2nd January 2016
Sorry the pics are all off center.
I present to you mustard, copper, plum, & turquoise yarn pom wreath:
14th December 2015
All wreaths are handmade by me with the affordable, ever flexible felt. With a trusty pair of fabric scissors, I cut and imagine to my hearts content. I never really know what a wreath will look like going into it. I just start and figure out what works as I’m working.
Here are some of my simple, holiday creations. I hope you find some inspiration!
Scallop cut felt pieces wrapped on a wreath with an over sized, funky felt flower with spiky holly leaves.
Off beat winter wreath with icy/snowy colors.
Almost all fabric wreath with handmade pleated flowers with button centers.
Scallop edge strip of felt on the interior rim.
10th December 2015
Some people don’t like giving gift cards because they think they are impersonal. I’m definitely not in that category because nothing gets me going like guilt free money to burn in a store I love!
If you want to add a creative touch or personalize a gift card, why not package it in a really cute way? Enter mason jars for gift card packaging! I used the same materials to make my DIY Mason Jar Snow Globes but instead, ditched the glitter and water and affixed a gift card inside. Using a little hot glue, I lined the bottom edge of a gift card and snuggled it in between craft pine trees. I put both of the teacher gift-gift card jars side-by-side in a wire basket and personalized each card with a chip board letter that I painted red to match. My little girl dictated the message inside to her teachers with awesome things like, “Merry Christmas. I love you. You look like a candy cane.”
The gift cards were small, but cute and practical and who wouldn’t love to get a gift in something like this? The crafter in me would re-use all of the components if I were to get this gift. Actually, I think I’ll keep it because I love it. Just kidding… Or….Okay, I’ll give it to them.
If you are really fun, you can actually make the jars into the snow globe with the gift card inside. Snow globe gift card packaging? I might choke on a candy cane I’m so excited about that idea.
Put anything you want in a mason jar to make this packaging party, season, or person specific. The possibilities are endless! Here’s to hoping that two pre-school teachers like this gift as much as I do!
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In my dreams, I have that pillow-y fake snow in the bottom of this basket. In my dreams I also don’t take blog images with my cell phone so I guess, we can’t all be winners.
Alone, it’s simple and may need a little pizazz but when packaged with the wire basket and cards, it’s ballin’ out of control. If only the fake snow…..
6th December 2015
We signed up to bring drinks to my daughter’s preschool class and it would pain me to just bring in…well…just regular drinks. To flair it up a bit, I turned our drinks into a craft and made little Capri Sun people. You could do a million different themes and variations on these for parties.
Ours were simple. I took some awesome coordinating card stock strength scrapbook paper and two packs of huge googly eyes I found at Kroger. I made little bows for the “girl” Capri Suns and the not so shocking, mustaches for boys. I cut out my own template, stacked the paper and cut four or five bows/mustaches at a time. I dabbed on the hot glue and my girls stuck them on and in about 15 minutes, we were all done!
Cheap, easy and fun for the kiddos. Without further adieu, I present Capri Sun ladies and gents.
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2nd December 2015
Make a craft that makes you look like Martha! Really, these take no skill! Anyone can do these beauties. I had a craft party at my house and we all made snow globes and other cute crafts soon to grace this blog! Thanks to Shelly Griffin Photography for the pretty pictures of these creations.
You will need:
Glitter
Small craft trees {These seen here are from Hobby Lobby, Walmart, & Michael’s. Yep, I had to go three places to find three sizes. Awesome.}
Mason Jar
Super Glue
Decoupage
Washi Tape if you want to embellish the lid like you see below.
Little deer/bunny/squirrel figurines {I didn’t get them for these jars ,but I die for them! Check out the dollhouse section of Hobby Lobby for these.)
Steps:
Super glue, not hot glue, the trees to the lid
Decoupage/seal in some way the metal tips of the trees and let dry so they don’t show rust when you look at your tree tops
Put a spoon full of glitter into the bottom of the empty jar
Fill the jar with water
Screw on your lid with attached trees
Shake it like a Polaroid picture
The jar above has tinted water due to the trees bleeding color. It was a neat accident. I guess you could always use food coloring if you dig this and your trees won’t share their color. The one below has a lid trimmed with Washi tape. So cute!
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12th November 2015
Buy blank mini cards and envelopes and embellish with washi tape.
