Creation Corner

Valentine Chair Envelope Tutorial Guest Post

2012-01-30T04:00:00.000-08:00

I am super excited to introduce a guest post today by Missy at

Lookie What I Did.

Missy is super creative and shares lots of great tutorials and ideas on her blog.

Today, she will be sharing a darling Valentine's Day Tutorial with all of us.

Personalized Valentine's Chair Envelope...

I received that ever so popular kids magazine a couple of weeks ago in the mail and I fell in love with this picture...

image from Pottery Barn Kids

I knew as soon as I saw this that I could make my own and I did for less than $2.00...Let me show you how!!

Items needed to create the chair envelopes:

Sheets of 12" x 18" Stiff Felt (takes two sheets to make one envelope, $.79 a sheet)
Jumbo and Small rick rack (found in fabric dept)
Hearts (I found mine in the scrapbook section)
Scrapbook letter stickers
Glue Gun
Scissors
Ruler

Start by cutting your stiff felt. Since this sheet is already 18" wide, just cut it in half to 9".

Take your second sheet and make the envelope flap. See below for envelope flap .jpg....

Take one side of your 9" felt and glue the jumbo rick rack all the way around so a little of the curves are sticking out..

This is what it will look like when you are finished....

Now place the other 9" felt on top, like making a sandwich...hot glue down....

Now take your envelope flap and glue a heart onto the bottom corner....

I went ahead and measured my small rick rack out that I was going to use to trim out my envelope flap. Since this rick rack was tiny, I decided to use my Xyron machine and run the strips through it. I have a permanent adhesive cartridge in the machine and so it worked well. I love my Xyron machine and use it all the time!!

This is what the flap will look like after you apply the rick rack. It took one long strip along the top and two of the same size on the left and right.

Hot glue along the top of the flap and adhere to the top of the envelope.

Here is what it will look like after you glue the flap down. I added small strips of rick rack along the edges and bottom to give it a more embellished look.

I don't own a monogram machine but I do have ALOT of scrapbook stickers. These worked out so great.

To attach it to the back of each of our chairs, I glued a strip of ribbon I had left over from Christmas.

And here they are.....my knockoff version of the envelopes...

Each member of the family got one.....

This is what the ribbon looks like on the chair....

This is an easy, easy project that took an afternoon to do. I think they are so cute on the kitchen chairs!

Hope you feel inspired to create a quick and easy Valentine's Craft!!

Happy Sunday

2012-01-29T08:34:00.000-08:00

Pinned HERE

and found HERE

Happy Sunday

Friday Link Party

2012-01-26T19:33:00.000-08:00

I hope you are having a Happy week!

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Birthday Traditions

2012-01-25T09:37:00.000-08:00

It is a birthday morning at our house.

Which means starting the day out with breakfast in bed.

We let the kids choose what they want for their special breakfast.

This was my son's choice: a donut with sprinkles, eggs, and orange juice.

We have to come in singing Happy Birthday.

I personally have to sing and say say Happy Birthday all day long!!

We put candles in every meal and blow them out all day long.

I love birthdays

I love fun traditions.

So, my question to you my friends...

What are your fun birthday traditions?

Friday Link Party

2012-01-19T21:00:00.000-08:00

Happy Weekend to you my friends.
I cannot wait to see your fun and fabulous link-ups.

Remember, it can be a recipe, craft, DIY home decor, etc.
I hope you are having a Happy week!

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Kid Valentine Ideas

2012-01-16T03:07:00.000-08:00

I simply LOVE Valentine's Day. I have been pinning ideas for weeks. Here are just a few of my favorite kid Valentine Ideas that you can find on my boards at Pinterest.

Zakka Life's adorable super hero Valentine's. She even shares the free printable to make your own.

30 Handmade Day's "Wheelie" Valentine's. What boy wouldn't LOVE this Valentine. Printables HERE.

Tammy Mitchel Photography's "fishie" Valentines. Such a simple cute toddler Valentine idea.

