Organizing at 1:00 a.m.?!!

There I was, starting to organize my crafting supplies at 1:00 this morning. I found some buttons here, a letter there, some cute paper here and started putting it all together . . . and before I knew it . . . I had made this . . .

Unfortunately, I didn't get anything organized. Fortunately, I found a use for one of the 14 frames I bought ages ago on sale at Michaels.

Burlap

I saw this idea on another website and knew I had to try it, since normally burlap is not the most attractive thing. However, in this case, it turned out to make one darn cute decoration!

It is just strips of burlap, scrunched onto a metal hanger that I shaped into a heart! You are saying too easy right? Well, that's because it is EASY!! NOTE TO SELF: never work with burlap wearing black. . . it gets everywhere!

Ditching it!

I am ditching the "private" blog thing. I'm not going to be posting anything that I don't want people to see, so everyone, enjoy!

Picture Board

I know, I know. My blog is titled "The Smith Diaries" and I have posted nothing about our family yet. I will when we do something exciting that I think the blogging world would be interested in. But in the meantime, you will have to suffer and see my crafts. Here is a really neat picture board I made. I forced my sister in law to make one too. She claims she is not a crafter and the thought of it stresses her out, but I could clearly see she is in denial and I have vowed to make a crafter out of her.

I bought a sheet of aluminum and attached it to a board. Then cut some moulding, attached that to the board to make a frame and painted it black. I made all the magnets myself by making or buying cute little things and putting little round magnets on the back. Attach pictures and you are done!

Here are some more Valentine's Day decorations that I made. The blocks below have different paper on each side with different embellishments on them, so I can turn them for different looks.




The frame below is an idea that I got from a talented friend for Christmas, and I adjusted it for Valentine's Day. It consists of pieces of different paper cut out and attached together, then just stickers and stuff for embellishments.


Very simple blocks, used my favorite mod podge to stick the paper on, drew and cut out the letters by hand, attached them with adhesive. Added little rinestones for that "sparkle".

Finally

I did it! I actually made my deadline for having my blog officially up and running. Being my first entry, I am still new to this, so please ignore the many imperfections. Many of you know I love being crafty, or at least I try to be :) So, what better way to start my blogging debut, then with a Valentine's Day craft I worked on today. It is super easy and very inexpensive!

I bought the frames at Michaels for $1 each. The hearts came in a package of three for $1.99 and I already had the paper and the ribbon. See? SUPER inexpensive! Jeremy sprayed the frames for me, because they were a hideous shiny gold. I cut out the plastic like cover in the middle of the frame, and replaced it with cute paper. Tied ribbon to the heart and attached it to the frame ! Voila! A cute Valentine's Day decoration.