My Dollar Store Wall Art

The wonderful crafts that can be found on Pinterest, ohhhhh they make me heart happy.   This is one of the first crafts I did for my home using Pinterest as my inspiration.

The supplies:

                                                          

$1.00 

$1.00 

$1.00 x 2 

$1.00 x 2 bunches

All my supplies cost me a total of $6.00 and I couldn't be happier with the end result.

The process was super easy.

I painted the white canvas black. While the paint was drying, I removed the stems from all the flowers. Once I was confident the paint was dry, I pushed the flower end through the canvas.  I didn't measure, I just filled the space up as I felt it would look good.  Once I was happy with the fullness and placement of the petals, I started painting the flowers.  The painting of the flowers as a bit more of a piddly task than I realized.  It was easy to miss spots on the flowers, but all in all a very quick, easy and extremely inexpensive wall art piece.

The back of my house is a wall of 3 windows. There is a space of about 12" - 18" (can't remember now) between the windows.  I had been looking high and low for art that would work there. I even spent $50.00 on this 3 piece art set, but it looked silly ~ huge waste of money, too.  I am ashamed to say, that $50.00 purchase is tucked away in a closet, never used and just taking up space.  

Finished Product 

I do believe this is my cheapest DIY project that I've created for my home.  I just wish I had found it before wasting that $50.00.  Lesson learned though.  Now I look for DIY first and shop later.   Nothing lost if a lesson is learned. 

Until next time, 

~Tammy  

Pink Ribbons and Purple Pretty Diaper Cakes

My most recent craft would be a pink and purple themed diaper cake.

Started out with a generalized idea of what I was hoping to accomplish and started stock piling supplies.

Styrofoam C

I found this cute letter "C" at Walmart for $4.00.  Pretty good price and it would make a really cute adornment for the front of the diaper cake.

Oh so pretty!

I love the colour combination of pinks and purples. It is just so girly and this diaper cake was being created for an adorable baby girl, so of course I was excited to work with that colour combo. 

What does the Fox say?

The finished product.  This was after quite a few alterations.  I was finally happy with the look once I added the bunches of pink curly ribbon. 

Small single layer

This simple single layer (made 2 of these) was on either side of the pink fox diaper cake. 

This was only my second attempt at making a diaper cake.  I learned a lot from the first one to the second attempt.

Lessons learned:

Take the time and spend the money to get proper cake plates. Cutting a cardboard box, and the box being visible was not easy for my OCD mind.  5 cake plates at Walmart were a mere $4.97 and it was money well spent. 

Each individual diaper was wrapped with a small elastic. The first cake I did, I left the elastics on the diapers and covered them with ribbon.  Wrap the ribbon around the middle and then remove all the mini elastics. The diapers look fuller and there is less worry about the elastic being seen under the wrap around ribbon. 

Now I'm off to see if I can find any more friends in need of diaper cakes.

Until next time, 

~Tammy 

Welcome

Welcome to my little corner of the internet.

I am a crafter wannabe.  I wannabe more of a crafter.

I will be posting some of my crafts.  I've been keeping pictures over the years of stuff I've created.  Some are great. Some not so.