Paper Family Tree

       I didn't come up with this idea. Actually, one of my friends made something similar to this at one of those JoAnne classes. I altered the idea a little bit to my taste.

       I added the "Sperry" sign. I thought it looked a little plain without it. Everything was cut out using my Silhouette. On the last couple layers of leaves I added Glue Dots to give the leaves more depth. The names are actually just hand written with a Sharpie Pen, that way I can add more kids names easily.

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse,   

Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,

Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  

Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 

Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 

Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 

Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.

Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy. 

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DIY Mail Organizer

I have seen this done before, and I desperately need something to organize all the papers on our counter, so I ventured to make my own version.

What you will need: 

-one cereal box (bigger the better--like Chex, but I didn't have that)

-one smaller box (I used a fruit snack box)

-brown crafting paper (dollar store :)

-embellishments (I used ribbon, twine, and scrapbook paper)

 1. To start, cut the flaps off of the top of your boxes.

2. Cover with brown crafting paper and tape or glue (I used double stick tape).

3. Tape or glue boxes together and add embellishments. I cut a few things out with my Silhouette and added ribbon around the sides. 

You can use magnets to put the organizer on your fridge, or stick it on your wall.

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse, 
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,

Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy.  

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DIY Napkin Rings

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I made a craft that actually benefited our ginormous feast!

I have heard of people making their own napkin rings from a paper towel roll. I decided to adapt the idea a bit since paper towel rolls aren't very sturdy. For my napkin rings, I used the roll from my empty saran wrap. It's much tougher, but harder to cut.

 

I glued some scrapbook paper onto the rings and made some paper flowers that a cute lady from my ward taught me how to make. (Thanks Michelle)! I Mod Podged everything (including the flowers) since it's basically a given they'll be spilled on in our house!

  I am totally in love with these flowers! They're so easy to make, they're just circles!

My dad did a little craft of his own! Check out this bread basket that he used as our centerpiece!

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DIY Birthday Calendar

 I have been wanting to make one of these for a long time! It's so hard to keep all the birthdays straight in my head and this calendar is the perfect solution! I cut out some cute little images from my Silhouette to doll it all up. I'm not so good at the scrapbooking thang, but I'm happy with the way this turned out!

Here are some of the pages...

 

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House Cleaning Cards

I have been trying to figure out a system for cleaning my house that would work for me (something that's not too complicated). So I have been working on this idea in my head for awhile and today I went a head a put it all together!

There are five cards that each have a day of the week and specific chores that must be completed for that day. So there are the specific chores, and then either organizing an area or cleaning a "special area." Monday and Wednesday part of the day is spent organizing an area. Tuesday and Thursday part of the routine is spent cleaning a special area that doesn't get attention often like the ceiling fans.

One special area is worked on two times per week (two of these would be marked off at the end of the week). When all are marked off, I wipe it off and start all over. 

 

*Download at Scribd*

***If anyone would like for me to email (nv.craftenvy@gmail.com) them a copy of the template I made (in Microsoft Word) let me know. I would just post it online but eveyone's chores are probably a little different.

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse, 
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,

Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy.   Read more

Paper Wall Flowers

I think I am finally done with Lily's room, for REAL this time! I added some little 3D paper flowers on her wall

And the rest of the nursery....


Fleece Dahlia Pillow

Tulle Earring Holder

Tulle Pomander

Light-switch Redo

Tissue Paper Rose Pomander

Tulle Curtains

Personalized Lighted Mirror

Monday: Sew Can Do, Graphics Fairy,  Mad In Crafts, It's So Very Cheri, Skip To My Lou, The Girl Creative,  DIY Showoff, Making The World Cuter,  Sumo's Sweet Stuff, Keeping It Simple, Trendy Treehouse, 
Tuesday: Sweet Floweret, Hope Studios,
Wednesday: Sugar Bee,  Silly Little Sparrow, Today's Creative Blog,  
Thursday:Someday Crafts,  The Thrifty Home, 
Friday:Beyond The Picket Fence, Train To Crazy,  733,  Shabby Cottage,  Fireflies and Jellybeans, Somewhat Simple, Thirty Handmade Days,  Shabby Nest, 
Hodgepodge Friday,  Fun To Craft,  Tidy Mom, Finding Fabulous, Fingerprints on the Fridge,  Simply Sweet Home, 
Chic On a Shoe String,  Kojo Designs.
Saturday: Show and Tell,  I Am Only One Woman, The Hungry Hippo, Funky Junk Interiors, Saturday Spotlight @ Craft Envy. 