Edda Photography's Kid Bookmark Valentine idea. I love the idea of sending a bookmark with my oldest son to school.

My Crazy Life's "Stick'm Up Valentines" Adorable. What more can I say. Free Printables HERE.

The Crafting Chicks Bouncy Ball Valentines. All 3 of my boys would LOVE this one. We love bouncy balls at this house. Free Printable HERE.

A Small Snippet's fun Pop Rocks Valentine's. Fun fun fun. She shares other fun Valentine ideas too here.

Fiskars Blog Monkey Valentine's. Simple and fun. You can find the tutorial HERE.

Fry Family "I Dig You" Valentines. My sister did this for my boys a couple of years ago. They just LOVED them.

Dandee's Magnify Glass Valentine. Great none food Valentine.

What are your ideas for your kid's this year for Valentine's Day? I would love to hear.

Happy Sunday

2012-01-15T01:55:00.000-08:00

Pinned HERE.

Friday Link Party

2012-01-12T20:54:00.000-08:00

Yay, for Friday!
It is here once again.
It has been another busy week in my household.
But, as I weekly tell my husband,
"So, is our life from here on out...at least until our children are all grown up."

I am excited to see all your fun link ups this week.

It is a fun adventure all weekend long seeing the link ups.

You are such creative friends.

Remember, it can be a recipe, craft, DIY home decor, etc.

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Valentine's Day Headband Tutorial

2012-01-11T02:49:00.000-08:00

I shared this headband tutorial last year, but thought I would share it again this year earlier so maybe you could actually make the headband before Valentine's Day. It is simple and easy. Does anyone else love Valentine's Day like I do? I LOVE Valentine's Day. It is just so nice to take time to appreciate the people I love.

Here is what you will need:
Fabric (It is only going to be about 1-2 inches wide but about 44-45 inches long.)
Scissors
Needle and thread
Hot glue gun and hot glue stick
Iron and ironing board
Small pieces of felt
Headband

First you will grab you fabric and scissors. Mine was quarter of a yard of this fabulous red and white polka dot fabric called bliss.

You are going to make a cut that is about 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide. I just eye ball it.

Then you are going to tear the fabric. You want to do this along the long edge. In the end you want the torn piece to be about 45 inches long.

Once it is all torn you will iron it out flat.

Grab your needle and thread and start gathering the strip of fabric.

It should look like this when you are done. Tie off the thread at the end of your gather. You do not want it tightly gathered, but more loosely.

Then you will take the gathered strip and make it into a circle like this. Making the fabric overlap each other. Your outer layer should be larger then your inner. You are going to wined it in.

Cut out a circle of felt that will fit under your fabric circle. Put hot glue on it.

Place the circle you made onto the felt circle. Use more hot glue to make sure the whole circle is glued down.

The back should look something like this when you are done.

Grab a few more scraps of felt and cut out two hearts. I folded my felt in half to make my hearts. I made the white heart a little larger then the red one.

They were about this size when I was done. I glue them lightly together. Then I added a button on top for extra decoration.

Get your headband. Put it on your head and find the best place for the circle of fabric you are going to glue onto it. You will be sorry if you do not look first to pick where you want it. I like mine more to the side. Then put hot glue where you want the fabric piece to go.

After the fabric piece is glued on a take another small piece of felt and glue that on also. It helps to hold the fabric piece to the headband.

And now you have a cute Valentine's Day headband to wear.

Mini Kid Pinatas

2012-01-10T08:12:00.000-08:00

At my son's Birthday Party this last month we decided to make Mini Pinata's with his friends.

It was such a fun thing to do I thought I would like to share it with all of you.

They are easy, fun, and what kid does not like a pinata?

First, you need your supplies. You will need two paper lunch sacks per child, some tissue paper, pompoms, crayons, construction paper, scissors and glue. (Or anything else you would like to use.) I cut the tissue paper into strips to make it easier for them.

