Love is In the Air

via How About Orange

Love is in the air. Yes, Love sweet love and it is only February 10th. The countdown to creative goodness continues with hearts. A simple yet heartfelt tutorial from How About Orange. I think after reading her other tutorial on stiffening fabric I may have to run to my nearest store and purchase some fabric stiffener for some of the sweetest and newly inspired projects and then.....

 via Just Lilla

 Here is a simple and lovely lavender heart filled tutorial . So easy to do in the next few days for a quick and heartfelt project to give your sweet dears.

 Smile Monsters

 Oh, and my love drinks coffee every morning on the way to work. This would be perfect for him but, shh don't say a thing! & you know how smitten I am with burlap right now! Hm mm, maybe I'll be making one of these for myself. You can find her coffee sleeve tutorial right here! Don't worry I will be sending more love your way! I have a new recipe I tested out it is so easy and good I promise you'll love it!
What kind of lovely projects are you enjoying?

Autumn Table Decorations & Crafts

Factory Direct
Good Housekeeping
Kaboose
Wisconsin Forestry
Wisconsin Forestry

Today is a gloomy, grey & cold. I was looking for a bit of color inspiration & happened upon some colorful and nature loving table decorating and craft ideas. These ideas are more seasonal taking you right through Thanksgiving! That I love. I can even see changing some of the ideas and making them seasonal to Christmas. Oh, and this tutorial for carving is one you won't want to miss~ How easy and the end results so festive. Now I have my creative juices flowing and will be warming up the colors of my home. How about you? Do you enjoy crafting or decorating for the season? I would love to know~ * all links above take you to source & how to's

Halloween Paper Crafting

*Find your image, size and print it out on card stock paper~
Cut out your image & then glue stick to a backing of card stock or scrapbook paper
After previous steps are done: (cut out and glued together) punch a hole in the top for attaching ribbon or string later~
Place glue where you want your glitter and then shake glitter on it and over a piece of paper tap off excess~ *(Martha Stewart Glitters)
You can vary what parts you want to glitter or glitter the whole image, let dry & then lace in the ribbon or string~
Now your ready to hang on your child's bedroom door or where ever you would like to have a little Halloween decor~

With a sprinkle of glitter and magic~Hope you enjoyed this easy to do tutorial. You can even have the kids join in and do this depending on their age & from experience what kid doesn't love shaking out glitter~ Thanks for visiting today and let me know what crafty goodness you are creating. I would love to know~
*Free copyright images can be found in a lot of places I have a few on my side bar you can visit~ & quite a few more listed under resources on my art blog.