Plastic Canvas Super Hero Coasters

Plastic canvas super hero coasters

 My friend Albert just bought his first home and he loves super heros, so I searched for super hero patterns and found these online, for free, courtesy of blogger, Kimberly Elliot:
super hero coaster patterns in plastic canvas

They're wonderful patterns, and will make a perfect house warming gift.  I found the cutest little windowed gift box at the dollar store to put them in, too!

I think my friend will like these.  I was so excited I couldn't wait to show him and shared a photo on his facebook page, lol.

Plastic Canvas Coffee Shop Bag Holder

I made this cute coffee shop bag holder to give to my Mom as one of her Christmas presents.
It's from the pattern book Village Bag Holders.

I've had this pattern book for YEARS and am so glad I finally tried it!  I absolutely love it, and might even make the bake shop and florist shop for my aunt and neighbor, if I have time. 

Here are a few more photos:

Plastic Canvas Hamster, with Real Hamster, lol

Chunkers checking out plastic canvas hamster

I couldn't resist making a plastic canvas version of my cute chubby hamster, Chunkers.  He immediately came to check it out.

Chunkers the hamster with plastic canvas version of self, lol.

Then looked at me as thought to say, "What the heck, I'm not THAT fat!" LOL.  The look on his face in the above photo cracks me up.

As you can see from the above photo, he really is that big, lol.  He's a very large Syrian hamster, and when he stretches out he's exactly as wide as the cage he came with when I adopted him, which is why I thought it was necessary to make him the bin cage playground addition, to give him plenty of room to play.

I really love my furry little guy, and think the plastic canvas version of him came out nicely, although when I quickly glance over now I see it and think Chunkers has gotten out of his cage, lol.

Minecraft in Plastic Canvas

Minecraft characters and objects in plastic canvas

 I made these cute little Minecraft items in plastic canvas.  From left to right, the chest, the craft table, chicken, grass block, baby cow, Alex with stone sword, and furnace.

I love Minecraft and thought they'd look perfect in plastic canvas.  I googled for patterns and found most of them for free at yarn games.

I made up the baby cow and chicken myself, without any patterns.  I like the way the baby cow came out but the chicken is kind of wonky, and too big, lol.  Oh well. 

Minecraft in Plastic Canvas

Plastic Canvas Windmill in Memory of my Dear Aunt Cobie

Plastic Canvas Windmill

I stitched up this sweet plastic canvas windmill in memory of my dear aunt Cobie, who passed away after a year long battle with brain cancer.  I found the kit on ebay only 2 weeks before she passed, and it only arrived in the mail a few days before she died, so I couldn't stitch fast enough to finish it before she was gone.  I gave it to her husband, my Uncle Buck, and he loves it.  There's a music box built in but unfortunately the music box doesn't always work.

Me and my aunt Cobie

That's me in the lilac top, in the photo above,  with my aunt Co; on my birthday a few years ago.  She was already sick at last year's birthday.

Me, David, and Cobie

In the above photo we're at a family wedding. 

My beautiful aunt Cobie

She was the kindest, sweetest woman I've ever known; beautiful on the inside and out.

Geraldine, Me, Jess, Co, and Mom

Everyone loved her, and she is greatly missed.

Mom, me, and Cobie

Sculpt 8, polymer clay OOAK baby girl

 This tiny girl has  loads of character, lol.  I painted her with Genesis heat set paints, and I am really happy with the way her skin tone turned out.  I will never go back to blushing with chalk again.

Polymer clay OOAK baby

 I'm learning to sew and made her little onesie and skirt, attaching it to a crocheted bodice.

 Here whispy baby fine hair is mohair,and she has two tiny ponytails.  \

I added a few photos with my hand to show scale  She's about the size of my index finger.

Miniature OOAK baby sculpt

Miniature OOAK polymer clay baby with plastic canvas crib.

 I made the crib for the last doll, out of plastic canvas.

Ooak babies

I had fun making this one!  She has the best hands and feet out of any of my sculpts so far, but her ears are weird, lol.

Plastic canvas crib, mini toys, and sewing for OOAK dolls

Little outfit for little OOAK polyme boy

 I have a beautiful Kenmore sewing machine that I hardly ever use and I finally pulled it out in order to try to sew some tiny clothes.  I had to learn how to thread the machine and bobbin all over again, it's been so long, and I've only sewn a few items before this, so it was a real challenge, but I'm very happy with the result.

 The white material is from my Dad's old undershirt, and the applique and blue ribbing is from a stained baby shirt.  I still have to add the snaps on the back of the little nightshirt.

Plastic canvas crib with built in drawers

 I made a simple baby stacking toy out of buttons, stacked and glued, with a cut bit of skewer glued on top.  The book is from a printable I found on pinterest, and the blocks are beads.  The doll's name is Phillip but I didn't have enough to spell his name out so settled for Max, lol.

Miniature stacking toy and book

 I really love this crib.  It's from a pattern meant for Barbie and hr babies, and it fits my OOAK polymer clay sculpt perfectly.  The mattress is really just a piece of foam board encased in fabric; same with the pillow.

 I needle felted the teddy bear quite some time ago.  I think it's pretty cool that I made everything in the photo; even the doll eyes.

 The white onesie below is a practice onesie.  It's quite a bit bigger than the little nightshirt I made because it's from an actual baby sized pattern, shrunk by 50 %.  I'm going to try one shrunk by 70% tomorrow.  This was the first time I did sleeves.

Practice doll onesie out of repurposed tshirt

Plastic canvas crib and highschair

Below are some of my polymer clay baby sculpts and the plastic canvas furniture. I'm having so much fun with this!  I can't wait to start my next doll, but first I want to learn how to make fabric doll bodies.

4 of my sculpts so foar

Plastic canvas fantasy boat cradle

I wanted to make a cradle for my baby blue tufted elf, but none of the plastic canvas patterns i have seemed to suit him, so I designed this little fantasy cradle for him.

Fantasy plastic canvas boat-cradle

 I basically lay the doll next to my plastic canvas to measure the size, and cut with the scissors, freehand.

Crocheted blankie for boat cradle

 I crocheted a matching blanket for him as well.

Little mobile for fantasy cradle

 His mobile is made from an earring backing and beads.  I was lucky I had some leaf shaped beads, as they go with the leaves on the cradle so nicely.

I did the flowers and leaves in long stitch, freestyle. In my mind, this little baby is a rare blue tufted  elf, living in the Forbidden Forest near Hogwarts.

 The mother elves weave a magical tapestry around the boat cradles can drift among the pond flowers and remain hidden.

Blue tufted elf babies can drift off to dreamland in style in their little flowered boat cradles.

 I didn't write out the pattern for the boat, but I did take a photo of the pieces after I cut them out. 

Plastic canvas fantasy cradle pieces

If you decide to make it, I suggest cutting the sides and back out of stiff canvas, but use bendy canvas for the bottom (the piece that looks like a thick sharp pencil, lol).  The little piece was going to be for the rockers, but I decided to leave them off.

If you try the pattern, I'd love to see photos.

Take care!