Halloween Banner

This Halloween Banner is for sale on Etsy! http://etsy.me/1gIsSVT
This 3 dimensional Halloween Banner is handmade of different papers and embellishments. The banner available is in orange, purple and green Halloween themed papers. Each pennant measures approximately 9.5"x 6.25" and banner measures about 60+ inches depending on flag spacing. Excess black organza ribbon is included to create the length you need. Light enough to hang with push pins.

Boo Sign

This sign is super easy to make! All you need are 3D cardboard letters and a strand or two of mini lights!

Fall Wreath

Since we just moved into our new home, we don't have many decorations. Which is fine for me because that just means I get to make as many as I want!! I started with this wreath for our door, very fall like and its something that I can keep on the door from September-November! Love it!

Valentines Day Nails

Look what I did using washi tape!

Steps:
1. Punch a heart out of a piece of washi tape
2. Place tape on nail make sure all edges are pressed down
3. Paint where nail shows through in washi tape
4. Peel off tape while wet and touch up and edges
5. Let dry!

Our first wreath

I've always wanted to make a wreath like this. It is very time consuming I must say but living in New York, you have a lot of time on the subways. I wrapped the cardboard wreath with white yarn while sitting on the G train for the past week. It took me about 2 days of train rides to wrap 2 layers of white yarn around the cardboard wreath. 

Framed Layouts

Its official, scrapbook pages look so much prettier when they are framed! Thank goodness for Hobby Lobby! I grabbed a handful of these simple black 12x12 frames for about $5/piece since they were on sale 50% off! Score!

I made a page for Kyle before I went out to Italy to give to him when I got out there. He loved it so much he told me he wanted to frame it. Why didn't I think of that?! I just thought he would push pin it to the wall or something. Then near the end of my stay out there he asked me if I would make some more for him of photos of us from my stay. Awww. Of course!! So I made these and bought some frames and the photos don't do them justice but I think pages look so much better framed!

Glitter Nails

Ok the new trend is glittery nails right now. The problem is they use gel when you get them and I'm allergic to gel. So I can't have glittery nails...or can I?! I have all this Martha Stewart glitter left over from my starbucks cups, who says I can't dip my nails in them? So thats exactly what I did. I painted my nails with just a top coat then dipped them in glitter and added a top coat on top of that. They looked pretty good too! The only problem, they washed off the second I did the dishes. Eh at least I tried. They looked cute for a day.

Glittered Part 2

Remember when I glittered my Starbucks Cup pink a little while back? Well I also bought purple glitter at the same time I bought the pink to make a second cup. I think I like the purple better because the color is darker than the pink one.

Glitter!

How many people actually decorate their Starbucks cups? I've yet to see someone do so, or even personalize it. So here mine is to break this pattern and hopefully people will start getting creative and decorating their cups too!

I used Martha Stewarts glitter and a simple spray adhesive to create this cup. Make sure you cover the inside with something like foil so you don't accidentally get spray adhesive in the drinking area of the cup. All I did was spray glue then sprinkled glitter over the glue area until the whole cup was glittered!

Recipe Book

During the shop hop the girls and I made it to Paper Arts Warehouse which sells Pinecone Press kits and supplies. I came across the cookie recipe book and had to buy it! I decided that I wanted to make it before I left for New York so I could fill it up with a few favorite recipes here and fill the rest up with things I make out there.

Its A Boy!!

Christine comes home from the hospital today and I leave for New York on Monday. I made this sign for her a long time ago when we first thought she was going into labor but that never happened. Then when she finally did have Liam she has been kept in the hospital for the past few days. So today she gets released and I rushed over to her house to put this on their door before they got home!

My fancy new Card Box

Again. I love love love Hobby Lobby. Look at this pretty little box I got today to put all my handmade cards in. Its so cute! And Pink! I love it!

Chalk

Bachelorette Party

Our beautiful bride to be! We had a lot of planning and last minute decorating that went into making this lovely lady's day fantastic! One of the things I was in charge of was decorating her and the rest of the guests. We found that tiara and I added some lace to it for a veil, the sash was from Joann's same with the eye mask.

100+ Cupcake Toppers

Capstone is coming up and I have decided to make over 100 mini cupcakes to go along with my project. Well of course my cupcakes need cupcake toppers. Thank goodness Christine has a Cricut Imagine!! That seriously made this job a thousand times easier. It took a couple of tries to figure out settings and what not but once things were figured out it was as easy as hitting enter and boom I have sheets and sheets of the same images, ready to peel off the matt and assemble.

Wreaths

I am going to be making some wreaths this year for sure for Christmas! I have found a ton of inspiration over on Pinterest. 

This is a wreath I made for the 4th of July this year :

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CMYK Banner in my Senior Studio Space

We finally got our senior spaces at LCAD. Now mind you don't go thinking they are the most luxurious things in the world but I am glad that we get them.

Candy Fun

Seeing how Halloween just passed it makes sense to finally post this Fathers Day present I made for my dad this year haha. (You can tell school has kept me busy I haven't had any time to post this!)

But I guess this would be a good idea for left over Halloween candy?!

Basically we just went to the market with a notepad and stood in front of the candy section for about an hour while we made up the whole story, it was pretty fun actually!

*Please excuse the grammar since we were using candy bars as words hehe.

Holiday Cards

Last year I was on a roll and handmade 50 Christmas cards! If you are on our Christmas card list you just may recognize a card below!

Wall Heart

Andy opening his gifts, he was super excited about the canvas piece!

On top of the Mini Cake I made for Andy and I for our One Year Anniversary, I also made him a huge 36x36 canvas photo collage of 45 photos from the year. This was a more difficult task then I planned. Since it was so big I had to cover it with a sheet because it was too difficult to wrap. He had no idea and was thrilled when he opened it.