Valentines Day Heart Tree Tutorial

This heart tree is a cute valentines day craft,  it's also very easy to make!

Items you’ll need to create this craft:

Sticks

Krylon Spray Sparkles

Red & Pink Construction Paper

Brown Twine

Vintage Jar or Vase

Hot Glue Gun

Scissors

**You can purchase majority of these items from Wal-mart.

Step 1: Time to pick up sticks. I am very fortunate to have a forest on my mom’s property. Therefore, I was able to cut some tiny branches off some trees and use them as my sticks. Another way to find sticks is to take a walk/drive to a forest or park and cut some tiny branches off some trees. At this point make sure you have a jar or vase to put your sticks into, this way you can cut your sticks accordingly to your vases size.

Step 2: Lay your sticks on some cardboard and spray them with some sparkly Krylon paint. The spray makes the sticks look stained and sparkly, giving the sticks a girly touch.

Step 3: Now that the sticks are drying, take some red & pink construction paper and start cutting out little hearts. I used one piece of each colored paper and had plenty of hearts for my tree.

Step 4: When the sticks are completely dry, put them back into your vase. Now you can start gluing the hearts on your tree branches, the more the merrier! Once the hearts are glued on, I used my twine and wrapped it around the lid of my jar. The twine gives my jar a vintage look!

I hope you guys enjoyed this valentine’s crafts as much as I did!

Holiday Signage

Over the past few weeks my mom and I have been making numerous festive signs. They look great over fire mantels; hung on the wall, placed on your counter top against your backsplash or they make excellent Christmas presents.

These signs are really easy to do but can be a little time consuming.

Items you’ll need to make these Holiday Signs:

Piece of wood

Paintbrushes

Acrylic Paint

Carbon Paper

Print Shop OR Microsoft Word

Palm Sander

Picture Hanging Set

Pencil

**All these items can be purchased at a lumberyard and a dollar store.

Step 1: Sand down your piece of wood to a nice smooth surface. Now take your paintbrush and paint the entire sign your background color. Let the wood sit to dry for about 30 minutes.

Step 2: Use Microsoft Word or Print Shop to print your quote. Print shop allows you to put your board’s measurements in allowing you to print a perfect printout of your quote. 

Step 3: Now place your printed out quote onto your board and tape the top edges onto the wood. Place the carbon paper underneath the quote pattern. Take a pencil and trace over the quote. The carbon paper will allow the quote to transfer onto the piece of wood.

Step 4: With the outline quote now on your board its time to fill it in! Use a paintbrush and paint in your Christmas quote. Depending on the your fill color do 2-3 coats of paint until the quote looks bold. Use a clear varnish once your sign is completely finished and paint the entire sign with the varnish. The varnish seals the paint in and makes the sign look shiny.

Step 5: Use your picture hanging set to nail a hook and some nails into the back of your board allowing your quote to hang on the wall. Once the hook is attached to the board your sign is finished!

Happy Holidays Guys! 

But first, coffee.

DIY Personalized Mugs!

This is a simple, affordable and easy craft to do! Personalized mugs can be a perfect gift for a friend who’s battling a cold, or for those coffee and tea lovers as a great Christmas stocking stuffer, or can even be used as adorable wedding favors.

To put together your own personalized mug, you’re going to need the following:

Oven Safe Mug

Sharpie Marker

Baking Oven

**Oven Safe Mugs and Sharpie Markers can be purchased at a dollar or craft store.

Step 1: First Pre-heat your oven to 350 F. Now take your mug and sharpie, and start drawing on quotes, designs, messages, or you can even do themed mugs such as, birthday’s or Christmas! Once you’re done designing your mug its time to seal the design on by putting the mugs into the oven for 30 minutes. I placed my mugs on a baking sheet while they baked,  just to be extra caution. Once the 30 minutes are up, take your mugs out of the oven and let them sit for about 10 minutes until the mugs have cooled down. Once your mugs are cool, the design is sealed on, and your mugs are ready to be used! 

**If for some reason you don’t like your design and you would like to redo it, but can’t get the Sharpie marks off, you can use a cotton ball and nail polish remover. Dab the nail polish remover on your design. The nail polish will completely remove your pervious design.

**HANDWASH MUGS ONLY.

Enjoy!

Halloween Sign

Hey guys, I just wanted to share some of the crafts I have been doing over the Halloween Season. I am also going to share some of the festive crafts that my mom has done recently.

My mom created this sign. She adores Halloween and all the little monsters along with it. (Meaning her 4 dogs… yes 4!)The tutorial for this lovely, witchy, sign can be found under my tabs as SIGNAGE. It’s the same tutorial used for any of my signs. Also this piece of wood is an old cupboard door. Cupboard doors are great for signs; they give the sign a more vintage or even elegant look. 

