St. Paddy's Day and Easter

I am so far behind it's not even funny.  I am doing St. Patrick's Day and Easter together since they fell in the same month this year and also kind of crept up on me.  The week before Easter and yes after St. Paddy's I made these cute cute block crafts.  Better late than never....right?  At least I will have them for next year.  Anyway I found the ideas here and here.  I just free handed the shapes and cut them out.

Since I seemed to be on a roll.  I made the leprechaun hat and the flower basket for my visiting teaching ladies. 

 If I were to do this again I think I would make the feet and beak smaller on this chick.

Valentines Pinwheel Pencils

Happy Valentine's Day!!!  For Taylor's class and Ivy's friends this year we made pinwheel pencils.  They turned out so cute!!! 

To make them I just bought regular pins with pearl heads from Jo-Ann's and cut them off to about 3/4 of an inch long.  Then I used the Sizzlits Pinwheel die from Stampin Up to make the pinwheels and stuck the pin through the eraser.

Finished Product

For the "tags" I printed "Valentine you're just "write" for me."  From Taylor, onto washi tape.  Folded it in half and cut the end to look like a banner.

To print on washi tape.  First you type out what you want to say in Word or whatever program you want to use.  Then print it.  Then you lay your washi tape over what is printed as a guide.  Once you lay it down the ink will be transfered onto the tape so make sure it is where you want it to be before you lay it down.  Press all the tape flat making sure there are no corners sticking up to get caught in the printer.  Next insert paper into paper tray of printed making sure it is the right way to be printed on in the same place.  (For example: Mine goes in upside down top towards the printer.)  Just print the same thing again and it will be printed onto your washi tape.  IMPORTANT make sure that you let the ink dry for about 15 min before pulling it off the paper or it will smear!!!!!  Also don't leave it for too long or it will stick to the paper.

We had lots of fun making these and I hope all who get one like them!  I am wishing everyone a great day and a Happy Valentines!!

Christmas Chapstick Cards

Me and my daughter made these chapstick cards for my Activity Day girls and her friends for a cute little Christmas gift.

Materials used:

• Green cardstock
• Red cardstock
• Red glitter cardstock
• Warm wishes stamp
• Red ink
• Red and green ribbon
• Snowflake brads
•  Stampin Up snowflake punch
• Sixxix Big Shot embossing folder Northern Flurries

Directions:

• Cut the green cardstock 6 x 3.75 and score at 2.5 and 3.5.
• Cut red cardstock 5.5 x 3.5 and score at 2.25 and 3.25.
• Emboss red cardstock with embossing folder.
• Punch snowflake from red glitter cardstock.  This cardstock is a little thicker than normal so it is a little hard to punch through. 
• Stamp and place glitter snowflake with snowflake brad on the green card stock (front of card)
• Lay green card stock down, lay ribbon down on top of it and glue red card stock on top of green and ribbon.
• Place chapstick in the middle with removable glue dots.
• Tie ribbon on the side.

Advent Calendar

I made a new advent calendar this year.  We didn't need a new one but I saw this idea and LOVED it.  I got the printables for the numbers here.  I already had a 12x12 piece of sheet metal from a gift I was given years ago.  I covered it with a piece of scrapbook paper and added a piece of ribbon for the hanger.

On the inside glued the cute printables from the same website as the numbers.  There are some preprinted as well as blank.  The only one I used preprinted was the Christmas day one.  I have seen so many cute ideas for things to do during December such as: make cookies, make ornaments, build a snowman etc.  However my kids are a little older and honestly we just don't have time to do all kinds of great things like that and there is really no snow in Maryland I decided to only have activities on the weekends.  A few of the activities are, driving around looking at lights, a live nativity, going to a train garden and going to the temple lights.  The rest of the days I just left blank.

Each day I put in 3 kisses.  One for each kid.  And to make them somewhat special (though that may only be for me because I doubt they care) I used these adorable printables.  Punched them out and stuck them on all 75 kisses. Just and FYI, you can only fit 3 kisses in each little tin.

Thankgiving late again.....

Wednesday when I should have been baking pies or something like that I was making cute table decor instead. 

This cute 2x4 Turkey was so easy to make.  I the cute idea here.  I am sure there are many variations to this as well around the blogging world.  I just used what I had on hand.

I also made these cute edible turkeys for each person at our table.

Supplies used:
Stampin Up Sweet Treat Cups
Googly eyes
 M&M's

Punches:
2 1/2 inch circle
1 3/4 inch circle
3 inch scallop
1 1/2 inch scallop
Stampin Up Blossom Petals

First I punched a 2 1/2 inch circle for the base. Then punched 3 1 1/2 inch scallops for each turkey.  Two cut in half and glued on the 2 1/2 in circle.  The full one as the middle top and the halves on each side. Next I punch a 1 3/4 inch circle through the middle of the 2 1/2 inch circle for the sweet treat cup to go through.  If you don't cut your scallops in half there will be too many layers for the punch to go through.  (I learned this the hard way haha) Next punch out the large petal from the blossom petals punch in 3 or more different colors.  I chose to use red, orange and yellow.  The glue petals to back of scallops.  Next punch a 3 inch scallop or you could use another 2 1/2 circle to cover the back of the treat cup.  I used a small amount of adhesive on the front lip of the treat cup to secure into place.  Fill with M&M's or any other fall colored candy.  Remove adhesive backing and cover with 3 inch scallop.  Next glue on googly eyes and beak which I just free handed.

I love the way they turned out and the kids loved them as well....of course they were filled with chocolate!!

Apothecary Jars

A while ago I posted that I had found these great candlesticks at goodwill.  I am so excited that I finally turned them into apothecary jars.

There are so many great ideas going around pinterest and the blogging world for apothecary jars but this is what I did and I love how they turned out.  So this is what I used and how I put them together.

I bought these jars at hobby lobby.  I bought them all the same size although they come in a variety of sizes.

I built the tops with these wooden knobs and mini candlesticks.

I glued them on the lid of the jar with E6000 so they ended up looking like this.

I spray painted the lid and candlesticks satin black then glued the jar to the candlestick with the E6000 glue.

Filled with fun fall candy a beautiful finished product!!

Fun Kids Up Bookmarks

Look at this great find I got at Goodwill.  I am super excited since I have been wanting to make some apothecary jars.  But that is for another day.
 

 


Me and two of the crazy kids made these fun bookmarks.  The kids call them their Up bookmarks.  First we took pictures of them standing like they were holding the string.  Then I sent the pictures to be developed at Wal Mart.  I could have also just printed them out on the printer but I hate using that much ink and since it's only 20 cents a picture to have Wal Mart print them, that's what we did.  I took a few different pictures of each so they could choose which one they liked best.

Next we glued the picture onto colored cardstock. NOT gluing the hands where they will be holding the string to the cardstock.  After it's glued, cut the picture out as close  to the picture as possible.

Now we made our tassles using embroidery floss.  First we wrapped the floss around a piece of scrap paper about 1 1/2 inches wide approx. 15 times depending how "fluffy" you want your tassle.  Once wrapped cut another piece of floss approx. 6 inches long.  Tie this piece around the floss you wrapped on the paper and tie a knot.  Tie the knot very tight as it will be holding your tassle together.  Next punch a small hole thru the cardstock only and thread the floss thru and tie another knot.  Cut the floss that was wrapped around the paper in half. 

At this point put a small amount of glue where the hands are that was left unglued before.  Laminate either with laminate or clear contact paper and cut around again making sure to leave enough of a seam to keep it sealed.  There you have your Up bookmarks and are ready to fly away in your book.