St Patrick's Day Banner!

Now that is officially March I figured it was okay to post my new banner I made!

I picked up two different packages of shamrocks at the dollar store,  some foam glittered ones and then a package of different sized cardstock ones.

I punched holes in each of the corners and ran twine through, then strung this puppy up!  And it was only $2!

Have you made anything fun for St Patrick's Day?

2012, my favorite projects, part II.

Happy New Year!  Did you have a good time ringing in the new year or did you about fall asleep, like me?  Haha!

I'm back today with part two of my favorites from last year.  I left off with June so let's start out with the second half of the year.

In July I made this card for Mike and I liked how I spritzed the wood pieces with mist and then sprinkled the card.  I love the look of this, but still don't do it enough (too impatient for drying time, haha!)

In August I made this card for a challenge (and my mom's birthday) and I LOVED everything about it :)

My favorite project for September was the fall banner I made.  It wasn't labor intensive at all, pretty quick and easy, but I just loved the outcome!

In October I bought this super cute stamp at Michael's and had so much fun coloring it with my Bic's and paper piecing (for the first time...) her dress!

For November I picked this birthday card for my Grandma Mary.  I love all the texture on this card!

For December I picked the Christmas tags.  They were simple this year, but still super fun, I think!!

I've never done a post like this, where I look back through my old projects.  It was a lot of fun.  I hope you enjoyed it too.  Thanks for stopping by today, I hope everyone has a fabulous 2013!  I'm excited to see what this year has in store for us :)  See you tomorrow!!

Fall Banner

Good Tuesday morning!!  I'm super excited today about my post, for a couple of reasons.  First of all I love the way this banner turned out and second of all I FINISHED THE BANNER!  Haha!

I was going to hang this on the front door, but then, on my way to the front door, I saw the china cabinet and thought this would look really cute hanging there.

 I used lots of old product on this and still love how it turned out.  Who says old product can't look good?  :)

Have you made any fall decorations or gotten yours out yet?  We got all of our stuff out on Sunday and it really has me excited for the fall weather and all that comes with it.

We have a busy couple of days ahead of us.  Skate night tonight and volleyball tomorrow night.  We're just grazing the surface of the busy time of year for us.  I'm trying to not feel the pressure :)  Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday and I'll see you all tomorrow!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Just one more banner...

Hello fabulous Monday morning and hello fabulous bloggy friends!!!!  How are you today?  You know our friendy neighbors got married this weekend and I made those banners for them, right?  Right.  Well, Leah asked me to make a fourth banner, one that said Thank You, I think they were going to have their picture taken with it and have thank you cards made out of it?  Not sure about that though.  Anyway, I whipped her up a banner, lickety split!

Once again I busted out my Birthday Bash cartridge for the banner shapes, ovals this time, and used my Alphalicous cartridge for the letters cut at 5 1/2".  I strung the ovals on cream colored tulle and for a little something extra, I added a couple of spritzes of green tulle on each end of the banners.

Did you have a nice weekend?  We had the wedding on Saturday and it was just perfect...and amazing.  Nick and Leah are just the sweetest couple and we love them, so anything they would have done would have been great.  But, the four of us had such a great time, dancing, eating, talking with friends, it was a great night!  On Sunday, we spent the day getting things ready for Landry's birthday party next weekend.

That's about it for me.  Thanks so much for coming by today to see me!  I'll be back tomorrow with another little crafty somethin' :)  Have a FANTASTIC Monday! 

Banner Week, Day 5

Happy Friday everyone!  Here we are at the end of banner week.  Are you a little sad?  Haha!  I wanted to show you the last two banners I made. 

For this banner, Leah wanted just a tiny bit of embellishing.  I repeated three leaves, in different directions, and embellished the center of each one in a different way.

For this banner, Leah wanted a bit more more embellishing.  I cut out a bunch of different images from my Storybook cartridge, sprinkled glitter on some, added buttons, ribbon, pins, flowers and brads.  I added a little bit to each letter until I was satisfied with the way they looked.  This was the fun part for me!

Well that wraps up banner week for me.  Thanks for hanging out with me this week and checking out my banner making process :)

Do you have big plans this weekend?  It's a girls weekend here.  Mike is going to the lake for a bachelor party with our neighbor, the one who I made the banners for.  Not sure yet what the girls and I will do, but we'll make the most of it I'm sure.  Then on Sunday, Mike will be home and I'll head over to see my dad for a bit for Father's Day. 

Have a fabulous Friday my friends and I'll chat with you later!!

