Shutter Display - Bright New Look & Awesome Sign

I love shutters, I just wish I could come up with 

something creative to do with them.

For the longest time, this is how 

they looked in my craft room.

I love the yellow, I love the lanterns

but something just isn't flowing.

Perhaps it's those ugly orang-ish candles

in the lanterns for a start!

I gave the shutters a fresh & brighter coat

of yellow paint.  I also cut out a little

banner from scrapbooking paper and glued

it to some bakers twine and draped it across the shutters.

And I painted those aweful candles.

They were just for display anyways, I wasn't going to 

spark them up so I slathered it on, nice and 

thick - wax is hard to cover with paint!

And now for the " AWESOME " Sign!

I started with a ceramic floor tile, 

painted it a pastel turquoise.

The best part is that I bought a Silhouette!

Hooray for me!

So I got to work and cut out the words on cardstock,

and placed it on the now dry tile

I painted the first 4 words grey.

And the AWESOME a variety of pretty pastels.

Now here's the new look!

Bright & Beautiful

I may give this to my super daughter

for her room because

she is  AWESOME !

Make sure you are all  AWESOME  today, 

and everyday!

SUMMER banner

A SUMMER BANNER

I'm still keeping with the 

RED

YELLOW 

&

TURQUOISE

colors when adding some

summer cheer to my kitchen.

But the weather here is nothing

like summer...it's chilly & foggy

...and oh so depressing.

A little bit of sunshine inside

makes everything better!

I used everything from my

stash to make this banner.

I didn't purchase a thing!

Aren't those little wooden

lady bugs 
so cute!

I used tons of buttons and

paper flowers to jazz it up a bit.

I love the colored clothes pins, 

they could be a bit smaller but

I had these on hand.

The more I look at it, the more

I love it!

Now I have to find a home

for the banner in my kitchen...

that shouldn't be too hard!

Can you believe it?

As I type my husband is in the

den lighting the wood stove!!

Yes, it's that cold outside.

I guess it's a cozy night in for us!

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St. Patrick's Shelf

So I finally have my shelf decorated for 

St. Patrick's Day.

It's nothing fancy, pretty simple...

I spied a couple of awesome printables that I included in my decorating.

The Subway Art can be found here at Sweet Anne Designs and the Lucky printable can be found here at A Step in the Journey. Thanks gals for creating these, they rock!

I printed this banner last year, before I was 

blogging so I didn't 

keep note of where I got it.

The little birdie was one I purchased last 

year on clearance at 

Michaels for $1.50 and I 

glued it to a glass candle stick I picked 

up at the thrift store.

The framed shamrocks is a DIY I did 

last week, check it out here.

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Easy Shamrock Banner

Since I should have started decorating at least a week ago for 

St. Patrick's Day, 

I was in search of an easy banner to put across my dining room window.

A pack of shamrock doilies (for 50% off!) and some fishing line did the trick.

You can't get any easier than this.

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Valentines at Alderberry Hill

The Valentine decorations are coming together. I'm adding in things here and there as I make them.

Here are a few pics from around the house.

I don't have a mantle, and oh how I long for one.

But, I do have a shelf!!

Here is the link to the first printable & the middle printable. The Home Sweet Home is not one of my printables, I forget where I got this last year.

Closeups of the banner made with scrapbooking paper & rubber stamps.

Don't forget to enter my Ramsign Giveaway here!

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Paper Halloween Banner

I am still on a banner kick!
But this time I created a Halloween banner out of scrapbook paper and cupcake liners.
I really love the simple traditional black and orange together, you can't go wrong. 

I trimmed my cupcake liners to a small, medium, large layout and distressed them on the edges, just a little, with black ink. I also distressed the edges of the white circle that I cut from cardstock. I cut 1" strips from coordinating scrapbook paper to decorate the top edge and then hole punched each triangle and fed the ribbon through.


I used hot glue to attach each cupcake liner and cardstock circle. My chipboard letters & embellishments were sticky back.

It's amazing what you can make from a few sheets of paper and cupcake liners!

I really want to start decorating for Fall & Halloween but I think I'd be the only one on the block doing so!

Imagine, Improvise & Invent


Sarah