Monday 31 January 2011

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional..

As i said before i am not professional in taking photographs. but i found this article very helpful on how to take a pro photograph and edit it step by step using the Photoshop. 
please visit this link to know how

Wednesday 26 January 2011

Love you Sizzix

Yesterday i spent my day after my work trying different designs using BigShot machine and felt..really it's so fast and you can make cute shapes in a very short time.

I used 2 sizzix bigz die with flower shapes and 1 sizzix bigz die for leaves shapes.

here are some of the outputs :)


and


i like it


finally

Monday 24 January 2011

DIY Organza Flowers.

Organza is such a beautiful fabric and it's easy to have beautiful flowers using it. here are some projects related on how to make different organza flowers designs.

Organza flower sewed to a bag:

white_flower_on_purse

Here is the tutorial.

Implementation of Tresa Edmunds of Reese Dixon.. 


DIY Chiffon Flower Bouquet how to


You will find the tutorial on this page




and finally Fabric flower can be done using different materials including organza.




full tutorial on this link

Sunday 23 January 2011

Sizzix fabric crafts

I bought big shot machine with more than 10 die cut. i really enjoyed using it. i make my life easier and it shorten the time in cutting the fabric.
My 2.5Y daughters also enjoyed making different shapes with it.
But as i was busy last week i couldn't photograph things i created by the big shot. hence i thought to share with you different projects from other blogs.
Let's have a look.

Dena's motto had posted some of nice projects she has done using Sizzix machine. let's check it here.


Cute flowers on apron 




I didn't imagine we can design a wedding dress using Sizzix 




Design your banner 


Felt flower designs 




If you like these projects you can find more details on this link



Wednesday 19 January 2011

Different Flowers Patterns

Tired of searching for different flowers template to make felt or fabric flowers. here are some of them I got from different websites/blogs. 
please note that the source of each template is mentioned on the template. 


and, 

and, 



Finally Carina Gardner had put a nice tutorial with flower pattern on this link.

Tuesday 18 January 2011

Kanzashi in Bloom.

I had received my copy of Kanzashi in Bloom book before 2 days. thank you Amazon you are making my life easy :)

This book is really nice and useful. The author (Diane Gilleland) offers 20 simple projects on what can we do with Kanzashi Flower. Besides explaining at the beginning of the book the different ways to make the Kanzashi.

 

For more information about the book please visit the Kanzashi-in-Bloom website.

Here are some of my implementations after reading the book.
Note (The fabric i used is from an old Pajama ^_^ )



Here i used the T-Shirt to create a headband with simple stitches at the border ^_^



Hope you like it :)

Sunday 16 January 2011

Fabric Flower.

How About Orange posted a new useful tutorial on how to make no sew fabric Flower.



Please visit her tuts.

Saturday 15 January 2011

Cute felt flowers..

Felt flowers are my favorite ones until now. it is such easy to make it and you get wonderful designs. there are many videos on you tube shows you how to make felt flowers. and I spent long time to learn how to make different types and to search for felt flowers patterns.

Here are some of my outputs :)


Starfish flower..
another one


felt flower designed by hand stitches


such a beautiful flower with really easy steps



and finally



I had missed the sources of were it helps me to make such beautiful flowers. as soon as i get it i will post it.

Thursday 13 January 2011

Ribbon Flowers..

As i said earlier i started crafting trying to make ribbon flower hair pin and hair bows. and one of the most useful tools that help me to make wonderful hairpin in very easy steps is Gator Bite.
A lot of useful posts available on the site and you tube shows you how to use this tool. also you will receive the tool with different manuals showing you how to make the bows.
here are some samples of my work :)


another one



what do you think of this ^_^



and finally


Hope you do like it. by the way i am not good in photographing but i will try to improve my shooting next time.

Starting Crafting.

My beginning of crafting started from the idea of making hair accessories to my daughters as i am spending long time searching for nice things at shops and online. so i thought why not i start creating items of my style. hence i started searching online for how to make hair accessories. i started with ribbon hair pin then moved to felt headband. now i am trying to learn more about fabric flowers and polymer clay arts.

Here i would like to share with you what i am creating and would like really to hear your comments as this will give an idea of what other crafters/people think of my products.

My Country

Let me first introduce my country in brief.
United Arab Emirates is a beautiful country consists of 7 Emirates which are: Abu Dhabi (the capital), Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Um AlQuwain, Ras al Khaimah and Fujairah.
The ruler is H.H.Shiekh Khalifa Bin Zayed.
The Official language is Arabic, but most locals are good in English.
Religion is Islam.
The climate generally hot and dry. but in winter it's so pleasant and cool.
This is in a very brief. if you would like to know more about it please let me know.