Pretty paper lantern–paper craft

I have a new found respect for paper crafters; it is time consuming, detailed and intricate. Probably why I haven’t attempted many paper crafts in the past.

I found a paper lantern on Pinterest that was captivating and so pretty, that I thought I could definitely give it a try.  Here is my result.

I decided to use pink and grey as the main colours and the whole time couldn’t help but think how pretty this would be in a baby girls nursery.  I cut all of the shapes with my cricut and hot glued them on. Nothing too complicated, but time consuming.

My original inspiration can be found here



I'm sharing at the following places, and already I see so many amazing projects.

DIY clock

I needed a clock for my living room. I decided I should make one. I bought the mechanism, bought a plate, drilled a hole, cut out my vinyl, put it all together.

Right out of an L. L. Bean catalogue – knock off art

I fell in love with these latitude and longitude signs from the L. L. Bean catalogue and knew that I could make my own version. I couldn’t figure out how to get the text to curve in Toronto, but that’s a minor detail.
If you would like to make your own, I found a website that allows you to type in your city and state and it will give you the coordinates.  Go to Satellite Signals to get them. How cool is that!

I used vinyl and cut out the lettering with my cricut. The font is Garamond. I really wish I had a better camera because some weird colours are showing up that are NOT on my sign LOL

Here is my inspiration

 

Subway Art – finally

I’ve attempted this project using various methods, only to fail. But this morning I found instructions at The Shabby Nest, and it worked out well.

My canvas is quite large at 24” x 48” and fortunately I have a Cricut that can cut up to 24”. It was time consuming but so much fun, as I decided which places I wanted to include and the fond memories they evoked.

Now I can say I’ve done it and don’t ever have to do it again :)






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Hoppy Easter

We had our easter egg hunt this morning because of other family events occurring this weekend.

I don’t “decorate” for Easter, but decided to put a little vignette together.

I created this mumma and baby bunny and threw it into a shadow box frame that I already had. Free suits me fine.

DIY Sunburst mirror

I’ve admired sunburst mirrors for some time and when I saw the instructions on Centsational Girl’s blog, I knew that it fit my criteria, cheap and easy.

I started out with a plastic framed mirror that I picked up at the junk store for $2. On one of my many trips to the hardware store, I grabbed a huge amount of paint stir sticks. 



I tried out a few patterns and ultimately decided that I liked the pattern on the end of the sticks, so I cut 1.5” off of half of them and laid out my pattern.



I used a piece of masonite cut to the size of the mirror and replaced the orange, plastic frame with an embroidery hoop. It received a couple of coats of silver metallic spray paint.



Hmmm, better, but it was still missing something as I only had the one layer of sticks. I got out the bamboo skewers and glued one in between each stick.



Much better.

To hang it, I used a plate hanger



I originally was going to place it on my gallery wall, but instead decided to put it on my chalkboard wall in the kitchen. Good choice.

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Province pride

I’ve admired the state pride art that I’ve seen around, but since I don’t live in America, I had to come up with one for myself.

I used an old frame, poster board and scrap book paper.

I found an image of Ontario, traced it out in SCAL and cut it with my cricut.

Kind of looks like a whale :)

I added a heart where my home is, ♥Toronto♥

cupcake liner hanging light

I picked up this lighted paper lantern at the GW today for a couple of bucks. I stopped at Michaels to pick up a couple of packages of mini cup cake liners.

I am making this for two little girls, so I wanted to keep the colours fun.

Other than hot glue and white glue, I didn’t know what to use to prevent the glue from showing through the paper. Totally by fluke, I used Aleene’s OK To Wash-It and you can’t see the glue through the paper!

Mostly done

And done, in about 40 minutes

A scarf from a t-shirt

Can you believe that this was made from a t-shirt?  In 15 minutes!

Excuse the Saturday lounging around the house garb, and the blurry photo :)
I raided my sons t-shirt drawer and although this isn’t the greatest colour, it still looks great!
Head on over to Tidy Mom for all the instructions.

zebra coasters

I picked up a box of coasters at the thrift store for a couple of bucks. I want no reminders of the snowfall we had last night, so the snowflakes had to go.
I spray painted them while the sun was shining, then cut out a zebra pattern in vinyl.
I’m going to keep a few for myself and the other four are wrapped up and put in my stash for a last minute gift.

Baby name blocks

I had to make a couple more. Why are there so many girls? I want to try making a boy one :)

Union Jack cushion

I’ve been itching to sew something, but I haven’t had much luck in finding fabric that I like.
So I made my own.  Using my Sure Cuts A Lot software, I traced an image of the Union Jack and cut it out using my Cricut onto freezer paper.
The most difficult part was trying to get the freezer paper centered and flat.

After lots of fiddling, I got it ironed down onto my drop cloth fabric, and then painted it in. I used a dark gray and a metallic silver, although it’s hard to tell.

I sewed it together using the basic envelope pattern.
It started as this, which just wasn’t cutting it any more, so I took the cushion out and quickly tossed the cover aside :)

And here it is now





I’m joining in on these parties
Funky Junk Interiors Saturday Night Special
Show and Tell Saturday at Be Different act Normal
Along for the ride Saturday is Crafty Day
Saturday Soiree at A Little Lovely
Sunday Showcase at Under The Table and Dreaming

Inspire Me Monday at Singing Three Little Birds

Making Monday Marvellous at C.R.A.F.T.