Personalized Candle

As most of you know, I LOVE PINTEREST! I was cruising around there the other day and came across how to make personalized candles here. I knew I had to try it for Mother's Day/Grandmother's day:)!

The fun thing about this candle is that the "bee" is my son's fingerprint and the pink part of the flowers are my daughter's!

Here's how we made it....

Supplies
Candle
Acrylic Paint
Markers
Single Layer of tissue paper
blow dryer or heat embossing gun
wax paper

1. Cut tissue paper a little smaller than the candle
2. Lay wax paper down and put tissue paper on top.
3. Create your artwork...if using the acrylic paint, make sure to stamp on something else before stamping on the tissue paper because we did not and we created big clumps that took a long time to dry and also tore because they stuck to the wax paper!Argh!
4. Allow your artwork to dry
5. Take the tissue paper and wrap it around the candle.
6. Take a new piece of wax paper and place it around the tissue paper and candle (acting as a smoothing agent for your tissue paper)
7. Hold the wax paper tight and use your heat embossing gun or blow dryer directly on the wax paper
8. You will start to see the tissue paper become clear
9. Once all the tissue paper is clear than you are done....you can smooth out the paper if it looks a little wrinkly.
10. BE CAREFUL BECAUSE IT DOES GET VERY HOT!

You are all done!
Enjoy!
Happy Mother's Day weekend to all you Lovely Mothers!

Smiles,

Jill

It's a Delight

Today I have a dessert that is super quick and easy! Over the weekend, we went to our good friends' house. Our task was to bring a healthy dessert. With 2 young children running around, the quicker the better these days! I saw the cover of Martha Stewart for June and she had a cake with strawberries on it, and so I remembered a family favorite summer dessert  Angel food cake, strawberries and cool whip.

So I sent my husband to the our favorite grocery store Martin's to get these items.  Well, while he was there, they had a cheesecake delight topping they were sampling...of course he had to try it! He said it was WAY better than our usual recipe so he had to buy it.

Here is the end result....

We bought pre-sliced strawberries (just to save on time) and crushed them.
Sliced the Angel Food Cake.
Added the Cheesecake Delight topping (our grocer Martin's had it as a special but I'm sure you can buy it at the store by the sour cream, cottage cheese, ricotta cheese, etc...)
Spread the crushed strawberries on top
Put the Angel Food Cake top back on
Spread the Cheesecake Delight Topping on the top
Added sliced strawberries!
There you have it!
Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Hope you come back to see me!

Smiles,

Jill



  

Sundays are Lovely #9 + Giveaway!!!

Hello, friends! I'm so happy to say that WE MADE OUR GOAL! There were 58 projects linked up! WHOO HOO!!!

Our winner of the Washi Tape and Cool dispenser is........

Jessica from Chick-N-Scrap!

Thank you so much, Jessica, for all the times you linked up! 

You helped us reach our goal!

You rock girl!

 Here is our new giveaway

    

Martha Stewart Tinsel Glitter and Paper Rolls

In LOVE with a light fixture?

I never knew I could be in love with a light fixture, but it seems as though I am! I can't stop staring at it!...probably not too good for my eyes. Well, I guess when it takes 5 years to decide on one, I appreciate it that much more!

Here she is....

We got the light fixture from West Elm 


and put the Edison light bulbs inside, which give the light fixture a little different feel.

I attempted to take a picture of it for you..... You can kind of see the zig zags in the light bulbs in this picture.
So, is it too Modern for you?

Have a super day!

SMiles,

Jill

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Sundays are Lovely Mother's Day Features

With Mother's Day just around the corner, I wanted to share some fabulous ideas, you could make, that were linked up to my link party, Sundays are Lovely.

Hani at the Craftionary 

Holly at Ribbons & Glue

Court at Court's Craft Corner

Jessica at Chick-n-Scrap

Jaihart

Aren't these so fun?! Thanks for linking up ladies!
Grab a feature button on the sidebar!

I'm happy to say that we made our goal of 50+ links! WHOOO HOOO! 

I can't believe it! 

Now I get to go shopping and find something for our next giveaway! 

YAY! I love shopping! 

You can still link up any projects for this month until the last day of the month 

and then we start over friends! 

Any special requests for the giveaway?

Have a LOVELY Sunday!