Banner Week, Day 4 and a finished banner!

Morning my dears!  I have a finished banner to share with you today.  Can you guess where this one will be displayed?  Haha!

If you missed my previous posts about my banner making process, I used the Cricut Birthday Bash cartridge for the circle bases and cut them at 7 3/4".  I used Alphalicous for the letters and cut them at 5".  I strung cream colored tulle through the holes in the circles and attached my green tulle pom poms in between each of the letters!  Voila, finished banner! 

Mike made it back safely from his work trip and my parents made it back safe from theirs.  So I'm a very happy girl today :)  I hope you have a GREAT Thursday and thank you so much for coming by to see me today!

Banner Week, Day 3

Hello there my friends.  Do you ever have a day that just wipes you out?  I had one of those yesterday.  :)  I had training for work and it was outside, in 90 degree heat, however there was a breeze which I was grateful for!  Mike was also out of town for work so by the time I got home I made the executive decision to order a pizza and have a picnic with the girls in the living room!  It was awesome.  The perfect way to end a tiresome day!

Today I have a little tutorial for you.  I wanted to share some tulle pom poms I made for one of the banners.

 

To get this baby rolling all you need is tulle, fabric scissors, a piece of 4x6 cardstock, wire and scissors that will cut wire.  Look, everything fits in your lap.  What a great project to work on while you're watching zombie movies, right Tracy?  ;)

 

 First thing you do is wrap your tulle around the cardstock.  My tulle was 6" wide and I wrapped it around the 4" side of the cardstock.

 

Pull the tulle off the cardstock, being careful not to unroll what you just wrapped up, and twist a piece of wire around the middle of your tulle.  Snip of any excess wire with your wire scissors.  You'll be left with a fabulous looking tulle bow tie :)

 

Next up, take your fabric scissors and cut through the folded ends of your bow tie.

 

 After, pull and fluff the layers of your tulle until you end up with something like this!  Isn't it adorable?  Almost as cute as my hubby over there.  Ha!

Here's another view of my tulle pom pom.  I can't wait to make more of these.  I'm picturing hair accessories!  What will you use YOUR pom poms for?

Be sure to stop back by tomorrow and see finished banner #1 and check out these pom poms in action!  Thanks for coming to see me today!

Banner Week, Day 2!

Good morning!!!!  I always feel so accomplished when I make it through Monday.  How about you?  ;)  Welcome back to day two of banner week!  Are you preparing of your materials and supplies for your banners?  Haha!  I love to use the Birthday Bash cartridge for my Cricut for all my banner needs.  It has a ton of banner shapes to choose from, which I love!

After I have all my shapes, mats and letters cut out.  I sit down and assemble everything.  This usually goes pretty easy, I just have to make sure that all the mats are facing the right way before I stick anything down.  This assures I won't have to RE-cut anything.  Ha!

Here's a picture of all three banners.  Now keep in mind, these are NOT FINISHED!!!!  These are just assembled :)

Be sure to join me tomorrow for a fun tutorial that I'm using as a banner embellishment!

Have a fantastic Tuesday friends and I'll see you here tomorrow.  Thank you so much for stopping by for a minute today :)

Banner Week!

Good morning everyone!  It's banner week here at the blog :)  Last week my friend/neighbor, neighbor/friend Leah asked me to make some banners for her upcoming wedding.  I thought I would share my banner making process with you this week.

I started by sketching out the three banners and making a list of ingredients BEFORE I went shopping.  That way I only bought what I needed.  Then I used scrap paper to make test cuts with my Cricut, so I wouldn't wasted my bee-u-tee-ful new paper once I started cutting. 

Here's a peek at my work space during my cutting spree!

It was a mess!  Isn't it great :)

I cut out all three banners and their mats along with all the letters and their mats.  This way, all of my cutting was done and I could clean up my area and assemble.

Here's a pic of the three different shapes for the three different banners.

This banner will say DRINKS

This banner will say GIFTS

And this banner will say Mr. & Mrs.

Stay tuned, tomorrow I'll have some more banner fun for you!

Did you all have a nice weekend?  We had beautiful weather here on Saturday and spent the whole day outside, on into the night with the neighbors.  The kids were running around playing, chasing lightening bugs and it's just one of the many reasons I love our neighborhood.  Sunday was spent on the motorcycle, crafting, doing laundry and relaxing a bit.  It was a wonderful weekend and I needed it to be because I have quite the week coming up this week!

I hope you have a wonderful Monday and I'll see you tomorrow!