Butcher Paper Spring Wreath Free Tutorial by Alisa Burke

I just love Alisha Burke's tutorials.  She always has such unique and creative ways  to make something out of just about anything.  Here's a terrific tutorial showing you how to make a spring wreath out of butcher paper. Enjoy.

butcher paper spring wreath

Copyright © 2011 - All Rights Reserved - Written by Alisa Burke of Alisa Burke

Here's what Alisa had to say about her tutorial: As you may know I love to celebrate the seasons with a unique hand crafted wreath and for spring I decided to create a fresh, all white wreath made completely from butcher paper.

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Alisa's Bio: Alisa Burke is a freelance painter and mixed media artist who studied fine art at Portland State University. With a background in painting and printmaking, a desire to explore and push materials, Alisa is always looking for new ways to break the rules and redefine art. She draws inspiration from street art, graffiti, art history and fashion and it is not uncommon to find her digging through the trash in hopes of recycling something unique use in her artwork.

Alisa’s paintings have been exhibited in a variety of galleries and her handmade, painted accessories are carried in a number of boutiques across the country. Her artwork has been featured in publications such as Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts, Where Women Create, Somerset Studios’ Haute Handbags, Art Doll Quarterly, and the University of San Diego Magazine. In addition to making art, Alisa teaches a variety of workshops nation wide. Alisa appeared as a guest artist on the DIY Network show Craft Lab and book Canvas Remix was released in spring 2008.

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Please visit her Alisa Burke website at http://www.alisaburke.com and her Alisa Burke - Redefine Creativity blog at http://www.alisaburke.blogspot.com. Her Alisa Burke Etsy shop is at http://alisaburke.etsy.com.

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Felt Snow Bunny Ornament Free Pattern by Lisa Bunting Thoms of Q. D. Patooties

I thought you might all like to know that Lisa Bunting Thoms of  Q.D. Patooties  has a wonderful bunny ornament pattern to share.  I know you're going to love it.

Free Felt Snow Bunny Ornament PatternCopyright © 2007 - All Rights Reserved - Lisa Bunting Thoms of Q.D. Patooties

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Here's the instructions and what Lisa had to say about her Felt Snow Bunny Ornament Pattern:  Okay, this is probably the last free pattern before Christmas. But thankfully, you can use this one for Easter too! So hang on to it and file it away in your stash. It's incredibly simple but I think it works up really cute. It's small enough that besides being an ornament, it would also make a cute package decoration or even a pin. Or stick one of those magnets on the back and put him on your fridge! And Snow Bunnies stick around all winter unlike Snowmen who are a little less reliable - especially in warmer weather!

All you need to do is to click on the pattern above and save it to your computer. After you click, the pattern will enlarge. Then, just right click and "Save Image As" to save it to your computer. 

Anyway, my only hints with this pattern are in order to work this small (hey, it's small for me) I traced my pattern onto a piece of felt, folded the felt over and then sewed directly on the outline of the bunny. I left the side open for stuffing. You can wire his ears if you like with chenille pipe cleaners. Then you won't have to stuff them and they'll be poseable. Along those same lines, you could wire the whole bunny if you like and not stuff him at all. Just make him a little poseable guy to put where ever you want. Oh, and finally the face and other features I embroidered but you can do whatever you want with your bunny. I'm not going to come inspect them or anything! And I just used a few strands of that fancy yarn for my scarf. I really love that yarn and wish I could find more as it's both soft and sparkly - gotta love it!

Enjoy!

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Lisa's Bio: Lisa is a professional teddy bear artist selling heirloom quality collectible bears to Adults and has been making bears professionally since November 1997. Her creations have been nominated for several Awards including the TITA, Teddy Bear Scene Reader's Choice Awards and the Ace Awards. They've also been included on a regular basis in many of the major doll and crafts magazines.

Copyright © 2007-2012 - All Rights Reserved - Lisa Bunting Thoms of Q.D. Patooties at http://qdpatooties.blogspot.com.

Please visit Lisa's Q.D. Patooties Spoonflower Fabric Shop and her Q.D. Patooties Etsy Shop.