Smiles, 

Jill

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Lilly's Garden Party Invitation

My daughter just had her first birthday! It was so much fun! I wanted to share with you the invitation that I made. I uploaded a photo that I took to Shutterfly and made this card! It was so nice not to have to write out all the party details and plus it was quick and easy! Once the invitation arrived (which was super quick btw's), all I had to do was print out the address labels and stick them on the envelopes! I added Washi tape to the back of the envelopes, which was really fun! That's it!

I loved my daughter's first birthday party! It was my most favorite party I have ever thrown! I will be sharing all the party details soon! YAY! Can't wait!

Smiles,
Jill

5x7 Folded Card

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CWC Sweet Tooth Boxes Cartridge Showcase Instructions

Hello, everyone! I did a cartridge showcase over at Cooking With Cricut yesterday! The cartridge I showcased was Sweet Tooth Boxes...

I promised that I would give detailed instructions how to make each project. So, here they are.

Here is a cake box I made for my friend's birthday!

Recipe:

Jubilee for Enjoy Flag cut at 1.5

Cake box cut at 10.75

yellow part on the cake was embossed using Cuttlebug Swiss dots

The little decoration on top of the cake was just a 1 inch piece that I cut and then folded accordian style.

I used a glue dot to secure the candle. It didn't hold very well, so I would hot glue it if I had to do it over again.

To create the cake box I just followed the instructions via the Sweet Tooth Boxes handbook.

 Here is a ladybug treat container I made for my son's preschool teachers. 

Their classroom is called the ladybug room, so I used the small ice cream dish (9.5) and  

just added the ladybug head from Walk in My Garden and circles from Plantin Schoolbook.

Lastly, I have a treat house I made for my husband's secretary! 

This week at my husband's work they are honoring their secretaries!

I put a cake pop inside the house! Yum!

I cut this house out at 10 in and then just followed the instructions via the handbook.

This cartridge is so fun!

Do you have it?

If so what is your favorite box?

I would love to see your projects you've made with this cartridge!

Comment below with a link to your project and I'll come check it out:)

Thanks for taking the time to check out my 

Sweet Tooth Boxes showcase!

Smiles, 

Jill

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CWC Sweet Tooth Boxes Cartridge Showcase

Hello, everyone! I'm doing a cartridge showcase over at Cooking With Cricut today! The cartridge I'm showcasing is Sweet Tooth Boxes...

I would love for you to go check out the boxes I made here:)
I will have detailed instructions tomorrow on how to make each one!
I hope you head over and visit me!
It makes my day when my friends visit me on another blog:)!

Have a Super Day!

Smiles,

Jill

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Patches of Pink, Anything Baby

Hello everyone! Patches of Pink is having an anything baby link up! My mom, myself, and some friends actually had a baby shower for some friends not too long ago, you can check out all the details here. Today I'm going to share the activity that we did at the shower.

We made onesies at the baby shower! It was a BLAST! The baby shower was kind of like an open house...not regimented, so I was in the basement at the onesies station. People could come and go at the station as they pleased, which people really liked.  At the table we had all different colors of fabric paint, fabric markers, sharpie markers,  sponges,  and paint brushes.

The Sharpie tie dyed onesies were very fun! 

We learned that method from Martha Stewart. 

You can view a video here.

You can buy some onesies to do this project right here!:)

Thanks for stopping by and seeing me today!

I hope you come back!

Smiles, 

Jill

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Feed the birds

Hello everyone! I have a quick and fun project that you can do with your kids on a boring day!  As I've said before, my son LOVES birds! You may remember the spring activity we did here and the other one here.
I have another bird activity!

First we read this book:

It was very informative with all different types of birds!

Next, we gathered a plastic bag, pinecones, peanut butter, and birdseed....you may have done this as a child. I did this in my classroom before and the kids loved it!

We spread the peanut butter on the pinecone, put birdseed in a plastic baggie, and then put the pinecone in the plastic baggie and shook it!

My daughter was mesmerized by this process!

Lastly, we added a string to the top and hung it on a tree!

So fun! GREAT activity!

Smiles,

Jill

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Sundays are Lovely Feature

Look at Natt's SUPER cute card! 

I l.o.v.e. her use of the doily here!

Look at the glitter tape, too!

She has a ton of ideas on how to use glitter tape!

You can go check out more info on her card here.

Come and link your projects up to my giveaway and link party here!
We are 4 entries away from our goal ladies! We can do it!
So excited!

