Sister Stamp Mobile

Happy Sunday! Another busy weekend as usual but I actually got to sleep in today! I think the rainy cold weather helped. :) And DH told Akemi not to bother me.. Aaaaaaahhhhh. So, you probably already saw this on the Sister Stamps blog if you are a follower there, but thought I'd share it here again. For more details on how I made this, check out the post here.. I'm always looking for different ways to use stamps and paper and I was due for another mobile. I've made mobiles in the past using Sizzix dies, which are pretty easy since you can just flip the image. Stamping is different since you can't always align the images nicely back to back- depends on the image/pose. So I found a way around that problem by mounting the images onto something- in this case I used two sakura die cuts from my new Lifestlye Crafts sakura set. I only put one image on each sakura, but you could put one on each side so that no matter which way the sakura faces, you'll see one of the girls. Maybe when we have enough boys to make one I'll do a boy one too. So here's the full shot of the mobile.. added in some beads and small sakura in between to help with balancing the mobile out and interest. And here's the close ups of each sakura/girl. Well, hope the rest of your weekend is relaxing!

Hello Kitty Mobile

I made this Hello Kitty mobile for Michele at Island Scrapbooking. Now I think my daughter wants one too. Got the idea from my Auntie, who made one using the first set of HK dies to make a mobile for her grandaughter. In her mobile, she used the Hello Kitties dies that could "fly" like the bird die, HK as a ladybug and HK as a bee. It came out really cute.

So, being the copy cat that I am, I had to copy her idea of making a mobile. My friend Debi told me that she saw instructions on how to make one using an embroidery hoop that you just wrap ribbon around it. She saw the instructions on the Martha Stewart website. Well, I never did find those instructions, so I had to improvise again. The picture above is what I eventually came up with. I wanted to use the summer Hello Kitty dies, but couldn't figure out the color scheme. I decided to go with pink and black, cause don't you automatically think of those colors when you think of her? Well maybe not everyone, but I sure do!

Anyway, I wanted to dress it up a bit, so I ended up using beads and attaching black and white poka dot ribbons to it. The tricky part about this mobile was figuring out how to hang the kitty on the towel and the kitty on top. I had a hard time photographing the mobile cause it moves, so you can't see that there is one more kitty - the one with the snorkle. Oh welll.

Special thanks to Aunty Jan for another great idea!