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!

Halloween Sign Post

What to do with the pile of scrap wood lying around? Every time there's an extra piece left over from some project (ie: finishing the basement) I instruct, yes instruct, my husband not to dare throw it our (ie: burn it in the wood stove).

I always say I'll need a piece of wood one of these days for something or another (ie: a project that gets pushed so far down my to do list that I vaguely even remember what it was I had in mind!)

But today is the day that pile get's a little lighter, well 2 pieces lighter - but at least it's a start!

I've thought about making a halloween sign post for a couple of years now. When I saw the perfect plastic sign at the Dollar Store for $1.25 I knew immediately how I would beef it up so that it wouldn't end up blown down the street or in a neighbours tree.

This is what I started with.

The halloween sign from the Dollar Store, a 2x4, a small square of plywood, and black spray paint.

I removed the plastic stick from the sign and adhered it to the plywood with liquid nails.

I put something heavy from the garage on top of it and left it overnight to make sure it stuck well.

Then I attached it to the post, my hubby put some thin strips of wood around the edge as a trim and I was good to go!

I added a little metallic gold craft paint & silver glitter craft paint in places and I hot glued my lovely fence post (gotta love the Martha Stewart fence post punch) to the top after I coated it with mod podge and sealent.

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Candy Corn Sign

Don't you just love decorating for fall & Halloween. The colors are just so warm and inviting!

So who loves candy corn? Or at least decorating with it?

Here is a candy corn sign I made with a scrap piece of 2x8, burlap and mod podge, pretty simple project.

I printed the pic, which I downloaded from someones site who was offering it as a free printable, but the site is down now, at least I'm not having much luck logging into it. If you happen to know where the pic originated please let me know so I can credit them.

So as I was saying....I printed the pic on white card stock and trimmed it to fit the wood, I attached it to the wood with Mod Podge.

I added couple of buttons and paper flowers to embellish it a little.

Imagine, Improvise & Invent

Sarah

Welcome to my blog!

Hello to all the readers I am hoping to have in the future!
I have been wanting to start a crafting blog for a couple of years now, I didn't think I'd have the time to upkeep a blog - I'm still not sure that I do!
I guess starting one is a good way to find out!
I hope to post tutorials on all the projects that I make, most of my inspiration comes from other peoples blogs - there are quite a few that I love to check weekly.
There are alot of ideas out there for every season & occasion and hopefully I can inspire some of you to create as well.


Here is a welcome sign that I made last night.

I made one of these signs last year as well, which I have hanging in my dining room.

These signs are really easy to make. I wish I had taken pics of the process.
The wood was a toll painted sign that I purchases at Goodwill, it had a funky christmas scene on it with the classic pinks, reds and powder blues...yuck!
I spray painted it black, distressed it with sandpaper and then lightly painted it with metallic gold craft paint.
I just printed the words in a font that I liked on a plain white piece of card stock and trimmed it to fit the shape of my wood. I roughed up the edges a bit with sandpaper.
Then I used mod podge to adhere the card stock to the wood and let dry. 
Once dry I put more mod podge over the top and let dry again.
I then watered down some dark brown craft paint and painted right over the top of my card stock, I let it dry for a few seconds and then wiped it down with a cloth - to remove more of the brown paint try using a damp cloth.
You can embellish however you like.
I made flowers out of scrapbook paper by cutting a 2 - 3 inch circle then cutting the circle into a spiral (like a spring or coil) and then wrapping the spiral in to a rosette starting with the outside of the spiral. I also cut leave shapes out of scrapbook paper as well.
I glued everything on with hot glue and then put another layer of mod podge on as well, even over the flowers to harden them.
Add buttons, twine whatever you like!


Imagine, Improvise & Invent!


Sarah