I wanted to share with you all the costumes I made with my BIG SHOT!!!
They are cats. I bought the Velor sweat suits, cause I am not that great of a seamstress. Then I found the Leopard like material at the fabric store as well as Wonder Under. I ironed the wonder under to the Leopard fabric and then ran it through my Big Shot with my Circles #2 die! It cuts out 4 different size circles! Next, I peeled off the backing from the Wonder Under and then iron the circles on. I put the circles going down the outside of the arms and legs. For the circle on the tummy, I turned the fabric over and using my Circle Scissor Plus and a pencil drew a 6" circle for Samantha and a 5" circle for Hannah and then cut those out by hand, cut them down the center and ironed them on either side of the zipper. The ears are cut out with the Ovals Die, then I folded them in half and ironed it to its self and stitched them to the hood. The tails I sewed, stuffed and stitched on. Note to self, a cat does not look like a cat when the tail is stitched to the front of the pants and not the back! The were easy and fun to make, Samantha and I worked on them together!
Now, I want to show you what Samantha gave to her teachers, I got the idea from my friend and downline, Patty, they are a dessert in a jar.
You layer I sleeve of graham cracker (crushed), then 8 Halloween peeps in a ring, in the center of the peeps 1/4 cup packed brown sugar, then 1 to 1-1/2 cups halloween m-n-ms to fill. You then use the contents to make smores bars! The tag reads:
Directions:
Empty jar contents into bowl. Remove and snip the peeps into bits with kitchen shears or knife. Return peeps to bowl and mix well. Melt 1/2 cup butter, add 1 tsp vanilla. Pour this over the dry ingredients. Mix well and pat into a greased 8x8 dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 mins. and cut into bars.
I decorated mine up with some Halloween paper I had left over from years past and my Batty for You set. They were a hit with the teachers! And, from what I hear, super delish!
Happy Stampin'
Carrie
PS - GO BRONCOS!!!
Cute cute costumes!! and your girls are super adorable!! of course!! What a great idea on those jars ... yum!! Going to have to try out that recipe!! Thinking about you Carrie! And hope we will get to get together in the near future!! :)
Posted by: Jodie White | November 20, 2009 at 10:32 PM
those costumes are so cute!!
Posted by: Abi Bundy | November 10, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Those costumes are great! Wonderful idea! My kind of sewing!
Posted by: Rhonda L. | November 01, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Your munchkins are so adorable in those cat suits!!! Love that wonderful idea. And your smores recipe sounds yummy!
Posted by: Julie | October 31, 2009 at 02:07 PM