Easy Peasy Birthday Present...and cheap too!

One of the little girl in my Sunbeam class is turning 4 and she LOVES Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars, and it is seemingly impossible to find lightning mcqueen items for a little girl!!! So here is what I came up with...I figured she could take it to church or grandmas or in the car...it is not too big!!

Materials

Iron & Ironing Board

Scrap Fabric (just big enough to cut your letters mine was aprox 3" x 5')

Heat N Bond (could also use wonder under)

Tote Bag

Aplique

Die Cutting Machine

Step 1

Following directions on package apply Heat n bond to one side of your fabric...if you are using a orint apply to the wrong side

Step 2

Find desired letter size and cut out your letters with your cricut. I did 2 1/2", my tote bag is not that big

Step 3

Iron on your letters to the front of your tote bag...do not over iron the letters can get too goopy and will slide!

Step 4

Following the directions on the package apply your aplique to the bag

Viola! What a quick and easy project! Now I said it was cheap so I will break it down

Tote Bag $1 (it came in a 4 pack on clearance for $3.97)

Heat N Bond...I used about $0.35 worth

Scrap Fabric FREE from a friend

Aplique $3.99...Most expensive piece

Grand Total (drum roll please)

$5.34!!! Woo Hoo!!!!

Cards and a Paper Flower Tutorial

Supplies for Paper flowers

2" scallop circle punch

paper- this is a great scrap buster

pen (or something similar)

ink and dauber (optional)

Punch out your scalloped circles for this card I did 3...2 with one side of the patterned paper and 1 with the back of the paper for contrast

If desired ink your edges of your soon to be flowers before you start cutting (who doesnt love an inked edge?)

Now you are going to make small cuts (do NOT go all the way to the center or your petals will fall off) between every 2nd scallop *my puch has an odd number of scallops so on my last set of 3 scallops I just have a set of 2 and one all by itself...excuse the nailpolish please

Okay this next part might be hard to explain but I will try my best...place your flower right side down on a soft surface...I used my couch, you could use a piece of foam or something similar. with the end of your pen make circular motions on each petal...you can press hard just dont go to fast and tear your petals..once you have done each petal you should have a little dome shape

Disclaimer...if you do this on your couch I suggest you learn from my mistakes and put a paper towel in between your flower and your couch if you are inking the edges...luckily I have a dark couch!

After you have your little dome shape turn it right side up and using your pen press in the middle so your petals pop up. you can them embelish your flowers with whatever you like, I choose buttons

Then you can add them to your card...here is my finished card that I made with these flowers

here are some other cards I made with this type of paper flower...