Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Paper rose wreath

This project is from Valentine's Day (hmmm, a month late). Anyway, I love how this turned out. I purchased a wood heart wreath at Deseret Industries a few years ago and it had been sitting in a craft box in the garage ever since. I saw a tutorial for crepe paper rose flowers over at House of Smiths(I love that blog) and made this cute wreath for my Valentine decor.

Just so you know, it took about eight hours and lots of glue gun burns to make all of the roses. Go to http://www.thehouseofsmiths.com/2010/02/hanging-roses-i-was-browsing-blogs.html for the tutorial on making the roses.







Monday, March 7, 2011

Cupcake stand.

A while ago I saw a tutorial for a cupcake stand over at Skip to My Lou.
The other day at Target I saw these plates and decided we needed a cute spring cupcake stand at our house.
Can't beat the price. I really like the way it turned out. My kitchen is decorated in lemons and limes so it works well with my color scheme.



Don't mind the crappy bench picture. Another project on my never ending list!
Check out the tutorial for this stand at Skip to my Lou:




Shelf

I rarely have ideas of my own. Thank goodness there are so many craft blogs out there to help me out.
I found the idea for this shelf over at House of Smiths:
http://houseofsmiths.blogspot.com/2010/09/ballard-design-inspired-shelves.html
Check out the link for the tutorial.
Shelly calls it her "wanna-be-mantel" shelf. I liked the idea and put my true love to work. We had almost all of the supplies. We had to purchase the brackets. Total out of pocket was around 16.00.