It's time to start thinking about what Valentines your child wants to take to school. This is a really fun and easy Valentine that your child can give to all their friends. Once you have the card printed your kids can help cut, glue on the stars and tape on the candy.Step 1 - Print out the shooting star shapes and starsStep 2 - Cut out shooting star shapes and the stars. I have included a printable for the shooting star shape and the stars. For those of you with a silhouette cutting … [Read more...]
3 Star String Art Tutorial
I love getting ready for patriotic holidays and making cute decorations for my home. Here is an intermediate tutorial for a 3 Star String Art decoration. Hang it outside on your porch or lean it indoors on your fireplace mantel. Where ever you put it, it'll be an impressive piece of decor.Materials: Embroidery Floss--1 each of red, white and blueNails with nail head. --I'm using wire nails I picked up at Wal-Mart. A 2 oz package of 3/4" nails. Tack Hammer or Regular HammerWood … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Snack Bags
St. Patrick's Day is here so here is a quick little treat bag idea for all your little friends.We just got some sketch pens for the Silhouette and so we decided to try them out on the Silhouette Portrait for this project.There are 4 main steps in this project: Step 1: Print The first thing you need to do is print bag tags using your printer. This will only print the chevrons, white text bubble, "I'm", "to be your Friend" and the registration marks (the black square and the … [Read more...]
Easy Clothes Pin Halloween Wreath
As I was searching pinterest looking for a cute but easy Halloween wreath I found this darling wreath at The Thrifty Things. Get ready for an easy Halloween craft! If your door is naked, then it is time to make this easy wreath! You only need a few items:Medium Wire Wreath Clothes Pins (About 70 per wreath) Black Spray Paint White Spray Paint 'BOO' Letters Ribbon Sparkly Spiders Hot Glue First clip the clothes pin onto the wire wreath. The … [Read more...]
How to Make a Candy Lei
There are plenty of occasions where you might have a lot of leftover candy in your house. After Halloween is especially a time when there are lots of little candy bars laying around. You may not want your kids to just have at all the candy, so pack some away for a later time.One fun use for leftover candy is to make a candy lei. When I was growing up we would get candy lei's for our birthday, graduation or other fun celebrations. I love to make them and it's always well received because who … [Read more...]
Simple DIY Winter Soldier Costume
Here is a simple Do It Yourself Winter Soldier costume. All you need is:black long sleeve shirt grey long sleeve shirt black glove black pants red heat transfer material thick black markerOptional items:goggles face mask shoulder strapsMaking the Shirt The shirt is the only thing that you need to make for this costume. All you need to do is remove a sleeve from the black shirt and add lines and a red star to the grey shirt.The Complete Costume Put … [Read more...]
Silhouette Machine Tips: 4 Easy Steps to Cutting
So you've created a wonderful masterpiece in Silhouette Studio but somehow you have to make that picture on your computer come out of your Silhouette Machine. These Silhouette Machine Cutting Tips are what you need to get your project from digital to actual. Purchasing your vinyl cutting machine is a great way to expand your craft skills. Silhouette Machine Tips: 4 Easy Steps to Cutting1. Set your cut settings2. Print out your project3. Load the … [Read more...]
Want to Be Like ‘Cap’ – Captain America Costumes
Disclosure: I received a free product sample for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.My son is too little to watch Captain America: The First Avenger and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but he isn't too little to love Mavel's American Superhero. He has definitely caught Captain America fever and was so excited to receive this costume. Your little soldier will feel like the buffest, toughest superhero in this Captain America Avengers Classic Muscle … [Read more...]
Dragon Birthday Cake!
Last year I made my oldest daughter a dragon cake, and this year, my youngest daughter wanted a dragon cake. I have used box mixes in the past, and they were fine, but this year I looked up a yellow cake recipe from Martha Stewart. It is still a bit crumby when I tried to ice it, but it was fine. Next time, I’ll try to find a different cake mix; one that doesn’t fall to crumbs when you cut it! I’m just not that skilled yet! I used a butter cream icing recipe from … [Read more...]
Make some ‘Sweet’ Party Glasses
Today I am preparing for my New Year's Eve party with some friends and their children. We don't drink, but we like to have a good time. I thought it would be fun to jazz up our Martinelli's with some sugar rimmed glasses. It's easy, only involves two ingredients and has 2 steps! Once you gather the supplies - glasses, a lemon sliced up, colored sugar - you are ready to being. Rub the lemon slice around the rim of the glass getting it fully wet with the juice. Dip the … [Read more...]
How to Make a Jingle all the Way Glass Block
Stefanie found this cute craft on pinterest and asked me to create it for her. First I had to find a svg file of a jingle bell that I liked (and that she liked). Then for the words I used two different fonts, Georgia for 'jingle' and 'way', and Century Gothic for 'all' and 'the'.Next, I set the cut settings by finding the Silhouette Vinyl optionSilhouette Tip: If the cutting blade in the machine is getting dull and doesn't cut well the blade setting can be increased by 1 … [Read more...]
How to use the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade
Disclaimer: I received the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade for review purposes. All experiences and opinions are my own. Yours may differ.The Back Story ArtSuppliesDirect.com asked if we would be willing to review the Silhouette Fabric Blade and we were excited for the chance! What better way to test out the Silhouette Fabric Cutting Blade then to make something for our cute baby. And since he's a boy it had to be either a mustache or a tie; I went with tie. There are tons of examples on … [Read more...]
How to Make Princess Popsicles
During the summer it seems like popsicles are a huge part of our lives. We eat them everyday. They are a fun and cool snack when the kids are playing hard in the back yard. Last year I bought some cute popsicle molds from IKEA and hadn't ever used them, so I decided to make a quick batch of Kool-Aid popsicles.To make these "princess" popsicles, I just chose to use pink and purple colored kool-aid. I made some with purple on the top and some with pink on the top.We kind of messed up a bit … [Read more...]
Adding Straps to a Swimming Suit
I got this very cute swimming suit on super sale a few months ago. It is last year's design at Lime Ricki and I loved it! I love the colors and the pattern and since it was such a great discount, I bought it! I didn't (and don't) love the single strap around my neck (it ties around my neck, it isn't attached at the shoulders like it may appear in the picture). It doesn't give me confidence that my suit is going to stay on my body when I go down a water slide, or play around with my kids in the … [Read more...]
DIY Refrigerator Art Projects
When you want to make sure that your kids stay entertained and when you would love to get art that is a little more personal from your kids on the fridge, why not have a fridge art day?Air-Dry Clay MagnetsMaterials:Polymer Clay Acrylic Paints Paint brushes Imagination Small Refrigerator Magnets Hot Glue GunWhen your little ones love to work with their hands, give them a chance to do so with a little bit of air-dry clay.Pinch off a small amount of clay, about … [Read more...]
