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image by Dragonfly Curls

Ok, I admit it, I’m a *huge* Twilight fan! I’ve read all the books multiple times and I’ve seen the movie more times than I’ll admit So I was thrilled to find some Twlight inspired stamps and projects!

The Dragonfly Curls shop on Etsy has the most gorgeous hand carved stamps inspired by Twilight.

Artful Inkables also has a wonderful Twilight inspired stamp set call Into the Moonlight , along with some cool pewter Twilight inspired charms.

image by Artful Inkables

I also wanted to share a link to this cool Twilight mini album made by Trace Gewarsky.

image by Trace Geworsky

And I LOVE this adorable card by Beth Crofton, she turned a cute stamp from The Greeting Farm into Edward. She’s part of a very cool website challenge designed all around Twilight called Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, check out the blog for links to all their creations and challenges, very fun stuff!

image by Beth Crofton

What a wonderful way to show your fandom by stamping your book marks, cards or how about party invites for a Twilight theme party?

-Heather

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Lately I have been feeling like all of my clothes are looking a little worn or feeling a little tired. I don’t want to buy new clothes, though, so there’s been a lot of mending, altering and adding special touches to things that otherwise might get overlooked or not worn at all.

As an example, not too long ago I added a little bit of embroidery to a T-shirt, which was a lot of fun to do and made me start eyeing all my solid-colored garments and wondering how they might look with some stitching added.

Of course you can cross stitch on garments, too, whether T-shirts or woven tops, skirts, pants and more. But it can be tricky to transfer cross stitch designs to your garment to make stitching easier.

Much like with embroidery, it’s great to use a water soluble stabilizer to keep your fabric in place while you stitch and to transfer your design (or your cross stitch grid at least) while you’re stitching. Then you just wash away the stabilizer when you’re done and it will look like the stitching has always been there.

Ashley General Handmade uses Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch, which is a product I use, too. It’s easy to use and washes away cleanly.

To make it even easier, she designed some printable cross stitch grids at different counts that you can print out to draw your own cross stitch designs, but you can also print the grid right on the Sulky, so you can stitch on top of squares and then remove them when you’re done.

Brilliant, right?

She has pages as big as 8 count and all the way down to 20 (remember: the bigger the number the smaller the stitches will be) that you can download and print to make your own designs and also use to make stitching on clothing easier. I’m definitely going to try this the next time I want to cross stitch on fabric!

You can grab her printables over at Ashley General Handmade.

[Photo: Ashley General Handmade]

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