Weekender with Wanda – Hedgehog Valentine with Memory Box!
Hi everyone! Welcome back to the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda here on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! I’m very happy to be with you today! I missed you last week, but boy, was I having a good time! I hope you followed along with us at the CHA show! I’m still recovering from so much fun and laughter and joy. It’s the best time of the year for us crafty gals. All the people I work with and talk to – I get to see them in person – and get loads of hugs. It’s the best. Now, we just need to try to be patient and wait for everything to arrive at the SSS store! I hope you had a great week and I have a fun project to share with you today!
I am featuring products from one of our very favorite companies today – Memory Box! I love their plush dies, and also their very pretty intricate dies. Oh, heck, I love everything from Memory Box! I combined the MB Humble Hedgehog Die with some beautiful Exclusive Simon Says Stamp dies and created a felt banner for Valentine’s Day. This project has been in the back of my mind for a while and it was good to finally sit down and make it. It’s so cheery hanging in my studio. I made two felt hedgehogs – a girl and a boy – and then hung a heart in the middle of them.
Here is dapper Mr. Hedgehog in his red bow tie.
And this is the center heart piece
And here is sweet Mrs. Hedgehog with some cute flowers in her hair!
The felt heart is the Simon Says Stamp Plush Charmed Heart Die. I made it with beautiful coral pink felt and a lighter pink floss to sew it together. The Happy Valentines Day words are also cut out of felt! I have to talk about this for a minute. At first I die cut the Big Valentines Die out of paper and I just didn’t like how it looked against the felt. I thought – let me try to die cut this with felt and see what happens! Well, it cut like a dream! It fell out just so nicely. I used my metal shim to make sure I got a good clean cut from the die. One tip: Be careful with the delicate die cut after it’s out. I used my tweezers to move it around on the felt heart. I love that this came out so nicely.
A close up of the girl hedgehog. I used the Memory Box Humble Hedgehog die and shades of cream and grey to make her body. I used a black enamel dot for her eye and some felt scraps to make flowers for her to wear. Just a very tiny amount of poly fill inside to make her puffy.
And a close up of the boy hedgehog. I attached his bow tie with a bit of thread. In this photo you can see that I used the Chunky Doodlebug Twine as my holder. It’s nice and thick, and perfect for this use. The red clothespins were in my stash. You can get pink ones and other colors here at SSS.
See how crisp that white felt cut out? I’m going to try to die cut more felt – trying different dies! (Maybe some alphabet dies?)
I laid everything out on my work table to see what I wanted the final piece to look like.
These are so much fun to stitch and sew. I use a plain straight stitch and all the dies come with the holes already spaced out perfectly for us. Makes it easy to get a pretty and professional result. I could make a million of these!
Simon Says Stamp has soooo many felt options! So many colors and packages. CLICK HERE to see all the felt supplies! I use a large needle for this project and then I use all six strands of embroidery floss.
And here is a top down shot of the banner. I might add on some more hearts! I’m not sure yet if I want it nice and simple or to add more. I can totally imagine making a bunch of cute and colorful animals as a banner for a baby present! My mind is working….
I hope I’ve inspired you today to get out the felt projects and have some fun! I’m glad to share with you and I appreciate your support here. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you back here soon!
What a lovely project, so very creative! This gets you in the mood for Feb. 14!
Oh my goodness Wanda these are sweet! My daughter makes banners constantly and hangs them year round in her home. She would absolutely LOVE these (and so would our adorable little grandsons!) Seriously adorable! TFS!
what a darling project–Love the hedgies, especially!
Cute. Like the use of felt. My daughter likes Hedgehogs.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
This is adorable!!
Very cute!!
So very cute! I love the theme and characters in your banner :-)
Oh wow these are absolutely gorgeous!! I especially love the heart! What a fab project!!
Lucy x
Oh so very cute!!!
So cute! I’m Bunny at our house and Hubby is Hedgie so this project is extra sweet to me. Now.. who is this lady Hedgie you speak of?
Why are hedgehogs just so darn cute? LOVE your banner, so sweet!
Cute project. Love the little hedgehogs!
Very cute!
Hey Wanda, wonderful cheery project to lift us all up!! Thank you so much!!
So super cute!! Fun idea~
I just Love it! How cleaver..
Mr & mrs hedgehog, I love it, so cute!
Love this cute hedgie – looks so soft and cuddly:)
Cute! What a fun project.
Your hedgies are so adorable!
This is super adorable, Wanda! I have never diecut felt before, nor have I ever felt the desire to. Now I want to diecut felt and make cute animals. Thanks for the inspiration this morning!
Looked at the Memory Box items at SSS, every single item is exquisite, just beautiful. Now one of my favorite brands as well. Thanking you for the inspiration.
Such an adorable project.. Awww.. so so cute hedgehogs.. Thank you so much for the inspiration
Sooooo Absolutely A-DOR-ABLE !!!
When I first saw your post I thought this was something I would never do but decided to read it anyway. By the time I got to the end I was amazed. This is something I must try. Thank you so much for the inspiration
Wonderful tutorial, Wanda. I really enjoyed the use of the felt in your projects. Super cute. Thank you for the inspiration.
Great project! :)
I look forward to your post every weekend! And once again you’ve created something fabulous. Heading over to check out Memory Box dies to add to my collection.
Who’d have thought a hedgehog could be cute.
This is so adorable! I love Mr and Mrs hedgie! :-)
That is so cute!
So cute and fun!
I love it, I think it’s perfect.
Very cute idea! Love how you decorated the hedgehogs.
I loved the hedgehogs. I haven’t tried using felt befor. I will have to give it a try.
cute, cute, cute, fun, fun, fun
So creative & adorable, Wanda! I love felt & have a ton of colors, so clearly I need to get some stitching dies! I don’t have the patience to use it with delicate dies–I always tear it. However, I have found that backing the felt with cardstock before die cutting saves the day–although you don’t get exactly the same look, of course. Happy Weekend!
These are too cute!
I love this!!!! This would be great as a classroom decoration for Valentine’s Day.
Cute banner! Love the felt heart. Makes me want to create some critters and hearts myself!
Those are adorable!
This is why you’re the designer and I just sit here learning.
I love this idea. The felt critters are absolutely adorable.
Who wouldn’t want to hang this in their craft room?
Thank you for adding fun to my Saturday mornings.
Love your sweet hedgie banner!
Cuteness overload!!! Mr and Mrs Hedgehog?? Love it!
super cute! this is a great project to do with older kiddos too- LOVE it!!
So cute. Love these hedgehogs.
Super cute!
The Hedgehogs are sew cute!!
Adorable felt projects!
So cute! Love this idea. Thanks for sharing!!