Styrofoam snow men!

Pipe cleaner turkey

Cute easy Thanksgiving crafts!!

pipe cleaners, pine cones, poof balls, googly eyes, and beaks.

Faux Chandelier

 Painted this chandelier black designed for holding candles, then bough acrylic black prisms to hand on it and bedazzle for cute baby room wall decor.

Kids Barn or Farm Party

This is my 2 yr old's party! 

We had Hay rides!

 Cow balloons

 fondant cow and flowers cake!

 Food

Yum yum food= Check out the cute watermelon piggy.

Menu

BBQ Beef and Pork Sandwiches

Chili beans

Corn on the cob

Pigs in Blankets

Macaroni Salad

Green Salad

Fruit

1/2 bologna or Peanut butter and Jelly Sandwiches

Stick horse races

 Farm crafts-making a cow, pig, or chicken.

 And pin the chicken on the barn.

Table decor laying down because of wind but could stand up.

 And photo op in front of the cardboard barn we made!

Home-made cardboard Barn

 

We took some large cardboard boxes we had from other projects and made them into a barn.

One box for the base and another cut up box to make peak and roof. And went a little further and put on a weather vein. Used cricut to cut out horse and letters for the weather vein. Painted barn red (several coats to cover paper on box). Then painted roof brown and used white duct tape for the door and side windows!

  

barn party centerpiece/decor

Wheat stalks tied with a bow to make decor for barn party or centerpieces!

Barnyard Birthday Invitation!!

 For my daughter's 2nd birthday party we are going with a barnyard birthday party theme!

 Used my awesome cricut machine to cut out this beautiful barn, and the cow!

Found wording on the computer and created the masterpiece!

Ordered brown paper bag square envelopes to fit. Also used stamps of animals on the outside of the envelope for extra flair!

Barn Invitations

 Okay this year I plan to have a Barnyard Farm theme for my daughter's birthday! I wanted to make Barn invitations. So first attempts were dran barns and glue together pieces that looked like this. Was not pleased with either one. So looked further. And discovered if I got a new scrapbooking machine I could make super fabulous barns.

 

 These are the beautiful cricut barns! Made with Old west cartridge. Much cuter!

Will open doors and put animal inside and put party info on back eventually when it get's closer.

Valentine's Cards

 Hogs and Kisses!!

Got a new cricut and had to use it to make some v-day cards!

Making a Silhouette- Profile Project

Starter pic- profile of child

Print and trace.

 Turn over and scan or cut out and use as a template/stencil.

Making a silhouette from your own photo profile.... I looked online and got ideas how to do this. I cannot recall all the sites. First I got the idea from a magazine showing you how to use a light bulb to trace a profile of your child or whomever, but I quickly realized I could not get my small child to sit still for that long and looked further for how too's on using a photograph. After scanning you can attempt to make digital copy of it and fill it in with black or other but it is very difficult in my opinion. I tried several tutorials but none worked for me. I ended up with a smoothed out version which I also like but not as much as original because it has the detail that makes the profile my daughter. Also I probably should have flipped them back over because they are starting to look backwards to me, but oh well.

 

Riley Joelle

I also plan to make larger version for scrap book and make it into gifts in some form.

This is the finished product a photo to hang up in my home.

I think I may be addicted to silhouettes now!

Must make more!

Also if you search silhouettes you will find a ton of info, and can purchase them already made or made for you.

Christmas Ornament!

 Super easy yet elegant looking ornament to make for Christmas gifts!

Found it myself in a magazine clipping a few years ago and saved it awhile and finally made it!

Simply buy glass ornament balls mid size or they even make plastic ones for those of you who have wee ones who may break them! Buy some fake xmas tree sprigs, cut them into small pieces, poke a piece down into ornament, get red beads that look holly berry-esque, insert 2 or 3 inside ball and put lid back on.
Then get red or green ribbon, make hand written message papers reading Merry Christmas or whatever you may desire. Tie a bow on top or other variations. I use red ribbon on all mine but forgot to take a single photo of them, so I had to make another for blog purposes!

 Those who I gave them too seemed to like them, all puzzled about how I made them?! So easy!