Supplies:

The first thing you’ll have to do is carefully tear the back page off the catalog. The bottom half of the back page is a fabulous print, which can be trimmed down to 5×7.

Prep your canvas by finding the exact center. I wanted my print to look framed in gold so I marked off my 5×7 print and then added a 1 inch border all the way around. Using painter’s tape I taped off a centered 7×9 box and painted the inside gold. As you can see I didn’t care too much about how the inside of the square looked as it will be covered with the print.

Once the gold was dry and I peeled up the painter’s tape I measured out 2 inch stripes and taped the areas that I wanted to stay white. I then painted the rest of the canvas pink. As you can see below it is almost impossible not to get bleed when working with the canvas. But it’s not a big deal, you’ll just have to go back with white paint and touch everything up. I find that the best way to clean everything up is with that nice straight edge brush that I showed in the supplies photo. You can get right up to the edge rather easily.

Once you’ve got everything cleaned up and it’s completely dry you can attach your print with Mod Podge. I put 1 medium layer of Mod Podge on the back of the print and centered it on the gold square. After 30 minutes I applied a light coating of Mod Podge over the entire print and gold “frame” area. Let dry and repeat if you’d like. You are ready to hang it up!

I am so excited about my new artwork. It is going to fit into my Flamingo/Cabana Stripe/Beachy guest room perfectly! Now to just hang up everything else, upholster the cornice board, sew some pillows, and accessorize the room. Maybe it will be ready for a reveal by Thanksgiving!  

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Last week I made this piece for my sister. I knew how much she loved this saying so when I saw the file in the Silhouette Store I decided to buy it.

I like that the artists who list their designs in the Silhouette Store kind of give you a color theme starting out point. By no means do you have to you ANY of these colors they’ve used as their thumbnail for the design, but you can if you want. As you can see, I sort of followed their lead. I used Raspberry, Hot Pink, and Coral outdoor vinyl to make this sign.

I started by raiding my husbands wood pile in the garage and found this 16×12 piece of plywood. It has a small hole and notch on the back but no big deal, no one’s going to see the back! I sanded down all the edges and gave the side I was going to use as the front a good once over with the sand paper, too.

Next I gave the plywood a good, thick coat of gold metallic paint. I am way too impatient to wait for 2 coats of paint to dry so I only put on one coat. While I was waiting for the paint to dry I opened up my file in Silhouette Studio and sized the cutting file to give me about a 1 inch boarder – or 15×11. As I explained in my vinyl layering post, I like to ungroup the file and color in each piece of the file approximately the same color I am going to cut them out in so I have an idea of what the final piece will look like. That also helps me be efficient in my cutting so I know which pieces I need to grab for each piece of vinyl.

Once I got everything cut out I was ready to apply the vinyl to the painted wood. Using clear contact paper instead of pricey transfer tape I just eye balled it, but you could make some small pencil marks as guides where to apply the vinyl.

To be able to hang your art on the wall you can add a small sawtooth hanging hook on the back or go the wall friendly command picture hanging strip way.

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Dump all the fun stickers and embellishments on the table and let your kiddos get to work!

The best part about getting to decorate your own box of Kleenex is that there are FOUR canvases per box!!

We used some letter stickers to “write” each person’s name on their box but as you can see we all came up with very different boxes so it won’t be too hard to know whose is whose.

Of course I covered one side of mine in ribbon, you totally knew that was going to happen, right?

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I am pretty sure my neighbors think it’s odd I left this hanging on my door today, but I just couldn’t take it down.

The color palette sets the tone for how I will be decorating this year.

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To this

I used an Acrylic Tray from The Container Store
~Tape measure
~Rotary cutter
~Duck Brand peel and stick laminate
~Fabric duvet cover bag from Serena and Lily

I measured the inside of my tray and cut 2 pieces of peel and stick laminate to size and cut 1 piece out of my fabric bag to a dimension 1/2″ smaller in each direction.

