So I have a favorite blog that I look at everyday! This is the blog where I get ideas, recipes, and my adorable fonts that you see all over my page! This blog is called Kevin and Amanda where Amanda is the most creative person ever. She is what I strive to be at someday and the thing I love the most is her scrapbook/sewing/craft room! I am so jealous and hope someday (when all my kids have grown and moved out :/ ) I can have a room like this:
Hello!!! I could sleep in there! I think just standing in there would make anyone feel like sitting down and doing a craft or a scrapbook! I am so jealous but now know why Amanda is so crafty!!! So maybe someday (30 years from now) I will be posting a picture of my craft room just like this one...hey a girl can dream! Enjoy!
Woo hoo! It is 8:25 and the princess is in bed so time to find some more freebies for you!!! This kit is so adorable I cannot wait to see what pages you all come up with! Manda @ Nibbles Scribbles and Jane @ Little Red Scraps collaborated to bring you "Morning Mocha" for FREE!!!!! They are giving it to you all this week so make sure to check on these blogs daily, for the links will only be up for 24 hours! Enjoy!
Here is how the schedule will go:
Mon. Jan 11: Solid Papers
Tues. Jan 12: Patterned Papers
Wed. Jan 13: Elements
Thurs. Jan 14: Alphas
Fri. Jan 15: Quick Pages
Click on Manda's preview to go to her blog:
Click on Jane's preview to go to her blog:
Happy Sunday! I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend with your family and because I want you to get back to Family time I will make this short and sweet, especially sweet! With Valentine's Day fast approaching I thought I would let you know about an adorable kit that is free at Shabby Princess. It has adorable papers, alpha, and tons of elements! So head on over and download Sweet Sprinkles for free today! Enjoy!
Hello Friday! I know I don't work but doesn't it feel wonderful when Friday arrives! You start to count down the hours to Saturday so you can do projects or have family time or absolutely nothing because that is the beauty of weekends! Today's craft is going to be a simple monogrammed letter that you can put anywhere in your house. You can even use more than one and do a big one for your last name and two slightly smaller ones for yours and your husbands first name which would be adorable. Come to think of it I think I'm going to go to Joanns and get those tomorrow!
Anyway, today I am going to teach you how to take a wooden letter like this:
And turn it into this:
Supplies:
-wooden letter
-paint
-scrapbook paper
-glue and water mixture (a.k.a. homemade modge podge)
-old paint brush
-ribbon
-scissors
-any other embelishments you want to add
Take your letter and place in face down on the back side of your scrapbook paper. Trace and cut-out:
Paint the edges of the letter in a coordinating color. I used Apple Barrel Acrylic Paint in Pool Blue:
Let Dry:
Once completely dry, start applying glue mixture to front of letter and back of paper:
Now unfortunately since I did this at 11 p.m. I was a little tired and forgot to take pictures of the rest.
Once you have applied the glue, carefully place the paper on the wood and line it up as straight as you can. There will be a slight over-hang on the sides to add glue and press down sides. You will have to do this many times until the glue has a firm hold and the paper on the sides does not pop up. Once the letter is straight add a coat of glue directly on top of the paper to seal. While glue is wet add the ribbon to your project so it will stick better. Do not put glue on top of the ribbon because it will not dry nice. Once the letter is completely dry you can add any other elements with a hot glue gun.
Now you have a beautiful, easy to make monogrammed letter to decorate your house!
Total cost of this project: 7.50! Enjoy!
I just found this amazing deal on The Creative Crate where Canvas People are offering a free 8 x 10 photo canvas for every home! I just ordered mine and cannot wait until it comes in! You have to pay around 15 dollars for shipping but I think it is worth it because this deal is worth 49.99!!! This is so amazing there is no way you can pass this up! So go to Canvas People and make yours today!
As most of you know my hubby, daughter, and I live temporarily with my in-laws, so we are limited to our room. Now our room is about 11 x 11 feet so there is not much room to do anything but I love a challenge. It all started with my hubby getting a little more than irritated when he would come in to go to bed and all of my scrapbook supplies would be on our bed since I did not have a space to scrap. He decided enough was enough and we needed to make a space for me to scrap, craft, sew, etc. but did not know how with such a small space. Well I love a challenge so I started brain-storming! Here is what the room looked like before (sorry the pictures are with Christmas decorations that is all I have!):
And here is the big reveal:
Bed is now against the back wall (I hate beds against the wall but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make for my craft area!)
My new craft area! A large piece of wood held by our two nightstands and two center brackets for support.
Look at all that space!
That's over 7 feet of work space!
All of my supplies are nice and organized
My new saying!
So there you have it! And all we had to buy was the wood and brakets! Pretty good for 11 x 11 feet. I hope you enjoyed my bedroom makeover and I look forward to having you all over for some scrapbooking!
So I was only going to blog once tonight until I found this adorable craft that we can do! I know we all love to give cards for Holidays and Birthdays but wouldn't it be nice to recieve a card on a Wednesday, just because? Or what about giving our husbands a card to show how much we love him and appreciate him? Personally I would love to do this everyday for my husband and while I would do one right now it would probably end up looking like I was drunk while I made it since I am beyond exhaustion right about now! With that being said I swear this is my final post for the night, especially since I am sitting in bed while I type this. (If there are any typos I do apologize!) Back to my point, sorry I ramble when I am tired, I found this really cute tutorial and I am planning on making one tomorrow afternoon (when I have energy) and putting it by my hubby's side of the bed so it will be there when he wakes up the following morning! This is what yours could look like:
I will upload pictures of my card tomorrow and would love to see yours as well! Now off to bed I swear! Enjoy!
