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Cardboard Cross Stitch

Create oversize artwork by completing a counted cross stitch project on corrugated cardboard | suzerspace.com

Last summer while cleaning up a flooded basement after a super heavy rainfall, I found a small plastic bin with long lost craft supplies. Most everything was past it’s prime – lots of no longer sticky stickers, crumpled and faded paper and dried out paint.

But one survivor was a cute little counted cross stitch kit.

It was a great distraction from the scheduled project of mopping and bleaching the basement floors.

After I finished up the little card, I looked for more cross stitch love, and was rewarded with a lot of cool work being done on a much larger scale – pegboards!

While they looked amazing, that scope of project is a little large, literally. It would be hard to get something that big home without help from Mr. SuzerSpace, and I’m not sure he’d be onboard with such a project. He’d probably point out that it would be difficult to hang in the end as well, and he would be right.

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February 5, 2018 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room In the Sewing Room

DIY Colored Pencil holder

Roll up paper tubes to create a holder for colored pencils

Previously I posted about my love for my inexpensive colored pencils.

I’ve continued my sketching and coloring habit and I really enjoy it – every evening after I get home I sit for about 15 minutes or so and draw an “object of the day.”

Mr SuzerSpace helps out by recommending random things around the house. I think he finds my drawings entertaining (who else does he know that sketches seltzer cans, spice jars and shoes?), and I am POSITIVE he enjoys how quiet I am when I’m coloring.

The only thing I really don’t like about my setup is trying to find the right colored pencil for the finish work. I had them in an upcycled jar, and that was OK, and I cut some cardboard dividers to try and keep it organized, but it was fiddly and didn’t really work.

So of course I spent several evenings browsing Pinterest and You Tube looking for a new solution.

September 26, 2022 by suzer By Upcycling From a Tutorial I made this In the Craft Room

Watercolor Mask from Shelf Liner

Contact paper cut with a Silhouette Cameo makes a great watercolor mask | SuzerSpace

Fall is my very favorite season. I haven’t hidden the fact that I really don’t care for summer. I like Spring, too, but it tends to bring really severe weather to the Midwest, and it also means Summer is coming, so it isn’t as much fun for me as September, October and November.

I’ve been watercoloring again, and I really like to make abstract backgrounds – you never know what you are going to get, and they never really are duds. I saw several tutorials on using masking fluid to preserve the white space for more artwork (lettering, usually) and that sounded like something I’d like to try.

And it was, right up to the point where the masking fluid was $12 for a bottle about the size of nail polish. That’s out of my budget for a one-off craft tool, so I shelved the idea.

And then it occurred to me that I could just create a watercolor mask by basically cutting an inside out stencil on my Silhouette and accomplish the same effect.

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September 24, 2019 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room

Red Fri Yay! T-Shirt

Learn the freezer paper stencil method of fabric painting to create a Fri yay! t-shirt | SuzerSpace

It’s been a little while since I stenciled a t-shirt. I took a side route and tried out heat transfer vinyl, and while it was fun, and I do have a lot of ideas swirling around in my mind on how to take advantage of that method, it does have a drawback to my beloved freezer paper stencil trick.

The issue is color. If you want to have multiple colors of HTV for your projects, you have to commit to a roll of each, and they are more expensive than a tube of fabric paint.

This project is actually one of my first Fall crafting projects. August starts pre-season football, which means the real start of the season isn’t far off. In Kansas City, the Friday before the first home game is a big deal. They call it Red Friday, and there are pep rallies, charity events and a big celebratory feel about the season that day. Most fans continue to wear red on Fridays throughout the season.

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August 6, 2019 by suzer I made this In the Craft Room Using my Silhouette Cameo

T-Shirt Tote Bag

My love for old T-shirts really knows no bounds. I’ve made pajama shorts and yarn from them, so when I saw this pin

I knew I had a project for this month’s Pinterest Challenge. The Pinterest Challenge is hosted by Erlene of My Pinterventures, and the goal is to inspire everyone to actual make some of those pins you’ve saved, instead of just pinning them.

Mr. SuzerSpace used to travel a lot for work, and he just about always brought home a T-shirt or two for me. When deciding on the best one for this t-shirt tote bag project, I went with this old and super wrinkly one, mainly because it had a pocket. We shop at Aldi, and you need a quarter for the shopping cart, so the pocket would come in handy.

Turn a t-shirt into a tote bag perfect for groceries in this month's Pinterest Challenge | SuzerSpace

Following the tutorial in the t-shirt tote bag pin, I cut off the arms, and because I’m short, I took a little off the length as well. A lot of bags scrape the ground when I walk, so since I was making a custom grocery t-shirt tote bag, I figured I’d customize the height as well.

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June 18, 2019 by suzer By Upcycling From a Tutorial I made this In the Craft Room In the Sewing Room