Terry Ricioli Designs

 Hi Stitchers! I have some new designs on the Herrschners website.  For a couple of months last spring, I was busily working on full-sized porch flags in plastic canvas - one for each month!  Needless to say, it was all consuming!  They are now available or will be in a few days. Here's December's porch flag: December Porch Flag The rest of the months can be purchased singly or in the set of twelve with the hanger. As you can see, each one has a birdhouse and birds. It was great fun to design these. For a closer look at each design, visit Herschnerrs  and look under Plastic Canvas. Have fun stitching and have a great Christmas! See you in 2024!

Merry Christmas! I know a lot of you already have your trees up and your house is fully decorated! Well, I'm working on it! One of the things I like to do every year is make some small gifts for friends.  This year, I found some nice bell ornaments at Oriental Trading .  (You may not be able to find the specific bells I used, but they have quite an assortment.) These are great, but they needed a little something. So, I gathered some supplies: Artificial greenery and berries and a variety of  Gwen Studios  ribbon Warm up your glue gun. Cut some small sections from the greenery and berries and make a bow from one of the beautiful ribbons. I used three pieces of the greenery on each side. Glue the greenery on each side of the hanger, then the berries.  Glue the bow at center front.   Much better! Repeat!  Some for friends, some for family, some for you!  Not only decorate new ornaments, refresh the old bows on ornaments and wreaths that have bec...

 Hi Everyone, This month's ribbon project for Gwen Studios is a burlap cone that you can use to decorate for harvest, Thanksgiving or even the Christmas season. These versatile cones are quick and easy to make.  You can hang them up or lay them at each place setting.  You can fill them with candy, nuts, dried or artificial flowers, leaves, herbs like lavender and rosemary or even your napkin and silverware. To start, cut a circle from burlap.  I made mine from a 9" circle, but any size will work.  Use a lid or plate for a template, trace around and cut. Then, roll up the circle into a cone.  Glue under the edge. I used hot glue on these, but double-sided tape would work as well. Using the Plaid Burlap Ribbon from Gwen Studios, glue a piece around the edge of the cone and overlap in the front.  Add a bow of your choice.  I added 3/8" brown grosgrain ribbon to the bow.  Add more ribbon to hang the cone and fill with festive fall leaves or flow...

  Happy Fall! Today I have a fun fall craft for you using Gwen Studios ribbons.  They have a great assortment of types, colors and sizes from which to choose at all the major craft chains.  These woven ribbon coasters or mug mats are quick to make and you can choose the colors you like.  I love designing with fall colors, so I chose a selection of those. They'll add bright color to your morning cup of coffee. Woven Ribbon Coasters For this coaster I used the burlap ribbon as a base and wove the colored grosgrain ribbon through the burlap ribbon.   To create the base, I laid five 5" pieces of burlap ribbon next to each other.  To hold these in place while weaving, I cut two strips of adhesive-backed felt and laid them across the ends of the burlap ribbons. Lengths of grosgrain ribbon were woven through the burlap base ribbons.  Go around the coaster and lift and glue all the free ends of ribbon, front and back.  Then you can remove the sticky...

 Hi Crafty Friends! I love fall and I love to create items to decorate my house for the season.  This month I created a little scarecrow shelf sitter. This easy scarecrow can sit among the pumpkins and other fall decorations. He's easy enough for any age to make with adult supervision on the glue gun. Scarecrow Shelf Sitter This scarecrow uses a plaid burlap ribbon from Gwen Studios, which is perfect for fall designs. Here are the materials I used: 3" terra cotta pot 1 3/4" wood ball knob (this has a flat side) Gwen Studios 1" burlap ribbon 4" circle of burlap for the hat Twine Sewing needle and tan thread Hot glue, white glue Wiggle eyes Acrylic paint for the pot and features (or permanent pens for face), paintbrush Craft wire (optional) Instructions: Paint the pot and let dry.  Cut lengths of ribbon for legs and arms (4 - 6" pieces and 4 - 3" pieces).  Cut twine to be glued between the ribbon lengths (12 - 7" pieces for the legs and 12 - 4...

 Hi folks! Fall is one of my favorite times of year and I love to design in fall colors.  Here are a couple of fall and harvest designs that I created for Herrschners . This is another porch board: Happy Fall Porch Board And, here is a view through a window of an apple orchard and an old red pickup: Apple Harvest Wall Hanging You can find these kits now on the Herrschners website under plastic canvas .

 Welcome! For the Back to School theme for Gwen Studios , I've chosen to make a wreath. They make great gifts and I'm sure the kids would have fun creating a special one for their teacher. I chose a black canvas from a dollar store for my background and some wood letters to spell "Back to School". You could spell the teacher's name or welcome also. I painted the letters with rainbow colors.  The number of letters for Back to School worked perfectly.  You could also paint them white. I glued lengths of paint sticks around the edges of the canvas to make it look like a blackboard.  A wire wreath form from the dollar store and Decorative Mesh from Joann's will form the base wreath. I made deco mesh bows from 12" lengths of mesh by overlapping the ends, scrunching up the mesh across the overlap and tying them with black craft wire. Since I'd never worked with deco mesh, I watched a video to learn the technique. I used one roll of deco mesh, which was 30 ...

 Hi everyone! Some new designs of mine have popped up on the Herrschners website. Porch boards are a very popular home decor item and I did a couple in plastic canvas. It's a pretty large project so if you start now, it will be ready for Christmas! Christmas Greetings Porch Board Next up is another set of door hangers.  These are fun and designed for kids' rooms. Welcome to My Room Door Hangers And, here's a tissue cover and set of coasters: Beautiful Swan Set Herrschners has also brought back and old design of mine.  It's great to see because I have had people ask me about finding the design.   Barnyard Tissue Cover and Coasters It's been a busy design year and there's more to come!  I hope you look for these designs on the Herrshners website under plastic canvas.  Happy Stitching!

The Fourth of July will be here before you know it and these hearts are just the thing for a quick an easy decoration.  You can glue the hearts to bamboo skewers like I did here and add them to a flower arrangement or potted plant.  Or, glue them to a headband or barrette. Use smaller hearts and letters and add a pin back to wear them on your lapel.  With so many beautiful ribbons from Gwen Studios, you have a lot of options. For this quick and easy project, you only need a few items: Ribbons from Gwen Studios  available at Walmart, Joann's and Michaels ( macarons pack ) ( cupcakes pack)  ( red and white grosgrain ) Iron-on letters Felt Glue:  hot glue and gun or tacky glue Scissors Bamboo skewers, pin back, barrette or headband To create these hearts, hand cut or die cut a heart from stiff or regular felt.  Apply the letters by ironing them on or gluing them on with tacky glue. Cut loops of ribbon and glue them to the back of the heart.  Adhere a...