MFT Creative Challenge | Felt

Howdy!  It's time for another MFT Design Team Creative Challenge and this month we are challenged to create a little something using MFT's My Favorite Felt.

My youngest has had a wiggly tooth for a few weeks and she has been bound and determined to pull that sucker out.  So I made a little Tooth Fairy pillow for her big day (and I made it JUST in time!).

I must confess that I have not sewed anything like this since 7th grade Home Ec class, and I feel a bit rusty and forgot to take photos as I went, so I hope I explain this right.  It's not a difficult item to put together, so if I can do it, you can too! 

I had her pick out her favorite colors and then she said she wanted a flower on it.  I cut out 2 pieces of 6" x 6" Grape Jelly Felt for the base of the pillow and then used my Square STAX Die-namics and cut out a square of Bubblegum Felt and Sweet Tooth Felt.  I sewed the top edge of the Sweet Tooth square first, and then pinned it to the Bubblegum square so I could sew it to the Bubblegum square and create a little pocket.  I arranged the 2 Grape Jelly squares on top of one another (making sure the pocket was on the inside of the "sandwich" and sewed the seam about 1/2" in from each edge, but left enough room on the fourth side to turn the felt inside out.  I filled the pillow with batting and then sewed up the remaining edge to finish the pillow.

The flower is part of the Blueprints 3 Die-namics set and I attached it to the little pocket with a Grape Jelly Button.  What is the going rate for a tooth these days?  I remember getting a quarter and a pack of Trident gum, so I thought a dollar was fair enough.  But I know quite a few lucky kids whose Tooth Fairies bring them $5!!  We have a very cheap fairy apparently.

I made her a little card to celebrate too -

The sentiment is from You Make My Day and I stamped it in Blu Raspberry on Smooth White Card Stock.  I used the same flower arrangement as I did on the pillow.  The layout is Deconstructed Sketch 113.

I stamped a little something inside the card in Grape Jelly Ink.  The sentiment is from LJD On the Line.

Be sure to swing by the MFT Blog for a complete list of designers playing along in this month's challenge.  You will find lots of inspiration waiting for you!

Here are the products I used today -

Thanks for stopping by!








recipe - 
stamps: you make my day (mft), ljd on the line (mft)
paper: smooth white (mft), grape jelly (mft), bubblegum (mft)
ink: blu raspberry (mft), grape jelly (mft)
accessories: blu raspberry felt (mft), bubblegum felt (mft), grape jelly felt (mft), grape jelly buttons (mft), fishtail flags layers stax die-namics (mft), blueprints 3 die-namics (mft), square stax die-namics (mft), corner rounder, white perle thread, sewing machine, thread, foam tape