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Tutorial: Beaded Butterflies

Tutorial: Beaded Butterflies:
By DCWV Diary

Today I want to share a tutorial from the DCWV & Blue Moon Beads CHA booth. Remember this gorgeous tree covered in butterflies, beads & jewelry? There were some gorgeous beaded butterflies mixed into the tree. I think these would be so fun and easy to make and mix into your spring & Easter decorations. You could use any color paper and really customize them to your space.

 Supplies & Tools:

• DCWV Brights Cardstock Stack
• DWC Butterfly Template
• Blue Moon Beads – Glass Beads
• Papercrafting adhesive
• Craft wire
• Bead Pliers
• Scissors
• Pencil

Directions:
1. Print and cut out the Butterfly template. Trace desired sizes onto your chosen shades of cardstock and cut them out. *Note: For every small butterfly, you will need a large one (and vise versa).
2. Adhere the body of one small butterfly onto the body of a larger one; repeat until you’ve glued your butterflies together.
3. String beads onto your craft wire and attach them to the body of the butterfly. Repeat until finished.
I know the template doesn’t include the intricate butterfly piece on the top layer. You could use a electronic cutting machine for that, use your Xacto knife to make your own pattern or simply just use a full wing piece on top. Or use a butterfly punch. It is still a beautiful, creative element!

Soda Can Flower

 

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Soda Can Butterfly Pin

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Some Easter Favs from my Pinterest Board

A Pretty Life in the suburbs has the most GORGEOUS garland I have ever seen:

She’s Kinda Crafty did this amazing egg topiary:

The “Boutique” Girls did these fabulous BIG egg baskets:


Cherished Handmade Treasures made this perfect spring can decor for the front door.



I hope you enjoyed my round up today and that it inspires you to finish those Easter projects. Now, go show these ladies some love. They deserve it!
What last minute Easter projects are you working on?

Uncommon Events: Party Perfect Tissue Poms

Uncommon Events: Party Perfect Tissue Poms:

I really enjoy styling parties.

No, seriously... I love it!    I love it so much that if you were a friend of mine and told me you were throwing a party for your child, I would lie in bed that night planning your entire party design, whether you asked me to or not! {Most of the time I try really hard to keep it to myself, so you wouldn't think I was controlling... or crazy } I would even come up with a plan for you to have the most fabulous party and spend a fraction of what you thought you had to spend on decorations! 

How is that you ask?  Tissue Pom Poms!    

They make a bold statement and are super cheap! 

This is where my obsession with tissue pom poms began... good old Martha!  Her tutorial is great for the basics!  All you need is tissue, floral wire, and a good pair of scissors and you are in business! 

There are so many varieties of tissue poms out there, most of them only require a little different cut before you fan out your tissue pom.

 Here are three variations that I use most often:

I admit that I am a little obsessed with parties, but isn't it amazing what an impact a few dollars and some tissue paper can make?  

Minie Mouse Party

Back to School Ice Cream Social

Butterfly Breakfast

If you are a friend of mine, please don't be afraid to tell me that your child is going to have a birthday party!  I promise not to bombard you with all of my elaborate plans... unless you ask! 

Have a great end to your week! 

Your lunatic friend....

*Trish

   

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Making Flowers with Fabric & Burlap (Tutorial) | Craftionary



Making Flowers with Fabric & Burlap (Tutorial) | Craftionary

Beautiful Handmade Flower Wreath

Get Growing: Happy Tuesday!  Today is Pippin's birthday so Happy Birthday to my Dachshund Pippin!!!!  I will dedicate today's challenge to him.  Over at Krafty Girls we are having a new challenge.  The challenge is to create a scrapbook page, card, 3D item, or home decor item using a handmade flower.  Let me tell you, my project definitely has a handmade flower, try close to 200 handmade flowers.

I have been wanting to create a wreath with rolled roses since November.  I had all the supplies, but never got around to doing it.  This challenge was the perfect excuse to get this project complete.  It took me about a week to complete this wreath from start to finish.  There are close to 200 rolled roses on this wreath, all handmade by yours truly.

Here's a close up of the roses.  I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to create the roses.  I also used my Image to print my own pattern paper.  I knew that I would need tons of sheets, it took about twenty 12x12 sheets of paper to complete this wreath and I was able to use all the same pattern paper thanks to my Imagine.

I had a lot of fun creating this project, but my finger tips need a break from pushing in all of those stick pins to hold the flowers down.  I can't wait to see what you all come up with.  So make sure to head on over to Krafty Girls for some more flower inspiration.  Also, if you're interested, there is a video on how I made these rolled roses at the end of this post.

Challenges
Paper Playtime: Die Cuts with Flowers
Whimsy Stamps: No Sentiment
All Sorts: Say it with Flowers

DIY - Update your laundry room with Beadboard.

DIY - Update your laundry room with Beadboard.:

Hello Craft-o-maniac fans!  I'm Nicole from Thrifty Decorating and I'm so excited to be sharing my first project as Jen's DIY/Decorator contributor!

I am excited to share my ideas about how to make big changes to your home with very little money and time!

The easiest way to make a change in a room is through paint color and what is better than FREE paint!

If you're like me, then you have gallons of half-used paint cans sitting somewhere in your garage.  One way that I can do a project for little or no money is to reuse paint from those cans or SWAP PAINT with a friend!

The mustard yellow that was on your kitchen walls 3 years ago may be exactly what a friend has been wanting to put in her half bath!

For this laundry room project, I found about 1/3 a gallon of paint leftover from my kitchen makeover.

Here are some "before" pictures of my laundry room....the color was called latte, but it reminded me of sitting inside a cup of lukewarm hot cocoa.....but it was leftover and free, so I used it!

You can see white spots where I used to have wire shelving....I ran out of paint and wasn't able to touch up those spots when we added built-in shelving a couple of year ago....those spots drove me crazy!

So here's the reveal.....all that this makeover involved was leftover paint, one roll of beadboard wallpaper, and some foam chair rail and trim!

I love the response of my one son....he walks into the laundry room, turns around and says, "Did we get new lights in here??"  Uhm...no......did you miss the other changes??

My total cost was $30.00!

 Beadboard wallpaper:  $15.00 available at Lowe's 

Brushes and rollers: $5.00 

1 piece of foam chair rail:  $7.00 at Carter Lumber

1 piece of foam trim:  $3.00 at Carter Lumber

Wood shelf: FREE!  Wood just sitting around

Everything else:  FREE!  I just shopped my house for the blue mason jars and

rustic key holder.

And because we all love before and after shots...

Truly...you are able to make BIG changes to your home for very little money!

LOVE THE BEAD BOARD NICOLE. The after is gorgeous. WELL DONE MY FRIEND. 

Make sure to visit  Nicole at Thrifty Decorating. I am so thrilled to have her as one of my monthly Contributors.

 

TO DIE for thin mint brownies

TO DIE for thin mint brownies:

Since St. Patty’s Day is just around the corner I thought I’d share one of my all time favorite desserts. TO DIE FOR thin mint brownies. These are a chocolate lovers favorite! Seriously you gotta try these mint brownies. They’re perfect for a get together because you DO NOT want the whole pan sitting around. Trust me!

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Don’t you just want to take a bite?! ;)

Thin mint girl scout cookies mixed in these mint brownies were the PERFECT addition!

These little hands just couldn’t resist.

Either could these ones. ;)

So you ready for the recipe now?!  ;)
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