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It's All About Birds - Free Birds From The Best Free Craft Articles Blog Contributors

The other day on my Linda's Blog I posted an article entitled:I Thought They All Flew South For The Winter! which was about a flock of birds I had seen from my window.

Well, in thinking about birds and wishing for Spring I thought about all the wonderful free articles, e-patterns, tutorials, graphics, stitcheries, craft projects and more from The Best Free Craft Articles blog contributors regarding birds. Here they all are:




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I hope we've inspired you to create some birds.

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I Am So Wishing For Spring and Florals! Free Florals From The Best Free Craft Articles Blog Contributors

I am so tired of the winter and snow and so wishing for florals and Spring. How about the rest of you?

So, I said to myself, "Florals are cheery - aren't they?"   Would you like a little floral cheer?

Here's all the wonderful free floral articles, e-patterns, tutorials, graphics, stitcheries, craft projects and more from The Best Free Craft Articles blog contributors:



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I'm wishing, wishing, and wishing even more for Spring to hurry up and arrive.

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I'm In The Mood For Bunnies - How About You? Free Bunnies From The Best Free Craft Articles Contributors

It's been a long, cold, snowy winter and I'm in the mood for something Springy, something delightful, something cheery - like bunnies.

How about all of you? Are you in the mood for bunnies.

Well, if you are then we have lost of free bunnies to choose from. Lots of ways to make all sorts of different bunny crafts.



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I'm in the mood for bunnies - How about you?

Cross your fingers for an early Spring!

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Hang-10, Bunny - Free E-Pattern From Linda Walsh of Linda Walsh Originals

“Hang - 10 Bunny ”CLICK HERE FOR THE DOWNLOAD10” Country Bunny Ornament E-Pattern - Spring Series
Pattern Category - Skill Level - Beginner

"Hang - 10, Bunny" just wants to hang out at your house. She's willing to wait and wait and wait until you decide where to put her.

You see, she's used to waiting. She's a surfer bunny who can "hang -10" with the best of them. Just waiting for the perfect wave.

So, hanging around your house waiting for you to decide where to put her is - well, a piece of cake compared to surfing the waves off Hawaii.

Plus, she knows that she'd be perfect where ever you decided to hang her.

When you decide - she'll be a waiting. Just hanging -10!

"Hang-10, Bunny" is a warm and natural bunny head ornament. She has an embroidered face with black bead eyes, wired ears with embroidered running top stitching , blushed cheeks and a large wired bow decoration beneath her chin.

If you'd like to download my free .pdf e-pattern please CLICK HERE for the "Hang-10, Bunny" page of my Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns website.  Here you can download my free e-pattern and view all of our e-patterns.

Please respect Linda's Terms of Use: All patterns, e-patterns, e-books, tutorials, how-to's, and e-products © 2004-2010 Linda Walsh Originals-Designs by Linda Walsh. All rights reserved, including downloading, mass producing, photocopying, enlargements, reductions,and all other forms of reproduction, website sharing, Email, RSS feeds, or any other means of redistribution. Commercial selling or reselling by any means, including eBay or any other website by permission only.

Products made from Linda Walsh Originals patterns, e-patterns, e-books, tutorials, how-to's, and e-products are intended for personal use for fun or small scale personal and business profit as long as you credit us with the design. Large scale commercial use (i.e. mass production) including wholesale distribution, catalog sales, and all other forms of large scale commercial production are by permission only. Items made from Linda Walsh Originals patterns, e-patterns, e-books, tutorials, how-to's, and e-products are intended for decoration only and are not intended for use by children. Not responsible for human error, individual workmanship, or printing errors in the E-books, E-products, tutorials, how-to's, patterns or the E-Patterns.

Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Written By Linda Walsh of Linda Walsh Originals, Linda Walsh Originals E-Patterns, and Linda's Blog. Linda is a doll maker and doll pattern designer. http://lindawalshoriginals.com/

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Spring Is In My heart and Home Tweet Home Free E-Patterns From Renee Mullins of Plum Purdy Designs

I just LOVE artists and painters as I'm so envious of their enormous talent.  I  wish I could paint like they do, but I wasn't blessed with such talent.

