Selvage Edge Scraps Flowers Tutorial

Are you tired of throwing away the selvage edge fabric pieces from your sewing projects? Well, here's a fun and easy way to turn them into something beautiful: ruffled flowers!

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To make these flowers, you will need some selvage edge fabric pieces and some elastic. You can use any fabric with a selvage edge, but I recommend using lightweight cotton or linen fabrics for a softer and more delicate look.

 

Here are the steps to create your own ruffled flowers:

 Ingredients:

30 inches of ¼ inch elastic
50 inches of pieces of scrap fabric that measure between 1/2 inch and 1 inch wide. They don’t have to be one continuous piece. They don’t have to be even, the wavier and different they are the better.
Thread
Hot Glue
Alligator Hair clip (or pin for a corsage)
3/8 inch grosgrain ribbon to cover the hair clip
Small piece of fabric to cover the back of the flower

Directions:

1. sew the fabric scraps to the piece of elastic. Pull the elastic as tight as you can while sewing so that the
fabric bunches/ruffles.

2. After you have sewn the first piece of fabric onto the elastic, continue with the second piece. Do this will all the pieces of fabric. You don’t have to worry about little gaps within the fabric. Don’t even worry about finishing the ends of all the scraps. This is a scrappy flower. It is GOOD when it is messy.
3. Continue until you are either at the end of the elastic or you have used all your fabric scraps.
4. Take your long piece of scraps and elastic. Put a line of glue onto the elastic and start rolling it onto itself.

5. Put a lot of glue onto the bottom of the flower to secure it into place.
6. Cut a circle the same size as the bottom of the flower and glue it onto the bottom of the flower.
7. Attach your pin or hairclip to the bottom of the flower.

Notes:

To make the flower bigger or smaller, use more or less elastic and ribbon. Just follow the rest of the directions.

And that's it! You now have a beautiful ruffled flower made from selvage edge fabric pieces and elastic. These flowers can be used to embellish clothing, bags, or home decor items, or they can be attached to a hair clip or headband for a fun accessory. Give it a try and see what kind of unique creations you can come up with!

Check out our other scrap flower craft ideas for scrap fabrics 

 

Wooden Gnome Sign Coloring Craft Project

 

 We love cute, quick, and simple craft projects. 

 

 

We love them more, because we have both boys and girls!

 

If there are multiple ways to complete that craft, then I am even more excited

We love these lucky DIY Wooden Gnome Signs. They are perfect for tier tray decor.

We love to paint, spray paint, and sometimes even use markers to color the wooden pieces in. 

Watch below as we use sharpies to color in the wood and see the transformation

Sign available in our shop

Make sure to check out all of the fun and simple crafts we have here on our blog:

• Weaving Loom crafts 
• Marble Painting for Kids
• Aprons- Rag Quilt Style
  

Round Weaving Looms for Beginners

A fun and simple craft project for young and old alike! In the video you will see a 35 year old and a 8 year old completing the project. 

 

Weaving looms are relaxing and fun craft project

The wooden loom is also paintable and perfect as a gift/activity for birthday partys, stocking stuffer, or just cause you're stuck at home. Plus, when you're done looming, you can use the cute loom as a decoration OR cut the string and start over using other yards. Your only limitation is your imagination...so the possibilities are endless.

 To purchase your very own loom head on over to our shop AVTRBoutique

Kids Summertime Fun, The Simple Way

I am all about simplifying life.  As my kids get older (2, 5, 8, & baby due in Sept), my life gets crazier and crazier.  This summer we don't have a single weekend free.  Seriously, we have something scheduled every....single....weekend.  Not to mention keeping up with swimming lessons, dance lessons, and all the other kid activities.  It is driving me CRAZY.

So with all the craziness that summer provides, I like to keep what I can control simple.

This is what our simple summer time fun looks like:

Picking wildflowers

Learning a new talent (for my middle child it has been learning to sew)
PJ Days (when we don't have to leave the house)



Riding bikes



Hanging out with Dad doing stuff Dad likes to do.

 

Jumping on the Trampoline with water.  This is seriously my girls FAVORITE thing to do.



Eating ice cream, lollipops, or slushies.  Whatever we have access to that day. 

And just plain ol' hanging out, taking in the sun, even in we didn't get out of jammies that day. 

What do you to for fun during the summer that is easy, fun, and simplifies life?

 

Kids Craft: Marble Painting

I remember doing a craft like this with my grandma when I was younger.  Painting with marbles didn't require any "new" supplies.  Everything I already had in my cabinet.

 My daughter thought it was the coolest thing ever.  She could even do it one handed.

Supplies:
acrylic paint
bowls for the paint
marbles
paper
box large enough for the papers to lay down flat and tall enough that the marbles won't escape
freezer paper-to lay papers after painting them so that they don't get paint on your counter/floor

How to:
pour about a teaspoon of paint in each bowl.  We used 4 colors.  The purple seemed to really dominate so we started to use it sparingly.
put 1-5 marbles in each container with paint and roll them around until they get covered in paint
then dump the marbles in your box and roll them all over your paper that has been placed in the bottom of the box.
We experimented with different amounts of marbles from each color.  We also did one color at a time or 2 at a time.  Or even all the colors at one time.
This is definitely something fun for people of all ages.  It was lots of fun to see the different patterns and to see which papers were everyone's favorite!

Dr. Seuss Christmas Trees = Awesome Kids Craft

Remember yesterday?  Those fun trees?  If you don't go HERE

 

Well I sat down with extra fabric from my halloween daughters costume 

It was fleece fabric.  In a nice BRIGHT lime green.  I am so glad that I found it while we were cleaning up after the tornado last week ripped through the basement 

First, I cut out a bunch of different circles.  You know me...no the circles were not perfectly round by any means.  They were all just guesstimates.

Then my daughter put a dab of glue in between each layer of fabric.

Then she glued on random beads all over the trees...as you can see she is such an artist!

Last night as we were laying in bed she told me that making those trees was a lot of fun and thanks mom.

That totally made my day!   I LOVE being a mom.  Best thing ever (most of the time)

DIY Flower Patterns. Simple and Easy Ribbon Flowers

I love making flowers out of ribbon and fabric. Here are a couple of patterns that I have available in my shop.

 

Today we are sharing one of our favorites. Its simple and uses only ribbon and elastic. 

Ribbon flower Tutorial

Ingredients:

50 inches of ribbon (I used 7/8 inch ribbon and 3/8 inch grosgrain ribbon, but you can use just one or a combination of several)
30 inches of ¼ inch elastic
Hot glue
thread
Hair Clip or pin
Small piece of fabric

Directions:

Follow the directions above, but use one continuous piece of ribbon
Also, when using ribbon you need to seal the ends of the ribbon by either using fray check, a match, a lighter, or a heat gun. It really does not matter the method you just don’t want your ribbon to fray/unravel
1. Sew the ribbon onto the elastic. Make sure to pull the elastic as tight as possible.

2. Put hot glue onto the elastic and roll it up onto itself.
3. Glue the back of the flower.
4. Cut a circle out of the piece of fabric and glue it onto the back of the flower
5. Attach the clip or pin onto the flower. I recommend covering the hair clip with grosgrain ribbon to make it look finished.
The finished product

Coming Soon:

These 2 flowers are a combo pattern set. 1 pattern 2 flowers
Starburst fabric flower and fabric rose

Find other fun and unique flower ideas using scrap fabrics and other mediums like fabric covered buttons on our blog