This is a random mixture of ideas, crafts, projects, recipes. Any and all things homemade!







Thursday, December 16, 2010

Christmas Wall Hangings

I made these wall hangings using the cute christmas font on Winter Woodland and my cricut. I cut the letters with chipboard and the deep cut blade. And attached them with ribbon, I'm sure there is probably a better way to do it, but this is what I had on hand.                                        
 So super easy to make and very inepensive.(gotta love free and homemade). And they look great hanging on my wall!

Teacher Christmas Gifts

Christmas is right around the corner. It has really snuck up on us this year. I have been so busy making Christmas gifts and other things that I haven't posted much. But here are the teacher gifts I made for my kids' teachers. The Christmas tree box is from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More.
 The little sentiment that I attached. Inside the box is full of little chocolates.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

ChRiStMaS PaCkAgInG

Christmas is in the air and I'm trying to prepare. I already feel like I'm way behind. I'm working on packaging and tags for gifts. Here is the first box. It's made out of 12x12 cardstock and the bow is cardstock as well. I learned how to make this cute bow and box HERE.  

I used Winter Woodland for the trees and snowflakes.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

ThAnKsGiVinG CaNdLe HoLdErS & CaNdY HoLdErS

Man, my table is looking so bare! I don't really have any Thanksgiving decorations except for these awesome placemats that my mother in law made me...
                                                                Awwwwww! That's better!!
 I made the little pilgirms and Indians from Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge, but had no idea what to do with them. SO....my sister said I should made candle holders with it, so that's what I did. (Thanks Janelle) and then I made some little treat boxes too, to hold all that leftover Halloween candy!

Friday, October 22, 2010

Halloween Bouquet

I can't wait to display this one in my house. It was surprisingly easy to make. The Frankenstein planter is actually a project we made in Relief Society last night and I thought this would be a fun way to "jazz it up". It's just a terrocata planter painted green and painted a fun face on it.
 All the cuts are from Paper Doll Dress Up. They are hot glued to wooden dowels that I painted black with glitter on it for some BLING.  Tie some festive ribbon on it and voila!
 This was so fun and easy I think it would be super cute to re invent it for Thanksgiving or Christmas even.
I can't take total credit for this idea, the general idea came from a project posted on the cricut messageboard, however I have been unable to get the website for a link. So whoever came up with this, thanks!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Ambria's Halloween Project

My two year old created this. I think she did a great job, but I might be a little biased. I had some extra cut outs that I wasn't gonna be using so I let her glue them on this paper and make her own Halloween project. She loved it.

Halloween Plaques

Why buy expensive Halloween decorations when you can make them yourself? This was a really fun project and super easy. I painted some wooden blocks and used mod podge to adhere the paper to the wood, then mod podged over the paper to give it a glossy finished look.