How is everyone? Today Campers you will want to head on over to Whipstitch Fabrics, to hang out with your new counselor Deborah who has prepared and incredible traveling village!
It's pretty much amazing, and it's all thanks to Deborah! Make sure to watch for her incredible new book, Stitch by Stitch, hitting shelves soon. Also, if you are anywhere near Atlanta, get yourself to Deborah's fantastic sewing lounge, Whipstitch!
Have a great day everyone!
Head on over to Cherri House's blog for this weeks tutorial, where you will learn, or be reminded how to make some sweet action bean bags!
Bean bags remind me of simpler times, and all my attempts to learn to juggle. But your in luck, she has included a list of websites with games and ideas for bean bag uses!
I decided to check out what they pets thought of the bean bags, and how they would best put them to use.
Mickey likes bean bags to practice his jumping skills! Keep reaching for the stars, Mick.
Finn on the other hand prefers bean bags for punching practice. Watch out for this one!
Pinecone, on the other hand, looks to bean bags for comfort. She's a keeper.
While Minkee, tirelessly, works on her posture. So much dedication.
So, as you can see there are many many ways to use bean bags. So head on over and check it out!
hello campers!
This week we have a really great project for those inside summer days. When I mildly think about summer, I think watermelon, fireworks, swimming, and bike gangs. When I really think about summer, I start to remember that a percentage of those dreamy days off are spent inside. Whether it's because it's raining, or it's actually too hot to go outside, it's nice to have some things to do.
So this week, make a Castle Peeps Memory Game! I'm still not at my best from my surgery so this week the tutorial is in the post!
The only things that you really need to get started are:
Cut a small stack of 3x3 squares in your stripe or solid. You will want to cut as many you want cards in your game. I cut 18.
You are going to make a little viewfinder. I made my cards 3x3. So I cut a 3x3 square out of a small piece of paper, so I could place the viewfinder over the fabric to find what the image would look like best in a 3 inch square. Then I traced the square onto the fabric, and then cut it out.
To get 2 of the same exact square, place the cut square over the same fabric, and match up the sides. Then either trace around the block, or use your ruler and rotary cutter. Make 8-12 different sets.
After I cut out my sets. I starched and ironed the back to the front, wrong sides together! Making it almost crispy. Then I trimmed each set in case there was a little overlap. You don't want to give any permanent hints.
Once you are finished cutting you will laminate your squares. I don't have a laminator at home, and I wanted something more permanent than most diy lamination systems. SO, I took my squares to Kinko's and laminated them for about $5. And it took 2 minutes. Make sure that when you are laying them out that you leave about half an inch between each set.
When you cut them out, leave about a 1/4 of an inch around them as to make sure you don't cut into the seal. Also, make sure that you cut down the corners, or use a corner punch. The laminate can be sharp.
As you can see from my pics, I used a stripped print from Red Letter Day for the backs of my cards, and made a very cute green, yellow, and blue set using prints from Castle Peeps, Red letter Day, and even a sand piper from Beyond the Sea from Cloud 9.
The whole project took about an hour and a half, and just a couple of dollars.
I hope you have a great time making them!
Good morning campers!
It's Melysses S. Grant here, on behalf of camp director Lizzy House, seeing as how she is having surgery today I am doing this post for her. But all is well and camp must go on! Lizzy made this awesome finger puppet tutorial for everyone to enjoy, and she still wants you to have it even if I have to give it to you!!!
This is the first official project of Castle Peeps Summer Camp, and campers I hope you enjoy making these wonderful finger puppets with your very own favorite peeps.
Download this tutorial to make your very own castle peeps finger puppets for hours of endless fun!
Download the CPSC Finger Puppets Tutorial
Thanks campers!!!
Love,
Melysses on behalf of Lizzy.
Welcome Campers!!!
Today is the very first day of the very first Castle Peeps Summer Camp! Over the next 8 weeks, every Thursday one of your CPSC counselors will post a new project for you and your little peeps to make!
Take a look at our your counselors blogs! Each camp destination will offer a pdf to literally increase your summer fun. It's a proven fact.
I will post where the CPSC post will be the day before the event so everyone knows where to go! Feel free to download, or click and drag this button for your blog if you want to go to camp with us!
Castle Peeps Summer Camp! The best camp you never knew you signed up for!
Today was kind of a strange day. It's super cold here in Texas, and one of our pipes busted this morning. Froze and cracked... it kind of put a damper on the whole day. Needless to say it's been kind of hard to focus. I've just been wrapped up in an electric blanket trying to solve the problems of the universe. Real work is slow going, fake works moves along with rapidity on days like these. So i've made myself what will soon be a sticker for my personal packaging, and I will put it on everything. I might even spoonflower this sucker, and turn it into labels for all my quilts and things. The possibilities are endless!
All of the images are from my personal and commercial design portfolio over the past couple of years. It's nice to see all of them together. It's as if they have all shown up at the same party.
I just wanted to pop in and say hello. I'm doing alright. Some days are better than others, but it's good to be among friends. I've been in Rexburg for a week and a half now, and it really has been healing. I've made some new prints for the shop, baked my heart out, hung out with my peeps, and made new friends.
I'll be home in Texas at the beginning of next week so I can get ready for Market with my Mom. I'm mostly going to support my Mom, and her soon to be released [email protected]@&, and to go to some parties with some of my fabric peeps.
All is well.
I did want to share with you one of my favorite things. Ever since the release of my ribbon fabric, Champion, in Red Letter Day, I have been making prize ribbons similar to those, similar to the one that I made on the 4th of July. I use ribbon that I have collected, vintage and interesting ribbon from my travels, as well as my very favorite Italian cotton ribbon from Angela Liguori. So they just bring me a little joy. In the coming weeks, I will show you some neat things I have devised using them.
I'll be back soon
In all your spare time between now and tomorrow, you should make one or a dozen of these. Using all my favorite ribbon I put together this show stopper for our festivities tomorrow. I used recycled felt, bamboo batting, and ribbon ranging from vintage to Italian. This thing has got America written all over it.
I've included a slide show of pics with a little bit of a how-to. Just click on the notes for my commentary.
Dear Peeps,
Camp is great. Everyone is being very nice. The mosquitoes are pretty bad though... but in happier new news, this Saturday, here in beautiful New Hampshire, at the amazing Squam Art Workshop, there will be an Art Fair! Cool thing is you didn't have to attend Squam to attend the fair!
Here are the full details:
Saturday, June 6th
7:30 pm - 9pm
Rockywold-Deephaven Camp (Holderness, NH)
For a map to get to RDC: click HERE
The fair will be taking place in the Deephaven Dining room, building #67 on the campus map. Have no worries about finding it as there will be lots of people (and signs) to direct you in.
There are going to be so many great artist selling their work! I have been truly amazed by my fellow teachers so it's bound to be not only inspiring, but a fun event. For Reals...
I will be selling a couple of books, and my fine art prints! I even have a stack of fabric that I think three people have claimed... we'll see who ends up with it.
If you are in the area and can come, come say hi to me! I'll just love you forever
cheers,
Lizzy!
I know that Easter was a whole week ago, but I thought I would show you one of the eggs I decorated.
then Izzy made one. I guess we could have kept going and done an entire Axiom Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator crew...
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