Paper Strip Bunny Art with DIY Wood Shim Frame

I'm loving wood shims right now.  They make darling mini pallets, so I got to thinking that they could also make a pretty cute and easy DIY frame.  I had the perfect project that needed to be framed anyways!  I had made this Bunny Art using paper strips and the negative of a bunny that I had cut out on my Silhouette Cameo:

I painted the wood shims white and then Mod Podged matching strips of paper to the front.  I glued them all together and attached the bunny art:

So very easy!!!

A Few Cards...

I hate buying pre-made cards and very rarely do. Here are a few th at I've made:

I used a library card holder for this one:

I made several of these "Just A Note" cards, they always come in handy:

A super simple and easy one that can be used for almost any occasion:

Another tag/holder style one:

A cute Thank You card:

The next three pictures are all one card.  I made it by decorating a folded up paper bag.  the outside:

The inside:

We slipped this cute envelope inside the opening of the paper bag.  It held money, but could also hold a gift card:

So easy and so much better than store bought cards!

Decorated Wood I love U and 2014's Valentine Hutch

Decorated I {Heart} You:

Looks so cute on my hutch:

Speaking of my hutch.  Here is my 2014 Valentines Day decorated hutch:

I adore all of the reds and pinks!  They make me so happy :)

Thankful Banner

I adore banners.  I decorate my hutch for every season and holiday and banners just seem to complete it, so I try and make one for every holiday.  This is my Thanksgiving banner:

I used chipboard triangles for the backing and then picked out 8 different Fall/Thanksgiving related scrapbook papers to use for each triangle and letter.  I then embellished each with cute leaf, acorn, pine cone stickers, burlap flowers, rhinestones, jute and ribbons.

The T:

The H:

The A:

The N:

The K:

The F:

The U:

And, the L:

I sanded and inked the edges and tied them together with jute.  Easy as can be and I love the way it ties in with my Thanksgiving Hutch:

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Frosty The Snowman Plaque...

I love to draw and paint cute little characters.  I haven't done it in awhile so one day Hubs and I finally decided to catch up on the entire last season of Desperate Housewives so I pulled out my pencil/sketchpad/paints/scrapbook paper, etc. and here is what I came up with:

  I drew my snowman with a pencil and then took my craft paint and painted him in.  Then I cut him out and mod podged the background scrapbook paper to a piece of foam board.  Then I mod podged the snowman, the letter and the snowflakes to the board, inked around the edges and added the rhinestones to the center of the snowflakes. I also put some glitter paint on his coat and scarf:

Anyways, I think he turned out cute and I had a blast painting him :)

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DIY Gingerbread Man Ornament (Tutorial)...

Every holiday, we do a craft for the kids.  Typically at our family Christmas dinner, we decorate Gingerbread houses, my sister lives an hour away, so it is hard for her to get the gingerbread houses home in one piece.  Because of that, I decided to have the kids make an ornament this year.  We have kids ranging in age 4-20 years so we I decided that gingerbread men would be cute for everyone.
This was the demo gingerbread man that I came up with:

Supplies:
Cardboard Colored Card stock
Red Ribbon
Gingham ribbon
White Puffy Paint
Black and red brads
Buttons

Beforehand, I hand cut or each gingerbread man.  The shape is pretty basic, so it was easy to do.  Then we hold punched spots for the ribbon hanger, the eyes and the nose.  This kids placed the black brads in the eye holes and the red in the nose hole.  Then they made their ribbon bow ties, glued the buttons on and tied the ribbon hanger.  We did the puffy paint last so that it could dry without getting smudged.

Super easy, the kids had fun, and they turned out darling!  I ended up making about a dozen extra to use as a garland next year too :)

Pleated Book Page Ornaments. Great Neighbor Gift.

This years neighbor gifts.  I made book page ornaments:

                                                                                  Some have stockings on them.

Some have little santa hats.

I made a whole bunch of them and will be attaching them to bags filled with homemade chocolates. I think it's the perfect neighbor gift!

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Ghoulish Halloween Dinner Party...

Every year me, my sis and our mom put together a fun Halloween themed dinner party.  Here a few pix from this years party:

I made place cards with each guests name on it and one for each food item..

                                                 
Up close of one of the place cards...

                                                                       

I made a menu...

We always have fun names for the food...

The "bloody eyeballs", precooked...

"Infected Eyeballs", precooked...

After we pulled them out of the oven...

The rest of the food:

The Food buffet:

 The place settings.  I didn't have enough place mats, so I found a roll of wrapping paper that had raised velvet designs, I bought that and then just hand cut out the number that I needed...

A couple of the food placards up close:

It was a really fun day.  After eating, we did our annual pumpkin carve.  I love our family traditions, we look forward to this event every year!

Easter Tissue Paper Topiary"s...

I'm still cranking out the Easter crafty's. I've got to get my daughter's package mailed by tomorrow so that she will get it by the first of Easter and I need to have my hutch decorated by this weekend. NO PRESSURE! Here are the topiary's I came up with. One is for my table centerpiece and the other is for my daughter's:

                                                    I used tissue paper for the balls of the topiary"s

.Pastels aren't normally my thing, but I always make an exception for them over the month of April!
I found all of the supplies: pails, ribbons, tissue paper, Styrofoam balls and skewers at the dollar store!

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