DIY Fabric Flower headbands with Jenifer Cowles

Fabric Flower Headbands
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Jenifer Cowles

You know the expression "April Showers bring May flowers," here in Georgia we are have been getting loads of rain - we are even under a flood watch today and tomorrow. So I hope this means when it stops we will be surrounding in beautiful Spring blossoms.

Though I dislike the awful weather, I do love this time of year as many of my customers are preparing for weddings and other special occasions. It is the season for our fabric flowers. Jenifer shares with us today a quick and easy way to incorporate them in your hair. These headbands would be lovely for new baby photos, flower girls, and big birthday bashes. Our fancy blooms use no glue so sewing them on as embellishments is easy peasy.

Here are her easy 1-2-3 instructions:

1. Pick your elastic - it comes in tons of colors now a days
2. Measure your wearers head, cut elastic and tie a know 1" from the ends.
3. Sew on a Curtsey Boutique fabric flower with a few hand stitches.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Yellow Fabric Flower - Curtsey Boutique	Tulle Ruffle Flower - Curtsey Boutique	Orange Fabric Flowers - Small
Yellow Shabby Chic Flower	Small Red Fabric Cabbage Rose

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To see more of Jenifer's lovely artwork just click on her image below:

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Aspire to be the Best Layout with Connie Mercer

Aspire to be the Best Layout
Curtsey Boutique Designer
Connie Mercer

Connie shares a layout filled with lovely layers today. (Say that 3 times fast)  Her embellishment groupings are soft and feminine and include our glitter ballerinas, felt doilies, polka dot envelopes and blank raffle tickets.

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

Glitter Ballerina

Vintage Blue Painted 1 inch Button

Mini Winsome White Felt Doilies

Polka Dot Glassine Envelope

Valentine's Assortment Seambinding

White Raffle Tickets

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Other Supplies

Little Yellow Bicycle paper

American Crafts

Creative Imaginations (thin jute)

Cosmo Cricket  (pink mini letters)

 You can see more of Connie's lovely work by clicking on her photo.

DIY Bunny Ballerina Door Hanger Tutorial with Shellye McDaniel

Curtsey Boutique Supplies

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To see more of Shellye's amazing creations visit her blog, Papered Cottage, or click on her image below.

Library Chic products in the Shop and Two Vintage Journaling Card Freebies

Assorted Set of 25 Library Cards - Curtsey Boutique

 I've been super busy adding fun items to the shop.  As a teenager I spent my Summers volunteering at the local library on my military base. One summer I transferred over 1000 books from the old card catalog system to the new bar code scanners we all take for granted these days. You might think, I'd never want to see a library card or stamp again, but just the opposite is the case. I love use library cards for gift wrap, journaling in my scrapbook and Project Life projects and making tags.

One of my favorite finds is these monthly periodical check out cards. They already have the day and month on them, so pop them in a typewriter, run them through your printer or hand write some journaling and voila you're finished. So fun!!

Cards can be purchased by color or in assortments in the shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/curtseyboutique?section_id=10783255

Library Calendar Journaling Cards - Curtsey Boutique

I've also been hard at play with digital images again, and have two 3x4 journaling cards below for you to use.  I really like the idea of the ledger paper inside the doily on the second one - what do you think?

Free Vintage Ballerina Journaling Card - Curtsey Boutique

Free Vintage Doily, Kraft Paper, and Graph sheet Journaling Card - Curtsey Boutique

Getting carded,

CarrieAnne