Susan Neal
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felt.
We all grew up with felt; it’s one of those fond crafting memories of childhood. It’s fuzzy, warm and comes in a rainbow of colors. You most likely have a stack of it somewhere in your own craft room.
It’s time to FIND it! Felt is an inexpensive and creative way to add a little ‘something’ to you next project. Here’s my latest card:
I used my Cuttlebug to cut the felt. I had to shim it with a piece of cardstock to get a nice clean cut, so be prepared to experiment a bit. I also used this adorable new paper from Cosmo Cricket and one of the cool new Colorbox inks from Clearsnap, SURF.
Besides die-cutting, try:
- Layering felt accents for even greater dimension
- Sewing it by hand or with your machine
- Letting a piece of felt peek through die-cut silhouettes
- Embellishing it with buttons, brads, eyelets or ribbon
- Painting, writing or stamping on it (experiment with this)
You may have a stack of felt, but I have BAGS of it! I’d love to send a few of you a sampling of my colors:
Leave a comment and you could win some of this fun felt!
Warm and fuzzy wishes,
Sue, Paper Crafts Pro
Oooh, I have felt as well and never really knew what to do with it. Great ideas!
We scrapbookers are such tactile people! Thanks for the reminder to play with felt again…some more….STILL.
~Shari R.
I can’t get felt locally, no one here sells it. I am in a felt black hole. AH!!!!!!!!! I am so jealous of your felt fabulousness.
I’ve cut a few pieces of felt in my CB, I need more flower dies or have you ever tried a swirl/flourish? I don’t have any of those dies either but I bet they’d be gorgeous!
You have GREAT colors of felt!
i have not used felt alot in my scrapping i hear that there a lot of neat things to do with it. i have used some felt flowers and emblies i have bought have had felt on them. love the look of it.
Need to try this again; been a long time & I know I’ll need to experiment some more, as mine didn’t cut as nicely as yours!
Oh…what a great idea!
I love felt too, but didn’t know I could use my Cuttlebug to cut it.
Thought I would need a deeper blade than that.
Your card is super!
Thanks for a chance to win!
your felt flowers came out beautifully!
A friend of mine sent me some felt to experiment with. I have ideas to use the felt with dies, like you did, but I haven’t got around to it yet. Love the doubel layers on your flowers!
Oh, I already have ideas!!!
Blessings,
Christine
Never to leave a question unanswered, I tried the most flourishy die-cut I had and it cut beautifully. I just posted it and another technique I just tried on my blog. Sue
What a cute card! I can’t believe I never thought of running it through my Cuttlebug before.
I, too, love using felt on all my craft projects. Love Love Love your stash of felt! I’d love to win!
I don’t have ANY felt. Except some bright Walmart colours!
I need some more, but I’m not sure where to get it. ALMOST placed an order the other day until he told me he wanted 27 dollars to ship 20 9×12 sheets cause I’m in Canada.
Uh huh!!
Does anyone know of a good place to buy felt?? I’m really at a loss. I want all the pretty colours!!!
I love the look of felt and struggle for ideas as to how to incorporate it into my designs. Thanks for the great ideas – I can’t wait to try some of them!
I love the felt flower but I don’t have a cuttle bug..I have to cut it by hand
..I have an idea to iron freezer paper to the back of the felt to make it easier to cut but the layers that you have , I am not sure mine will look like that..I love your magazine too
What a great card! Have to do more experimenting with my Cuttlebug – I love it!
Hi Susan! I love felt too and am slowly building up my collection! I wanted to share with you a felt project I made recently: http://mycasestudies.blogspot.com/2009/05/pop-tart-card-and-more.html
Hope you like it!
Love the texture that felt adds to projects!
Oh, such a good reminder! I love using felt, but sometimes I forget about it! So adorable with the flowers! Such a great idea.
This is a great card. I will have to think about using felt more often in the things I do. Thanks for the idea.
