Personalized Wedding Gift Idea

Back in November a friend was getting married and I wanted to make a personalized gift for her and her new hubby. They are a rather young couple so I thought a set of beer mugs would be clever. I used my previous ideas (here and here) from teacher appreciation gifts and applied it to this one!

Went to the Dollar Tree (my personal fave!) and bought 3 beer mugs. I like to have one extra in case of an "oops!". Used my Cricut machine to cut out a Mr. and Mrs. label out of vinyl for the glasses. I use the sticky stuff to cover drawer bottoms and cupboards, it is much cheaper than the stuff for craft projects. Sorry forgot to take a pic of that step!

After sticking the vinyl on the glasses had to curve up the plastic so the etching stuff didn't drip down the side of the glass. Watch this step carefully because the cream does drip and will ruin the project if it gets on the other parts of the glass.

Both glasses turned out pretty nice. The new Mr and Mrs Yoko loved them!!



Very cute personalized wedding gift!

Thanks for looking.
Cathy

Shell Mirror

After our beach vacation this summer, my daughter had her usual bag of shells that she collected. The shell collecting is an annual event so I have to come up with a new craft for her each year! This year I found an old zebra print mirror that I thought would look nice painted and embellished with shells. This is the original mirror! YUCK!! Can't remember where I had this in the house, but I'm definitely embarrassed by this!!!

My original thought was to bring back a bag of sand and Mod Podge it to the mirror, then hot glue the shells on top. However, after the earthquake hit and Irene coming through I totally forgot to fill up a bag - bummer. Had to go with Plan B!

First I painted over the zebra print - YEA! Picked a sand-ish color.

This is an up close picture of the color, the first one seemed a little washed out.

Finally we added the shells and some tulle to hang it with. Not too bad, I like it! Next we are going to try to make a ceiling fan pull with some of the left overs. Not sure how to do it, but it will be a trial and error process.

Thanks for looking,

Have a great day

Cathy

Embellished Denim Bag

Buttons are my favorite embellishment!! A couple months ago, I found this denim bag at Michaels for about $2.00, it was a package of 2 for $4.00. It was just plain and screaming to me to make it more interesting. I thought and thought, them it hit me - OUCH!!! Add some pretty buttons to it! So I dug out me buttons and first hot glued each one on then stitched each one for added security.
I think it turned out pretty nice.



This is the other side, cute, cute, cute!!


Thanks for looking!