LESSology challenge #6: Hanging mobile winners!

A big thank you to those who played along with LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile!:)

Congratulations to Mandy and Sophie! You are the winner of LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile. Please email your contact details so that we can get your RAK sent out to you. [Please grab the winner badge from the sidebar.]

And now for our Top Three....

Amy

Stampersuzz

And our youngest player to date - Priya's 5 year-old son!

Congratulations to our Top 3! [Please grab your Top 3 badge from the sidebar!]

P/s: Don't forget about our current challenge - LESSology Challenge #7: You've got mail. :) It ends on Sunday December 11, 11.59pm EST. Please read the challenge rules to ensure your eligibility for our prizes.  

LESSology Challenge #6 Guest Designer: Maggi Flynn

Our guest designer for LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile is the fabulous Maggi Flynn! :)

Hi everyone!

My name is Maggi and I run a little blog called Just Add Glitter and Stir where I talk about my crafty endeavors: crochet, mixed media, scrapbooking and anything else I can put hook, glue or glitter to. I am thrilled to be guest designing for LESSology this month! I just love repurposing items to use in (and on) my projects. My current favorite thing to do is find canvas wall pictures at thrift stores, Gesso over the pictures and use them for my own nefarious creative purposes. lol Sometimes you can find them for less than a dollar which really appeals to my wallet since blank artist canvas can be expensive.

But today I'm here to show a mobile I created from an old wooden embroidery hoop, cardboard, fabric remnants, jewelry pieces and who knows what else I stuck on there. lol Under piles and piles of whatchamacallits and doodads in my craft room, I came across a piece of Wonderland fabric given to me by my good friend Deb. We're both big Alice in Wonderland fans and this fabric remnant became the inspiration for my "Wonderland Mobile":

I started with a wooden embroidery hoop to which I Mod Podged a piece of fabric, stamped onto it with red acrylic paint using star punchinella as my stencil, added some Stickles and sheet music (accented with Distress Inks).  I then stitched on the fabric and created the hanger using Punchinella and a clock jewelry pendant for the top of the hoop. The crown, glitter flamingo and Hatter brad were unearthed from my crafty stash. :D

For the outside of the hoop, I crocheted around it using blue acrylic yarn. The pink and blue tassel trim (from Gauche Alchemy's ACME kit) was mounted onto a piece of cardboard, cut out and attached to the hoop and cards using silver jewelry wire. I then attached a key to tie in the Wonderland theme.

The fabric featured graphics of playing cards with various characters on it so I cut two of them out, then I Mod Podged those onto pieces of cardboard. I stitched around each "card", added Stickles, more stenciling with star punchinella, added small pieces of distressed sheet music and wired a crystal to the bottom of each one.

This was one of those projects that I'd work on for a while, go to something else, come back and do a little more, stop and start, stop and start. lol Do you ever have projects like that or am I the only crazy crafter out there??? :D

I did have a lot of fun making this for LESSology and want to say thank you to Yvonne and the LESSology team for letting me show it off. Thanks for having me on the blog today! :D

Now, as I like to say: Go glue something awesome onto some awesome something!

Maggi

Altogether now...."Awesome project Maggi! " Are you totally inspired to make your own hanging mobile now? We would love to see your entries for LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile! :) Please leave some love for our guest Maggi.

LESSology Challenge #6: Creative project of Dora Dekker! :)

How are your hanging mobile projects coming along? Have you been rummaging through your junk drawer to find the perfect pieces for it? Take a look at what design team member Dora Dekker did! :)

Hi here's Dora again.

This is great to make, and I never thought this would be so much fun and also work right.

I have used two wooden skewers. You normally use them for your meat, perhaps at a barbecue, but you can do so much more with them.

I used some tape, placed the two wooden skewers together, and wrapped the tape around. You need to do this twice. Then you need to grab some twine. I love white twine. You can also used baker's twine as well. Wrap that around the wooden skewers  with tape.

After that make sure you know were the center is, and wrap them together. Turn the twine around both compartments, tie them together really good, and make sure you have some twine left to make it a real mobile hanger. It should look like this.

And then you can do whatever you want...I have used my favourite quotes, hearts and butterflies.

Have fun!

Isn't this pretty? We would love to see your entries for LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile! :) The deadline is Sunday November 27, 11.59pm EST. Please read the challenge rules to ensure your eligibility for our prizes.

LESSology Challenge #6: Creative inspiration from Julie Tucker-Wolek and Mandy Dodd! :)

Ready to check out Julie Tucker-Wolek and Mandy Dodd's awesome hanging mobiles? :)

Hi everyone :) I actually wasn't going to do the hanging mobile challenge...as I couldn't figure out an idea for this one...then one day I was looking through a catalog that came in my mail... and LOOKY there -----inspiration from a catalog :)

Of course, mine's not solar powered lol!! But I have some ornaments that my Mom painted for me several years ago... and I thought.. I can do something like this! So, I did! :)

This is what I started out with :)

The round box is a box I found at Michaels awhile ago - since the lid was missing - I got it on clearance for dirt cheap ;) Gotta love a bargain :) Before I put an paper on the round box, I poked holes in it to make room for my wires :)

And here is my mobile all put together :)

Can't wait to see what everyone creates for this challenge! :) ~~Julie :)

Doilies are so versatile! I had a few of these cotton doily tableclothes put away in a box (from my 80's days!)- so time recycle them and cut them up! I've used the white doilies from my piles here to create my

 Doily Hanging Mobile.

I also used my dd's cast away and long forgotten bead collection

Using a needle and thick thread, pick the beads you'd like...

Then thread through the centre of the doily

Add some more pretty beads on the top....

There... all put together!

Its so easy to put together, and hung from a plastic white ring was made in a short amount of time.

Thanks so much for looking
Mandy

Aren't these hanging mobiles just fabulous? Inspired to make your own? We would love to see your entries for LESSology Challenge #6: Hanging Mobile. Please leave some love for our designers. :)