Valentines Wreath Part 2

I finished my wreath this took me forever but I LOVE it!!!! As stephy said I used crate paper. I did all different sizes and shapes (more because I couldn't get them to all look alike). I have had a ton of people comment on how cute it is!

I am going to cover what you need again

-Crate Paper

-Styrofoam board

-Box Cutter Knife

-Glue Gun (Lots Of It)

-Beads/Pearls (something for a feeler)

-Ribbon (to tie on door)

-Fist measure your board to your door make sure your board isn't going to be to big for your door. Then measure to get a nice square and cut, then measure your middle square. I wanted my square in the middle to be larger then thought. 

-Next I put on a chick-flick movie and started to make my roses. I would just make one at a time and put them in my bowl. So many roses! This is what took my forever!!! I am sorry I don't have pictures to teach you how to make the roses :( they are really easy once you get going! 

-After I got most of my roses made I started glueing them on the board. (thank goodness for stephy, she came and helped me) I just put the hot glue on the board and put the roses on. Make sure you put the roses right next to each other or your going to have the board showing throught and your going to have to make fillers. It just easier to push them close together. 

-Next glue your pearls/beads on. I glued some random beads through out roses to fill in and to give it a little something something :)

-Tie your ribbon and and your are done... :) 

I Hope you enjoy this as much as I do!!!! Happy Valentines Day! 

A huge thanks to: http://thriftydecorating-nikkiw.blogspot.com/2011/01/valentine-rose-wreath-tutorial.html This is where we found this cute wreath and made it our own!!! 

Valentine wreath

C found us a good idea for a valentine wreath on pinterest using Styrofoam board and tissue to make little flowers.  I got some crate paper and napkins to try at the dollar store....C chose the crate paper and I thought id try the napkins. An easy 3 dollar wreath .....but soooooooo time consuming! It took me 4 nights in a row doing it an hour plus each night.....im happy with it but it took forever!

Neighbor gifts Part 2

These were so easy to make!!! Everyone loved them. Here is the picture so please feel free to print them out and make some of your own :)

What we used
-scrap wood, or a 2x4 measured and cut
-paint (red or green)
-sandpaper
-mod poge
-ribbon

We just cut the blocks then painted and let that dry, mod poged the papers on. Then I sanded them to give them a ruff look. Add a ribbon or bow to finish off the look :)

Good Luck!!!

Fun little neighbor gift craft

Garbage Wreaths

Oh my goodness we (stephy) saw this cute wreath on pintrest and it was a must... Everywhere we looked we could not fine out how to do it so we winged it and couldn't be happier...

Our friend Jenn came over and also did this super super cute wreath but I didn't get any pictures of her doing her's 

Left: Stephy Middle: Jenn Right: Me

What you Need:

Walmart, Target, Any kind of white plastic bag. 

A wire hanger

Scissors 

Ribbon

We did this craft 2 different ways...

The 1st way we will follow Stephy on her journey :)

She took her bag and folded in half (with hanger in the middle) and tied it in a knot continue this step. You are going to trim all the extra bag off until you get a nice even look.

Jenn also did her's this way. I love it!!!

The 2nd way is the way I tried.

I just my bags into tiny little strips and then started to tie the knot on my hanger. After you trim all the extra bag until even. This way took a lot long then would have liked I started to use Stephy's extra bag pieces to save me time.

I am not going to say which way is better because they both turned out amazing! My way took alot longer and if I wouldn't have had their scraps then I would still be there cutting my bags into strips. They were both full and fluffy. 

Now this craft may be a little messy to say the least... I could not believe the bags and how they moved from one spot to another...

 Here is the final product.... We LOVE LOVE LOVE them...

 If you have any questions please ask....

Diaper clutch

I bought I diaper clutch like this at a store in bear lake when I had my first baby.  I have love loved it and wanted to make one for my wee sissy for her new bundle. I thought it would be simple... it wasn't as easy as I thought....but now that I've done one I think they would be much quicker now.

Things you need:
Yarn
Crochet hook
Hot glue
12 sq. inches of fabric
Elastic
Huggies travel wipe pack

I apologize I didnt take pics of the steps I didnt really have any idea what I was doing and didnt know if it would turn out.

I cut the fabric to fit on top and bottom of the wipes container....I hemmed all the edges and sewed on the elastic bands to the underside of the bottom piece and hot glued the fabric on. I would use spray adhesive if I did it again it would be a much cleaner look.  Then I crocheted a couple really long chains and hot glued them around the border and finished with a crochet flower which I hot glued on.  For the travel changing pad I bought some table cloth fabric...and some " car insulation " is what it was called at the fabric store ....I did the inside-out seam...then put the insulation in and did another seam on top to make it look more finished that part of the project took all of 10 minutes the diaper clutch was the most time consuming. But now that I realize I would cover the borders with the crochet chains I wouldn't take forever pinning and sewing to get the fabric to fit the contour perfectly. Just glue on and border over the edge dur! Lesson learned. 

