Easter 2013

 

 

Easter Crafting

 

 

It's been a very busy week getting everything ready for the long weekend.

 

I have brought far too many eggs and now i have to make lots of goody bags for them to put them in.

 

Lots of fun though!

 

 

M & M Easter tubes

 

 

I used the Stampin Up! goody bags and filled them with the Easter M & M's.

 

The stamp was a "cheapy" from the bargain bins at Michaels.



 

 

 

 

 

Bunny Jelly Bean bags

 

 

I made my own template and cut out two heads from paper, sewing them on my machine. Add a few jelly beans and voila! Something for little kids (or big ones) and perfect if you don't want to overdose on chocolate!!

 

 

 

 

Waffle Cone Carrots

 

Use some cone shaped cello bags and a waffle cone. Fill with a mixture of eggs and jelly beans, add top with green shredded paper and finish with ribbon.

 

Looks a bit like a carrot and a neat gift for Easter.

 

We made these for the teachers at school.

 

 

 

 

 

Strawberry carrots.

 

 

 

Talk about easy. Melt some orange candy buttons and dip in the strawberries. pipe some more orange candy over them and you have some little carrots!

 

 

 

Cupcakes for the Easter Party

 

 

Baked 2 dozen little cupcakes and one dozen large ones. Used my special Wilton piping nozzle and some chicks and bunnies I found at Walmart. The kids loved them and I have a few left over for tomorrow to take on our picnic.

 

 

 

 

Eggs for my table

 

I found the wooden eggs at Joanns and painted them. Used my Martha Stewart score board to make the rosettes. Wooden cotton reels and lolly pop sticks with a bit of help for my glue gun and now I have some eggy tu-tu's for my table.

 

 

 

 



Happy Easter!



Planner Challenge

 

 

Stampin Up! Planner Challenge

 

 

 

Jovita my Stampin Up! demonstrator provided everyone with a plain 2013 planner and asked us all to decorate and enter a "Decorate the Planner" competition.

 

Today is the day and of course I left mine to the last minute.

 

Here it is. Made with all things Stampin Up! and my sewing machine.

 

 

 

Front Cover

 

 

Close-up Front cover

 

Details, details

Inside Front

 

 



Rear Inside

 

 

 



 

Back cover

 

 

 

Back cover close-up

 



A Birthday Party

It was a busy day on Sunday...

 

 

 

Not only was it St. Patricks Day, but we had a birthday Party to go to.

 

I made a banner for Zac, who was 5.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you will see we had a visit from the Houston Fire Dept.

 

 

 

 

Zac wasn't the only one who had fun!!

 

 

 

 

 



Happy St. Patrick's Day

Luck O' The Irish

 

Well with a name like Kelly and being a red head, I'm sure there has to be just a little bit of Irish in me... doesn't there?

 

 

 

I found all these ideas from scouting about on Pintrest.

 

I loved them all so much I had to have a go myself.

 

The Hershey's Shamrocks were the fiddliest but really not that hard and lots of fun to make as well as eat.

 

I made the girls their own "Pots of Gold". The raindow jelly Beans with a few gold coins at the bottom were eay peasy. I suggest small jars if you can find them, otherwise it can get a little expensive.

 

 

Lastly the "Pretzel Shamrocks". Made with a drop of chocolate and a mint

 M & M.

 

I made a whole heap of these today as we are off out to a party and also a few to take into school tomroow.

 

 

Happy St. Patricks Day!

 



February Challenge

Dawn's grab pack

 

This month was set by Dawn. We had a pack of supplies and it was up to us all to make what we could with it.

 

I used the card mostly but with the notebook I was able to use the ribbon and the patterened paper in the pack.

 

I have to say, I really struggled to think what I was going to do, but when I decided to put the "Tea Party Pack's" together I was quite pleased how they turned out.

 

Each pack contained: 4 cupcake toppers, 4 teabag sachets, 4 place cards, 4 napkin rings, crochet pot stand, 4 napkins, mini party banner and a notebook.

 

 

Mums party pack.

 

Dawn's Party Pack

 



 

Notebooks

 

The second part of the challenge now falls onto their heads. You must use the party supplies and have a party. I want to see the pictures!

 

 

Thanks Dawn, lots of fun making this... bring on March and my choice.

 



Stampin Up! Party

Combining the weekly craft group with a Stampin Up! Party

 

The expat group I belong to meet once a week for craft. I decided to hold a Stampin Up! party when it was my turn to host.

 

Here are few of the pictures that I took before everyone arrived.

 

I think there was around 16 of us and Jovita, my Stampin Up! demonstrator worked so hard to put together two great cards for us all to make.

 

 

 

 

I made a rosette on a stick for everyone to take home.

The wallets on each place setting contained our card projects and there was a little tube of jelly beans for everyone too!

 



 

I painted and decorated the little bird houses. These came from Michaels.

 

I had to make another banner! Any excuse.

Here is one of the cards everyone made and also my little table decorations on sticks. Again I painted these and used tin cans filled with rice to hold them in place.

 

 



Here is the other card we made.

 

 

 

Finally a few cupcakes and butterfly cakes to finish off the day!



Valentine's Day - Yummy! Yummy!

 

 

 

These were the girl's efforts at decorating the cupcakes I made for Valentine's Day. I did the icing but they did the rest. They tasted pretty good too. I Baked 24 and Chris took half of them to work. Not sure if he wanted too, but the ladies at worked liked them!

Notice Boards

Getting Organised... well trying too!

 

 

Having spent far too much time on Pintrest, I saw lots of lovely notice boards that I was very inspired to try and replicate. As I end up making most of the things I do, for other people I knew the girls would love them for their rooms.

 

I made them from 3' x 2' pieces of ply-wood, that Chris got for me from the DIY store. I then used a double layer of polyester batting and my "Power Shot" staple gun. The rest of my supplies came from Joanns Fabric store.

 

Laying out the ribbon is probably the trickiest part of this as you need to make sure your diamonds are reasonably equal, at least to the eye. Also remember to weave the ribbon, "over and under' to get the right effect.

 

I also chose to use black hesian to cover the back and hide any uglies, although I have to say if you measure and cut carefully, it shouldn't be too messy on the back.

 

 

 

Kate's "Little Kitty's"

Emma's "Cupcakes"

 



 

My "Flowers"