Kid's Wallet

Luke loves to take apart our wallets if he ever gets the chance!
He especially gets attached to our driver's licenses and things like our Costco card because they have our pictures on them.

(cute, right!? He does love us :)

However, I'm a little tired of watching him like a hawk with our cards (he almost bent my most used credit card in half the other day!) So, I decided it was time to make him his own wallet!

(that's right, mom, I'm actually going to sew something!!)

I knew what kind I wanted to make for him, but I wasn't finding exactly the right tutorial, so I just used this Summer Wallet Tutorial from Lola Nova and adapted it to work and look how I wanted it to for Luke!

Embellishing the front = dollar sign applique.

traced it backwards on the wrong side of the fabric so my marks wouldn't show.


Ta-da!
Now sew it onto the outside layer fabric only

I wanted more layers for more cards to fit into, so I added two more fabrics.
The tutorial I was following for a guide just had you sew one stitch at the bottom for the 3 layers. But if I did it this way all the cards would fall to the bottom of the wallet.
I wanted the cards to poke out of each pocket like a real wallet and not all sink down to the bottom. So each layer, I sewed onto the back, inside layer, measuring where the card stops in the pocket and then sewing it onto the back fabric.

Does that make sense?

Then sew the layers and the denim front together as her tutorial says and finish it up!

I got all these fabrics like 2 years ago when Luke was just a few months old because I was going to make him a little baby quilt. Ha. But they were bright and colorful like I wanted his wallet to be, so into a wallet they were made!

Luke's going to love it!

Come back tomorrow and I'll show you how to make your own personalized credit cards to go inside!

Framed Puffy Hearts

Here is a quick little thing I made for F.R.E.E because I already had all this stuff.

Awesome.

[sorry for the poor picture, I took this picture after the sun went down!]

1 5x7 Frame
Scrapbook paper
Scraps of flannel, fabric or felt
stuffing

First, cut the paper to size, and then put it in the frame. I didn't want to take out the glass by chance that it might get broken, so I took out the glass, slid the paper in front of it and put the glass back in. That way I could still have my puffy hearts sticking out. I used hot glue to glue the front and backs of the heart together, but you could sew them too. I glued most of it shut and then put my stuffing in. Then I glued it closed. Then I hot-glued all the hearts to the paper which was already in the frame so I could put them in exactly the right place.

Easy Peasy.

And in case you missed it, last spring I did a tutorial on a quick ruffle headband. It's perfect for Valentine's Day!

Need Your Help

Dear Readers,

I love love love when you comment on my blog!

Thank you, Thank you!

I love to know that what I am writing is worth taking the time to write and that you love what I make and do every day!

I also love when you ask me questions! However, I need your help.

I need you to go to this wonderful link on House of Smiths and follow the directions she gives!

Tutorial: How to let ME reply to YOUR comments

Because, I have the same dilemma sometimes. Unless you email me here kd.klipboard {at}gmail.com, then I can't answer you most of the time.

When you click to "show" your email, it doesn't actually show up on the profile screen. {i checked}. It just shows a link that says "email" which if you click on you can email that person.

I get an email every time one of you awesome readers leaves a comment, and I can reply directly to your comment if and only IF you have it set up to "show" your email. If you don't, then I just get the dreaded "no-reply" from blogger and the only way I can respond is to make a comment on my own post that you commented on, or blog lurk you and your profile looking for a way to answer your question--a messy and unnessary process.

So help out the blogging community and follow the tutorial!

Thanks, Readers!

When I Grow Up

When I was younger, I wanted to move to Paris and be a fashion designer.

When I was a little older, I wanted to move to Italy instead (much better in my opinion) and have my own runway shows. I used to watch them on TV every Saturday morning.

I've always drawn girls and designed their clothes.
I've kept some of these drawings and here they are

Most of these were drawn between 2001-2003 when i was in High School, even though by the time I was in high school I was thinking of doing something other than fine art or fashion design.

Now I'd much rather stay out of that world.

I'd rather be a graphic designer. And i think it fits better.
But that is just a little about me, and i thought I'd share.