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How to make a fabric circle centerpiece inspired by the book How to Make 100 Paper Flowers

Today, I have a fun and soooooo easy crafty decoration to share with you, inspired by a tutorial from the book How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures. These cute little circle flowers were originally created with paper, but I thought I'd try making them with scraps of fabric.

Fabric worked great.

I simply cut out 3 circles of fabric and layered them together. I cut about a 3-inch piece of wire and folded it in half. I thread a button onto the wire and then through the fabric. I twisted the wire around a skewer to secure.

So if you like making flowers, whether they be in paper or other materials this book is a great resource!

More about the new CPi book:

How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures

by Maria Noble

Learn how to make 100 beautiful flowers, from lifelike to fanciful, with How to Make 100 Paper Flowers! These creations are perfect for weddings and other celebrations, and this comprehensive guide brings you a wide variety of techniques and styles. Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by color photos and diagrams; techniques include general crafting (cut, shape, and glue), origami, and quilling. All patterns are included! Color your world and satisfy your craft cravings with delightful, handmade, paper flowers.

For Maria Noble, making flowers is a lifelong passion that began as a child watching her mother and aunt run a floral business. Using innovative methods, they made beautiful flowers from fabric, paper, and other materials for weddings and other special events. Maria started her own business ten years ago, incorporating her inherited skills and exploring ideas of her own to create new, distinctive flowers. The business has flourished, and now her exquisite flowers are sought out by consumers and businesses nationwide, including leading event planners in New York and Los Angeles. Her flowers have been featured in various magazines and on popular websites.

Maria lives in Avon, Connecticut with her husband and two children. Find her online atwww.stjudescreations.com

  
    

 

Paper Flower tutorials by Maria Noble author of How to Make 100 Paper Flowers

 

Maria Noble, author of How to Make 100 Paper Flowers: Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures, has an amazing blog called St. Judes Creations. If you visit it, you'll find a great tutorial on how to make this Whimsy Flower. 

And you can get yourself in the running to WIN a copy of How to Make 100 Paper Flowers and some pretty papers by entering here:

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More about the new CPi book:

How to Make 100 Paper Flowers:

Ideas and Instruction for Folding, Cutting, and Simple Sculptures

by

Maria Noble

Learn how to make 100 beautiful flowers, from lifelike to fanciful, with How to Make 100 Paper Flowers! These creations are perfect for weddings and other celebrations, and this comprehensive guide brings you a wide variety of techniques and styles. Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by color photos and diagrams; techniques include general crafting (cut, shape, and glue), origami, and quilling. All patterns are included! Color your world and satisfy your craft cravings with delightful, handmade, paper flowers.

For Maria Noble, making flowers is a lifelong passion that began as a child watching her mother and aunt run a floral business. Using innovative methods, they made beautiful flowers from fabric, paper, and other materials for weddings and other special events. Maria started her own business ten years ago, incorporating her inherited skills and exploring ideas of her own to create new, distinctive flowers. The business has flourished, and now her exquisite flowers are sought out by consumers and businesses nationwide, including leading event planners in New York and Los Angeles. Her flowers have been featured in various magazines and on popular websites. Maria lives in Avon, Connecticut with her husband and two children. Find her online atwww.stjudescreations.com

Easy, fun and festive Christmas table decoration ideas from the book Christmas on the Farm

Christmas is just around the corner and if you need a couple of quick and easy holiday decorating tips, check out these centerpiece and place card ideas from the book Christmas on the Farm: A Collection of Favorite Recipes, Stories, Gift Ideas, and Decorating Tips from The Farmer's Wife which is also today's Holiday Goodness Giveaway book!

The question that gets you in the running is:

What is your favorite centerpiece? It can be for any holiday, not just Christmas.

Answer the question in today's comments section by Midnight ET on December 30th, 2011 and this wonderful book could be yours to help you prepare for next Christmas!

Click on this page from Christmas on the Farm to enlarge and read all about these great table decorating ideas.

Oh and Merry Christmas (and Happy Holidays) to all of you wonderful readers from myself and all of us at Craftside!

More about the Voyageur Press book:

Christmas on the Farm:

A Collection of Favorite Recipes, Stories, Gift Ideas, and Decorating Tips from The Farmer's Wife

by

Lela Nargi

Christmas was the be-all, end-all celebration on the farm. Pages and pages on the topic appeared in The Farmer’s Wife, and these pages weren’t just about food—although recipes for all the various components of parties and holiday gift baskets certainly abounded.

