St Patrick's day garland

Good day!

Let's have some St. Patrick's day fun!

Do you decorate for St. paddy's day?

Well get out your construction paper and kindergarten scissors for this one. 

This is the chalkboard in my butler's pantry that I love to decorate the holidays

with.  Everything from chalkboard writing to added decor pieces. 

This one MAY look like it would take long, but believe me it doesn't. 

I bought a pack of green papers at Michaels, it comes with 5-6 different shades of

green and it a lighter weight of paper than using the stampin up weight paper.

The reason for this is the bendability of the paper, easier to manipulate for stapling and shaping. 

Choose two green shades and cut your pieces at 1" x 11", cut extra for the shamrock stem that you will cut in half to create the "tail; of the shamrock. 

Start by folding your pieces in half, take each piece and create a heart by

folding  the open ends to the center and stapling them. 

Once all your hearts are assembled create a shamrock by stapling each heart together,

add the tail at the end by stapling it in place as well.  Set them aside and start your rainbow piece.

The rainbow piece consists of one of each of these colors,

purple, blue, green, red, yellow.

Cut each of the five pieces at 1 x 11' cutting each one 1' smaller than the first.

Stack them and staple each side to create the rainbow.  Cut out two hand drawn

clouds and hot glue them on top of the colored pieces. 

Line up the rainbow and shamrocks on each side and start to hot glue them together.

At the end of each side I tied some green ribbon to use to hang it.

Turns out so cute!

Have fun making one of these! 

Storybook Friends

Do you have a whole bunch of scraps of cardstock laying around?

Well look no further than what to do with them.

You can use any size, just start by laying them over your card base

once you see where you want them.  Adhere them to the cardstock. 

Once covered cut away the excess hanging over the card.  

These are all the cardstock basics I made with the

left over pieces.   They look so good!~

Once you have all your card bases done, you can choose any images

to attach to the front of your card.  This vintage collection is adorable!

Think of all the scraps you have of all the different designer series paper

and all the cards you can make.

Send me pics if you decide to try these. 

Easter bunny napkin bottle

                                                                             

Hello!

How about we get some ideas going for your Easter table?

I bought these cute mini champagne bottles and using some white 

napkins tied it around it and secured with ribbon. 

Let's get started!

fold your napkin in half, also don't limit yourself to plain

white, think patterns too.  I only have white on hand. 

Moving on to the next step, starting at the top of the triangle,

start folding down the napkin til you reach the bottom. 

It will look like this....

take the bottle and wrap around the bottle and secure at the top

with a small rubber band. 

It will look like this....

Tie your ribbon around the top and fix the ears.

So cute!

Easter Favors

Let's make some cutie Easter favors!

These will be cute on your easter tables, or gifts for friends

or co-workers or women's groups. 

You can find the chocolate plastic bunnies and candy on Amazon

Plastic chocolate bunnies -Here

Mini Chocolate bunnies - Here

Peat Pots - Here

Grab your plastic chocolate bunnies and the mini ones

and open the bunny, add the bunny and close up. 

Add a little bit of grass to the peat pot and then set your bunny atop

the peat pot.  Add a little bow to your bunny and that's it!!

He's just good enough to eat~ 

Diy easter bunny baskets

Happy monday!

Let's make some cute little Easter pots.

These are great to fill with candies or just one large

chocolate egg or a plastic one filled with jelly beans.

Cut your mini peat pot into what looks like a heart, add some

wire to the sides to create a little basket.  Stuff some

packaging shreds into the basket. 

Hot glue the bunny to the front of the basket and add your jelly beans

and chocolate eggs.  Add a little ribbon to the wire handle and there you have it!

Here are the links to the pots and bunnies. 

Mini Pots -  Here

Bunnies - HERE

so adorable!  and easy to make~ 

Stampin Up! Storybook friends

Back with some more Easter ideas for you with the stampin up!

storybook friends.

Layered up some extra pieces to create this one.

Take a look in your paper bins and see what you have,

maybe you have this paper, or another paper that looks

spring/easter. See what you have!

If you are wondering what this paper is, it's called

Storybook Friends,  it is retired, but can most likely find

it online.  

Easter storybook friends

Time for some easter cards.

I pulled out the adorable Storybook friends from last year.

How can you not want to use this paper?

So sweet.

This is an easy card you can apply to any card you make using up your scraps.

Cut three pieces of cardstock at 1 1/4"x 5 1/2" and a regular card cover

at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 .  Attach the three pieces as shown and add a middle

image.  You can apply this to any type of card you are making.

I layered up the pink and white cardstock adding the rabbit

and greeting. Add a bow and it's done!