Vintage Pumpkin

Well this was orignally my odd ball craft called, "vintage pumkin skirt"

Then by popular vote, it was decided to be too wierd and cinched in. I agree, peace-out pumpkin skirt...you were too out there:)

It was really simple. a piece of crochet lace I had on hand, just safety pinned in the back for easy removal,  with some crochet flowers I had made for hair clipped on to the lace.  Around the stem I just cut a tiny piece of green burlap and a teenie tiny piece of hemp rope, and a string of decorate fake pearls. Odd? I dunno.... but I really liked it:)

Fun Table Center-Pieces

We had a great time making this little craft for the tables at our block party. "C" found it on pinterest....here was the original pin.

Here is our fun rendition! "J" had the great tutu idea for the little pots, I think we will make these for a certain little sister's baby shower tables! good times!

The blogger from the original pin pointed out how long they took. They definately took us a while....like 3 hours-ish lol! BUT I will totally do them again because we realized the trick is not to begin by glueing all of the cup cake liners so close together. space them out, and then fill in the spaces to get the look you want that would have been way faster. Happy crafting

****I have recently done more of these....for that certain little sisters shower:) I got one done in 20 minutes...by putting the cupcake liners all separate in front of me, holding the ball in one hand, and hot glue gun in the other. I would dab the hot glue on, place it on the ball and hold it in place under the palm of my left hand, while that one was drying I was dabbing another  and adding more and more, continuing to hold in place the newly placed ones while they dried securely! They turned out great and WAY faster****

Also we found these cheap plastic champagne glasses 6 for a buck at the dollar store AND to boot the bottoms are removable! perfect for this craft!

Voila! 20 minutes later!

I think they are nice without dressing up the champagne glass.

But in order to incorporate my sissy's baby colors I did, I havent added the big poofy Teal bow to the one on the left yet

Mummy Door

I saw this on pintrest and fell in love with it... We got streamers from the dollar store and just used card stock for the eyes... We taped the streamers to the door in every which way. It was super cute. It went way lower but my sweet 1 year old got ahold of it and tore it up to pieces. Luckily he couldn't reach the whole thing and we still had a half of mummy... 

Super easy and quick...  

 Happy Halloween!

Snake Wreath

I saw this and loved it... I knew I could make one so got right on it the day before Halloween :) 
They were super easy to make. The one on the left is Stephy's and the one on the right is mine. We loved how they both are different and we were sitting there look at each others the whole time...

Things you need...
-Sticks or branches off a tree (make sure they are green or they wont bend)
-Wire so you can tie your sticks together, we used the green floral wire
-Snakes of all sizes, we bought 16 for $1.25 then one big one for $1
-Hot glue for your snakes
-Black spray paint

So bunch up your sticks and make a wreath. This may take a little time or just throw it together. We liked the branches sticking out here and there for a spookier look. Wire a little bit at a time it will help it go faster. When you have your wreath made start hot gluing your snakes on. That only takes a couple minutes. After get the spray paint out and start spraying the wreath. We did two coats on the front and one on the back. Let dry all night then if you want to have something extra add a spider or something that is spooky. Add the wire to the back so you can hang it on your door and your all set :)

It took a totally of an hour to get them done. So quick and fun
HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Haunted Halloween Signs

My neighbors and I  thought it would be fun to make signs to go in front of our homes.
At first the signs were going to say witch way, Ghosts Valley and many more spooky names. But then we came up with our names being spooky and pointing at each others house... It was super fun coming up with each others names. we each had great ideas and made each on different :)
This project took longer then hoped but worth while in the end.


The things you need.
1-long pole you can put in the ground
1-big sign for your name
4-6 little signs for your names
A nail gun
Lots of spooky paint
2 great neighbors to do this craft with

Spooky Ladders

Me and my girlfriend Jenn saw the cutest little ladders at a store and thought we can make these instead of paying 45 bucks for one.... We called up our friend Maggie and asked her to come make one... It was such a fun day :)

    Here is how you make them (so easy)
 Get two long poles for the sides and paint it any color you would like as you can see we all picked a different color. They pick four different sizes of boards and paint those what ever color you want... Have fun with it. We took a nail gun and nailed our boards in. 
 The spiders thats the tough part we took some blocks and just randomly cut it to give it a circle shape but still and different look. Then we tried 3 different ways to do the legs... The way we ending up doing them is hammer a nail in the back and then rap a long piece of wire so you have two legs... (Sorry if that doesn't make sense if you would like I can do a step for step on how to make them) then we just got some fun eyes hot glued them on then nailed them in. 
 We decided after that it would be fun with some cob webs... 

 Mine

 Maggies

 Jenns

We were all comfy and looking right in the sun... :) We love them!!!

Glass Bottle Tree's

I am making a different craft and needed bottle caps. We bought glass bottles for the bottle caps but I hated to throw the glass bottles away so I jumped on pintrest and grabbed a couple of ideas and ran with a random idea... Here is what I came up with!

Here is what I used:

Tissue Paper

Sticks

Glass Bottles

Hot Glue Gun

It was really easy and quick :)

Here is the link on how to make the flowers

http://burlapandlaceblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-07-31T22%3A15%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=7