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!

Turkey cork craft!

 Take corks and wrap them with wire and make legs. Than glue feathers on but and make body out of construction paper.  Got this idea from magazine. They use wooden spools.

Onesie Iron-on

 Yes I made it.... as far as getting a plain onesie and ironing on a cute elephant decal...

It turned out cute.. Hope it holds up! 

I have not tested it on actual baby wearing.

Grandparents Day Cards

Cute baby footprints can be used for all sorts of cards! I should have made lots more stamps before my baby's feet grew too big! Her stamp looks much bigger now!

Graduation Crafts

I got this idea online somewhere. Made them for my nephew as a graduation goody. Reece's peanut butter cup with square paper, brad, and raffia tassel to represent a mortar board graduation hat!! Super simple and festive!
Congrats class of 2010

Party centerpieces

These centerpieces we made for my daughter's 1st Birthday Party! Carnival/circus themed!
We used popcorn plastic containers filled with rocks, then foam, then a cracker jack, and sucker, and some garnish of wheat and other sparkles that we added after this photo!

Riley's 1st Birthday Carnival!

 Food, games and Prizes! We threw this party outdoors. We had several party games. Made cute ticket booth for photo ops. And Had balloons tied all over yard.

 Photo Booth for guests to be photographed inside with clown attire we provided.

 Yes we got a local clown to perform at the party.

 I took cake decorating classes and learned how to make awesome clowns to go on cake!

 Another photo op from oriental trading co.

 Cupcakes I made, the wrappers are from oriental trading co, and the clown heads are from michaels or joanns.

 Ticket booth

 Empty Photo booth

 The food set up!

 Our Thank you card photos of the birthday girl in her Clown costume!

 Carnival ticket Invitation I made in photoshop.

 Stamps from Ebay.

 Popcorn bags from ebay were used as envelopes for invites as well as for actual popcorn at the party!

We also had a bounce house for the big kids!

Photo Booth

The greatest idea ever!
Stole the idea from online elsewhere for carnival/circus parties!
Took a large cardboard box and painted circles on the outside and then got some polka dot wrapping paper for the inside liner.
Placed a little stool in the bottom and took pics!! It was great fun for guests. We provided clown noses, a hat, wig, and bow tie.

Home-made Carnival Ticket BOOTH

Took a large nutcracker cardboard box and painted it with Red stripes.
Used painters tape to get straight lines.

The painter's tape did pull up some of the white on the box so we need to touch up with white.

Used black tape to border the opening which had rough edges from cutting out hole.

Make a curly/ wavy top. Paint tickets!! Still need to add some finishing touches and touch up white paint but looks good. Of course we got this idea from the internet!

Popcorn Envelopes

I got these popcorn bags on ebay to use for envelopes for my circus party invites!! Love em!