Stenciled Dandelion Dresser and GIVEAWAY!

I was just thinking about buying a white dresser for my daughter, when my neighbors who were moving, asked us if we'd like this white dresser they were just going to get rid of. Crazy!


I did a Dandelion stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils. By the way, they have to most amazing selection of stencils to choose from. It's the best place for any DIY decorating stencils.


Cutting Edge Stencil is giving one lucky winner a stencil up to a value of $50! (Yes, that's fifty bones, ladies!  SCROLL DOWN for details.)

 

 

Dresser BEFORE:

What I used:

-Cutting Edge Dandelion Stencil in Large

-Cutting Edge paint roller and brush

-Painter's tape

-Acrylic paint in gray and light purple

Here is a video that is a super-duper help when learning how to do stenciling:

 1. You start by taping your stencil on with (preferrably the blue painter's tape, but mine was M.I.A) painter's tape. Cutting Edge also had a great suggestion to use adhesive spray on the back of the stencil. I totally did it and it made the process SO SIMPLE.

2. I used the Cutting Edge paint roller technique with their roller. I thought it worked perfect. I did the paint brush technique with the smaller dandelion seeds, and I also found that to work well for something small stencils..

3. After doing the gray, I decided this girlie dresser needed some girlie color! So I used the stencil again, overlapping the first dandelion slightly, with light purple.

 I put a few dandelion seeds up at the top corner of the dresser to make it seem like the seeds were floating away, carelessly.

I did a Dandelion stencil from Cutting Edge Stencils. By the way, they have to most amazing selection of stencils to choose from.

Cutting Edge Stencil is giving one lucky winner a stencil up to a value of $50! (Yes, that's fifty bones, ladies!)

TO ENTER:

1. Be a follower of Craft Envy

AND

2. Go to the Cutting Edge Stencil website and comment about your favorite stencil!

Want additional entries?

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2. Leave an additional comment for each additional entry.
Giveaway ends at 10pm MDT this Sunday!




Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse,   
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,
Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy. 
 

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Nautical Souvenier Decor

My family and I took a vacation to Frisco, Colorado this past May and we picked up this little souvenier that's a little ship made out of seashells (since Frisco is on a reservoir). But I thought when I hung it up that it needed a little something to frame it. So this is what I came up with...

 

 

I got this gold frame from some relatives of mine who were moving and getting rid of "junk". So I painted it white and added white and navy blue cardstock to the back of the frame. I think it all came together quite nicely. It's going to be the superstar of my boring all-white bathroom in my basement! Once I get that all pimped out I will post the make over! 

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Fall Blocks Craft

I have been wanting to add more fall decor to my collection this season.  My buddy Jenny and I got together to make these fall blocks. I totally love how this lil' beaut' turned out.

The quote says "Autumn is a second spring when ever leaf is a flower."

A closer look...

 -The blocks are 10", 12", and 14" in length.

-I used acrylic paints and sanded the edges afterwards.
-The vinyl was cut from my silhouette machine in three different fonts.

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse, 
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,

Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy.  

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Paper Wall Flowers

I think I am finally done with Lily's room, for REAL this time! I added some little 3D paper flowers on her wall

And the rest of the nursery....


Fleece Dahlia Pillow

Tulle Earring Holder

Tulle Pomander

Light-switch Redo

Tissue Paper Rose Pomander

Tulle Curtains

Personalized Lighted Mirror

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse, 
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,
Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy. 

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Fleece Dahlia Pillow

I am loving this Dahlia pillow that I made for my baby girl's room! I didn't do a tute, sorry, but I also didn't follow one so it's pretty easy to figure out ;) Basically you start cutting out pedals in four different sizes and then hot glueing them down. I would lay them all out before you actually start glueing, ( learned that the hard way).
The awesome-est part about this pillow is, it costed me about one dollar to make! I used a pillow that I already had, and then I made the flower out of a quarter of a yard of fleece which was dirt cheap. 

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Paper Rose Tutorial

I just have to say that this was one of the funnest crafts I've done in a long time! It was super simple and it turned out pretty decent, too. (I got the idea from here)

 Beautiful.

What you will need:

-Cardstock (colored on both sides preferrably)

-Scissors and a pencil

-Hot glue gun

-long sticks

-vase

1. The first thing you want to do is trace a circular spiral on your cardstock with a pencil. I made mine all different sizes for a more natural effect. You don't really want it smaller than like two-ish inches.

 2. You will have a spiral that looks like this. Start and the outside end of the circle and start rolling it inward (just like you're rollin' a doobie).

 PS I'm not really a doobie roller.

 3. I don't have pictures of this step, but once you have a rolled up, let it go a little loose so it gets bigger and then got glue the back, placing the little circle from the spiral on the very bottom. Your rose will look something like this....

4. Hot glue your roses onto different sized sticks and place in a nice looking vase!

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Scrapbook Paper Wreath Tutorial

My friend and I got together the other day to make a fun summer time wreath...completely out of paper. Even the wreath ring is made of paper. The whole thing only costed a mere $3 to make!

 What you will need:

-12 sheets of 12x12 scrapbook paper

-4 paper plates (or one or two really thick ones)

-hot glue

-something to that will cut a circle out (looks like a protractor)

-10" string

 1. Cut the inside of your paper plates out.

 2. Glue the outside rims of your paper plates together. Allow to dry.

3 .Tie your string around the wreath ring.

 3. Start hot gluing your paper on like this...

You may want to mark where the paper goes. Space 12 marks evenly (like a clock).

 4. I taped where the papers meet on the outside just to keep everything in place better.

That's all there is to it! And it's HUGE!

I don't have any wall decor in my lil' boy's play area, so this bright wreath adds lots of cheer to the dungeon area!

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Tulle Pomander Tutorial

Here is the other tutorial for Lily's nursery pomanders...

Plan a lot of time for this craft--4 hours-ish.

What you will need:

-3-4 inch styrofoam ball ($3)

-about 6 yards of tulle ($.97/ yard)

-glue (I used elmers)

-pencil

-scissors

1. The first thing you will do is cut your tulle into four inch squares. To make this process go quickly, fold your tulle over several times so you can cut many layers at one time. 

2. Take two pieces at a time and put glue in the center of the square. Stick into you styrofoam ball with a pencil or other sharp object. Do this all over the ball leaving only about 1/2 inch between each hole.

3. Very simple, but time consuming. I think it's totally worth it once you see how it turns out though!

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Tissue Paper Rose Pomander: Tutorial

Pomanders (or "kissing ball", as they are sometimes called) can add a unique decorative touch to any living space. The great part is, they are fairly inexpensive to make!

What you will need:

-styrofoam ball ($3--or $1.50 with your craft store's half off coupon!)

-about five sheets of tissue paper

-hot glue gun

-scissors

-optional: embellishments, e.g. pearls

*I started to spray paint my styrofoam ball white...you don't need to do this...it won't come out white.*

1. Cut a strip of tissue paper about 2-3 inches wide. (I chose to make varying sizes of roses so you can cut the 2-3 inch wide paper in half width-wise to do this). 

2. Fold 2-3 times length wise. 

3. Begin to roll that folded piece of paper between your fingers as you also roll it into a spiral. You can hot glue the rows together at this point if you wish. 

3. Hot glue the surface of your styrofoam ball and place the tissue rose on the ball.

 It will start to look like this...

And you can add little embellishments like I did with the pearls if you choose.

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