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April 8, 2013 1 Comment

decorating your home: DIY wreath idea

Good morning! Remember a few weeks ago I made a wreath for a blue and gray Mother’s Day brunch I was working on? Well, I’m always decorating and redecorating my home for the seasons so I updated the wreath to yellow and gray chevron for my kitchen!

LOVE that sunny pop of yellow in the morning! Perfect for spring and summer… especially after a cloudy winter here in Ohio. {wink}

This is a super simple wreath to make. You’ll just need varying sizes of Styrofoam balls, at least two of your favorite coordinating fabrics, stick pins, embroidery thread and a grapevine wreath.

How to details are available in my latest contributing post over on Red Barn. And for more home ideas, follow my Home DIY to Try board, House and Home Inspiration board or Creative Kids Rooms board on Pinterest.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

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DIY glitter clothespins

Love glitter crafts?! Love a banner flag? Well I have a really easy and fun DIY craft idea for you!

Recently I was working on a new video, making and hanging a banner flag, for my youtube channel (up early next week) and I needed a fun way to display the banner. An easy way! I picked up some mini clothespins from JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores (in the wood working section) a few months ago and they were perfect. Except, you see, this party idea is overly pink and the standard brown clothespin just wasn’t cutting it.

So what does any crafter do?! I opened up all the doors to my craft storage and started trying to think of ways to make them better. The answer was quick and obvious… glitter!!

With just a touch of Mod Podge, or you could use Elmer’s Stick Glue (I tried both and they both worked), apply your glitter! Allow it to dry and then clothespin your banner flag to ribbon.

Yep! It’s that easy!

By the way, this pink and gray chevron banner is part of my cowgirl collection. You can find the cowgirl invitation, thank you notes, the entire party supplies collection, and the individual chevron banner in the shoppe.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

make a photo booth

Want to know how to make a photo booth?

I love having photo booths at my parties for many reasons. The obvious reason is to capture those precious memories, right! Well, why not do it with style. It doesnt’ have to be hard or a major production.

make a photo booth

Photo booths allow your guests to get silly PLUS it gives them a great backdrop so you don’t have a messy kitchen or a million people holding cake as your backdrop in all your photographs!

Here are the supplies I use to make my photo booths. And the best part, mine are mobile! A party indoors, you’re all set… party outdoors… you’re all set!

I start with:

Blank white canvas (I use a 4×6 foot canvas)
Coordinating fabric (you’ll need at least a yard and a half of fabric, but check the width to make sure it will cover)
Hot glue gun
Optional: canvas stand available at craft stores

Then I embellish my canvas with:

Pennant banner on ribbon or twine,
or other party elements like crepe paper twists

photo props for photo booth

Finally, I create photo props for the guests to hold. I like to hot glue them to wooden dowels and put them in a bucket or vase full of sand so that they stay upright and ready for the next guest.

Making a DIY photo booth is just that easy!

These are my party collections that have designed photo props, but we can create them for any collection. Just ask!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

Photography by Angie Arthur Photography.

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art activities for kids

Looking for art activities for the kids?! When we photographed my art birthday party supplies collection for the store we came up with these kid crafts ~ have the kids make cupcake art with supplies including:

cupcake liners (cut in half),
tissue paper,
pom poms,
felt,
ribbon and more!

Included in the art party supplies we designed four whimsy frames for the kids to create on: red/blue, orange/yellow, purple/chartreuse and black/white.

We also created ”award badges” that you can give to each guest. They say things like most creative, best in show, most artistic, best design, most colorful and best color palette. A great way for every child to feel special. The awards are rectangle tags and then we created the crepe ribbon backer. (You can see how to create a similar idea with our graduation collection.)

And last but not least, here’s a look at the Art Gallery entry sign that is also part of the printable collection. We printed it at Costco for $5.99 and embellished it with yellow crepe paper. Can you tell I’m loving crepe paper lately?! It’s inexpensive, comes in a variety of colors and so simple to manipulate. LOVE.

You can see more details from my Art birthday party supplies collection in the shoppe: Invitation, Thank you notes, Art birthday party supplies (available as sets or you can buy individual items).

