{Burlap Wreath Tutorial}

After sorting through old photos I found these and I was super pumped!  I had totally forgotten that I had taken pictures while making my wreath!  Lots have asked for the steps so here they are!

The finished product!

Cutting your circles--this is the most time consuming of course because burlap is no fun to cut!  Cut out tons--probably like 30 of 2 different sizes.  I didn't use a template, I just started cutting.  But if I had to guess I would say like 2 inch circles and 2 1/2 inch circles would be correct.  After cutting go ahead and grab a hand full and glue them together layering the smaller on top of the larger.  These will be your plain circles to fill in with at the end.

Fabric.  I literally just cut some out here.  I chose fun bright colors and none of them made much sense.  I just worked with what was in my material tub.  I think not matching them made the wreath look more "fun".

Ribbon-I also chose different ribbon that I had--again, nothing matched it was totally random.  I just cut tons of little strips--probably 1 inch long.

I added these embellishments--I can't remember what they are called (my mind is blank) but they are little metal circles that you have to use your alligator punch (in the picture above this, it is pink) and punch through 2 circles to make them stick together.

Get out that hot glue gun and start randomly gluing.  I did make sure to space out between the ones that had ribbon and the ones that had material.  I put all my colored circles (ones with ribbon and material) on first and then went back and filled in with the plain circles.

Layered

And you are done!

{Lots of Canvases}

I decided to compile the canvases that I have done into one post in case anyone is looking for ideas and doesn't want to click around a ton of times to see different ones.

Made this one for a precious little girl!

Made this for my daughter's kitchen.  I cut out vinyl polka dots and put them on the white canvas then spray painted it blue.  Peeled off the vinyl after it dried and {hello} I had perfect dots!  Then I cut what I wanted to say--Mod Podged it on there and topped it off with a layer of spray sealant.  Fab!

Smaller canvas I sat above my sink during Thanksgiving. 

This took some time {but the Bride-to-be loved it so it was worth it}  I hand painted the canvas black then created stencils for all the words and then laid them out on the canvas how I wanted them to be placed.  Remember to tape them down because they will move on you though.  Took some white paint and filled the stencils in.  Not a quick project, but what a gift!

Baby boy

Another baby boy canvas for a nursery

Yet another boy canvas for a nursery!

{burlap banner}

 I {LOVE} burlap.  These are some pics of some banners I made for a photographer to use.  For the tutorial on how I made them check out my creating a burlap banner post.

{St. Patrick's Day}

Give me a little green!  St. Patrick's Day is just fun.  It is the only holiday where green dominates.  I have never decorated for the holiday in the past, but I am hoping to at least have a few of these up in my house to celebrate the festive holiday!

Click here for this one {which I love}

There are several color choices on this one.  Click here to get them!

{super cute} click here for this one.

{Easter Printables}

I love Easter.  The spring colors just make me smile.  Guess that is why I am "hopping" to it and starting to think about the upcoming holiday although it is forever away.  Maybe I am trying to forget all the cold weather!  Below are several links to some fab printables for Easter!

Love the different fonts in this one.  Click here  to head to the site to print.

Love these colors too!  Mix it up a little!  Click here for the link.

{Monster Party}

We celebrated my son's first birthday with a monster party!  Below are some pictures of how everything turned out. 

The little gifts for each kid to take home with them

Found these little pins at Walgreens for $1.99 in the Valentine section!

Little Monster bowls.  I found these in sets of 4 at Taret for $1.99.  I saw online little monster bowls and loved them, but they were $7.99 each which is just too pricey for me so I bought these plain bowls at Target then made little vinyl monster faces and put them on.  Super cute!

These were lollipops left over from my daughter's rainbow party.  I put some monsters I made over the front of the lollipops and hello Monster pops!

Bought these monster mouths as a download for $5 on Etsy--so cute!

Little monsters I got of Amazon --  adorable idea!

The gift table for the kids

 

Monster bowl!

Monster Cake!  This turned out larger than expected but so cute! 

Monster cupcakes!

 

So cute and so much fun!

Fruit

Little cheese please!

Gotta have gold fist!

Monster animal crackers

finger puppets and swirly straws

Food table (minus the pizza boxes that we had in the kitchen)

1st birthday timeline above the food table

I put wiggly eyes on everything I could stick them too!

Got this book on Amazon for like $4~great addition to the table

Monster wall decals from Amazon.  This picture is not so great, but I had to show that they went down the walls in the dining room

Food table again

The mantle banner (gotta have a banner!)

Monster plates from Target

Told you I stuck the monsters everywhere--even in the bathrooms!

Our second mantle--I just did a simple banner here

silverware

 

And that is all--I of course took over 200 pictures, but I didn't post any of the kids since I don't think the parents would love their kids being all over the internet.  I was pretty happy with the party and the kids LOVED all the fun stuff!