Crown Jar Bathroom Shelf

Hey guys! So this Crown Jar shelf is one of my most recent crafts that my boyfriend put together as a surprise for me. We decided to use this shelf in our tiny condo bathroom as a cute space to store our q-tips, cotton balls and flossing sticks. I’ve also seen these shelves used for toothbrushes, makeup brushes, hair ties, band aids ect.

Materials to build this Jar shelf:

Piece of Wood

Mason Jars (any type of jar works)

Hose Clamps

Regular Flat Screws

Screw Driver

Palm Sander

Hanging Hooks

Hammer

**You can purchase all of these tools and materials from Target, Wal-Mart or a Hardware Store.

Step 1: First gather all your materials, then sand down your piece of wood until it becomes a smooth surface. You can also use a wood stain or paint to match your bathroom décor accordingly.

Step 2: Once the surface is smooth and the paint is dry, use your flat screws and screw the hose clamps into the wood evenly depending on how many jars you’re placing on your wood. DON’T CLAMP THE HOSE CLAMPS YET!

Step 3: Once the hose clamps are screwed into the wood evenly, place your jars into the hose clamps and tighten the clamps up, making sure they’re snug and sturdy. Don’t forget to take the thin middle lid out of your jars, but leaving the treaded lid on so that you’re able to place items into the jars.

Step 4: Once the jars are on, we nailed some picture hooks onto the back of the wood and hung it in the bathroom. I was then able to start placing my bathroom essentials into the jars!

Hope you guys enjoyed! 

Diy Quoted Signage

Recently I have made a couple new witty signs for my apartment and I’m continuing to do so. These signs are so easy to create and are a lot cheaper then purchasing them from a home and décor store.

The supplies you will need to create these lovely signs are the following:

Acrylic paint

Paintbrushes

Any piece of wood

Sponge Sander

Computer

Printer

Paper

Carbon Paper (Transfer Paper)

Varnish

Hanging Hooks

**You can purchase these supplies at Michael’s Craft Store, Staples, Home Hardware, & a Lumberyard.

Step 1: First choose a quote that you would like to paint and the piece of wood you want to paint the quote onto. Take your sponge sander and sand down all the edges of the wood to create a smooth surface to paint on.

Step 2: Once all the surfaces are smooth you can now choose your background color and do 2 to 3 coats of paint.

Step 3: Once the background color is dry, print out your quote. I usually use a font from Microsoft Word. Once you have the quote printed and lined up on your board take your transfer paper and place it underneath the piece of paper your quote is printed onto. Now take a pencil and trace over the quote, the carbon paper will allow the quote to transfer onto the piece of wood.

Step 4: Once the quote is transferred onto the board you can now paint the quote. Just use a skinny paintbrush and paint within the lines. It’s really easy, just like coloring! Do 2 to 3 coats of paint onto the quote.

Step 5: Once the quote is completely painted and dried, take a large brush and some varnish and paint the entire board covering all edges. Do 2 coats of varnish. The varnish seals the paint into the board and gives the sign a shiny look.

Step 6: Once the varnish is completely dried, your sign is completed! You can now nail in some hanging hooks to the back of your sign, and hang your lovely quote.

BONUS: Use Q-tips and water to fix any mistakes when painting within the lines of the quote.

 Enjoy Guys! 

Valentines Day Banner

I decided to decorate my condo for Valentines Day. I didn’t want it to look too cheesy, so I just made a simple heart banner. I cut out enough hearts that I was able to place heart banners in a few places. The banner looks very pretty strung across the fireplace mantel, bed headboard, windows or walkways.

The items you will need to create this cute heart banner are:

Red and pink construction paper

Brown Twinge (String)

Red Sparkles

Scissors

Glue

**These items can be purchased at Michael’s or any craft store.

Step 1: Cut as many red and pink hearts out of the construction paper as you want. You can than use the glue and sparkles and decorate the hearts as you wish. I put sparkles on every other red heart, and around the edges.

Step 2: Once all your hearts are cut out and glittered, use the scissors and string to poke holes through each heart. Then string the twinge through each hole and your valentine’s heart banner will be completed. You can now place it anywhere you’d like.

Hope this was an easy and fun Valentines Day project! 

8 Point Deer Painting

This week I decided to get a little creative/different and make a painting of an 8-point deer. I wanted this painting to look a little rustic and vintage so I used some old beat up boards and varnish. This painting could look great over top of a fireplace, in your bedroom, or even in a “man cave”.

