tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51176876789396122024-03-13T16:21:27.163-04:00Stargazun DesignsA visual documentation of a twenty-something's crafting journey , with a focus on sewing, pottery, jewelry making, crochet, knitting, quilting, art, photoshop, photography and life.Stargazunhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04472925423053530504noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5117687678939612.post-4168760773934585102020-03-06T22:05:00.001-05:002020-03-07T15:51:51.634-05:00Betty the Bear Stuffed Plushie Doll from Spoonflower - The Costume Collection<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VuYFiyLY8VQ/XmMNRnoc1PI/AAAAAAAACek/Rf-DIfu0kUIHP7rJe8fUPeuj-pOK5yrJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_8611.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VuYFiyLY8VQ/XmMNRnoc1PI/AAAAAAAACek/Rf-DIfu0kUIHP7rJe8fUPeuj-pOK5yrJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_8611.JPG" width="320" /></a>Everyone loves playing dress up, including Betty, who loves to dress up as her favorite animal - a bear. Betty is dressed up as a dark grey bear with purple accents and is ready to be brought to life by a loving friend. <br />
Betty the Bear is a great beginner project for both adults and kids that can be sewn either on a sewing machine or by hand. <br />
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Make your own Betty from <a href="https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/stargazundesigns" target="_blank">StargazunDesigns on Spoonflower</a> or purchase a pre-made one from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/StargazunDesigns" target="_blank">StargazunDesigns on Etsy</a>. <br />
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I've been eyeing Spoonflower.com for a while now waiting to figure out what I want to create for my first fabric. A couple of days ago I noticed that the weekly contest for this week was Microorganisms. My husband just started his own SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) rental <a href="http://emitllc.com/" target="_blank">business</a> so I figured this was a sign to get myself in gear and try to lay out my first fabric. After going through a number of my husbands pictures I decided on trying to use this image he took with his new microscope as my inspiration. We've gotten images of a number of different types of mold but I thought this one was particularly interesting (and I also think the spores look like little coffee beans). The images are all taken in greyscale and I added in additional color with Photoshop. To make this image into a step an repeat I cut out individual spores in Photoshop, created vector images out of each in Illustrator and kept adding and arranging them until I had a pattern. I found that I felt like my Illustrator images were coming out as desired but when I uploaded the files to Spoonflower I had trouble getting the colors/design to look the same. In my first attempt, the "mold beans" somehow became neon green when uploaded to Spoonflower. I also felt like a lot of the detail in the original image was lost too. I created a TIF as my first file format so the conversion from a vector image should have already happened before it was uploaded. (Left = TIF, Right = After Upload)<br />
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We found the direction on <a href="http://ana-white.com/2012/02/plans/kentwood-nightstands-or-end-tables" target="_blank">Ana White's</a> blog and found hardware to match the furniture we already had. As you can see in the first picture, our dressers are an off-white color (almost a light yellow) that are a very hard shade to match so we decided to go with a coordinating color. The color's a bit off in both of the pictures- theyre actually a light aqua color.<br />
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My sister, who teaches first grade, came over last week to have me help her make Valentines for her students. She had picked up some small Valentines Day themed pads of paper and she wanted to make multi colored crayons to go with them. I happened (because I'm a crafty hoarder lol) to have a silicon heart chocolate mold sitting around the she used to make her crayons. They're easy to make and they are the perfect way to reincarnate old broken crayons into something awesome!<br />
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My husband just launched<a href="http://www.emitllc.com/" target="_blank"> his own Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) rental business</a> a couple of months ago. He works at his full time job with SEMs and so I've been exposed to some of the images before but anything he took was technically owned by his company. </div>
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With 30 right around the corner (RIGHT around the corner) I have found
myself reflecting back on how I've changed through the years. Its
almost been 13 years since I was in high school! That is absolutely
mind-boggling since in a lot of ways I feel very much the same. My
interests and hobbies haven't changed very much and with many I doubt
that they ever will. In fact, many things I enjoy today I've enjoyed
since way before high school. This past Halloween I found some awesome
pins of people with funky colored hair and fell back in love. In high
school/college I would periodically dye my hair red, blue and purple
with Xtreme Effects semi-permanent hair dye. I have fairly dark brown
hair and I loved how the "weird" hair colors over my natural hair
produced a subtle but noticeable change. My friend Kelly recently came
into work with the ends of her highlighted hair dip dyed in a
purple/pink color and it was a great reminder of how much I loved dying
my hair. I originally got only "Purple Haze" purple dye from Manic
Panic. I loved the color but I found it didn't really last too long and
it was super subtle- only noticeable in sunlight. I went back again
and got "After Midnight" blue Manic Panic dye and was a little
disappointed with the results - I guess in the front of my head my hair
was a bit lighter and while the dye was dark blue, it came out teal when
my hair was lighter. I over dyed the blue tips with the purple (I
still have tons left of both) and it came out awesome. It only lasted
about a week and a half but I will most definitely be doing it again. <br />
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My friend Kelly went to a craft fair a couple of weeks ago and bought a moss terrarium with very cute mini clovers. After looking in her yard and realizing she had the same clovers growing all over the place, she's probably made 20-30 of her own. This one that she made for me resides on my desk at work. The little planty looking aliens are my addition. <div class="blogger-post-footer">* Stargazun Designs *
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We've had a lot of friends and family having babies recently, so I have been looking for different things I can make and add to a gift. While sitting at a baby shower recently, a family member mentioned that
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When we bought our house, the front walk had a trellis with purple clematis growing on it. Since it does so well, we've not only split the vines but have also added other clematis to the yard. The flowers are so pretty I had to cut a few and take them inside to enjoy.<div class="blogger-post-footer">* Stargazun Designs *
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Black satin snap top metal frame clutch I made for my sister in law's birthday (not the best angle of the bag).<br />
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I've been wanting to make a metal frame top purse for a while since I love the clean finished look but it always was intimidating to me. My sister was in her good friends wedding this weekend, so I figured helping her make a bag for her friend and having a deadline would force me to finally learn how to do it. I did a trial run with some black satin scraps I had hanging around, and it was much easier than I thought (which is good since I bought my metal purse frame in a lot of 5 from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Upstyle" target="_blank">Upstyle</a> on etsy). I've been making bags with zippers now for a while and this process is much easier and the sewing is much faster. <br />
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To make the bag I sort of followed <a href="http://dearstelladesign.com/2013/02/piper-frame-purses/" target="_blank">Dear Stella Design's </a>tutorial with some modifications. I made both of the flowers as pins, so either one (or neither) could be used. The purple was the fabric I used for the lining, and it was also the same color as the fabric of the bridesmaids dresses. I had never made singed flowers before (never really even heard of it until I was looking on pinterest for something to add to the bag) and that ended up being fairly easy too. I made the off white one with a <a href="http://just-between-friends.com/2012/05/fancy-flowers-tutorial.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a> from Just Between Friends and the purple one loosely from Think Bowtique's <a href="http://thinkbowtique.com/blog/2013/01/27/how-to-make-satin-fabric-singed-flowers/" target="_blank">tutorial</a>.<br />
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I luckily had some heavy duty glue on hand from a bead embroidery project I was working on to attach the frame to the fabric. Getting that just right is probably the hardest part of making the bag.<br />
My sister originally wanted the bag to not sit much below the bottom of the frame, but I think if I did that, it wouldn't hold much. <br />
Now that I have a pattern I drafted and know what to do I'm excited about making a bunch for myself!<div class="blogger-post-footer">* Stargazun Designs *
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