Car Hangers

Need something cute and fashionable to hang from your rear view mirror?  Want to make something for you and your bestie so you can match?  How about these adorable hangers!  You can make them as the first letter of your name or any wood shape you like!  Here's how you do it:

Supplies:
1. Wood letter or shape
2. Piece of scrapbook paper
3. Pencil and scissors or exacto knife
4. Modge podge and brush
5. Embellishments (like stick on pearls, beads, jewels or flowers)
6. Glue gun
7. Ribbon or string
8. Paint

How you make it:
1. Paint the back of the letter and the sides with the color of your choice.
2. Trace the letter on to the scrapbook paper you want on the letter (make sure you trace the correct side!) and cut it out with scissors
*if that's too much work, put the paper on the letter and trace/cut it out with an exacto knife.
3. Paint a layer of modge podge on the front of the letter and lay your cut out scrapbook paper on it.
4. Stick on any embellishments to the letter now so you can modge podge over it (unless you're doing jewels, wait till after).
5. Modge podge over the letter pressing outward so you can eliminate bubbles.  You can put several coats on the letter now so the paper will be secured to the wood.
6. Cut two even pieces of ribbon about 3/4 of a foot each, glue them to the back of the letter apart from each other toward the top and then tie the ends together in a bow so the letter can now hang!
7. Hang from your rear view mirror for a classy, polished look!

Family Tree/ Cute Cork board

Ok so big little is in 2 days and you're stressin about making a family tree but you're out of ideas?  Well I have your solution.
Or maybe you want to make a cute family tree for your grandmothers 70th birthday.
Or maybe you just really like trees!

Well here's a cute, easy idea that can help you solve any of those wishes!  It's a cork board with a tree painted on it, outlined in yarn.  Cute right?  Here's how you pull this off....

Whatcha need:
1. Cork board
2. Paint and paintbrushes
3. Yarn
4. Wood pieces
5. Markers
6. Flower embellishments
7. Glue gun with glue sticks
8.  Scissors
8 1/2. Patience
*Optional*
9. Tacs
10. Screws
11. Jewels

Here's how you make it!

1. Paint a tree coming off the right side, so essentially you're doing only half a tree.  If you're not a savvy artist, trees can be really easy: just start with the trunk then branch out to two branches then branch those two into two more so now you have 4 and then so on.  Make them go in slightly different ways for some variety!
2. Now, once that glue gun has heated up, unwind your yarn a little bit and glue the yarn around all the edges of the tree.  This is where you'll use your patience.  Start at the bottom of the tree and work you way up doing small sections at a time.  Go ahead and keep the yard going around all the branches that are cut off by the edge of the board.  You should have one string going from start to finish of the tree and then you can out lines pieces that are secluded between branches.
3. Then, take those cute flowers you have (I like to cut flowers off the big bundles that I buy at hobby lobby, or they also have little containers of flowers in the "spare parts" brand section) and glue a few of them to the tree.
4. Now paint small wood pieces (they have a bag of small wood rectangles in the wood section of hobby lobby) and write the names of your family members on them with marker once they are dry.  Glue these pieces to the tree in generation order (I started with the oldest at the bottom).
*Optional*
5. Glue an assortment of jewels to a few tacks for an added, functional touch to the board and stick them in the corner.
6. Since it's a cork board you can buy some screw in hooks and screw them in to the bottom of the cork board if it's a board that isn't lined with wood!  That way you can hang necklaces, keys or memorabilia on the bottom of your creation!

Now step back and look at this wonderful, one-of-a-kind, family tree you've just made.  Now let's just hope Crazy Aunt Susie doesn't notice you kicked her off the family branch.

Simple Stationary

Need something cute, cheap and easy to give a friend for their birthday or your mom for mothers day?  Here's some adorable stationary and the steps to making it!

Supplies:
1. Paint and paintbrushes
2. Card stock or plain cards
3. Rubber stamps
4. Markers
5. Ribbon (for gift wrapping)

How do I do it?
1. Paint on the rubber stamp that you have chosen and stamp it on the front of the card.
2. Alternate how you stamp and if you want you can choose multiple stamps in different colors.  I like to choose a design (like a flower) and a word (like love, hope or peace) and pair them together.
3.  Let the cards dry and then add some detail with a marker that compliments the colors you've stamped with.  I like to add dots, zig zags or tiny flowers.
4. Stack the cards together and wrap with a ribbon like a present and you're all set.

These are perfect for gift giving because they're simple, usable and something unique that was hand crafted!  Now go get your creative juices flowing and create some cute stationary!