VALENTINES DAY GARLAND DIY

When parties and holidays come around it has become a little tradition of mine to make and hang a festive garland in my home. Today I took some time to put together a cute little Valentines Day garland for our dining room window. 

Would you like to make one too? I knew you would!! This is what I did. 

 Supplies:

• Burlap
• Acrylic paint
• small paintbrush
• scissors
• heart shaped template
• yarn
• cardstock paper
• ruler
• pencil

1. I made a hand drawn banner template using cardstock paper, ruler and pencil. Then I used it to cut out my burlap banner pieces. 2. I placed a plastic heart template on the piece of burlap. 3. I painted a heart on each piece of burlap using pink acrylic paint. 4. After I painted and allowed the burlap banner sheets to dry. I folded the top of the fabric and sewed it onto the yarn with a scalloped stitch. It can also be hand-sewn or hot glued.   

When I finished sewing all the banner sheets onto the yarn, I hung it in place and attached paper flowers made from coffee filters that I had made weeks before. You on the other hand can use artificial flowers from the dollar store. Or you can make your own paper flowers twisting the coffee filter and dipping it into alcohol ink. 

 And done!! How freaken cute is that!! 

Have fun Crafting!! Don't forget to stop by and share your beautiful creation, I would love to see!!

XO, NANCY!! 

10 DAYS OF VALENTINES-DAY6: POMPOM & PHOTO CHANDELIER

The truth is, I'm not a big fan of the chandelier in my dining room area and I cant make any permanent renovations on it. For the fact that our current home is a rental. So, I'm always looking for something fun to give it some spunk.

 In combination to yesterdays post of my door wreath I decided to make a pompom photo chandelier. Influenced by the polka dotted pattern on the fabric and the quote on the wreath. Pompoms and pictures were the first to come to mind! What better way to display memorable moments with family and friends, than this thrifty DIY! 

Supplies needed: Medium sized cotton pom poms(dollar store buy), 16 yd's of embroidery floss, scissors, large sewing needle, 18 wallet sized BW photos printed in card stock paper, glue stick, hole puncher. 

                                              Stringing the Pompoms

1. Pick out your pompoms and 8 yd of embroidery floss. 2. Thread your needle with your embroidery floss. 3. Start to string in your pompoms in a desired pattern. 4. Spread out your pompoms giving a few inches of space between each pompom.

                                                   Hanging the Photos  

 1. Cut out your wallet sized photos. 2. Since the photos will be hanging you will glue two photos together creating double sided pictures. 3. Hole punch a hole at the top of every photo. 4. Cut 8 yd of embroidery floss into 9 pieces and string it through the hole on your photos. 

 Take your threaded pompoms and begin stringing them through the loops on your chandelier. Next start to hang your photos on the inner and outer loops of your chandelier. Adjust some of the photos to hang lower and some a little higher giving then an uneven look.

Today's craft was easy as pie and a little wacky. I chose to string my pompoms & photos on my chandelier, but you on the other hand can get as creative as you please. You can hang them on your wall, on your fireplace mantel, over a window or mirror, in your bedroom- pretty much anywhere. The possibilities are endless. The point is to let your imagination loose and make something you love and enjoy! 

XO, PEOPLE!!

10 DAYS OF VALENTINES- DAY 5: DECORATE YOUR DOOR

 For day 5 I'm going to show you how to create this funky yet very cute wreath for your door. It is extremely easy and inexpensive.
Supplies needed: Large piece of cardboard, pencil, 1 sheet of card stock paper, box cutter, scissors, hot glue gun, scrap fabric, small wooden letters,craft glue, glitter, large piece of ribbon.

Create a heart template out of your card stock paper. Trace the heart template onto the large piece of cardboard.

Once your done tracing the template onto the cardboard, carefully draw a second heart on the outside of  the already traced heart. You now have two hearts traced onto your cardboard, as you can see above. Cut out both hearts using a box cutter.

 You will use the hot glue gun to cover each heart with your favorite pieces of fabric. This is a great use for any scrap fabric laying around your home. While your gluing make sure you tighten the fabric around the cardboard hearts as much as you can. Covering up the larger heart might be a little tricky. I realized that covering the entire heart first then cutting out the middle was the easiest way to do it.

After both hearts are covered in fabric you will layer & hot glue the smaller heart on top of the larger one. Choose out your wooden letters for your message or quote and coat them with craft glue. Next you will sprinkle a good amount of glitter over them. Set aside and let your letters dry for about 30 minutes to an hour. Using your hot glue gun, glue your glittery letters onto the top layer heart. Tie your ribbon on the top of the cut out heart, adjusting the length as you please. Project completed!! Your wreath is ready to hang

I am happy to say that this has been the look on my front door for about two weeks now and I love it!! I'm so glad I shared this with you guys today. Hope you all enjoy this cheerful door piece as much as I do! Feel free to share your finished project, I would love to see!! XO

10 Days of Velentines- Day1: Felt&Tulle Heart Headband

                                                                                                         Valentines Day is around the corner, love is in the air, and this heart headband is a perfect accessory for this Valentines season! Am I right or am I right?? Weather its you the one rocking it or the little princess in your life. You never go wrong with a fabulous statement headband! It makes a perfect gift. Very inexpensive and extremely fashionable if you ask me.  Felt and tulle it doesn't get easier than that.

Supplies:

• felt
• tulle
• pen
• scissors
• needle,thread
• headband
• hot glue gun

On a piece of felt folded in half trace out your hearts. Carefully cut them out.  I chose to use one white heart and two hot pink. You on the other hand may use whatever color choices you like! After you cut them out you should have two hearts of each color. 

 Using a needle and thread sew these pretties together as shown above. I did an overcast stitch on all three hearts. My color choices were; red thread for the white heart and light pink for the two hot pink hearts.

When your done sewing your hearts together, hot glue them onto the headband in whatever order you'd like to. I decided to place my white heart in the middle of the two pink ones. Once I glued my hearts on the headband I cut out pieces of red tulle. Then glued them under one side of  the white heart as you can see above. I then repeated the same step on the opposite side of the white heart. To hide the glue and layers of tulle on the bottom of the headband you can cut small circles of felt to cover all that up. Your all set!!

How easy was that? It was so much fun sharing with you guys. Now make me proud, go on and make this purrty thing for yourself! Feel free to share what you created. Have a good one Everyone!!

Recycled Fun!

    I have been collecting paper towel and toilet paper tubes for the past two weeks, rambling over what I could possibly create. Suddenly Pintrest inspiration kicks in!! Why not create a super fun recycled/ bidazzled fairy tale castle for little Serenity? Well yes indeed we did! Yesterday Little Renity and I spent all after noon creating what she thought was the most amazing thing she had ever made. 

First we made a trip to the commissary and asked the nice employees for the biggest piece of cardboard they had. Once our big cardboard mission was accomplished we used it as our base for the castle. Little Renity and I painted away like true artist! I have to say it was so much fun!

Once our base and our hands were completely covered with paint we let the base dry for about an hour.

While the base dried we moved on to the castle towers and walls.  We decided we were going to have a hot pink girly castle! This part was a bit of a challenge. Lets just say Renity was in need of a bath after this! 

  

After everything was dry we hot glued the cardboard towers and walls to the base of the castle. Then for some character we glued flags made out of toothpicks and scraps of cloth to the top of our towers. Transforming it into our fairy tale masterpiece! Pretty cool huh? Not only was this an awesome craft for kids it was also a chance for little Renity to create something she will enjoy for hours without braking the bank!