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SAF 2017 Guest: Debbie Olson

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Just wait until you see what Debbie Olson has in store for you next!

"I am delighted to be able to help Papertrey Ink celebrate its tenth anniversary during Stamp-a-faire 2017! My anniversary material of choice was wool; I love how thick and smooth Papertrey’s wool felt is, as well as how cleanly it can be die-cut. While browsing Pinterest a few months ago, I ran across some darling felt cookies from Sweet Emma Jean’s Etsy shop. It occurred to me that I probably could die-cut cookie shapes by repurposing a few of the the abundance of dies that I already have. My Stamp-a-faire project is a collection of assorted wool felt cookies. As a bonus, I packaged them in a PTI large heart tin and created an accompanying gift card. Enjoy!"

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Instructions

  1. Die cut cookie parts and glue or hand stitch as desired. (I used primarily a blanket stich or locking hem stitch, demoed in my accompanying video. I used fabric glue mostly for the tiny parts such as adding sprinkles, chocolate chips, or fudge stripes.)
  2. If you want the cookies to be more substantial, either lightly stuff with polyester fiberfill, or cut an extra base layer to add thickness. 

Specific Cookies (Helpful hint: Refer to accompanying video.)

SUGAR COOKIES

  1. Cut two of cookie base, one layer of frosting, and as many varied sprinkles as you want.
  2. Carefully glue sprinkles onto frosting with fabric glue. Stitch frosting to top of cookie base.
  3. Stitch frosted cookie top to bottom of cookie base, adding a small amount of polyester fiberfill between layers if you wish. 

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES 

  1. Cut two layers of cookie base and as many chocolate chips as you want.
  2. Carefully glue chocolate chips onto cookie top with fabric glue.
  3. Stitch cookie top to cookie base, adding a small amount of polyester fiberfill between layers if you wish. 

SANDWICH COOKIES 

  1. Cut two layers of cookie base and three layers of cookie filling.
  2. Stitch or glue filling layers together.
  3. Stich or glue cookie top and cookie base to cookie filling. (I hem-stitched the three filling layers together, then hem-stitched the top and bottom cookie edges separately for decorative purposes only. Finally, I glued the cookie top and bottom to the filling.)

SUGAR WAFER COOKIES

  1. Cut two layers of cookie base and three layers of cookie filling.
  2. Stack all five layers together, and stitch or glue them. (I hem-stitched all five layers at once since the stitching holes were created by the die.)

FUDGE RIPPLE COOKIES

  1. Cut one or two layers of cookie base per cookie, and one layer of fudge per cookie.
  2. Next, cut small circle from center of cookie and fudge layers. Use scissors or a rotary trimmer to cut thin strips of fudge from Dark Chocolate Wool Felt.
  3. Carefully glue fudge stripes onto cookie top with fabric glue.
  4. Stitch cookie top to cookie base, adding a small amount of polyester fiberfill between layers if you wish.

 

Supply-list

Wool Felt Cookies

  • WOOL FELT: Vintage Cream, Kraft or Fine Linen, Lemon Tart or Harvest Gold, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Hibiscus Burst
  • DIES: Limitless Layers 2-1/2” Circle, Limitless Layers 1-3/4” Circle, Rainbow Circles, Damask Snowflakes, Stitched Pinked Edge Label, Bountiful Blessings
  • OTHER: needle and thread, fabric glue, polyester fiberfill/batting (optional), scissors/rotary cutter 

Gift Card

  • STAMPS: Friendship Jar, Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers
  • INK: black ink
  • PAPER: Natural White, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate, Hibiscus Burst, X-Press It Blending Card, Sweet Blush Paper Pack
  • DIES: Tiny Tags
  • OTHER: Copic markers, Rustic Twine, foam tape, glue

The-Challenge

  • Now it's your turn!  Create a project featuring stitched felt cookies.  You can choose to re-create the exact project from Debbie above or design your own using the same concepts. Your project must also incorporate at least one Papertrey product.
  • Post your project on your blog, in your gallery, Instagram or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).
  • Add your project to the InLinkz list below.
  • You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. One project per person please.

The-Fine-Print

  • As a reminder, you will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. 
  • One randomly selected winners will be chosen from all of the InLinkz entries on this post on Thursday, August 31st. The winner will be posted on our Thursday night Stamp-a-faire winners page after 9pm ET.  The randomly selected winner will get a $20 PTI gift certificate to spend however they like!
  • One randomly selected winner will be chosen from the comments of this post on Thursday as well. You will have until 7am ET, Thursday, August 31st to add your comment and be eligible to win. The randomly selected winner will get a $10 PTI gift certificate.

I'm already thinking about all of the little girls in my life who would adore that tin full of felt cookies! And how clever that they are all made with basic shape dies too! There is no end to to the customization possibilities, especially if you start adding sequins, beads and other bits and pieces!  We can't wait to see your take on this challenge!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. And the best part is they have NO calories LOL! Awesome assortment of cookies, Debbie and I love your card! thank you for the wooly inspiration!

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  4. How adorable! And I can easily see these as coasters, too (unless filled with stuffing, of course!). lol And your card is beautiful! I have a thing for mason jars … lol

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  5. I wish I was going to be home today. I would be making a batch of these super sweet cookies! Wonderful idea Debbie!

