DIY 3 Votive 4x4 Wooden Candle Holder

Hello,  happy Tuesday after a Monday holiday!  I always love a short work week!  I had a fantastic long weekend.  I got some fun Valentine's projects started and also played with some mixed media for Art to the 5th's "Documented Life Project 2015".  It's a mixed media journaling project. Last year, I joined but silently (and probably creepily!) watched rather than participated.  This year I decided to jump in and participate, which has really put me out of my artistic comfort zone and pushed me to try and learn lots of new techniques.  I'm LOVING it!  I plan on sharing some of my journal pages later. Anywho, yesterday Hubs and I went on a road trip to the beautiful Park City Utah and had a wonderful day.  I love weekends where I get to be creative, make cute things and get some quality family time in!

Today I am sharing the votive holder that Hubs and I made for family for Christmas gifts.  It was super easy and I just adore how it turned out:

We used 4x4's, sized and drilled the holes for the votive's then sanded, painted, and stained the wood.  Added the cute twine wrap, candles and burlap flower.  That's it!  So stinking easy!

It looks darling on my table as a center piece.  I get happy every time I look at it!

Thanksgiving Sharpie Craft

I've had three small white plates that I've been debating on what to do with forever.  I found them at
Walmart for a dollar or so each.  They are about 5x5 in size. I decided to doodle on them with Sharpie's.  This is what I came up with:

The nice thing about Sharpie art on ceramic, is that if you make a mistake, you can just wipe it off with rubbing alcohol!  I drew the outlines of my designs with a fine black sharpie first, then colored them and then re-outlined them with the sharpie again.  Once I had everything done, I put them in an unheated oven and then set the temperature to 350 degrees and baked them for 40 minutes.

My Pilgrims:

 My Turkey:

And, my Native American's:

Super easy and fun!

Old Board Welcome Spring Sign

Who doesn't love old wood?  Old wooden signs are definitely big right now.  I have some old pallets that had some really nice weathered wood so I broke them down and decided to make a sign for my Spring porch.  Here is what I came up with:

I cut the boards at two different lengths and then attached them so that they were uneven on one edge.  I cut the flowers and lettering off using my Silhouette Cameo and then used them as stencils.  I love the pink and orange!

It was so easy and looks so cute on my porch!

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3 Easy & Super Cute St. Patrick's Day Decorations

I can't believe that it's already St. Patrick's Day!  I feel like I didn't get to make all of the cute decorations that I had planned on!  I guess there is always next year right?  Here are a few quick and easy ones that I did make this year:

1- Lucky Sign with Horseshoe "U":

 This was so easy to make.  I used an old board, cut my LCKY stencil out using my Silhouette Cameo, painted it, nailed the horse shoe "U" in with real horse shoe nails and added the hanger:

2- Shamrock and Burlap Door Hanger:

I actually bought the wood for this at the Wood Connections store in SLC a couple of months ago, so it was super easy to just paint, sand, nail together and attach the bow and little shamrocks.

3- Easy Leprechaun Clay Pot Hat:

 This idea has been around for awhile, I just hadn't ever gotten around to making one.  It seriously took 15 minutes.  So easy!

4- Hand stitched Clover Trio:

Anyone that knows me, knows that sewing is not my strong point, nor is it something that I have ever loved to do, so if I can make this anyone can!  I just cut the clovers out of material using a cardboard template and then stitched them to a thick canvas type material with embroidery floss and then framed it.

I also have to add a picture of 2014's March Hutch all decked out in greens:

Happy St. Patty's Day, I hope you have a wonderful one :)

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A Few More Snowman Decorations

Everyone knows by now that I adore snowmen!  They are my favorite January decorations.  A few new decorations that I made this year:


Cold Noses Only:

Snowman Canvas:

Snowman made from an old board:

And a picture of my winter porch:

All of those snowmen make me so happy!!!!
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Another 2x4 Snowman

I love snowmen!  They are my absolute favorite thing to decorate with for the month of January.  A few years ago, I made and posted this cute guy:

I love him!  He sits on my porch.  I decided that he needed a buddy to sit with him, so this is what I came up with:

Don't they look super cute together?!

Baby It's Cold Outside Rustic Wood Sign

We are near the end of our first week of January 2014 and I have so far kept my New Year's resolutions!  Yay me!  One of my resolutions is to craft at least once a week.  I find that it really relaxes me and also makes me feel like I've accomplished something.  Another resolution is to blog at least once a week.  Because I work full time outside of my home, this is actually a really big challenge for me, but again, it's something that I truly enjoy doing and want to keep up on it.  So, here is one of my latest creations:

I'm in Utah, so this is truly applicable!  As always, i used my Silhouette Cameo to  design this.

Instead of using vinyl for the wording and snowflakes, I painted them and then antiqued the board.  I love the way it looks on my winter hutch:

Another shot of the winter hutch lit up, as well as my table centerpiece snowmen!

 I hope everyone had a safe New Year's.  2014 is going to be a terrific year!

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Old Wood Scarecrow...

I love old wood, I tend to hoard it and therefore I have a huge stack of it.  I haven't used any of it to make Fall decorations so I decided that I needed to!  Here is what I came up with:

I adore scarecrows!  For me, they totally symbolize Fall and everything about it.  I painted the top part of the board brown as well as an old plank for the hat and hat brim, the rest white for his face, then I painted his cute face on.  Then I glued raffia on the hat brim and stapled it to the hat.  Finally, I added the sunflower, leaves and bow and that was it.  The entire decoration took less than 40 minutes and most of that was drying time for the paint.

I love him!

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Rustic Flag...

My rustic flag made from old wood:

Perfect for my porch for the month of July.  I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July!

Easter Bunny Canvas...

My Easter bunny Canvas:

It looks so cute next to my wooden bunnies:

I love Easter!

Super Easy DIY Chalkboard Wall Hanging...

I'm so in love with chalkboard paint!  The possibilities are endless.  I made this super easy, super inexpensive Chalkboard wall hanging:

I've had a 16x20 size backer that went in a frame lying around in my stash for awhile now and decided it was the perfect size for a chalkboard.  I just painted 3 coats of chalkboard paint, tied the material bow around it and hung it on the wall.

I told it you it was super simple!!!

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Love Sign From Old Wood...

I have a bunch of old boards and am having a lot of fun making signs out of them.  Here is what I came up with for Valentine's Day:

I love how rustic and worn it looks:

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Valentines Day?!  I do!

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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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