I'm a very thrifty girl and hate to waste materials - if I'm scrapbooking or making card projects I'll figure how to cut, stamp, or punch squeezing out as many as I can from a sheet, same for sewing projects, same for anything using felt. The point for this post is that I save bits of felt in case I need a little bit in the future - you know, little scraps are needed for small things like eyes, ears, flowers, etc...
I used to have all the sheets and scraps in a big box and would dig thru looking for what I needed, but one day I got the idea to store the felt the same way I store sheets of decorative paper (a trick I learned from helping Ronda at her studio). I sorted the felt by color and grouped them in file folders, sheets and scraps together. Now I can easily find a tiny bit of pink, or a whole sheet of green - nicely stored flat in their folders. This also makes the felt not all wrinkled and jammed up in the box which is helpful!
Note: I posted about storing paper and scraps here; in a nutshell you keep the same color scheme or patterns together with scraps in plastic page protectors and stored flat on a shelf - such a simple, organized tip that makes paper-crafting so much easier.
Here's a few MMDC projects using felt:
Gracie's stitch dolls
Miss Lori's felt flowers
I'm sure there are more posts using felt but that'll get you started hahahha!! I do love me some felt 😉
2.15.21: air fryer chicken legs by Jen
2.15.20: tuna artichoke salad
2.15.19: self-tanning tips
2.15.18: clary sage bath salts
2.15.17: glazed lemon cookies
2.15.16: enjoy the little things paper project
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