I love the looks of this rainbow of felt! I have an old-style Sizzix, but I’ve never cut felt w/ it…I know I can, but I’ve just ended up buying felt pieces that match the same line, isn’t that crazy? It’d be so much more economical to cut my own pieces!
Thanks for the chance to receive one of your felt packages!
Does it count if I used felt last week to make a “nut hat” for my DD for her school play?
It should totally count.
what fabulous felt colours!
I too need to get back to working with felt. I get in ‘ruts’ of one style of project at a time. Of course, even with that, I still end up with multiple projects at once that don’t seem to proceed to the ‘finished’ status. Urgh!
Thanks for the reminder, though! Great post
I love your cuttlebug flower die for the felt. Which one is that? I’ve done felt hearts with my cuttlebug and I used the stickyback felt so that it was more like a felt sticker.
Those felt hearts are adorable! If you didn’t say otherwise, I would have thought you bought them. Fantastic idea
I have never tried to cut felt with a die cutting machine. Thanks for the inspiration!
I really love felt as well. There are so many cool things you can do with. I must confess however that I haven’t tried it in the die cut machine yet.
oooh, I love felt…super cute
Felt!!! It looks so fun. I am so excited to hear that the cuttlebug can cut it! I can’t wait to try that!
Lots of fun! What an assortment of colours! Thanks for the chance to win!
Ok, trying to answer some of your questions here. First off, HELLO to all you fellow Canadians who have read my blog today (yes, ‘colour’ gives you away!). I’m still looking for a good source for felt for you, so please stay tuned to my blog for an answer to that. The die that I used for the flowers is Provo Craft #37-1508 die 2×6 flowers. It’s a great die, as it has 8 flowers total with it. No, it’s not crazy that you’ve bought pre-made felt embellishments! I have them too! And lastly, unless you’re taking a picture of that nut hat and scrapbooking it, no it doesn’t count! Just kidding, in my world, it ALL counts!
I made the stroller embellishments on my son’s birth announcements with felt. I wish I’d had your idea about using cardstock to make it easier to cut back then!
Sorry, I forgot the most important thing: You have GOT to go look at the cutest felt pop-tarts I’ve ever seen (well, frankly, I’ve NEVER seen a felt pop-tart before
). SO CUTE!
http://mycasestudies.blogspot.com/2009/05/pop-tart-card-and-more.html
WOW—I simply keep forgetting to buy some felt–maybe I’ll win yours and won’t have to remember for awhile!! Thanks for the chance~
I was just thinking about felt since it is on sale in a flyer I received I love what you did with it! Thanks for a chance to win your gorgeous assortment!
Your card is darling! You are right, there are a million uses for felt and we often over look it! I’m hoping to grab some of mine tomorrow and get to work! Thanks for the inspiration.
Oh I LOVE felt too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Such a cute card!! Thanks for a chance to win this array of felt
Mmm, what yummy colours! Thanks for the ideas.
Love your card! I too love felt but have never tried making flowers on my cuttlebug with it. I going to give this a try. Thanks
love love felt!
lovely card. thanks for sharing.
I love felt! It adds such great texture to cards. Love the colors on this card, too!
great card! never thought to use felt…i have a stack of foam board in diff. colors. i used my sizzix machine to cut out shapes for a preschool project…might be fun to apply the same concept with the felt! thanks for the idea!!
I honestly never thought to use felt in my Cuttlebug. Thanks for the great idea! Off to Cuddle {wink!}
Char in So Cal
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WOW! I can’t believe felt is back. I would really put this to very good use If I win this fab prize. Thanks for a chance to win…:-)
Cute Cute Cute! Love the nested flowers, I should give that a try. I came across some felt scraps stuffed in a baggie the other day when I was reorganizing – and I thought oh, I should do something with these …. I stuffed them back in the box!
Might fish them back out now though – thanks for the inspiration!
Ever since I was I kid, I’ve loved working with felt. I used it in my layouts long before it was cool! I am soooooo happy that it has a new following….
ooooohhhh… I don’t have any felt, so I’d love to have some to play with!