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Mini Shamrock Garland

By Admin1 on February 20, 2015 in Holidays, Home Decor, St. Patrick’s Day

This little garland is super festive and so easy to create. The mini shamrock garland can be used to decorate in lots of fantastic ways and is perfect for a fifteen MINUTE Friday project.

You will need scissors, green decorative paper, Candy Apple Green Buttons, Ribbon or Ric Rac and Aleene’s Always Ready Fast Grab Glue.

Cut your shamrocks out free hand so they are all a little different. You can make a little pattern if that makes you more comfortable.
Glue them from the backs to your ribbon using the Fast Grab and let dry.
Flip over and add buttons with the Fast Grab.

Ta Da! It looks so fun on this wreath on the front door.

Cheers,

Laura

Button Up and Dye a Flower Towel

By Admin1 on July 18, 2014 in Home Decor

Cute right? You can buttons up this flower towel to dye for at your house to. The towel is super cute and really easy to make. It takes about 15 minutes of creating, but allow for a break in between dyeing and rinsing that is much longer, as in 6-8 hours.

First, dye a white 100% cotton hand towel with Tulip One Step Tie Dye like so. I put a glass jar down over the area that I wanted to stay clean for the pink dye to create the flower when I did the green and blue.

Then I added the pink.

Follow the process to set the dye and rinse the towel then stitch on the buttons and stitch a stem with buttons from my Laura Kelly collection and embroidery floss from Coats and Clark.

Ta Da!

It matches the bathroom decor I created for Z. Check out the shower curtain on my blog.

It used the same process and has buttons on it too. It just takes MUCH longer! I painted the canvases to match and that project is on my blog too, with buttons of course! Check out the flower canvas tutorial here!

Happy Creating,

Laura

DIY T-Shirt Pumpkin Decor

By Admin on October 11, 2013 in Halloween, Holidays

Last week we made autumn scarves out of t-shirts (that we stole from Daddy’s drawer) using Rit Dye and we had a bunch of leftover scraps. Not being able to bear throwing away such beautifully dyed fabric, I decided to stitch up a DIY pumpkin and see how it would turn out for Halloween decor. It took less than 15 minutes and I think it is quite adorable and will make for some fun decorating.

Easy To Make T-Shirt Pumpkin

I matched up the fabric and drew on the top the shape of a little pumpkin. Then I cut the shapes out at the same time so they would match up for stitching. I stitched around the outside and stuffed the guts with a grocery bag. I love to use recycled items when I am crafting. I stitched on a two button stem (using Laura Kelly Bold Brown buttons) which I think really puts the mini decor into the “cute as a button” category. Now I want to make about 5 more because they look like they are growing on the vines when I put them outdoors.

I also really like the way it looks outside on the fairy wall in the back yard. Maybe I will spray it with the stuff I use to waterproof my boots and leave it out to see how long it makes it in the weather. I think that a bunch of them around the fairy wall would be really fun and magical over the next few weeks.