02-05-2014

i love you banner

VDay Banner1

 

I don’t have a ton of space at my house to put my crafts, nor do I have a mantle but I really wanted to make a cute burlap/felt Valentine’s Day banner to add to the living room.  This is what I came up with.

Vdaybanner2

I like how it turned out and it gives some color to an otherwise pretty boring wall :)

01-30-2014

Easy Valentine’s Day Wreath

Heart Valentine's Wreath

I made a Valentine’s Wreath for outside (check out the blog for it soon) but wanted to make one to hang on my craftroom/office door inside.  It took little to no time and looks quite cute.  I just took one of the styrofoam wreath bases and wrapped it in red satin ribbon.  I then cut hearts out of cardboard and glued different pieces of scrapbook paper on them and then glued them together.  Finish it with some burlap ribbon and hang on the door.  I really like how it looks and it brings some holiday color to other areas of the house.  Of course, now after Valentine’s Day I am going to have to come up with something else to hang there :)

01-22-2014

Valentine’s Day Trees

 

Valentine's Day Felt Trees

I just thought these trees were so cute!  They are time consuming but super easy to make.  I cut out each heart individually and while that did take a while you can do it while watching tv and then it goes by quickly.  I started with styrofoam cones and starting at the bottom glued the felt up the tree.  I think I used around 4 sheets of felt for each tree and quite a few sticks of hot glue!

 

12-19-2013

Handmade Ornaments

Every year I like to make ornaments to use on people’s presents. I almost thought I was going to run out of time this year but I managed to make all 20 of them in time!  I ordered small aluminum squares that I was actually just going to stamp to use as the ornament but they ended up being smaller than I expected so I had to improvise.  I then ended up making each ornament out of fabric into a shape and stamping the name and year.  It took a LOT longer than it would have originally but I have some very unique ornaments for everyone’s presents!

ornament 1

 

ornament 2

 

I ended up doing hearts, stars, dog bones, circles, and lots of other shapes.