And as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

Photography by Angie Arthur Photography.

how to make a wreath

It’s time to decorate for spring! Did you see my Mother’s Day brunch post yesterday? This easy to make wreath is a perfect complement for my spring placesetting idea.

Join me for all the easy DIY details over on Red Barn today and make your own wreath!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

mother’s day brunch placesetting

I’m absolutely giddy for Spring. I’m an early riser so I tend to see the sun come up each morning and this time of year that means I also get to hear the birds chirp the day in. It’s my favorite time of day to just think and be creative.

And those little chirps led me to this Mother’s Day brunch, sweet baby shower, or even Spring party placesetting idea.

I picked up these lovely new Easter dishes from Target. I love how girly they are. I’m the only girl in a house of four so sometimes it needs to be a bit about me. {grin}

The malted milk ball candy eggs make this party placesetting perfect for a baby shower…

Mothers Day Brunch

but I chose to craft little baby birds for a Mothers Day brunch. I just thought how sweet to be able to put the number of babies in the nest that each guest has!

As you can see, I have two little birdies in my nest! {proud momma smile}

How to make a paper blue bird

So here’s how you make these sweet paper bluebirds. You’ll need:

Blue cardstock
Yellow cardstock
Paper trimmer
Scissors, small and sharp is best
Hot glue
Stick glue
Optional: Sharpie if you’d like to add eyes

How to make a paper blue bird

And here are the easy steps:

For the mother blue bird, trim strips of scrapbook paper in 2″ (body) and 1 3/4″ (head) strips
Curl the paper slightly by running it through your fingers. If you don’t the paper will crease.
Determine your body circle size (based on your nest and plate) and hot glue the ends together trimming off any excess. Repeat for the head, making it slightly smaller.
Trim an oval out of the yellow scrapbook paper, then trim down the sides to a beak shape.
Attach the beak with glue, not hot glue or it might show.
Perch the bird on the nest with a small dot of hot glue and hold 5 seconds until it sets.

Note: Baby birds strips should be 1″ and 3/4″.

Mothers Day Brunch

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

kid crafted Easter bunny photo props

Easter pictures at my house are a given.

Posed pics of the family in their Sunday best.

LOVE them!

This year, we’ll not only be taking the family photographs and the shots of the kids running in the grass gathering eggs, but my boys and some family will get creative and make their own easy Easter bunny photo prop craft for our Easter brunch!

Hop over {I’m a riot, I know…) to my most recent post on Kellogg’s Snackpicks.com for all the DIY details to make your own Easter bunny photo props!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

how to make cupcake pick toppers

Customers often share that they’re not crafters and they’re nervous about trying to “make” something for their child’s birthday or friend’s baby shower. So this morning, I’m sharing just how simple it is to make a cupcake pick opper.

How to make a Cupcake Topper

It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3 or:

Print on #100 cardstock,
Cut and punch out the round shape,
Attach to a lollipop stick with either a white round sticker or hot glue

You can find more tips for crafting party printable templates on our DIY page and you can shop my designs in The Celebration Shoppe.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

21 new polka dot party supply combos

I’m thrilled to share a project that has been in the works for a while, our pattern party supplies. The first in the party series is our polka dot party supplies in twenty-one color combinations and eight fonts!

Each set in the party store offers printable cupcake picks (aka party circles), cupcake wrappers, bottle wrappers, napkin rings and pattern sheets. We can create banners, cello toppers, etc. for you as well, just convo us or shop our a la carte section and leave the pattern you want in the comments of your order. (For example, pink and tangerine polka dot beverage wrappers with the initial M and name Meagan.)

black and white party

Here’s a look at your color combinations and font choices:

polka dot party

Come shop the party store for these designs and over 50 more collections! And as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

8 party ideas for the Big Game + win!

The Big Game AND your party are only a few short weeks away! And I’ve got your back ladies! This morning I’m sharing 8 fun, easy and stylish ideas to make your football party table more than just the halftime show. Yep, no flag on the field here! {grin}

Let’s start with the football party snack table set-up. I grabbed many of these fun football party supplies at World Market, a store you can always count on for gourmet foods and beverages with unique flavors and origins.

