Inkredible Stamping

I promised you a look at the gift I gave my Convention goers this year. Now that they are on their way to Salt Lake City and will soon be opening their gifts I can share with you!

Each year at convention Stampin' Up! gives out a bag to keep all your supplies in. They come up with some of the best bags ever!! (I'm a bit of a bag junkie and when it's done is SU colors and patterns there is nothing better in my book) But in that sea of similar bags it's easy to loose track of YOUR bag – so I always like to clip a few personal touches onto my bag to make it stand out better.

I found these adorable coin purses from Thirty One Gifts that could easily be clipped onto the bag. I knew they would be a perfect gift! But I HAD to dress them up a little 🙂 So I decided to add some Flower Flair to the purses.

To create the pink flowers in the center of the coin purse I started by Die Cutting 9 of the largest circles from the Circle #2 Die. (I found the idea for these flowers along with a tutorial on 17 Turtles)

• Cut Each Circle in half
• Fold each half circle in half (right sides together)
• Sew straight up the open side of the folded half circle.
• Turn each half circle right side out, you'll have a bunch of little birthday hat cones.
• Flatten the cones so the seam is in the bottom middle.
• Sew the open side of the flower with needle and thread, up and down a few times so you get a nice gather.
• Continue sewing the next petal. Keep sewing until you have 9 gathered petals.
• Then pull your thread through the first petal to create the flower. Tie off with a knot.
• Embellish the center.

I used a White Jumbo Grommet and a Baja Breeze Button in the center of this flower.

Then I sewed the flower onto the Change Purse through the button hole.

I used just a little Crystal effects to hold the button in place on the Jumbo Grommet. Probably not necessary but it made sewing everything together a bit easier.

Here's just a little closer look at the flower. I love making fun things even better with just a little handmade touch!

If you would like to see more sewing projects featuring Stampin' Up! dies leave me a comment and let me know!