You put two lunch sacks inside each other and hand one set to each child. Then, you let them go wild creating. (I love seeing what kids will come up with.)

When they are all done you stuff the inside of their sacks with some tissue paper and a handful or two of candy. Then staple them shut on top.

We got some creative and fun pinatas! I think most of the kids at our party made them into monsters.

After they dry you punch a hole in the top, attach some rope and take them outside to knock apart. I was surprised how sturdy they were. It took a little while to break some holes.

I hope you have fun making some mini pinatas with your kids also!

Happy Sunday

2012-01-08T03:03:00.000-08:00

Pinned HERE

Friday Link Party

2012-01-05T22:17:00.000-08:00

Sorry, I have been missing in action lately.

Lots of family time has been needed.

(I love family time.)

Along, with a little reflection and decisions on the route I would like to take this blog this upcoming year.

I promise I will not be gone forever.

I am excited to see all your fun link ups this week.

You, my friends, are amazing!

You are so creative.

I love what you share each week.

Remember, it can be a recipe, craft, DIY home decor, etc.

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Happy Sunday

2012-01-01T03:23:00.000-08:00

Wishing you all a Happy New Year!

Welcome 2012

This wonderful subway art is done by the fabulous Eighteen 25 ladies

You can find their FREE Printable HERE.

Friday Link Party

2011-12-29T22:18:00.000-08:00

Can you believe it is the last Friday of 2011?
I have to be honest and say I am a little bit in denial about it.
I am not quite sure, why, but it is true.

In honor of the end of 2011, I would love for you to link up any of your favorite projects or tutorials of 2011.
You are welcome to share as many projects or recipes as you would like.
It will be fun for me to go through them all.

I cannot wait to share some of my ideas and new projects for 2012.
I hope you all have a wonderful New Years weekend.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the specific post and not to just your blog.
2. Grab a link party button (if you would like) and share this link party with others.
3. If you have a chance stop by and see some of the other link ups and leave a comment. People always love comments and you might even make some fun friends along the way.

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Happy Sunday and Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T03:46:00.000-08:00

Free Printable found HERE

Wishing you and your families a very Merry Christmas

Friday Link Party

2011-12-22T19:35:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday my friends! We are down to 2 days before Christmas. I happen to LOVE Christmas Eve just as much as I love Christmas, so I am pretty excited for tomorrow as well. We have been baking all week, delivering, caroling, and getting to have lots of fun with friends and family. I hope your week has been a good one as well.

I am excited to see all your fun link ups this week. It can be a recipe, craft, DIY home decor, etc.

Here are the rules:

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Gingerbread House

2011-12-21T11:23:00.000-08:00

Monday, we had fun making Gingerbread houses with my kids and sister who is in town. Originally, I was going to buy a kit, but ended up never picking one up. So, we went route 2 with making our own with graham crackers and homemade frosting. It was so easy, and I thought I would share a little with you. (Although, I am sure many of you already know how to do it.)

We went to the store and bought some different candies to use. My oldest child had been saving all his candy from school and other places for this event also. My kids were so excited last week when I told them "Yes" to getting to make a gingerbread house. Don't you love it when you can say "Yes" to their requests.

My sister had the idea to put them into Muffin tins for easy access for everyone. I used my large muffin tin.

Frosting:
Powdered sugar
Water
Mix together powdered sugar and just a little water to make a good thick frosting. Then put the frosting into ziploc bags and cut a tiny hole off one of the bottom corners. I wish I had exact measurements,but we just eye balled it all. This frosting dries pretty quickly.

Building the Gingerbread House: Get your graham crackers out. Get a knife and cutting board. To make the sides of our houses you take 2 full graham crackers. To make the sides of the house cut two triangles out of the top half of the graham crackers. You can kind of see it on the side there. Hopefully, you get the idea. You could cut things how ever you like. When done glue all your pieces together. You can really build any shape or size gingerbread house you want. We went for small ones. One for my sister and I and one for the kids.

