Happy Memorial Day!!

Happy Memorial Day!!

Made out of dollar store items...foam wreath, extra Christmas glass balls, red, blue and star garland and some wooden plaques I had left over from another project....

 With a little help from my silhouette machine and a glue gun, I present to you my festive patriotic wreath! You can bet your bottom dollar I'll be using this for the fourth of July as well as Labor Day Weekend!

All You Need Is Love...

"All you need is love, all you need is love,

All you need is love, love, love is all you need."

This Valentines Day craft was inspired by this classic Beatles song.  Here's what you'll need:


A wooden board (decorative edges give it a nice touch)
Wooden Letters: L O V & E
White, Black, Poodle skirt pink paint
paint brushes 
Sandpaper
Glitter black paint

~Tutorial~

Start with your wooden board. I found a bunch of these at Michaels in different sizes. 

The key is finding the correct size letters to fit right on the board.  

Paint it white.

Next, you'll paint the board black...I know you just painted it white but....after painting it black you'll sand it so that you can see the white underneath. 

This will give you a rustic/older look.

Now, we're going to do the opposite- paint the letters black.

Now, paint the poodle skirt pink over the black 

and sand it down.  Cool, eh?

Lastly, put all the pieces together and use your 

black sparkle paint to write out 

"All You Need Is" on the LOVE. 

(one word per letter)

It's the perfect addition!

XoXo

I just LOVE hugs and kisses- XoXo and I love those pretty colored marbles...put the two together and you have a pretty cool project for Valentines Day.

I started off with one of these shadow boxes from Michaels (on sale for $2!!).

Pretty pink, red and white marbles... 

Now, get creative! I did originally write out LOVE but the red marbles didn't show up well against the black background :( ...but the XOXO came out SO cute. I added some sparkly paint for hearts and voila!

I think this looks too cute in my hutch!  I'll have to add some more valentines crafts to it though ;)

Valentines Day Heart Wreath

With Valentines Day around the corner, I'll be posting some v-day crafts with tutorials.  I love this time of year...not only is Valentines Day such a great day but my birthday is right before it.  Love LOVE February :).  Here's the first of several crafts: Valentines Day Heart Wreath.


First you'll wanna get one of these darling heart wreaths at Michaels.  You'll need modge podge (<3) and sparkles.

Coat the entire wreath in modge podge and shake sparkles over it to cover...I put the wreath over the sink because this gets WAY messy :)

Once covered, let dry and decorate. I hot glued pink, red and white marbles to it and some pretty sparkly ribbon...but you could use whatever your "heart" desires :)

Christmas gift #1 exposed

So the reason I haven’t posted much is because all that I’ve been crafting is Christmas gifts!  So here’s the first one exposed!  Tatertots & Jello made these and I thought they were just too cute so I decided to try them out.  I made patriotic ones and Halloween ones for my sister for our Christmas Bread tradition. Visit Tatertots & Jello for her awesome tutorial!  The only thing I would add is that you definitely need to use the dollar store napkin rings. I went to the Christmas Tree Shop and bought napkin rings and because of the shape/size this project didn’t work with them.  Other than that, they were super easy!

What’s in a Name?

I love anything that makes a baby room more personal which is why I love personalizing wall letters.  I recently made these for a friend of mine who was redoing her son’s room.  The theme was transportation.  She sent me pictures of the décor and from there I went to Michaels for some cute scrapbooking paper.

First I painted the letters and after tracing the letters on the BACK of the scrapbook paper, I cut out the letter and mod podged it on.  I found some cool embellishments (car wheels off one of my sons MANY cars ), street sign stickers, etc. and voila! Super Cute!

Doesn’t get any cuter and more personal than that!

Did You Think to Pray Today?

I saw this tutorial on another bloggers sight…but honestly, for the life of me, I can’t recall whos so I apologize in advance!! The blogger did made it slightly different than I…using printed tissue paper while I used my silhouette machine. 

I started by painting the outsides of these oval plaques with a wood stain… I then used my nifty silhouette machine to cut PERFECT ovals and modge podged them on.  Resorting back to my silhouette machine, I then cut the black letters and even though they were self adhesive vinyl, I modge podged over them for a clean look. I thought they needed some pizazz so on went the buttons and after stapling a cute ribbon onto the back they are ready for reminding my kids to pray   Pretty Cute, eh?

Count Your Blessings

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I wanted to write out all of the wonderful things we’ve been blessed with.  I came up with this blessings board…a neat way to see day to day our many blessings and to write and rewrite them with the family. 

I started with a plane wooden frame…took the glass out and taped straight across so that the words would be straight. Note: be careful with the glass! I cut myself a few times just moving it around.

 

I took the backing of the frame and covered it with burlap.

Made some burlap/fabric florets and voila!

It’s so nice to see all the things we’re blessed with and even more nice getting input from the family day to day.  Use a chalk marker to make the “blessings” stand out!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pier 1 redo

So to begin the holiday season, I was looking through the Pier 1 catalog and came across this cute wreath:

I thought it was so cute but for $75…there’s no way I’m paying that!!! So off to the dollar store I went and here’s the tutorial:
I bought an 18” wreath and wrapped around it 3 strands of 9ft. garland. 

   

I then hot glued different size glass/plastic ornamental balls around the wreath.

Final cost- $9!!!! All materials from the dollar store!!!

Merry Christmas!

Turkey Favors

My mom asked me and my son Lucas to make the Thanksgiving favors this year.  When I went into Michaels, I was totally disheartened to see that right after Halloween they skip over Thanksgiving and go straight to Christmas!! How sad is that?!?! So I had to be creative and come up with a favor on my own…no kits for kiddies.  I bought fall colored jingle bells, small foam leaves (which I cut down to be that funny thing that hangs from the turkey’s mouth), googly eyes, wooden hearts, and fall colored feathers.  Lucas painted the hearts brown for the turkey’s feet and with a little hot glue these guys came out kinda cute! I also added a magnet onto the back so they could be used on the frig. 

**Note: In turning the jingle bell so that the part you would put the string is the face, it makes the turkey’s nose!!

More Autumn Harvest Decos :)

So today I completed two more autumn harvest decorations for Peyton’s 1st birthday party. 

I started with the large pumpkin that was initially while….painted it Valspar Metallic and then went to my silhouette.  This pumpkin is big so I wanted to use it as a welcome sign when guests arrive.  I printed  “welcome” with my SIL on vinyl and put it on the front of the pumpkin (Verdana font) .  I put “Autumn” and “Harvest” on the three stacked pumpkins as demonstrated by my lovely assistant (my hubby).  I’ll get to those in a bit.  From here I went to Michaels and found 5 different ribbons that I liked…different thicknesses…and cut them between 6 and 8 inches long each.  I batched them up in 5’s  and tied them together at the top.  Next I hot glued them toe the stem of the pumpkin.  One of the ribbons had wire so  I twisted it and when I got the look I wanted I used some tacky glue (scrapbooking stash) to hold it down.  Lastly, I used cute orange buttons on the stem to hide the hot glued part of the ribbon. 

Kinda cute, right?!?!

These dollar store beauties, again were transformed from drab to fab using my friend Valspar Metallic and the SIL…added the words “autumn” and “harvest”…wrapped these cute beads-on-a-vine (as seen in my previous post) around them and Ta Da!

These guys are perfect for my daughter’s Autumn Harvest 1st birthday party theme!!