawn.com/

I can definitely attest to the quality of her stamps as I have several sets!

PLUS, one grand prize winner will receive a gift certificate from the Stamping Vacation blog to the place of their choice for $5-$50 depending on how many blogs they've commented on! There are 10 blogs to hop on so you can win up to a $50.00 gift certificate to the place of YOUR choice! So be sure to comment on every blog! (A full list of prizes and blog hop stops can be found here.)

You need to be a Follower of the Stamping Vacation blog to qualify for prizes. Being a Follower of this blog is optional, but appreciated. ;)

I'm showcasing homemade embellishments with felt. One of the things I love about working with felt is that you end up with more embellishments than you're actually making.

Allow me to demonstrate...

I was die cutting 2 butterflies out of felt, with plans to use paper as a sort of base:

And once I sew everything together...

I end up with all of this:

I adhered the top 2 paper pieces to contrasting papers using my Xyron (just because it makes it easier but you can also use glue or double-sided tape):

So, cutting out 2 felt butterflies and 2 paper butterflies gave me embellishments for 6 cards (you can click on the picture to zoom in)!

For other ideas I've done with felt, see here, here, here, here and here!

Your next stop on our hop is Annmaree's blog, Emu Creations, where prizes from Meljen's Designs and Really Reasonable Ribbon are available to be won!

Thanks for hopping by!!

(This post is also an entry in the Papertrey Ink blog hop which is highlighting techniques we've learned from others and an entry in the Papertrey Playhouse Challenge #1 which is highlighting felt!)

{Supplies--all Papertrey Ink unless noted}

• Cardstock: Stamper's Select, Raspberry Fizz, True Black
• Patterned Paper: Bitty Dot Basics
• Stamps: All About You, Big & Bold Wishes, Butterfly Dreams
• Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Tuxedo Black (Memento)
• Felt: Raspberry Fizz, True Black
• Ribbon: Swiss Dot in Raspberry Fizz and True Black
• Die: Butterfly
• Other tools: Martha Stewart Scoreboard, sewing machine, Swiss Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug), clear embossing powder