Once you have your pieces cut to size peel off the backing of one sheet of the laminate and place sticky side up. Center your upcycled fabric, wrong side down, on the laminate. Peel the backing off the 2nd sheet of laminate and place, sticky side down, on top of the fabric. Make sure you line up the laminate edges and use your hands to smooth out the fabric. Then just insert your newly laminated upcycled fabric into your tray!

I love that it’s a perfect match!!

My next step is new drapes, lamp shades, art work for this room. Check back in another couple years and I might actually have found those things Oh, and a cute bedside notebook to put in the tray to write down all my kinda crafty ideas!

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Supplies for this project are fairly simple

• Felt (I bought mine from Giant Dwarf, it’s super DUPER nice felt)
• Sharp Scissors
• A pattern
• Hot Glue/Gun

To speed up this project and hopefully make more than 1 flower in your 20 minutes skip the tracing of your template and just stack up 2 or 3 pieces of felt and simply cut around your patter as you go. You could pin the template in place if you’d like.

I used my Silhouette CAMEO (I’ve got a deal coming for you on those in 2 weeks!!!) to cut out my templates but you can simply draw your own shapes onto thick cardstock and cut them out by hand. You’ll just need 2 different sizes of basically the same shape.

Here are the larger flower pieces that will go in the back.

And then the smaller pieces that will go in front. You will need 2 of each size to make these flowers. You don’t need a backing piece of felt for this flower, just lay down your back flower and add a drop of hot glue (or felt glue) to the center and then place the next flower on top, twisting it slightly so the petals aren’t all lined up. Repeat this process 2 more times until you have glued together all 4 pieces of felt. To finish off your flower you can hot glue some seed beads or fringe a round small piece of felt or paper as I have done. Attach your center as you did the flowers.

My hands are starting to hurt just looking at these pictures again, it was a lot of cutting!

I love these colors together, they remind me of a coastal fall.

You can cut out a couple leaves if you’d like, or leave them plain. I mixed it up a little.

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I wasn’t sure it was going to work, but I really wanted the orange and blue chevron pattern to stay true to their design. I decided to wrap the wreath from front to back with my fabric. It wasn’t easy and it took about a bajillion pins but I finally got it to work! After hanging the wreath up in my office and staring at it for a while I decided it needed some add-ons. The bow with the fabric covered button was cute but I still needed more. I thought about adding a chalkboard cut out decal to the wreath but didn’t want the black on the wreath and wasn’t in the mood to make my own white chalkboard paint. So after a little supply searching through my ever-unorganized craft stash I had a Gru style Lightbulb moment!!
DRY ERASE BOARD!

I found a small wood circle, cut out a piece of peel and stick dry erase board to match, hot glued a little ribbon ruffle onto the back and VIOLA – a customizable Game Day Wreath! Now I can change the saying on the wreath every week depending on who my Alma Mater is playing! Brilliant right?!?

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Supplies:

•  Any size frame you want/have on hand. This frame from IKEA was just sitting in my dining room.
• A piece of your favorite cardstock cut to fit in your frame. I am a little obsessed with this chunky aqua glitter!
• A vinyl decal with transfer tape OR a print out of a monogram you’ve designed and a paint pen.

Take the backing off your frame

If you’ve got a mat in your frame, tape your cardstock to the back side of the mat. If not mat, just place your cardstock in as if it were a photo.

Put your frame all back together.

Use your transfer tape to center and align your monogram and then use a credit card or your finger to press down your decal working out any bubbles you might have. Peel your transfer tape away slowly.

BAM! New art!

If you want to “fake” your decal you’ll can print out an anchor in the size you want as well as print out your monogram (I’ve shared how to make your own monogram here) to size. Once you’ve printed out your 2 pieces, cut them out, placing your monogram on top of your anchor, and place them behind your frame glass (and secure it in place with tape). Use a white paint marker to trace your design directly on top of the glass!

Now my little entryway table is complete!

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I have placed this wreath for sale in my shop in the Ready to Ship category. I’ve only made 1 that is ready to ship so if you want your door to look vibrant and fresh this summer you better get on the BALL.  

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