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  10. How cute your felt cookies are! These would make great magnets. I’ve been playing with my stitched shapes (apple, ladybug) and making magnets for my calender board I have on the wall in my kitchen. 🙂

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  14. These are adorable! Made me hungry. But they’re very sweet. I have never seen a lock stitch before. So I learned something new too.

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  23. These cookies are so sweet – best kind of sweet with no calories! I will be trying these, and I even think I have all the dies to make them!

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  24. I have loved Debbie’s work for years! These cookies are adorable! I’ll have to see what colors of PTI felt I have in my stash, look through my dies, and give this a try!

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  30. You know? I have seen these before on Pinterest and have always wanted to make some. I love your tutorial Debbie! Adorable gift set! 🙂

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  32. Oh my goodness, these are adorable. I wish I had the materials to start making a “batch” right now! Thanks for sharing this idea, Debbie.

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  35. Lock stitch may not be a proper name, but it’s what my grandmother did to everything she hemmed so that if I managed to break a stitch, the whole hem wouldn’t come out. It reminds me a lot of a blanket stitch, with just an extra loop of thread to knot after each stitch. 🙂

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  45. HAVEN’T PLAYED WITH YOUR IDEA YET. BUT THIS LOOKS LIKE A PERFECT CRAFT FOR COOL FALL EVENINGS IN FRONT OF THE TV. THINK I WILL MAKE A SET OF COOKIES FOR MY YOUNGEST GRANDDAUGHTER AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT!

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  47. I LOVE these cookies. I have a Visions of Sugarplums Christmas tree theme and these cookies would be perfect for it. I want to try my hand at a Fig Newton…Dark Chocolate felt wrapped in Classic Kraft -seam on the bottom.

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  50. These felt cookies are just to die for. They are adorable!!!!! My two girls would have loved them when they were little, but they have unfortunately grown up and…. (sob)… might not be as impressed as teens. Boo hoo for little girls growing up too soon!

    I, on the other hand, do not let my age affect my judgement of cuteness!

    Karen

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  53. Yummy looking cookies Debbie! I love your tips for finding dies that work! Miss your PTI posts and so glad to have you back today! Thanks to PTI for hosting Stamp-a-Faire!

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  55. I love to stitch, so I know I’ll be making some of these “no calorie cookies”! They really look great!

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  56. I’ve never seen the double twist to secure each blanket stitch and will certainly use it. Great idea. How do you start and end your stitching? Beads would look cute as sprinkles, also. I just hope my grandson doesn’t try to bite them. LOL

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  57. So cute! These will make cute Christmas tree ornaments for my baker friends. And as favors for a holiday cookie exchange. Or strung together to make a cookie garland. Oh yeah!

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  63. These cookies, and the accompanying card, are so darn cute! I would love to send them to my sister in law who is on a diet due to health issues. She would be tickled! Great job.

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  65. These are ABSOLUTELY adorable!!! These would be perfect for a little girl who likes to play house or anything like that. So cute!!! You did an AMAZING job!! Thanks for sharing!

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  67. Hi, Mary,

    Beads would look great! I was trying to avoid choking hazards, but if they were sewed well, it shouldn’t be a problem, I don’t think. I tie a knot, then hide my knot tail inside a layer, loop through the first hole a couple of times, and move on to the second stitch. If it doesn’t lay exactly right, I fix it when I come back around with my last stitch. I try to finish my knot between layers, then pull the thread tail through the cookie to keep loose ends from showing. Hope that helps!

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  73. Oh my… This is too cute for words! The felt wool has just the perfect texture for these delicious looking cookies.

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  80. Debbie’s cookies are making me hungry!! They look delicious. I didn’t have the energy to break out my seeing machine so I glued my “Italian layer cookies” and used the star die to add frosting to the “sugar cookie”

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  81. Very cute cookies! Look good enough to eat and zero Weight Watcher points! How fun they are! Thanks for the inspiration, Debbie!

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  84. YES! HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY, PTI!!!! 😉
    Debbie, these ARE ADORABLE!!! I watched your video, & as I listened at the end, my mind was just speeding ahead of you, as I was thinking of WHAT DIES do I have???? This will be FUN! THANK YOU!!! Off to do some, baking!!! 😉

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  85. Debbie, your cookies are making me hungry and not only because it’s lunch time. Hope to make some cookies before the deadline. Thanks for the great video and challenge!

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  86. Oh my goodness these are adorable! Any little child would be thrilled to have felt cookies in their play kitchen!

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  89. So glad to see Debbie joining in the fun! I’ve always wanted to learn the blanket stitch, great instructions & super cute cookies.

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  98. These cookies are the cutest things ever! Thanks for showing us how we can use dies we probably already have to make them. All my PTI felt is in storage at the moment (we are in the middle of a move), but I will try these cookies as soon as we are unpacked! Thanks for the great video Debbie!

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  116. 2017 SAF was THE event of all crafting events! It was such a treat to have 3 days of fun crafty activity! I managed to complete 14 of the 21 challenges. Thank you SO much for putting on such an amazing event!!

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  118. These cookies are perfect- super cute and with zero calories! 🙂 I’m too allergic to wool to make something like this, but the idea is absolutely wonderful!

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  121. These cookies are so cute! Happy to see Debbie participating–she’s the means by which I found PTI more than 9 years ago!

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