Pinspirational: somewhere over the rainbow

So excited to get to share all this stuff with you, it is so hard to find time to blog sometimes. I can write out a bunch at once and let them post all week which is great cause Friday seems like the only time I have to be able to do this.

I found this project on pinterst. It is a total copy, just because I liked it so much! The original blog is here.

Original photo.

My project...

I used some scrap fabric I had laying around. Used a pen to draw the outline of a 5X7 frame and the word somewhere...

It wasn't perfect and this is my first time doing this, haha I don't even know what this is called...

I had to break out all the buttons, including the vintage jarred ones to find all the rights colors. I think I found pretty good ones. 

Then I added my little blue birdies. I have yet to find a frame that I liked for this and I think its about time for a trip to ikea so I am sure I can find one there that I can do something with. 

Happy Crafting

-Tori

Daddy's birthday present

A little bit ago I told y'all it was my birthday, well my husband and I share a birthday, weird right? So for his birthday present me and my B made him a present.

I found this idea off the blog apartment therapy. Which of course I can't find the link to link it to right now.

Anyway I bought 7 packs of crayola 8 count crayons to do this with. I added them to my canvas. Thinking ahead I thought that the hair dryer might re-heat hot glue and my crayons would start moving...I don't know if this is true, I just didn't want it to happen. I used fabri-tac...and I used too much, you probably need 1/4 less than what you see on there. ( if you can see it)

So I added all my crayons in the roy g biv kinda way and made sure all the crayola labels were facing out. Then I melted them with a hair dryer.

We did this in the garage because the crayons do this splashing thing. Very hard to hold a baby and accomplish this but we had to make it together!

Final product, the yellow got kinda lost...maybe do it last? 

you can melt to your hearts content, just keep reheating sections of the canvas if it gets all goopy in one area.

Then it was time to add the special touch.

The paint!

My little helper.

The next part couldn't be taken a picture of because we were kinda messy and my husband wasn't allowed in the house.

Completely finished product. The letters look funny on here and if I had it to do all over again, I definitely would have picked a different color paint...maybe yellow. And it is very hard to wrangle a six month old to make hand prints and feet prints when you yourself have paint all over you. OOh and use a non toxic paint...AND don't leave this in your car. haha

Happy Crafting!

-Tori

Easy Halloween Wreath

So I had already made a fall wreath which was my first attempt at ever making a wreath...cause I'm still new to all of this. After making my Halloween Bunting I thought I really needed to make a wreath to go with it instead of my semi boring fall one, so I came up with this...

It was all really simple and pretty cheap. Everything at Hobby Lobby was already 30% off which really helped. 

Started with my ribbon and a wreath form.

The pattern of the dots matched my bunting with the buttons. And it wasn't going to be super hard to attached ribbon to a wreath form. I used hot glue.

I bought this little sign too. I could have made one but I wanted to be quick here, the bunting took enough time.

Added the sign to the wreath which was just the right size because I didn't wrap my ribbon well and didn't have quite enough to make it around my form. I did pull the little wire hanger off of it.

I did buy the bats, 30 cents each...but you could easily make these bats with some felt, puff paint, and googly eyes.  The main body of the bat was two pieces of felt spiraled into each other and the wings were felt with the puff paint outline. I was very happy with how it all turned out and very happy that it only took me fifteen minutes to complete.

Happy Crafting 

-Tori

Pinspiration

Its my birthday! So in hopes of not being on here for forever I'm doing an inspiration post about some awesome things that have inspired a future project found on pinterest...

I'm sure by now that you have made it around to pinterest or at least heard about how awesome it is...you just have forgot to visit. Either way I pretty much spend forever on there when I decide to come sit down at the computer, usually after the baby is to bed and then I proceed to pin everything I see...because I can.

Anyway, I thought I would share with you my upcoming sometime in the near future project of using the printables found on pinterest to make a collage art of picture frames somewhere in my house, I haven't worked that detail out yet. So I thought I would share a few of my faves and a link to my pinterests....

Now I'm not sure in which room or order or how I might display these but thoughts have fallen onto these images of grouped frames...I'm heading in a colorful direction...

kitchen

stairway

my couch isn't this cute

I do have a nook upstairs

the computer is in the "man" room

I do have a fake fireplace

pretty much going to paint my bedroom furniture when my husband isn't looking, then I could do this :)

Anyway you look at it, there is too much inspiration and too much to look at on pinterest, here's the link to my boards... and of course to you could just go to pinterest.com. 

Happy Pinning

-Tori

Halloween Bunting!

I finally get time to share my Halloween bunting (I have to work in 34 minutes, lets hope I can get this all in by then).

Finished product

So I started with four large sheets of stiffened felt from Hobby Lobby. And Borrowed a pennant from a friend as a guide.

My orange on orange triangles there.

I ended up with 40 triangles, ten from each sheet. and used sisal also found at Hobby Lobby to string them together.

Between pieces I used three fingers wide to space them out and hot glued the felt and then added the string to it about one centimeter in.

Bad picture but this was later at night and my phone camera wouldn't flash. Anyway here are a few strung together.

I was going to just stop with this but earlier in the day I had gone to Hobby Lobby again thinking I needed to make a Halloween Wreath, I bought polka dotted ribbon for the base and decided I needed to make this match. 

On a previous crafting venture I had bought buttons in a bag or a bag o' buttons in the scrap booking section at once again Hobby Lobby. I decided they were my perfect polka dots

I only used black, green and purple to mimic my wreath. I did about three triangles at a time and placed the buttons first to make sure I liked how they looked and then I hot glued them down, be careful not to burn your fingers because buttons do have holes in them and glue does come through said holes and will burn your finger (true story).

And then swagged it across my small porch. I made sure not to completely tie it down yet because my husband is 6'4" and didn't know how he would fit under it and later I had to move it up so it wouldn't conk him in the head every time he walked under it. 

Hopefully this inspires you to make something!

Happy Crafting

-Tori