Happy Halloween Banner

It's a little late but I wanted to show off the Halloween banner I made this year. It's currently hung up in my craft room until I figure out a good way to store it till next year.

Here's the whole banner:

I made the banner using the Pretty Pennants, Flower Shop & Kate's ABCs cartridges.

Here's a close up of some letters:

I used a coat or two of extreme glitter Mod Podge to give it some sparkle.

A close up of the flower:

The flowers were a lot of work but I thought they turned out quite nice, obviously I used sparkly buttons for the center. Can you tell I like me some glitter... :)

I held the banner together by putting in black eyelets then tying them together with ribbon. I thought the eyelets might make it a bit more sturdy but I think it makes it looked rather nice too.

Now back to work making party favors for my soon to be sister-in-law's bridal shower! Those posts will come eventually... Lots of work but lots of fun!

Flower Explosion Box

A little fair warning; this one has a lot of pictures! I tried to keep the number of pictures down but there was a lot to this project! I made a Flower Explosion Box from my Mini Books Cricut cartridge. It took me a good couple of days to get done but I think it turned out pretty well and I think my mom will like it! I made this for my mom's birthday and I decided to make something for her because I know she appreciates all the work that goes into stuff like this and she has so many things that I like making her things with pictures of the kids, I can usually get tears from her with that kind of stuff too. Love you Mom!!!
Without further ado, here is my Flower Explosion Box!

The finished project:

The box opened:

The little Flower Explosion Box I put in the big one, but I'll go into detail on that one later:

The first layer of the big box:
Even if you're not a Twilight fan; you know you love it! ;)

The second layer of the big box:
My cute kids!

The third layer of the big box:

The bottom of the big box:

I chose the Twilight/Fairy theme because my mom loves Twilight & fairies! I admit, I also like them!

Here is the small box I put inside the big one:

Underneath the small box lid:

The key chain I put inside the small box:
I was going to make it a necklace but my mom isn't a necklace person so I decided to switch to the key chain, I think it turned out pretty cool. I'll go into more detail about how I did the key chain further down.

Small box opened:

First layer of the small box:

Second layer of the small box:

Third layer of the small box:

Bottom of the small box:

Total contents of the small box:

Total contents of the large box:

Here's what I used to make the key chain:

For the message in the bottle I just used a piece of brownish paper that I printed the message on and then burned the edges and ended up dipping in water to make it look like an old piece of parchment. I then put a little glitter in the bottle, of course!, then wrapped the paper around a toothpick then put it in the bottle and sealed it back up. I thought it turned out pretty cool!

How the paper originally looked versus my creation:

I added the jewels to the locket with mod podge and I added the pictures of those cute kids. :)

For fun, here are some pics of my boxes before I decorated them:

Big box:

Small box:

The contents of the small box before being decorated versus after being decorated:

Here's what I used to make the flower I put on top of the big box:

I made the butterfly on top of the flower with my Everyday Pop-Up Cards cartridge.

There you have it! My Flower Explosion Box! Sorry for so many pictures but a lot went into making it. I hope my mother likes it! We're going to dinner with her tomorrow and I'll give her the Flower Box and the card I made her!

Thanks for at looking at my latest creation!

Princess Mobile

I made this princess mobile for Zoey's princess party this year. I used "Once Upon A Princess" for all of it. It was so fun to make! I just love princess stuff! I'm planning on hanging it in Zoey's room when I get to fixing one of the princess eyes that fell off. :p