creative jewish mom

Plastic Canvas Nesting Heart Baskets

In my book one can never have too many little baskets to decorate a table or sideboard, or to leave on a dresser top for safekeeping of jewelry and small items. These heart shaped plastic canvas baskets are also nesting baskets, so they're easy to store and fun to use when the moment strikes! One could even make them to hold treats for a special occasion, and then use them afterwards just for fun.

You can choose to leave the plastic canvas blank, as I have, or spend some time embroidering the baskets as you see fit. It really is all a matter of how you choose to spend your precious time, and in this case, the simple metallic edge gives these baskets just enough  interest, that spending hours and hours filling up the canvas in my opinion may not result in something that much more wonderful, if you know what I mean? Then again it really is just a matter of personal taste, embroidering the sides with peach or pink could be lovely indeed, and if you use long stitches, maybe diagonal ones, it could go fairly quickly. Hmmm, now maybe I've convinced myself, whoops!

Plastic Canvas Envelope Memo Holder

If you are looking for a sweet little plastic canvas project, i will modestly suggest that my plastic canvas envelope memo holder surely fits the bill. In fact, because this project requires very little embroidery but rather relies on the plastic canvas as is, you could surely make quite a few of these as little gifts, and of course my addition of the heart is a sweet touch but for a more masculine version one could certainly replace the heart with an initial.

Little Plastic Canvas Houses

I'll admit, I never thought I'd be sharing plastic canvas crafts with you, but never say never! When the lightbulb moment happened and I had the idea of making little minimally embroidered houses out of plastic canvas, well I just couldn't resist, and here they are. Truthfully I went on to make a bunch more plastic canvas crafts some of which I will be sharing with you, and some of which I'm hoping to turn into patterns to put in my shop. Time will tell, as you may know, these crafty blog endeavors take soooooo much time, anyone got some to give away?