Saving Money on Jewelry!!!

I went to a jewelry party at a friends house earlier this year and ended up making that obligatory purchase of this necklace for $68.00!!!  Wow, what was I thinking, so I went home kicking myself for stupid spending!!!

So the next thing I did was go to Michaels and get a kit to make my own Jewelry. For less than $10 after the forty percent off coupon, the kit made two necklaces, two bracelets and two pairs of earrings. The best bargain by far, but very time consuming to make!

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A Wee Bit of Irish Fun!!!

I was playing around again on Tagxedo and was absolutely amazed that I could type St. Patrick's Day into the search and it pulled in all kinds of words that pertained and I was able to make these printable creations to share with you!

I started with...

Then went to Picasa , added some text and features to create this one...

Then a few more changes and put the polaroid frame and created this one!!

Looking for more St Patricks Day Ideas and Printables, be sure to check out these Pinterest Boards!

Cool Printables

St Patricks Day

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Pinterest, Picasa and Cricut Saved the Day!!!

My Son dragged his tushie as usual...I don't have ANY idea where he gets his procrastination from (roll eyes, heehee) No, he comes by it honestly.  But anyway, we were down to the last minute trying to throw together a project that is due at 8 am today!  So, after finally finding a store that had the boards in stock, we finally got home to get started at about 2. 

So we took the Cricut that is so easy to use that even a ten year old could handle, punching in the letters and the blurb (or whatever those little thingies are called). 

We glued all that down and went through my entire scrapbook paper stash.  It wasn't much because I do not scrapbook, yet!  I didn't feel like running out to the store again, so Pinterest to the rescue.

Aren' the little swirlies cute???

 

Between my Cool Printables and Fonts and Papercraft boards, I had all the free printable paper I needed. 

I needed to write the little caption below the photos, and didn't feel like printing in Word and then cutting and pasting again, so I tried Picasa.  I had heard alot about it around blogland.  This is the first time I tried it and oh wow, I found another new love!!!

 

 

Hope this post inspires you to tie your crafting in with your helping your family with their projects!!

A Little St Patrick's Day Pinspiration

I have started looking into projects for St Patricks Day and Easter.  So I turned to Pinterest for a little Pinspiration, to see what my other crafty friends have created.

There are some Printables...

From the Crafting Chicks

Lolly Jane Boutique

Eighteen25 sbe also has a link to the above picture

And there is more printables, crafts and foods

Just check them out here...

Upcycled Toilet Paper Art and My First Pinterest Failure

I have been having a lot of fun with my Cricut this weekend and I have been wanting to try making the toilet paper art so....

I had this piece of vinyl decorated that I used for another project still to come and some canvases.  So what the heck, here we go...

I started by making these hearts out of cut toilet paper rolls. 

I cut the roll into 5 separate circles.

Invert the point at one end and secure with a dot of hot glue.

The first seven, I painted pink and then shot with the red glitter paint.

Then I thought to myself, this is a pain hand painting these and I remembered this tip that I had read on Pinterest

I intentionally did not give photo credit for this image because I did not want to discount the credability of the original author, I am just sharing my experience with the advice

The pin says to mix 2 parts of paint to 1 part water in the spray bottle and you have instant spray paint!

I did, I mixed and shook

and oh boy!  I was ready to spray, no more paint brush!

I ended up with a splattered mess, now it may have been the bottle that I bought or operator error, but I had a great big mess.  So, I broke out my paint brush and painted 7 in purple and 7 red.

Then it was time to get the board together...

This is a 16x20 canvas

I sprayed it with the red glitter paint to break up the white a little.

Put the vinyl heart in the middle and spread the other hearts around.

Once I was happy with the way it looked, I hot glued them down and attached the vinyl.

One more quick dusting of the red glitter paint.  Then I stepped back and looked.

It seemed rather plain to me.

I had these foam hearts from the Target Dollar Spot

(are you beginning to think that I spend alot of time in that section of Target...you are right)

I filled in the holes with these hearts and I love the way it looks.  I have a huge opening between my kitchen and living room that I am going to hang this in...I will preview how it looks hanging after I post the other crafts.  I will show my decorated pass through by Friday with all my Valentines decorations!!