Felt Valentines Advent Banner

I wanted to make another Valentine advent for my family (you all know how much I love advents) and this is what I came up with. I'm excited about it because it can be used in so many different ways. I have thought of having a gift a day inside each envelope. I thought about having a treasure hunt daily and the clues would be inside the envelope. I also thought of having valentine activities a day. You could put treats or notes inside the envelopes. The ideas are endless. To get started with this project I got an envelope the size that I wanted the felt envelopes to be.
I opened the flap of the envelope and traced it onto my felt for the first piece. For the second piece and closed the flap and traced onto my felt. I used four different colors. I did 4-red, 4-light pink, 3-white, and 3-dark pink.
I then took my rectangle piece and placed it on top of the other piece. Using embroidery thread I stitched the two pieces together.
I then folded the flap down and stitched on top only stitching through one layer (so you can still open your envelope.
I then cut hearts from my felt, no pattern just folded the felt and cut a half shape heart.
I then took embroidery thread and stitched around the heart.
I then glued the heart to the front of the envelope flap with fabric glue.
I then added self adhesive Velcro.
Then I stitched number to each of my envelope.
And that's what they looked like to this point.
To create the banner look, I took some ribbon and hot glued the corners of each envelope to the the ribbon.
And there you have it. It didn't take that long to make and I absolutely love it. I hope you do to.

Linking to: Lil Luna, Oopsey daisey, Someday Crafts, I heart naptime, Michelle Paige, Craft-O-Maniac

Dinosaur Felt Book

I made this felt dinosaur book for Jaden. He loves dinosaurs, so I thought this would be a great thing for him to have. I don't have tutorial for this because I wasn't quite sure what I was doing with it and if it would turn out. It did turn out great and Jaden loves it.

I put a Velcro flap to hold the book shut and added handles for Jaden to carry.

This is the inside of the book. On the left side I have two mats that he can play with on the other side I made a pocket for the dinosaurs.

I put Velcro on the pocket so the dino's won't fall out.
I also put Velcro on the left side of the book to place the different mats on.
This is one of the mats that I made. I found the image from a coloring book and used it for my mat.

This is the other mat that I made.
I love how it turned out and it was really easy to make.

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