Embellishing Life

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Planting Donuts?

Happy April Fool's Day!

What tricks do you have up your sleeve today?

My little ladybug girl is so excited that today is "joke day."

This is one we found on Family Fun complete with printable!

We love free printables! :)

ladybug can not wait to hand these out...

Fill these printable seed packets with frosted cheerios and you are ready to fool your favorite somebodies!

We used white card stock for printing.

Time to ~~bake~~ plant the donuts!

*Come back tonight to link up what you've been working on this week*

Linking here:
http://www.bystephanielynn.com/

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Strawberry Easter Egg Basket

I love this Easter basket.

There's just something about strawberry baskets that's so sweet and girly!

I drew the "seeds" on the strawberries with a black sharpie.

For the leaves I traced and cut out a star on green card stock.

The stem is a segments of a chenille stem poked through the center of the star,

and all hot glued to the top of the egg.

I found this idea in the April Family Fun Magazine.

Edited: berry baskets found at Sweet Lulu

After Easter the ladybug can use this in her play kitchen.

Now I'm wondering what else we can turn plastic eggs into :)

Linking here:
http://www.bystephanielynn.com/
http://craftomaniac.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Spring Jars

Well hello, Spring. We have anxiously awaited your arrival. What better way to welcome it than with a garden fairy and gnome?

What we used to make these:

~pictures of your cute little munchkins

~styrofoam

~bamboo skewers

~embellishments for the clothing and wings (scrapbook paper, twine, ribbon, paper flowers...)

~adhesives

~jar

~moss

~any other spring goodness you'd like to add to your jar

Here's what we did:

~Cut out a full body picture of your little munchkin.

~Use glue dots or other adhesive to add embellishments as cute fairy or gnome clothes

~Use a glue gun to attach part of a toothpick or bamboo skewer to the back of your fairy/gnome

~Stick your skewer into a small piece of styrofoam (I cut a large block of styrofoam into small pieces)

~Hot glue the styrofoam to the bottom of a jar

~Fill bottom of jar with moss and be sure to cover the styrofoam (helps if the styrofoam is already green!)

They would make sweet cupcake toppers in celebration of the first day of Spring, too. Hmmm...will have to remember that one for next year!

I'm linking up with:
Sugar Bee Crafts
A Diamond in the Stuff
http://todayscreativeblog.net/
http://www.tipjunkie.com/
http://shoprubyjean.com/
http://carolynshomework.blogspot.com/
http://funkypolkadotgiraffe.blogspot.com//
http://www.freeprettythingsforyou.com/
http://www.gingersnapcrafts.com/
http://thetrendytreehouse.blogspot.com/
http://somedaycrafts.blogspot.com/
http://www.yesterdayontuesday.typepad.com/
http://www.iheartnaptime.net/sundae-scoop-link-party-23/
http://www.flamingotoes.com/
http://www.bystephanielynn.com/
http://www.homestoriesatoz.com/

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Craft Catwalk no.70 & A Brief Break

I am taking a bit of a break. I need to get reorganized.

Lately my posting has gotten sparse, and I need some time to reevaluate how to balance between the blog, the shop, the kids activities, and my other commitments.

So....

This link party will be open for exactly one month, the amount of time I'm taking off. Come back each week to check out the new links and add your new projects! On March 26th, when the linky closes I will be back with a blog update.

In the meantime you'll still find me pinning away on Pinterest,

sharing shop updates on Facebook,

and in my Shop.

See you in one month lovelies!