Made It Myself Mondays!

Happy Monday everyone! I've got a little post today for the "Made It Myself Mondays" challenge!

I've been pretty busy over the past week so I apologize for the lack of blogging! My sister-in-law got married over the weekend and I was able to put some of my crafty skills to good use while I was there!

When I got to the lake where the wedding was held, my sister in law handed me a big box of stuff and said "Get To Work!" lol So I started in.... I ended up making these really pretty hanging flower pots. The wedding colors were beautiful!

A few days before the wedding, we used my new Cricut Cake machine to attempt to cut some fondant for the cake... this was my first time doing it, so It wasn't the BEST that I could do, but it worked!!!

Unfortunately, the fondant letters broke apart when they tried to put it on the cake, but the handmade cake turned out BEAUTIFUL with or without the letters! :-)

They even asked me to be their wedding photographer, so I attempted to use my photography skills that I learned in college several years ago!

Thanks for stopping by today! :-)

Made It Myself Mondays!

Happy Monday everyone! I missed last weeks"Made It Myself Mondays"? challenge! I've been quite busy with all kinds of projects as well as life here at home.

This weekend was full of weddings for me! My sister in law had her bridal shower this past weekend and it completely slipped my mind until the day of! So I had a few hours to make her a quick little gift... I decided to try one of my toilet paper roll albums that I've recently discovered making (thanks to Martha!!!)

Here is what I came up with:

I decided to make it with her wedding colors which are pink, orange, and yellow, and she's also using daisies in her wedding so I tried to add some of those.

For this project, I used the "Celebrate Cake" stamp set by market Street Stamps.

If you are interested in seeing my tutorial on how to make one of these, you can find it HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you all to save those toilet paper rolls and put them to a good use!!! :-)

Made It Myself Mondays!

Happy Monday everyone! Did you all have fun last week checking out all of the awesome projects last week from Alex's "Made It Myself Mondays"? I know I did! Everyone's projects were so inspiring, so I decided to try it again this week! :-)

For today's project, I wanted to dig up another one of my "green" projects that I made. I know a lot of you save things to alter, so I'm always getting new ideas on things to alter!

For this project, I decided to make "Soup Can Flower Pots." A good way to go green, right?

First, I picked out some pretty acrylic paints that I wanted to use for the cans. After I painted them and let them dry, I sprayed them with some glitter.

Second, I chose my pretty papers and cut some flowers and flourishes with my cricut. Then I took my hot glue gun and glued the pieces to bamboo skewers.

Next, I took styrofoam squares and glued them into the bottom of the cans with hot glue. Take your flowers/skewers and stick them down into the styrofoam. I usually poke a hole then pull the skewer back out and put a little hot glue on it and stick it back in so it will stay.

Last, I stuffed the cans with paper shreds to fill the empty spots. you can also spray these with a little glitter to give them that extra sparkle. I also tied some ribbon around the cans for a finishing touch.

And here is my finished project:

These make great gifts too! Real flowers wilt and die, but paper flowers last forever! :-)

I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks for stopping by!

Made It Myself Mondays!

Happy Monday everyone! I was very excited when I saw that Alex over at You Had Me At Craft announced that she would be doing "Made It Myself Mondays" every week! That just gives me more motivation to start my week and get projects going! If you're interested in joining in, click the button below!



For today's project, I wanted to dig up one of my "oldies but goodies" that I did.

Do you have empty flower jars sitting around just waiting to be filled with something new? Well, alter them and fill them with embellishments!!! I have TONS of these Prima "Got Flowers" jars from years ago and they are perfect for brads and gems and other small embellishments!

First, I picked out some pretty acrylic paints that I wanted to use for the lids. After I painted them and let them dry, I covered them with sparkly nail polish as you can see below:

Second, I picked out the papers that I wanted to use with these (I chose Basic Grey's Urban Prairie line of paper):

Third, I cut the paper down to sized and punched the edges with a border punch. I glued these to the jars and then added some printed off words from my computer. Lastly, I added the finishing touches: ribbon, tags, and of coarse, prima flowers :)

Here you can see my finished product:

I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks for stopping by!