guest post

I know it's been  a while but I do have a good excuse, we are moving again! We are moving back to France in two weeks so things are a bit hectic here and I can't wait to be settled into our new place! In the mean time I am doing a guest post over at 'The married life'  which is my sister in laws blog. She's doing a so you think you can't craft marathon! such a great idea and I am very happy to be apart of it so go on over and check it out, she's got new guest posts every day! So head on over to Iris's blog!!

Father's day gift

First of all, Happy father's day to all the Dads out there!! This year I had the kids get to work for their dad, I bought those white letters and took the kids to a park to take some nice pictures.

 I had a friend make the pictures a bit vintage looking and had the pictures developed. I had wooden blocks cut at 10.5cm X 8cm, I painted them and glued them together.

 I used my hand saw to cut this pieces of wood to act as a frame around my set of blocks. I painted those dark blue first and then light blue so I could distress them and have the dark blue stick out a bit.

   I then used dark gray vintage looking nails to hold the frame around the blocks.

 I'm glad the pictures turned out cute and my husband really likes his new desk decoration:)

Travel pics

A week ago we got back from a trip to Tuscany in Italy, it was gorgeous! On our third day we visited a mid-evil town called Lucca before heading over to Pisa. One of the things I loved about Lucca were all the bikes leaning against old walls and gates. Vintage perfection!

One more felt hair clip post:)

The other day I remembered that I had more flower die cuts that I hadn't used to make hair clips with so I got to work, and I LOVE the finished product!!

 I used the spellbinders 'Rose creation' set and the sizes that I used are the two smallest orange ones and the darkest flower on the cover of this set.

 I used my grand calibur to cut the biggest flower die twice and the the two smallest ones once each. You'll also need a button, a simple hair clip and of course some felt for the leaf.

 first stack the flowers together, I went from biggest to smallest. Then glue the button to the middle of the flower and add the leaf to the back of the flower. I used my glue gun once again to put the whole thing together.

 Hot glue to the hair clip to the back making sure that the top of the clip is completely covered by the flower, as shown in the picture below.

 Then go buy felt in all different colors and make tons of these little flowers!! Enjoy!

Surprise birthday party!

This week I've been busy preparing a surprise birthday party for a dear friend who's in charge of the playgroup my son and I go to. She is such an adorable person and I wanted to do something nice for her for a change. When the weather is nice we usually meet at the playground so I went early and decorated the picnic area.

 I made this happy birthday banner (I'll post a tutorial soon!).

 And these cute tissue paper pompoms, check out this link to see how I made them.

 I made cupcakes and had all the other moms bring some food to share, there was tons of food!

 I made a wooden sign with her family name on it like I showed in my previous post (the red sign) and I made some cute felt hair clips for her cute daughters (I'll be posting a tutorial on those too).

 She was so surprised! We all had a great time and I'm so glad we had awesome weather for the party!!

more plaques

 I've made 4 plaques this month already, I'll be sharing 3 with you today because I still have to send the 4th to a friend and I dont want her to see it on my blog:)
This first sign was my favorite to make because I love the colors and the distressed shabby chic look. I made it for someone in our ward at church. Finding the right fonts is always what takes most time I find.

This cute little owl sign was for a friend who had her first baby about a month ago.

 The 3rd sign is for a friend that I'm organizing a surprise birthday party for (she doesn't have facebook or know about my blog so I'm not spoiling the surprise!)

More felt hair clips

I said I was working on some more felt hair clips,so here they are! These were even easier than the first ones I made but they require more die cuts which luckily I already had in my stash.

Isn't this one cute?

 For this tutorial I am going to make a blue flower with grey leaves because I ran out of green felt...

 For this flower you can use the bitty blossoms die cut set from Spellbinders or just make your own rolled flowers, there are lots of tutorials online.

I cut out the biggest flower and the double leaf using my Grand Calibur.

 Roll the flower and put glue (I used my hot glue gun) all over the end circle.

 then glue the leaf to the bottom of the rolled flower.

 Open the hair clip and put glue all over the top just like in the picture and then glue it to the bottom of the flower making sure that the clip wont be seen from the top once it's glued down.

 I love this little gray one! Lucky for me Megan wasn't too busy today to try on the new hair clips;)