Stenciling and Car bags

Today was a crafting day for us, as the mood strikes one must run with it...

I bought this cute fabric the other day with the idea that I wanted to make Charlie a car bag, I've been keeping my eye our and this was perfect. I made the bag (below) from a pattern my good friend Jo made up, quite simple and hard to stuff up (however I proven that theory wrong of course). But upon first glance Charlie now has a very cute bag to keep his cars in.

With the left overs I made a "Mini" car bag to give as a gift (with a car in it) to Charlie's little friend Craig.

My sister Janine and fmy riend Kylie have both inspired me to give stenciling a go, so as I had some fabric paint "fixture" in my draw I thought we'd have a go today. Eli made his hand into a tree, and wants to make it into a bag. Noah did and elephant and his name and I made it into a nature journal cover (sorry Kylie, totally stealing your idea, but it was SUCH a good one, just borrowing it...) Photo yet to come, he was too busy using it to take a photo.

I did these trees, and some Ginko leaves which I picked the other day and photocopied and made a stencil out of (love my ginko), also did some butter flies and flowers. I plan to make Journal covers out of these as gifts for...whoever!!! I had so much fun doing this. Now all I need to do is stitch around each stencil with embroidery thread and whip them up on the sewing machine and I'll be done..hahahahahaha, sounds so simple, but who knows when my next crafting day will arrive!!! To be continued...