My absolute favorite find for this football party is my backdrop, a weathered map of the United States. It will be perfect not only for the Big Game, but for all my football parties (or any sport for that matter) throughout the year.

I made this little pennant banner that I can move between states as different teams play! By the way, the pennant colors will be updated for this year’s Big Game once the final teams are announced. More details below! And if you want to make your own pennant, I’m going to post the easy how tos later this week.

My hubby thought the Beers of the World were a must!

And of course I had to have a cupcake or two… well I mean, of course right! You can download my free Game Day cupcake templates in 2013 colors here.

The boys had to have their pick too. Football shaped pretzels and Artichoke and Spinach Chips. And yes, kids do love them!

Want to recreate part or all of this table for your football party? Here are my resources:

Backdrop – map of the United States from World Market
Tablecloth – green indoor outdoor carpeting from your local hardware store
Serving items – blue lunch bags from your local grocery, popcorn containers from World Market
Pre-made snacks – UTZ football shaped pretzels and Jensen’s Orchard Spinach and Artichoke Chips from World Market
Beverages – Beers of the World from World Market
Serving dishes - 3-tier cupcake and mini pizza display from World Market
Food labels – chalkboard placecards and food labels from World Market
Free printable party supplies – cupcake wrappers, cupcake picks and pennant banner are my designs, The Celebration Shoppe, and the colors have been updated for the 2013 Big Game (updated each year). Download your Game Day templates now. Don’t want to miss any free templates, sign up for our e-mails.

I also made a few recipes for my Big Game party table. The first, and likely my favorite food item on the table, is Chocolate Bacon Popcorn. Yep, you read me right. World Market sells Bacon Salt and it gave me this inspiration for this little sweet and salty treat. Your guests, especially the guys, will love it!

To make Chocolate Bacon Popcorn you’ll need:

6 cups of air popped popcorn
1/2 cup dark chocolate melts (available at your local grocery or craft store with a baking section)
J&D’s Bacon Salt
Wax paper

And the simple steps for Chocolate Bacon Popcorn:

Spread your popcorn on the wax paper (you’ll likely need to do this in 2-3 batches)
Place your chocolate melts in a resealable plastic bag (snipped on one end) or in a small glass bowl and heat in the microwave in 8 second intervals, three times, or until melted
Drizzle chocolate over popcorn
Before chocolate cools, shake on J&D’s Bacon Salt to your desired taste.

I also made mini pizzas, a favorite of our family since I was a kid. We typically use pumpernickel bread, but I found these yummy Minigrill Mini Toasts at World Market and they turned out perfectly.

To make Mini Toast Party Pizzas you’ll need:

Ground beef, cooked and strained
Ground sausage, cooked and strained
Original pizza sauce
Cheddar, Sharp and Mozzarella and Provolone blended
Minigrill Mini Toasts from World Market

And the simple how to steps for Mini Toast Party Pizza:

Blend your cooked meats and pizza sauce in a pan and bring to a simmer
Add a small amount of your cheese mixture allowing it to melt
Top mini toasts with mixture
Drizzle remaining cheese on top

Would you be interested in winning the Ultimate Football Viewing Party?! Well World Market wants to give you that chance with a $500 gift card! Just join World Market on facebook and fill out a quick entry form for a chance to win one of ten $500 gift cards. Contest runs through January 25, 2013. Join Cost Plus World Market on facebook now!

By the way, World Market isn’t just great for celebrations. They have a wonderful array of ideas and products for decorating your home. I personally want some of their whimsical white wall frames for my studio makeover, but they have furniture, including chairs and sofas (there was one gray number that would be beautiful in my living room!), end tables, and on and on. If you’re looking to freshen up your home for the new year, you should absolutely give World Market a browse!

Rather have me walk you through the table ideas and details? Watch my video:

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

This party table design is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™, but as you ladies know, all my opinions are always my own. http://cmp.ly/3/8vNxcO

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