"Craft Your Stash" Book Review & Blog Tour & Fish Wall Hanging

I'm excited to be a part of the "Craft Your Stash" Book Review & Blog Tour to premier Lisa Fulmer's new craft book! I wrote a review of the book for When Creativity Knocks and for Amazon.com. Lisa inspired me to *try* yet again to ORGANIZE some of my huge stash of crafting supplies - and then to USE them! I have been going through baskets and boxes and doing my best to organize, and purge. One of the biggest projects I tackled was my vintage trunk full of fabric (and the two big boxes that wouldn't fit in the trunk). Why so much fabric? Do I sew? Nope. But I'm a fabric hoarder along with a hoarder of anything else crafty. I emptied all 3, sorted and folded every single piece, organized by color, pattern, etc. and then put it all back into the single trunk - SUCCESS! Then it came time to create something with my fabric stash! I was inspired by the flower wall hanging Lisa created in her book with a foam sheet and fabric. Since I have a stash of Smoothfoam™ - I pulled out an extra piece I had saved from another project, grabbed some coordinating fabrics, my Beacon® adhesives and got busy. I also got a chance to use some of my huge stash of ribbons (which I am happy to say I actually organized years ago in mason jars by color family and have kept that system since - except for a stray tote bag full here and there waiting to be sorted…..).

Lisa is also giving someone a chance to WIN a great prize package - The prize will be a copy of the book, plus a nice big selection of crafty swag to add to their stash – and she is willing to ship internationally to the winner! Follow the link below to enter!

http://craftyourstash.blogspot.com/2014/09/craft-your-stash-book-tour-giveaway.html

Materials: 

Smoothfoam™ sheet 

Westcott® Craft Titanium Hobby Knife 

Westcott® Titanium Scissors 

Beacon® Fabri-Tac, Tacky Glue 

Ribbons

Button

Instructions: 

1 - Draw fish in desired size onto Smoothfoam™ sheet.  (Or print and trace.) 

2 - Use hobby knife to cut out fish. 

3 - Cut fabric to cover fish.  Wrap around to back of fish and adhere with Fabri-Tac. 

4 - Cut scales and use Fabri-Tac to glue over fish body. 

5 - Cut strips of ribbon, glue onto fins, with edges tucked beneath scales, and overlapping side of fish.  Glue ribbon around outside of fish to cover edges of small ribbon and cover edge of fish. 

To hang, I used one of those removable