Fancy a cuppa? Coaster kit

When I saw the coaster kit free with Crafty magazine (issue 6), I just had to have it! There were many designs that could be made from the kit which were a robot coaster, a dove keyring and a donut but I really thought the "Tea" design was very funky. 

 

 The materials that came free were:

• Corkboard circle
• 3 x felt 
• Embroidery thread

 I needed to add:

• Fabric glue
• Scissors
• Masking tape
• Paper and pencil
• Needle

I traced round the corkboard onto the felt and cut out the 3 circles. I glued a white piece to the corkboard. On a piece of paper I drew out the word "Tea" and cut out the letters. I found this next bit genius! I taped the letters into position onto my felt and then cut them out using a pair of tiny scissors. 

 

I then glued the blue felt on top of the yellow felt. With the embroidery thread I made a decorative stitch around the edge of the circle and sewed around the letters in three different colours. The result is a very funky tea coaster which I love so much, I might make some more. For this coaster, I'm going to send it to my sister in Canada who loves English tea.
 

Card Making - New home card

My brother in law moved home last week which I thought was the perfect opportunity to try my hand at a bit of card making using the papers that are usually supplied in the CraftSeller magazines. For this project I used the paper from Issue 27 September 2013.

 

I have a pack of plain wedding cards and envelopes left over from my own wedding so I used those and cut the house piece of paper to the same size as the card and stuck that with glue to the card. I then cut a rectangle of the key pattered paper and stuck that in the middle of the card. The magazine comes with little tags that you can cut out and use so I cut out the house "New Home" tag and stuck it in the middle of my card. Voila! My card was done and ready to send to a pleased brother in law.