Teacher Gift

Oh my goodness I love how this wood craft turned out!  I hope our awesome teacher loves it too!

Birthday Gifts for Grandparents

Both of my parents have birthdays in July, two days apart.  This year I wanted to give them a homemade gift from my kids, with my crafty flair of course.  I decided I wanted to capture their footprints in a manner that they looked like hearts, because these boys of mine just won't stop growing up!

I purchased 20 inch long canvases and painted them neutral colors, then painted my boys' feet and carefully positioned their feet on to the canvas.  Someone we managed to get it all right the first time and we didn't even get paint on my floor.  My dad loves everything western so I added on some sheriff stars with their names and called them "little buckeroos."  I pick a quote to tug on the heartstrings for my mother's canvas.   I love how both of them came out.

Wedding Sign

I happen to know a really talented wedding planner who lives in California.  She hired me to make a vinyl decal for a wedding, and I about died laughing seeing it in action!

Halloween Countdown

This might be one of my favorite Halloween crafts.  I found a metal sign on clearance at Hobby Lobby for a few dollars.  I painted over the original design with black and purple.  Then I cut some Halloween designs I had acquired.  I decoupaged the haunted house and tree on to the board (they were cut from paper).  And then I added the title and numbers using vinyl decals.  I glued a magnet on to a green decorative marble, which we use to mark the days as we progress through October.  The only trouble we have now is remembering whose turn it is to move the magnet each day!

Mickey Stache Bank

A good friend is leaving on a Disney cruise in a week.  She wanted her children to help save up for the trip and so a while ago she asked me to make a glass block bank.  She loved it so much she decided to make additional banks as her Fish Extender gifts.  She just posted a picture of her finished banks and they look so adorable!  (She applied the vinyl herself.)

I think this is my favorite use of that somewhat strange mustache fad going on right now.  :)

The wording on the bank says "Disney Stache."

Western Fun

I was (very willingly) 'roped in' to helping with a western themed fundraiser.  I handled table decor, signage, and a photo booth.  I vinyled, I painted, I paper crafted, I even did a little digital designing.  Here are some shots from the night.  Yee haw!

The Young Women from my church congregation hosted a chili cook off.    We placed a list of voting categories on each table. 

 

 

 

Here are some shots of the photo booth props.  The finished pictures were just adorable!  I included a few shots of my family so you can see how they turned out.  :)

I also managed to squeeze in a little extra crafting to donate a set of countdown blocks to the silent auction.

I had an amazing partner in this endevour, who was actually the brains behind the operation.  She created this super jail for our party, and during the course of the night you could give our sherriff a dollar to arrest an outlaw:

 

This game was fully embraced by my middle son.  He was begging us for dollars all night and when he arrested someone the reason was usually "because I can."  Lol!  It was a super fun night!

Disney Frames (Fish Extender Gifts)

Okay, bear with me.  I have one more Disney post and then I'm done.  Maybe.  Okay, I promise you won't see any more Mickey this month, how about that?  :)

Disney cruises have a gift exchange tradition called Fish Extenders or FE's.  Last time around I made hand sanitizer bottles and magnets.  This time I decided on personalized frames.  I found four-frame collages at the dollar store.  I knew I wanted to personalize the frames with Disney paper and vinyl lettering.  Since our itinerary had four ports of call I opted to vinyl a port on each frame, plus I added a Mickey head in the center. On the back I added the family's name and the ship name.  They turned out super cute!

Here is my personal frame:

You may notice my frame has three ports and one ship name.  We actually missed a port on our trip due to 7 foot swells.  Unfortunately I couldn't make changes to the gift frames on board the ship.

A second friend liked my frame idea and decided she also wanted to give frames as her FE gifts.  Unfortunately I had already cleared out these particular collage frames, but she found a smaller collage frame at a second dollar store.  This is how her frames turned out: