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  4. Christmas Hanging Hearts Free Project

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    Hi everyone, we have another quick mini project for you. This is a hanging hearts decoration, it's really quick to make. You will need 6 hearts (2 red, 2 green, 2 white), a length of ribbon, 3 bows, 3 bells, some wadding and a need & thread.

    diva crafts hanging felt hearts free project

    Step 1: Take 2 hearts, blanket stitch them together at the 3/4 point fill with wadding, finish sewing up.

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    Step 2: Add a small bow & bell, repeat with the other 2 hearts.

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    Step 3: Take the length of ribbon and sew a heart to the bottom, place the other hearts slightly above each other and sew them on. Then make a loop at the top for hanging.

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    Carole & Gina x

  5. November Free Project - Christmas Ribbon Tree

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    Hi everyone, happy Novemeber! here is a great project for you, a ribbon christmas tree. This takes about 1 hour when pinned (it could be quicker if you used a hot glue gun). And it's a great way to use ribbon or ribbon scraps so it's cheap too!

    You will need:

    1 cone approx: 30cm tall, a selection of christmas ribbons and pins or glue

    diva crafts christmas ribbon tree free project

    Step 1: I used wired edge ribbon for the bottom row. I cut it into 3.5inch lengths folded them over, and pinned them to the tree, each time I added a new strip I over lapped them slightly, so that each strip shared a pin too. I gradually worked my way up the cone changing the colour of the ribbon, or twisting the ribbon for a different look.

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    Step 2: On the 7th row, I reduced the ribbon size to 3 inches long and added another row of wired ribbon  and then worked my way up the cone again, until 2 rows from the top where I reduced the size to 2.5inches. I looped some narrow ribbon to create a decorative top. When I was finished I pulled the wired ribbon up to give the tree some shape! (make sure you put at least 2 rows of wired in to help shape your tree).

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    Carole x

  12. The Little Venice Cake Company Icing nozzle #22

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    Hi everyone, This week is National Baking Week, and I just wanted to share with you what you can do with your Little Venice Cake Company icing nozzle #22. This is a medium sized star nozzle, and its great for stars, shells and swirls. Below you will see how I decorated a Devil's Food Cake (yummy!) that I baked, for the topping I piped on chocolate fudge frosting, to make it super scrummy.

    Gina x

    Step 1: Bake a super yummy cake, fill up your icing bag with a yummy topping, I have my nozzle #22 on my bag already!

    little venice cake company nozzle 22 diva crafts

    Step 2: Start piping little stars around the edge of the cake.

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    Step 3: Once you have completed the outer circle, fill the cake in one circle at a time!

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    Finished! and below the finished cake is a close up of some of the things you can use the star #22 nozzle for!

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  13. New products for October at Diva Crafts

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    Hi everyone, we hope you are all getting ready for hallowe'en, have you made any costumes yet? Here are the new products for Diva Crafts that have been added in October. We have a great range of bias bindings in various popular colours, we stock, 25mm, 16mm and 19mm satin bias. We will shortly be adding herrigbone tape too, the tape will be 25mm wide and available in, black, blue, red, pink & off white.

    Carole & Gina

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  14. October offer of the month

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    Hi everyone, due to popular demand Octobers' offer of the month will be the 50 piece scrap fabric pack. This is currently our most popular product, great for patchwork the scrap pack is an easy way to get lots of designs of fabric in one go without the big cost! So when you spend over £15 in one transaction (excluding the cost of the scrap pack), please add the scraps to you basket and then add this discount code at the checkout! FREESCRAPS

    This offer will end on the 31st October.

    Carole & Gina

  15. October Free Project - Halloween Bag

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    Hi everyone, yes we know it's a little early, but we are super excited about this cute halloween bag we have decided to share it with you early! This is a really quick project to do, so simple and versatile. We used the A4 Dovecraft felt for this project. You can find all of our felt products here. For this project you will need, some orange & black felt, scissors, 50cm of ribbon, and you can either machine sew or hand sew this!

    Step 1: Cut 2 pieces of orange felt 13.5cm x 13.5cm. And cut 3 pieces into 13.5cm x 4cm wide.

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    Step 2: Sew the 3 small pieces of felt together, this will form the base and sides of the bag.