Here is how the kids house turned out. They wanted to see how much candy they could get on it. They had a blast doing it together.

My sisters house. I was suppose to do it with her, but really I ended up needing to help "glue" (with frosting of course) all my kids candy and things down on their house.

Merry Christmas my friends! I Hope you are having a wonderful holiday season.

Snowman Box Drinks

2011-12-19T21:50:00.000-08:00

For my son's classroom party last week I made these cute Snowman Box Drinks

I was inspired by the amazing Becca from Blue Cricket Designs darling Snowman Cups.

It was a simple cute way to make their holiday party a little more fun.

I painted the faces on using acrylic paint and the back point of my paint brush.

The cheeks were painted on with a sponge I cut a small circle out of.

Happy Sunday

2011-12-18T04:03:00.000-08:00

One of my hero's in my life.

Friday Link Party

2011-12-16T08:09:00.000-08:00

Wow,it has been a crazy good week!
I am sorry I am super late in posting this party.
I have room party on my brain, along with too many other fun Christmas projects.
I sure cannot wait to see what YOU have been up to this week.

Remember, it can be a craft, recipes, cleaning tip, DIY decor, a tutorial, etc.

Please no etsy shop link ups and only link the projects from your own blog.

Here are the rules:

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Wisemen Crowns

2011-12-14T04:42:00.000-08:00

These really could be wisemen crowns, birthday crowns, prince crowns, princess crowns...but, since I was making them as wisemen crowns, that is what I am going to call them. For our church Christmas party two of my boys were to be Wisemen. As I was coming up with costumes fro them, I created these. They are fairly simple, and you could go a ton of different directions with them. I will show you what I did.

Supplies:
Construction Paper (to make a template)
Felt
elastic
sewing machine and coordinating thread
Tacky Glue (optional)

Make a crown template.

I used extra long construction paper. Here are the dimensions I used. I didn't end up using the middle template because my 7 year old got very upset that I wanted to make one of the crowns without points. But, I think it would have made a cool Wiseman Crown. (I made 3 crowns...one for each of my boys since even though the yougest was not going to be in the program, I knew he would cry if he didn't have one too.)

Fold your felt in half and use your template as a pattern. You need two crown pieces. Cut out the two crowns.

Also cut 1 pieces of elastic 4 inches long.

Sew the 2 crown pieces together. Make sure to insert the elastic into one of the ends. Leave the other end open. (Do NOT sew one end together.)

Cut out diamonds (or whatever shapes you would like) out of scraps of felt. Pin them in place.

Sew the diamond down.

Or you can glue them with Tacky glue. I decided since this crown had so many different colors I would glue it instead of sew. Both ways work.

After all the sewing is done take the elastic and stretch it to the other side, slip it in between the two felt crown pieces, and sew the last side closed.

It should look like this when you are done!

Here are how my three crowns turned out:

Crown 1

Crown 2

Crown 3

And one cute Wieman ready for his performance.

Nativity Ornament Tutorial

2011-12-12T04:30:00.000-08:00

Today, I am excited to be participating in Gwenny Penny's fun

Haul out the Holly Series

You should go check out Gwen's blog.

There have already been some fabulous tutorials.
Plus, I just LOVE Gwen and everything she creates.

Welcome to all of Gwen's wonderful friends!

We are excited to have you here with us today.

I will be sharing a tutorial on how to make these fun wooden Nativity Ornaments

My inspiration came from THESE fun nativity sets.

For a church activity we wanted to make the ladies a special gift.

My Friend Kristen and I came up with these ornaments that I am going to share with you today.

Are you ready to get started?

Supplies:
2-3/8" Little People Dad for Joseph (I bought mine HERE.)
2" Wooden Little People Girl for Mary (I bought mine HERE.)
1" Square for Baby Jesus Body (I bought mine HERE)
3/8" wooden nob for Baby Jesus Head. (I bought mine at Joann's Craft Store)
Raffia
Jute
Wood Glue
Hot Glue and Glue Gun
Acrylic Paint (brown, red, antique white, and white)

Collect all your supplies. I really loved the place I bought most of my supplies from. They shipped same day too! It was great. I got it within a weeks time from when I ordered them. You have to buy in bulk, but that worked for me since I was making 50 of them.