 

The magazine’s experts expounded on the best and latest ways to decorate home, tree, and parcels and to create homemade gifts for family and friends, as well as games to be played to capture the spirit of the season. In short, The Farmer’s Wife presented its own opinion—both grand and humble, broad and minute, and always, always bearing in mind the idea of community among its readers—about the ways in which Christmas should be celebrated.

 

You’ll find in this book a smattering of that opinion. Here are recipes to see you through the entire Christmas season; gift ideas guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing; tips for decking your halls; and even a few stories to delight both the young and the young at heart.

Editor Lela Nargi is the author of Around the Table: Women on Food, Cooking, Nourishment, Love . . . and the Mothers Who Dished It Up for Them and several other Farmer’s Wife cookbooks. Visit her online at www.lelanargi.com and lelanarginews.blogspot.com.

 

Bunny-tastic Easter cake idea from the book 1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes

I asked a co-worker of mine if she was crafting anything special for Easter, and she said she would be making cupcakes. That got me thinking about one of my fave books, 1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes.

Wouldn't it be cute to just have the tops of bunny ears coming out of the top of a cupcake, like the first bunny here?

You could just cut the top off of a bunny Peep!

Need more yummy ideas? Then grab a copy of:

 

1,000 Ideas for Decorating Cupcakes, Cookies & Cakes

By

Sandra Salamony and Gina M. Brown

This exciting 1000 collection presents glorious full-color photographs of delicious, decorated desserts. From extravagant wedding cakes and clever birthday cakes to cupcakes and cookies that are miniature works of art, these delightful delectables provide endless inspiration for anyone who loves decorative baking and entertaining. An appendix in the back of the book includes basic recipes for cakes, frostings, and fondants.

Sandra Salamony, author of 1000 Jewelry Inspirations, is a creative director, writer, and artist living in Traverse City, Michigan. Her sister, Gina M. Brown, is an architect and textile artist, also living in the Traverse City area. They are also coauthors of 1000 Artisan Textiles (Quarry Books, 2010).

 

A "Bunch" of fun ideas from Faux Florals and Candles

I thought I'd share with you a few ideas from the soon to be released (available for pre-order now):

One-of-a-Kind Wedding: Faux Florals and Candles
BY

Laura Maffeo, Colleen Mullaney

This series is filled with ideas to inspire today’s bride-to-be. Each volume is filled with extra-special touches that will quickly and easily personalize any event—whether it’s held in a ballroom or at the beach.

Centerpieces in bloom, candlelit walkways, perfect accessories for flower girls and groom—these are just a few of the many decorative details in Faux Florals and Candles. There are a wide range of projects and additional design ideas for the planning, ceremony, and celebration. Readers can choose from among the easy step-by-step projects or look for inspiration in the photo gallery of design ideas to create their own signature style.

Laura Maffeo has worked as a stylist with Martha Stewart Weddings, Home, Seventeen, Family Circle Home Crafts, and Everyday with Rachael Ray. She is the author of Girls’ Night In: Fabulous Ideas for Evenings with Friends.

Colleen Mullaney was formerly editor-in-chief of Jo-Ann magazine, Family Circle Home Crafts, and FTD in Bloom. She is the author of Faux Fabulous Florals and Punch: Celebrations in a Bowl.

Even though this book is part of a wedding series the wonderful ideas are so easy to spin for other occasions.

I wanted to share with you this centerpiece that's got it all!

(Click on image to enlarge.)

I can totally see using red and green candies in the tall vase and poinsettias around the base.

And making this project with little red, white and green little flowers:

 

 

Now on to day 10 of our:

15 days of Holiday Goodness Giveaways!

Simply leave your answer to each day's question in each day's comment section and we will randomly pick a winner of a book from each day's commenter. You can enter every day but you are only eligible to win 2 times! (You can go back and answer previous day's questions. We will be drawing the winners after the first of the year.)

10. Do you ever sell your handmade goodies at craft fairs or elsewhere?

My Answer: I have designed and sewn tons of costumes and sold them at belly dancing classes and events. I love sewing for belly dancers, they are such a great group of girls with great spirit. One of my favorite things to do is to make a girl feel great and pretty. Other than that I make something once and I am on to the next idea. Except for ATC's-my new love!

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