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Paper Rose Tutorial

I just have to say that this was one of the funnest crafts I've done in a long time! It was super simple and it turned out pretty decent, too. (I got the idea from here)

 Beautiful.

What you will need:

-Cardstock (colored on both sides preferrably)

-Scissors and a pencil

-Hot glue gun

-long sticks

-vase

1. The first thing you want to do is trace a circular spiral on your cardstock with a pencil. I made mine all different sizes for a more natural effect. You don't really want it smaller than like two-ish inches.

 2. You will have a spiral that looks like this. Start and the outside end of the circle and start rolling it inward (just like you're rollin' a doobie).

 PS I'm not really a doobie roller.

 3. I don't have pictures of this step, but once you have a rolled up, let it go a little loose so it gets bigger and then got glue the back, placing the little circle from the spiral on the very bottom. Your rose will look something like this....

4. Hot glue your roses onto different sized sticks and place in a nice looking vase!

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Scrapbook Paper Wreath Tutorial

My friend and I got together the other day to make a fun summer time wreath...completely out of paper. Even the wreath ring is made of paper. The whole thing only costed a mere $3 to make!

 What you will need:

-12 sheets of 12x12 scrapbook paper

-4 paper plates (or one or two really thick ones)

-hot glue

-something to that will cut a circle out (looks like a protractor)

-10" string

 1. Cut the inside of your paper plates out.

 2. Glue the outside rims of your paper plates together. Allow to dry.

3 .Tie your string around the wreath ring.

 3. Start hot gluing your paper on like this...

You may want to mark where the paper goes. Space 12 marks evenly (like a clock).

 4. I taped where the papers meet on the outside just to keep everything in place better.

That's all there is to it! And it's HUGE!

I don't have any wall decor in my lil' boy's play area, so this bright wreath adds lots of cheer to the dungeon area!

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Book of Faces

I have been wanting to make this little book of faces since my little Jack was like a newborn...
Turns out I didn't get to it until I had a second newborn!

The point of this book is to A) teach my toddler the names of our family and friends, and B) to get my baby familiar with faces.

I also added stickers with letters on them so even later I can teach my little boy " 'M', is for mama" and so forth.

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Tissue Paper Rose Pomander: Tutorial

Pomanders (or "kissing ball", as they are sometimes called) can add a unique decorative touch to any living space. The great part is, they are fairly inexpensive to make!

What you will need:

-styrofoam ball ($3--or $1.50 with your craft store's half off coupon!)

-about five sheets of tissue paper

-hot glue gun

-scissors

-optional: embellishments, e.g. pearls

*I started to spray paint my styrofoam ball white...you don't need to do this...it won't come out white.*

1. Cut a strip of tissue paper about 2-3 inches wide. (I chose to make varying sizes of roses so you can cut the 2-3 inch wide paper in half width-wise to do this). 

2. Fold 2-3 times length wise. 

3. Begin to roll that folded piece of paper between your fingers as you also roll it into a spiral. You can hot glue the rows together at this point if you wish. 

3. Hot glue the surface of your styrofoam ball and place the tissue rose on the ball.

 It will start to look like this...

And you can add little embellishments like I did with the pearls if you choose.

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Baby Shower "Thank You" Cards

 These are the thank you cards for my baby shower! 

I'll show you how I did it!

 1. First I scanned in my ultrasound picture.

2. Then I inserted a few of these images into a word document. 

 

3. In Word you can add a conversation bubble to the top of another image, which is what I did. 

4. Then you print them out and hand write "thank you" into the conversation bubble with a cute colored pen.

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