Hope your Sunday is Lovely!

Smiles,

Jill

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CWC Home Decor Blog Hop

Welcome to Paper Crafting World and Cooking With Cricut’s Home Décor Blog Hop!  Our Design Teams are so excited to bring you a two-day hop that focuses on projects for your home – that’s right no cards or scrapbook layouts in this hop!  You should have arrived here from visiting Melin at Cooking with Cricut.  If you’ve joined us in mid-Hop and would like to check out all the other fantastic projects head on over Melinda’s Paper Crafting World and start at the beginning.

Since Spring has Sprung, I wanted to share a fun and quick project you could whip up in two seconds for the outside of your house.

House numbers on a flower pot!

 Let's take a closer look...

I just used some brown vinyl on my flower pot! I used the Storybook Cricut Cartridge and cut the numbers out at 2.5!

Here is my front door area all put together to greet guests when they arrive

* a little side note..the "Welcome" on the door is from Uppercase Living...

but all the Cricut and Silhouette lovers could easily make a Welcome sign for the front door too! 

(I got the Welcome sign before I got my cricut...I know what did I do before my Cricut? ha!)

We hope you’ll link up your Home Décor project for a chance at winning one of our giveaways.  One winner will be chosen by random draw and three others will be selected by the Design Team.  Head on over to Cooking With Cricut for the guidelines and the link up. 

I have a giveaway going on! I would love for you to come enter in. You can do that here.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope that you visit again soon!  

Head on over and check out what Jamie at Scrap Queen has cooked up! 

Smiles,

Jill

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So fun!

I have some very exciting news to tell you...

2 of my cards are published in the May Cricut Magazine! 

I found out in November and I've been dying to tell you all! I want to thank you all for keeping me going! I love each and every email, comment, and pin! I have been an on and off blogger-crafter for the past 2 1/2 years, but most recently have really been able to give it my all! So thank you again for your continued "bloggy love"! :) You guys are the BEST!

So here we go.... my first card I created for my Mother in Law

 

The second card I created for my cousin....

The magazine is not out in stores yet, but come May you will be able to get it in JoAnn Fabric, Hobby Lobby, Michaels, etc... However the digital copy is available now for $6.95!  hahaha! I felt like a salesperson there for a second....I'm not getting paid for this, but I really just wanted you to know that there is a digital copy available because I didn't realize that until my super friend Holly from Ribbons and Glue..(go say hi to her and tell her I sent you!:) She's the best!) bought the digital copy.

There you have it my friends!

It's still so surreal!

Smiles,

Jill
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Picture Pillow

Just in case you missed my Guest Post at the Craftionary here it is....

                        Today I'm going to share with you a pillow I made for my mom for Easter, but I think that these would be super cute Mother's Day gifts! I took photos of my daughter outside our house....

I was so happy with the way these pictures turned out that I knew I had to do something special with them. I saw a tutorial on how to print on fabric using Freezer Paper here so I thought I'd give it a try.

You will need:
-Fabric
-sewing machine
-printer
-freezer paper (you can get this at your grocery store)
-Polyfill

1. First you will cut two pieces of fabric and a piece of freezer paper to 8 1/2 x 11 in.
2. Next you will iron the freezer paper to the fabric. The shiny side of the freezer paper will be down and you will be ironing the dull side. You won't need to iron that long. You can stop and check to see if the freezer paper is attached.
3. Once the paper is attached you will want to put the fabric and freezer paper in your printer so that you will print on the fabric. The freezer paper is just there so that your printer has something to grab onto...we're actually tricking our printers to think they're printing on paper! I know how sneaky!
4.Next you will make the pillow. I put the two right sides together and sewed around the outside, leaving about a 3 in. gap for me to be able to turn the pillow right sides out.
5. Next you will stuff your pillow will polyfill
6. You will sew your pillow shut.
7. Enjoy!
*This is a decorative pillow and not meant for playing with or using it to sleep on etc...*

Thank you so much for taking the time to check out my picture pillow! I hope to see you soon!

Smiles,

Jill
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Linking up
Lil Luna
I heart Naptime

Guest Post at Craftionary

Need a Mother's Day idea? 

I'm guest posting at The Craftionary today!
Come visit me and check out what I did with my baby girl's photo!

Smiles,

Jill

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