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    Step 3: Draw your favourite halloween shape (we chose a pumpkin) cut 1 from black felt. Then either sew or glue this onto one of the large orange panels.

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    Step 4: Matching the narrow strip to the front panel, line up the corners and pin. Then machine or hand sew over the edge, then cut the 50cm piece of ribbon in half, and sew on two handles to the bag.

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    Carole x

  16. New Products & Coming Soon

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    Hi everyone, just to let you know about some new products that have arrived, and some that are coming soon to Diva. We will soon be stocking a range of the beautiful Bertie's Bows ribbons. These great ribbon are perfect for sewing, card making and scrapbooking! See a preview below, and also below you can see the fantastic range of craft buttons. These buttons come in various colour ranges and are sold in 75gram bags!

    Carole & Gina x

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  17. Fabric Wreath Tutorial Free project

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    Hi everyone, fabric wreaths have been around for a long time, they are a simple and easy way to create a pretty decoration. The wreaths are so versatile, just by changing the colours of the fabric you can change the theme of your wreath, oranges & black for halloween, pretty pinks & reds for valentines, and so on. I decided to make a wreath using the red and green vintage rose fabric which can be found here.

    You will need: a wreath, approximately 1/2 metre of fabric (I used 2 fat quarters as I chose 2 different fabrics), some glitter netting, narrow ribbon & 2 felt hearts.

    Step 1: Fold the fat quarter in half, and then in half again (so you have 4 layers). I cut the fabric into 1 inch wide strips, and then I cut them in half. (So each piece is now 1 inch wide by 25cm long).

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    Step 2: Tie each strip of fabric around the wreath, I did 2 red, 1 green, 1 red, 2 green and repeated it. I also tied the odd glitter netting strip in. Carry on until the wreath is full.

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    Step 3: Cut out 2 felt hearts (or use pre-cut ones). Place a ribbon between them, then sew or glue the hearts together.

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    Step 4: Tie a knot in the ribbon about 2cm away from the hearts, and then tie this to the wreath, use the left over ribbon above the wreath as a loop to hang your finished wreath.

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    Carole

  18. Cookie Monster Cupcakes Free Project

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    Hi everyone, today I am sharing a free project on things you can do with the Little Venice Cake Company's icing nozzle #233 grass. You can find this product here. I wanted to make some cupcakes for my daughter's kindergarten class, and I thought that monsters would be pretty cute, so I had a look around this internet and saw some pictures of "hairy monsters" made with buttercream, so here is my attempt.

    Step 1: You will need, cupcakes, icing bag & #233 nozzle, I used blue buttercream because I wanted to make cookie monster from Sesame Street, you will also need white chocolate buttons for the eyes, and mini cookies. For the hairy monster I used Smarties for the eyes and nose and a black food pen.

    cookie monster cupcake tutorial diva crafts

    Step 2: Making the hair on the hairy monster, this is the same technique as making grass. Hold the piping bag vertically above the cupcake and squeeze down hard and pull up and release the pressure. I practiced this a few times to get it right, it is definately very forgiving, if you made a mistake, you probably wouldn't notice. Pipe the hair all over the cupcake - it was very quick to do!

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    Step 3: For Cookie Monster: To make sure it looked even, I cut off the little dome of cupcake that was just sticking up (see picture) and then for Cookie Monster's fur, hold the icing bag vertically above the cupcake and squeeze the bag, but this time hold the pressure and move around the cupcake so you have a continuous stream of icing coming out, again cover the top of the cupcake.

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    Step 4: The eyes: take 2 white chocolate buttons for cookie monster and 2 smarties for the hairy monster, stick them on the cupcake. Then make black circles for the pupils. I used an edible pen and drew them on, but you could use chocolate or royal icing.

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    Step 5: Cookie Monster's cookie. Take a spoon and using the end of the handle, push it onto the cupcake to create a gap to push the cookie into. Then pop the mini cookie into the gap. You can always add abit more icing around the cookie to hide the gap if any is showing.

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    Cookie monster is now finished! You could leave the hairy monster like this or add another smartie for a nose like this:

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    And this is the collection of monsters I ended up with (a couple of hours later...)

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    Gina x