4 Easy but cute projects with Felt Stitch & Create

Happy Friday, my dear friends! It is time for another blog post and today I have some fun projects to show you. The new Spellbinders Felt Stitch & Create Collection has some cute characters in it. The dies are made so that they cut the felt shapes as well as the little stitching holes. Spellbinders sent me a few to play with.

My first little character is a Felt Stitch & Create Gingerbread Boy. I cut him out of darker brown felt and gave him a blue bow-tie as well as blue buttons. His curvy icing was cut out of white. Using a running stitch, I embroidered his mouth and then added the buttons to the front part.

I used cotton batting as stuffing and cut two of those shapes to add in the middle. One could use PolyFill, but I didn’t want them to be bulky. After adding the ribbon to his neck area, I stitched all around with a running stitch, being sure to add the twine in his head during the stitching process. I used Aleene’s Tacky Glue to add his eyes and the “icing” to the arms and legs.

My second little character is the Gingerbread Girl. I cut her accessories out of pink and her body out of a lighter brown felt. The die set comes with a die that will punch holes in the neck area. I used this and then embroidered the little flowers using French Knots and running stitches.

Once I had added all the details to the front, the neck decor, the buttons, the mouth and the bow, I stitched the front and back together, again adding two pieces of cotton batting in the middle. After that, I added the pink “icing” to her arms and legs as well as gluing her eyes on.

My third project uses the same Felt Stitch & Create Gingerbread die set, but this time I used it with craft foam. The star buttons, Santa hat and big star are dies from the same die set. I created my little Christmas Gingerbread guy and placed him on the front of a 5 x 7 Kraft notecard with a patterned paper card panel.

I added Wink of Stella to the star to add some additional shine and completed the card with a sentiment from the Spellbinders Make It Merry Sentiments die set which I cut from white cardstock with a gold backing.

My final project uses the Felt Stitch & Create Star Snowman die set. I cut the front part from felt and the back part from cardstock. I cut his hat, his buttons, his mittens and his scarf all from felt. Using red thread, I stitched the detail onto the scarf. I opted to add little cross stitches to the bottom section of the scarf rather than keep it all as stripes.

Once all the detail was completed, I stitched the white felt front onto the back cardstock piece and then added the hat and the mittens. I created a 6×6 card base from dark blue cardstock and cut a slightly smaller card panel, which I inked with Stormy Sky Distress Oxide ink. I completed the card with the snowflakes and a die cut sentiment cut from white glitter card stock.

These guys are such fun to work with and can be used for a variety of media. In this post, you can see I have used felt, cardstock and craft foam. I am not sure if this project would be considered papercrafting or fiber art. Definitely a way in which to combine both media on one project! Thank you for visiting, see you next time.

Please note that the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a small commission if you choose to use my link, at no cost to you. I received the Gingerbread, Snowman Star and Gnome Hugs die sets from Spellbinders in order to create with. I purchased all the other products used in these projects myself.

Project Specific Supplies
Felt Gingerbread Boy & Girl	Felt Snowman Star	Gnome Hugs
Make it Merry Sentiments
Stitching Supplies
Threads & Needles	Felt Sheets – Trend Collection	Felt Sheets – Warm Collection
Felt Sheets – Cool Collection
Coloring Mediums
Stormy Sky	Wink of Stella
Basic Tools & Supplies
Platinum 6	Universal Plates	HBS Reverse Tweezers
Tool ‘n One	Ink Daubers	Bearly Art Glue
Aleene’s Tacky Glue	Scrappy Tape 1/8

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Monica