I bought these cheap paper doily die cuts from Hobby Lobby in three colors. Use them with stickers and wrap them in washi and holy cow, I love! I originally made a version of these for my baby shower in a box that I did for Shutterfly. At my craft party, my friend made the two bigger bag tags/gift boxes. The “Just For You” Stickers came from Hobby Lobby and were used in the baby shower box blog as well.
Wrap chip board letters in washi tape.
Bakers twine is a cute combo with any gift in a million ways and I’m loving using it with these tags like the one I made above for the Spice Tea gift bottles.
I’ll be posting a few more of these tags that I made on my Facebook page. Follow me there and on Pinterest. Pin and enjoy!
20th October 2015
This is the most VERSATILE and easiest costume to make. If you can think of anything that’s a triangle: candy corn, pie, ice cream cone, cheese, slice of watermelon, etc., you can use this tutorial and customize it to your heart’s content!
It’s no sew and cost me $7.50 to make!
Materials:
1 yard of tan fabric folded in half {for my 4 1/2 year old of average height-use your 40% off Hobby Lobby coupon to do this costume for the price above}
4 sheets of red felt
5 sheets of cream felt
2 sheets of black felt
2 sheets gray felt
Good fabric scissors
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Bowls in two different sizes
A cup
A shirt from your child’s closet for measuring purposes
Instructions:
1. Fold your yard of tan fabric in half. Hold it up to your child and mark approximately the length you want the end product to be. Mark lightly.
2. Find the center point to be the tip of your pizza slice and cut out a triangle. Make sure to keep the folded part the top of the pizza so a neck hole can be cut out to be worn and draped over your child.
3. Next you need to cut the neck hole. Using a shirt from your child’s closet, place the neck hole of the shirt in the center of the crust to measure the width your cut should be. Mark with a pen. Then measure from the center of your child’s shirt from the back of the neck, to lowest center part of the curve of the neck so you will know how low to go when cutting the neckline. Remove the shirt, mark the center of the neck line based on your measurements and cut out.
4. Get your cream fabric and cut large abstract pieces to look like melted cheese. You can also do strips and make the cheese look shredded. Cover your pizza with the cheese and find the lay out that looks best.
5. Get two different size bowls and trace and cut out pepperonis from your red felt. Lay them over the cheese.
6. Use your gray fabric to create round scallop shapes to be your sausage. Arrange the sausage over the other “ingredients”.
7. Lastly, using a cup from your kitchen, trace and cut out olives from your black felt and arrange them over your pizza.
8. Once you are pleased with your lay out, begin hot gluing the ingredients to the pizza. Once they are all attached, flip your slice over and trim off the overhanging felt.
9. Cut four strips of tan felt of the same length and width to make ties to go under the arms of the costume. Put the costume on your child to see where the strips should be attached. I marked where I should glue my ties with safety pins before taking it off of her. Once you have found the placement you need, attach them to the inside of the crust. You can see the finished ties in the first image of this post.
The pizza was blowing in crazy winds but still looked cute! I’m going to save their costumes for her kids one day. See the Play-Doh tutorial here.
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27th October 2014
I’m sure other people on planet earth drink spice tea, but I never hear anyone talk about it. It’s a long stand by at Christmas in our family and it’s yummy in my tummy.
Right now at Target in the one spot aisle, you can get a two pack of these awesome glass milk bottles for 3 dollars. You can also get mason jars which you saw me use in the DIY snow globe tutorial and for this gift idea here. I wanted to stray a bit from the jars and use these bottles because they steal my heartstrings. Milk bottles are used less than the ever popular mason jars these days.
I made the tags and embellishments using washi tape, bakers twine, scrapbook sticker letters and two paper straws from Hobby Lobby. You can buy these straws at Mighty Dollar by the packs so I would go there. Way better than the Hobby Lobby deal. It would be really cute to attach a recipe card to the jar as well but hey, can win them all.
This is a cute appreciation gift for a teacher or a nice “I love you”/ “Just because” gift for a friend. Really, it’s a nice cozy gift for anyone and they can use the jar again so double score for this awesome jar! You can double/triple this recipe and make a few of these suckers as gifts. There she blows, folks!
Spice Tea
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30th October 2013
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Originally on my blog: the1sthundred.com but still me!
Thanks to Shelly Griffin Photography for these quality pictures!
