Decorate To Celebrate - "LOVE" Blocks

Happy Wednesday!!!

Welcome to another challenge over at Decorate To Celebrate!

How is your first week of February going?

Getting ready for Valentine's Day?!?!

I pulled out my decorations the other day and

was super excited to add this year's project!

I made some more decorative blocks.

LOVE these tiny decor pieces,

I have made several in the past for different holidays :)

I painted the blocks with a dark pink acrylic paint

then went over them again with a watered down white acrylic paint.

The paper is from My Mind's Eye and I used

Mod Podge to adhere it.

The letters are cut from some black cardstock

and they are from Cricut Classic Font.

The heart is from George and I used Wink of Stella

to add some shine to it.

I embellished the blocks with pearls from Recollections,

twine from American Crafts, and flowers from Studio G.

I really "love" how this turned out :)

I hope that you will join us over at Decorate to Celebrate for

another "Anything Goes" challenge!

Decorate To Celebrate Challenge #85 Anything Goes

Yay for Wednesday!!!

Half way through the week, right?!?!

Today over at Decorate To Celebrate

it is our 2nd "Anything Goes" challenge

but our 85th challenge overall!

For my project, I decided to create

a Halloween Home Decor "BOO" Banner:

I used Cricut Classic Font Cartridge for the letters

and cut them at 11 1/2" out of some chipboard.

I then cut the letters out of some fun Halloween paper

to cover the chipboard.

I just used my ATG gun to adhere them together.

I inked up all the edges with Slate Ink from

Close To My Heart.

I then used TBB&M2 for the bats, Designer's Calendar

for the spider, and Wrap It Up for the pumpkin.

I adhered the bats and spider with glue dots

and the pumpkin is on an Action Wobble.

I ran some purple tulle behind the letters

and tied some fun gold ric-rac ribbon around the ends.

Here is a closer pic...

I hope that you will join us over at Decorate To Celebrate

and remember...

Anything Goes!!!

Thanks for checkin' in!!!

School Days

I am SOOOO excited that my son is starting Preschool this year, I am sure I am more excited than he is.  He will be 5 in December, and it has been a LONG 4 1/2 years with him home!  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my little guy, but he has been a handful from Day 1.  I am also excited that I can start decorating for Back To School in my house, where all the other years, it seemed silly because I didn't have any kids in school.  So here is my first "School Days" home decor project.  I really like how it turned out! I used Stretch Your Imagination for the bus and Cricut Classic Font for the letters.  The wood plaque/base was from Wal-Mart for $1 and I painted it with black acrylic paint.  I used Elmer's Paper Craft Glue to adhere my yellow cardstock mat and DCWV Grade School pattern paper down. The letters were just put together with a Zig Glue Pen, the paper for the letters was also from DCWV Grade School pack.  I used some foam tape to pop up the bus to give a more 3-D look.  I am happy with how it turned out!  I will be entering this project in a few challenges this week; Craftin' Desert Divas (Back To School), BBTB2 (School Bus), Paper Playtime (Use Lots of Yellow).