Fablossom Flower Maker

The Fablossom kit comes with ready to use fabric pieces, clips and gemstones. You do not need glue, scissors or patience. We really loved making the flowers! It really is fabulous! The flowers are actually really pretty and the gemstones add a lovely touch. I would highly recommend this for a stocking stuffer – for anyone!

I could literally sit there for hours and just keep making the blossoms. They were just so easy! The Fablossom device holds the fabric in place whilst you arrange and fold the petals. It’s like having extra hands.

We got extra DIY creative with ours and made some school hair bows. We used the DIY refill pack and our own fabrics (old damaged uniforms). I decided for extra durability and to allow me to add the school buttons (from the old uniforms) I would hot glue the pieces into position. I went ahead an hot glued them whilst still in the Fablossom tool. I was able to make 10 of these in an hour. I then added a little hot glue to the back and attached the pins or clips. I even layered several of them together for extra big rosettes.

Fablossom isn’t just for fabric, they now have a paper version too. I love the elegant styles – they’re just captivating and the paper flowers would be PERFECT for a wedding gift or something like that.

What are you waiting for? Buy YOUR kit right now!

I’ve done embroidery on paper before and it’s a lot of fun. You can use a needle to punch out a particular shape to stitch, or my favorite thing is to take a copy of an old photograph or a page from a magazine and add stitched details to the original picture.

One thing I haven’t tried but would also be fun to do is cross stitching on paper.

This is a technique that requires a fair amount of preparation because you need to find a pattern you can easily transfer and print it at actual size, then use the pattern itself to help you decide where to put the holes in your paper. And then after all that you can do your stitching.

It’s a pretty straightforward process, but Crewel Ghoul has a great tutorial that walks you through how to do it step by step. It even includes a sample pattern you can print out and try for practice.

The post also has tips for starting and finishing your threads so that the back looks as neat as it can, if that’s something that’s important to you. (When I have done embroidery on paper I usually just tape the thread end to the back. If the back were going to show I’d probably just cover it with more paper.)

Stitching on paper is a fun way to make bookmarks or greeting cards, but you also need to make sure your paper is thick enough to support the holes you’ll be making in it. This post has a good rundown of materials you’ll need and what kind of paper is best. She used watercolor paper but I’ve used card stock and scrapbook paper that was a little thicker than the average printer paper.

You can always test a little on the paper you’re considering to make sure it will stand up to the project.

Check out the post, which includes a video, over at Crewel Ghoul for more tips for cross stitching on paper. Is this something you’ve tried before? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]

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