Movie Night Popcorn Bowl

The first week's challenge for SYTYC was to make something from the dollar store, strangely this was a lot harder then I thought it would be but I do like what I ended up with. 

When cruising the Dollar Tree  I knew what I wanted to do as soon as I saw these supplies.  Like most families now a days we are having to cut back on some of the outings that we do. One of the big ones for us is going to the movies, with a family of 4 and a price tag of $35 just to get in not to mention concessions, its just something we really can't bring ourselves to do anymore. So we have movie night at home with a movie rental from redbox, movie candy and popcorn from the dollar store which can all be done for the price of just one adult ticket.

 For our new movie popcorn bowl I used a plastic punch bowl, tickets and mod podge. I switched back and forth between the two ticket colors and put an extra layer of mod podge over them all to seal the bowl.This project only cost me $3, you can't beat that!

 Then simply add popcorn and the movie candy we are ready for movie night!!!! Now who has the remote?

Round 2 SYTYC

Good Monday morning everyone! I can't believe that I haven't posted that I did make it through the audition round at


                                                       




and then I made it through week one! We are now in week two and there are some amazing projects that the ladies have created. I an really enjoying the creativity that the contest is starting up in me again and I hope to hang around for several more rounds.


Please click the button and take a couple of minutes to check out all the creations and vote!

Fall Colors for 2011

I was so excited to see the colors that came out in the Pantone fall fashion color report. I highly suggest heading over and checking all the colors out. 

There are a lot of deep colors and one of my favorites for this season is the deep teal. What a beautiful warm and rich color my mind is just turning with things to make with this color. Then when I add the phlox, nougat, coffee liquor, and bamboo I am so in love and can't wait to start playing with these colors. 

 As most crafters know these colors don't just stay in the fashion world, the craft world also looks to these colors when getting ready for the season.  We will start to see these colors in the new decor items, scrapbook pages and even in the floral departments. 
 I will be watching to see when they start to pop up in the stores, mean while I plan on collecting several times with these colors and getting a start on my fall decorating. I hope you too want to know go and play with these colors for something new for yourself or your home. 

Happy Birthday Wreath

Good morning everyone!!! Well we made it through the first week back to school with the kids already having homework and a project. It also means that Tanner had another birthday, I can't believe he is 11!  I made a wreath for the door to put up for all of our birthdays.

Lets start with the supplies, all you need is a styrofoam wreath (size of your choice), floral pins, balloons (lots and lots of balloons), ribbon, and chipboard letters.

I separated all my balloons by color so that I could have some sort of system when putting them on the wreath. Next you just take the floral pin and put it in the middle of a balloon and inserting it into the wreath lining them up next to each other going around the wreath.  Just do this step over and over and over till you have the wreath covered. I ended up doing three rows on the top and sides.

Then I added the ribbon which I recommend to do first so that its easier to hide with the balloons. Also believe it or not being styrofoam and balloons it is very heavy so you want the ribbon to be wrapped around the wreath to make sure that you have a good hold on it. I used the remainder of the ribbon to make a medallion for the letters to sit on. Next I painted all the letters and glued them together.

Last I just hot glued the Happy Birthday onto the bottom of the wreath and it was ready to go. It was a big hit and everyone can't wait to have it hanging up for their birthday's.

The project that seems like it's never going to end...Part 2

Let's see, where we last left off with this one was we had gotten the mirrors down and the wall repaired.  Next we took the trim off of the doors and drawers  so they didn't seem so dated. Then it was time to sand them down, which was really fast and easy with my handy hand sander that hubby got me (I love this thing and have thought about painting it pink LOL).



After the first sanding we then puddied all the cracks and dips in the wood which was a little harder then it looked because the wood is so dark. We had to run our hands over the wood several times to find all the spots.




Time to sand again, once those were done it was time to sand the base itself. At this point I highly suggest that you have some tack clothes around for the dust that gets everywhere when you sand, of course it would have been better if we could have done this out side but being attached to the wall makes that a bit difficult. After all the sanding was done it was time to prime everything and then start painting. Oh yeah clean out all the junk that is in there goodness how did that happen!

                                                                                                                  

 

So You Think You’re Crafty 9

I am so excited!!!!  I am auditioning for Season 9 of So You Think You’re Crafty this week!

  

If you have never heard of SYTYC, here’s an explanation from Missy, the host:

SYTYC is a head-to-head crafting competition. Every 10 weeks a new group of crafters is selected.  Each week the crafters are given a theme and YOU vote for your favorite.  The winner makes a free tutorial and the loser gets ‘sent home.’

I didn't realized the voting had already started so I only have till tomorrow night for everyone to pop over and vote for your favorite project.  If you don't mind heading over to So You Think Your Crafty  and take a look at everyone and vote I would love it. Thanks for stopping by!

Art Journal In Progress

I wanted to show some progress of a page I have been working on in my art journal. I have to say I am excited for the kids to get back to school next week (as much as I hate the idea too)  so that I have more artistic time during the day.  I have really missed working on some art this summer. Though I have gotten several projects done so I have been productive.

I sketched out my face and then started to color in with my favorite medium, water color crayons. Then I moved into adding some acrylic paints and graphite pencils.




I played with adding some highlights to her hair and then colored in the background and side page.





      And here is what I have so far. I am going to add some quotes to the other side to complete the page. I liked the way it turned out so much that I have used it as my blog button that you can grab on your right. Thanks for stopping by.