Items you’re going to need to create this painting:

7 or more beat up boards

Measuring Tape

Pencil

Saw

Hammer

Nails

Sander

Chestnut Stain

Varnish

Tracing Paper

Transfer Paper

White Acrylic Paint 

Paintbrush

Hanging Screws/Nails

**All of these tools can be purchased at any hardware of craft store.

Step 1: First find 7 or more boards and use a measuring tape to measure 5 of the boards at the same length. Measure the other 2 boards at the same length, but at a longer length then the other 5 boards. Once the 5 boards are cut, line them up and face the good side of each board on the ground. Grab the two longer boards and place them onto the 5 lined up boards. Place the 2 boards on each side of the 5 lined up boards and now take nails and nail the 2 boards into the 5 boards. The 2 boards hold the 5 boards together.

Make sure your boards end up looking like this on the back.

Step 2: Once all the boards are nailed together take out your hand sander and sand the surface and edges of the boards. Keep sanding until the surface and edges are smooth.

Step 3: Once the board is completely sanded, take your chestnut or any color stain and use your paintbrush to stain the attached boards. You’ll only need 1 coat of stain.

Step 4: Once the stain is completely dried I looked at a similar photo of a deer that I liked and then decided to draw it on the pattern paper. This took awhile to draw but I got it looking just the way I wanted my deer to look. Make sure that the deer will fill up majority of the space on the boards.

Step 5: Tape the deer drawing that’s drawn on the tracing paper and place it where you would like it to be painted on the boards. Use your transfer paper and place it underneath the deer drawing. Now use your pencil to trace the deer picture onto the boards. The transfer paper allows the image of the deer to transfer onto the boards.

Step 6: Once the deer is traced onto the boards take your white acrylic paint and paintbrush and do 3-4 coats of the deer. Use a smaller brush to paint the antlers. Once the white paint is completely dried, use your paintbrush and do one coat of varnish to make the painting look a little more rustic and shiny. After the varnish has dried, you can screw or nail hanging nails into the back of the boards and hang your deer painting anywhere you’d like.

Hope you enjoyed!

Festive Mini Pumpkin Candleholders

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Seeing how this weekend is Thanksgiving I decided to make something easy and very festive! I made pumpkin candleholders. These holders are easy and cheap to do. They can be left outside for decorations or inside on the table where they work as great centerpieces for turkey dinner.

What you’re going to need to be able to create these cute candleholders:

Mini Pumpkins

Sharp knife

Tea light candles

Sharpie

Water based varnish

Paintbrush

Step 1: You can purchase mini pumpkins or gourds from a farmers market or Wal-Mart. Cut the steam off of each gourd and use a marker to trace the outline of the tea light candle onto the top of the pumpkin. 

 Step 2: Take a very sharp knife and cut around the marker lines, which will look like a circle. Be careful, the mini pumpkins are extremely tough. Once the hole has been cut, use a spoon to dig all the seeds and guts out of the pumpkin. Do this for each pumpkin.

Step 3: After the seeds and guts have been removed wash the marker lines off and the inside of the pumpkin to make sure everything is looking clean. Dry the pumpkins off with a paper towel thoroughly.  

Step 4: Now take a paintbrush and the varnish, and do one coat of varnish to each pumpkin. This allows the pumpkin to look shiny and the varnish allows the pumpkin to last longer.

Step 5: Once the varnish has completely dried, you can place the tea light candles into each pumpkin. Now you are finished! You can place these festive candleholders anywhere you would like.

Hope you enjoyed, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 

Diy Mason Jar Soap Dispenser Tutorial

This week I decided to create a cute Mason Jar Soap Dispenser; the most difficult part about creating the dispenser was finding the jar! I wanted to create a soap dispenser because we were really needed one for the kitchen sink and I thought it would be a much cheaper and cuter way to decorate the house, plus I love being able to reuse sweet things! These dispensers look great anywhere, also they can be made out of vodka mickey bottles for men’s bathrooms, garages, bars, and man caves!

Soap Dispenser Tutorial

Step 1: You need a Mason jar or any type of jar, a jar lid, soap pump from an old dispenser, scissors, a hot glue gun and soap. First place the jar lid on top of the jar, tighten the lid up. Carefully use the scissors to poke a whole big enough so that the soap pump will fit through tightly.

Step 2: Glue under the lid around the soap pump with the hot glue gun. This helps the pump stay in place. (The hot glue holds very well, mines still sturdy after a year.)

Step 3: After the hot glue has fully dried, add soap to the jar and tighten the lid back up, and PUMP ON!

EXTRA: I painted the lid of my Mason jar black to give it a nicer look; I did this by using spray paint. You can also use pretty paper or glitter for the lid to jazz it up.