I just bought my paint at Michaels Craft Store. You really could use whatever you would like.

Paint the heads first with the antique white color. I used a small brush since these dolls are so small.

Once the heads are dry paint their bodies. Brown for Joseph and red for Mary.

Paint the Jesus body white.

Glue all the pieces together using wood glue. Wood glue take a little longer to dry. I did them at night and the next morning did the last steps. The wood glue will hold them together longer though.

Tie on some raffia and then hot glue on some jute on the back as the hanger for the ornament. We glued the jute hanger on two places. Right in the middle of the back and also between the two heads on the back. It held the hanger straight so Mary and Joseph did not flop down.

You are done!

You now have a cute nativity ornament to hang on your tree.

I hope you will all go check out Gwen's wonderful blog Gwenny Penny.

Happy Sunday

2011-12-11T08:47:00.000-08:00

Pinned HERE.

Found HERE.

It happens to be my favorite scripture.

This comes from The Family: A Proclamation to the World blog.

She has so many wonderful prints....

many of them you can download for Free.

Happy Sunday my Friends!

Friday Link Party

2011-12-08T23:43:00.000-08:00

So, what have you been up to this week?

I cannot wait to see!

Remember, it can be a craft, recipes, cleaning tip, DIY decor, a tutorial, etc.

Please no etsy shop link ups and only link the projects from your own blog.

Here are the rules:

By entering your link you are giving me permission to use any part of your post on my blog spotlighting your items. (Please keep items appropriate.)

Making a Difference

2011-12-08T11:41:00.000-08:00

"By Small and Simple things

are GREAT things brought to pass"

Alma 37:6

Have you heard about the Afton Jean Charity?

Do you know Kami from No Biggie?

And her heartbreaking story?

My heart aches for her and her family.

This last month Kami's little girl, Afton Jean, was born three and a half months early and fought for her life

for 7 short days before she returned to our Father in Heaven.

I truly cannot even imagine.

Kami shares her story on her blog.

She shares her strength and testimony.

She is inspiring.
My heart goes out to their family

The wonderful Brittany from Love Stitched was inspired with an idea..

(by small and simple things...)

Kami was put on hospital bed rest the weeks prior to Afton’s birth,

and baby Afton spent a week in the N.I.C.U. incurring many hospital bills.

Brittany has created a Charity in honor of Afton Jean and to help the Bigler family.

A paypal account has been opened and a BEAUTIFUL shop created.

Many shops and bloggers have come together donating items to be sold in the shop.

I have these two headbands in there:

The shop is truly beautiful.

There are so many great items all at discounted prices.

It is the holiday season and we are already buying presents.

Why not buy and also serve someone else at the same time?

Please go visit the shop.

Help spread the word.

Blog, Facebook, Tweet about it.

On top of the shop another miracle has occured.

(More Small and Simple things for great things to come to pass...)

You see this beautiful subway art:

What a BEAUTIFUL message by Mother Teresa.

This beautiful jpeg of the quote was donated by Cheri of I AM MOMMA HEAR ME ROAR

and is being featured on Groopdealz today!
(Cheri is so wonderful!)

ALL THE PROCEEDS from this sale go to the AFTON JEAN CHARITY!

Miracles.

only $2 for the download and all the instructions for how to make it into this 2×3 wall mount can be found here : http://iammommahearmeroar.blogspot.com/2011/07/diy-subway-art-for-under-7.html

$2 My friends for the jpeg of this beautiful subway art.

Only $2 to bless this wonderful family.

Click HERE to Grab your $2 Download

I love seeing these Miracles occur.

I love seeing others coming together to bless another.