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!
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Very cute and festive decoration! Love that hedgehog!
These are wonderful!
What an absolutely adorable project and so beautifully made! Never would have thought that lovely and intricate sentiment could be cut out of felt. Thanks for the great photos.
Those hedgehogs are super adorable!!
These are all awesome,I love the adorable hedgehogs!
Oh these are so sweet! Makes such adorable little plushies! Would be awesome cat toys too!
WOW this project is soooooooooo ADORABLE!!!! Love the little hedgehogs:)
SUPER SUPER SUPER Cute!!!
Such a fun idea. Would be a fun project to do with kids.
Love the hedgehog banner, so adorable!
So cute. Absolutely love this project.
I love this ! I am going to give it a try with a twist. Thank you for another wonderful idea.
So sweet…love your boy and girl hedgehogs!
Soooo Super CUTE!!! Love that hedgehog!!!
So very cute!
So cute! That heart would make a cute little treat holder if you left the top open and added some twine or ribbon to the top for a handle! How fun!
SEW CUTE!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS Weekend!! =)
Adorable critters! Right up my alley!!!
Thanks for sharing with us!
What a CUTE banner using the sweet felt hedge hogs!
Welcome back, Wanda! Glad you had a great time in PHX and came back inspired to share your adorable banner. Not a real fan of hedgehogs but your Mr. and Mrs. are so cute with your sweet Valentine heart.
Sweet little hedgehogs on your banner. Thanks for sharing with us.
I just love these felties! They’re on my to-do list!
Very, very sweet! I haven’t tried making any felties yet! These are adorable!
I may just have to try the felt heart!
omg—how cute is that?? That is too adorable..
So cute love it
never worked with felt before, I do have some in my stash. I might be able to do this one.
These are super adorable and look like they would be a lot of fun to make!!
I have never worked with felt, but this is so cute.
that’s just adorable
Personally I’m not a big fan of felt but these are adorable :)
That hedgehog is so adorable!!! Thanks for sharing.
Oh Wanda, these felt figures are beyond adorable!!!
Love the hedgehog. So cute!
So cute. Love little felt stuffies
Glad you’re home Wanda. This pair of hedgehogs are too adorable. Your stitches perfect as usual. I can’t believe the timing of this post. My Valentine’s cards this year have a hedgehog that is holding a card in his hand! It is a Penny Black stamp called Heart Allover. Go figure…
Sweet banner and
love the Hedgehogs!
Carla from Utah
Darling and oh so fun! Love this, Wanda ♥
Really cute idea & i love that the stitch is on the die.
Just adorable!
Wanda, thank you for your inspiration today. I love that deer little hedgehog and I am always a big fan of hearts.
I just love your felt projects!
Super cute! It would be easy to use this for other occasions by keeping the cute hedgehogs and switching out the heart.
Cute project!
This is so adorable. Love the cute hedgehogs.
Oh my goodness, this is just utterly adorable and I want one to hang in my room!!
They are so adorable!! The little boy and girl hedgehogs and then to put the heart in the middle with the Happy Valentine’s Day on it, that’s something you can put up every year since it’s made out of felt. Very cute. I love seeing all the Valentine’s Day decorations since that’s my b’day!! Thanks for sharing.
The felt is on my “must have” list.
Love the little pieces for the banner.
thanks for sharing.
So cute! The little boy and girl hedgehogs are just the sweetest!
This is so cute! The felt sentiment is amazing – so detailed and crisp!