However, I can try my hand at painting some of the wonderful creations by some of the very gifted artists and painters on the web.  One such artist is Renee Mullins of Plum Purdy Designs and she has created some wonderful free painting e-patterns on her Plum Purdy Designs website.

Here's her free spring e-patterns. Enjoy!

Home Tweet Home I found this little scalloped box at “Michael’s”, ALTHOUGH, you can paint this on a square box or other surface. Suggestions… Photo albums, enlarge for a welcome sign, tote bags… be creative!  Copyright © 2010 - All Rights Reserved - Renee Mullins

Spring is in My Heart This design can be used in so many different ways. *Drill a small hole in the center and use as a tag for a gift basket or clasp onto a tote or purse. *Attach a magnet to the back. *Glue a long thin stake to the back and use as a plant poke. *Drill a tiny hole on each side of the heart and attach to a basket with wire. I hope you will enjoy my “Springtime” design! Happy Painting! Renee’  Copyright © 2009 - All Rights Reserved - Renee Mullins

Please respect Renee's TERMS OF USE:  From time to time I get inquiries about my copyright information. Thank you for being so courteous and contacting me!

There are some that disregard copyrights, or copyright information, maybe because they don’t understand that the work from those who design are owned exclusively by the artist and are not intended to be used in just any way that some may want to use them without permission. I hope that I can clearly explain how, and for what reasons, that my designs can be used, and in what ways they cannot.

I hope you will continue to have fun with my designs and that this will clarify some issues that may have confused many of you. 

It would be VERY MUCH appreciated if you would report to me any infringements of my designs that you may find. 

I can only continue with my designing career if I can be supported in an honest way…. :0)

My designs are intended, and permitted, for Personal use only….. 

All of my designs can be used for personal use in anyway that you would like to use them, such as for painting, stitchery, or appliqué. They can be used to produce a painting or other craft to sell for “pin” money for craft shows, eBay, personal web-sites, craft malls, etc.

They cannot , however, be mass produced, used to produce products for wholesale purposes, catalog sales, or used in any type of business or commercial use. This includes using any part of my design to reproduce an item for commercial re-sale, such as “wood kits”, “graphics”, “scrapbook kits” , or any other reproduced item from the use of my designs. 

Reproduction of any part of my designs  - YES… please feel free to be creative with my designs and reduce or enlarge any of the line drawings to fit your personal use, such as to fit on different sized surfaces.

They however, cannot be reproduced or copied to pass along to friends, groups, paint classes etc….

By no means, can they be reproduced or republished to be sold as pattern packets on eBay, internet sites, Stores/Shops, or conventions.  

Scanning of line drawings, instructions, photographs - Any of my line drawings, patterns, or photographs cannot be scanned or photographed and used for PSP Tutorials, graphic use, advertising, logos, business cards, web-sites, etc. 

TEACHING MY DESIGNS - I am so grateful for all the wonderful teachers that teach my designs! Thank you so much!  For those of you considering teaching my designs that do not know what my requirements are…. They are listed below.

• I would prefer that classes purchase the pattern packet or book (I do give a wholesale discounts for the class purchase), but if that is not possible, (1) line drawing per student is permitted to be copied and distributed. Please make sure that I am given credit as the designer on the line drawing by printing my name with the line drawing.
• Other than the line drawing, no other part of my design can be reproduced, such as the photograph and instructions. If the photograph, instructions, and line drawing are all reproduced, this is actually “reproducing” my pattern packet or book design, and this is not permitted.
• Pattern Packets and designs from any of my books are not to be reproduced to sell for wholesale or retail.

Please feel free to contact me If you have any other questions…..  Thanks so much for your understanding and respecting my copyrighted work!

Copyright © 2005-2010 - All Rights Reserved - Renee Mullins of Plum Purdy Designs. Renee is an artist, painter, decorator, and pattern designer.

Please visit her Plum Purdy Designs. website @ http://plumpurdy.com/ and her Plum Purdy Blog @ http://plumpurdy.com/myblog/

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