Fall decorating idea with free printables

Fall is my favorite season and is just around the corner. I am ready to welcome Fall with this wooden sign. I love the simplicity of this sign and seeing all the autumn colors make me smile.

These pictures can be displayed so many different ways. Stick them in a frame, make a door sign, or make a wooden panel for your porch like I did. The good news is each picture can be downloaded individually and can be used any way you would like. 

Here are the details on how I put together the wooden sign panel

I first cut my panel down so each square is 8 x 8. 

Next you download what picture you would like to use.

 Just click on each image below, and then right-click and save. 

Open it in a program to re-size it to what you want it to be, and then print. 

Cut it out and use Mod Podge to glue it onto the panel. 

I love cute and simple decorations and hope you like it just as much as I do. 

Mini photo booth props

I did this post a few years ago and let me tell you, this is still a favorite activity at our house. I didn't realize how entertaining this activity would be. This idea originally came from Get Creative Juice and was called Magnetic me but in our house it is known as mini photo booth.

Both of my boys play with it all the time and it was time to update these mini photo booths. My youngest son didn't have one of his own, my oldest son grew up and his picture was outdated, and I wanted to add more props to give them some variety.

So I updated the covers

Added more mini photo props and compiled all of them into one document.
AND YES THIS WILL BE ALL AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD!

To get the a full tutorial on how to make these, visit Get Creative Juice tutorial here.

Click here to open the mini photo booth props document.

For the covers, you can right click and save. 

You can add text in a program of your choice 

Warning: There may be explosions of laughter but your kids will have so much fun with this activity!

Tutorial on how to make a Birthday Calendar Display

Keeping track of family birthdays can be difficult but with making a birthday calendar that you can use year after year will help you remember upcoming birthdays. 

I had an old cooling wire rack that was rusting and almost threw it away. I am glad I kept it because it was perfect for making this adorable birthday calendar! 

The best thing about this calendar is it can be customized and printed from your own computer. And if you need to add birthdays, you just print out a new month sheet and swap it with the old sheet.  

Follow the instructions below to make your own birthday calendar display

• Begin with a 10 X 16 cooling wire rack. I bought my black and so I used spray paint to get it white. 

• Use this template to fill in your birthdays. Then print it off onto white card stock and cut out all the sheets and birthday letters. 

• Attach the sheets by using glue dots and then attached the birthday letters with string.  Tape each letter onto the string and the tie the end of the strings to the top of the cooling rack. Then to hide the knot, you can add mini clothespins for decoration. 

I hope you will enjoy this birthday calendar display and it will help you to never forget a birthday again. 

Felt flower door wreath tutorial

While I was making felt flowers bows for my little girl, I kept thinking how cute it would be to make a wreath with felt flowers. And I think I was right, this wreath turned out pretty darn cute.

 I love the bright colors and how the colors pop. 

Making the felt flowers is a little time consuming just because there is a lot of cutting and gluing but putting the wreath together takes little time. 

The wreath is a 18" straw wreath wrapped with decorative burlap  all the way around. After making my felt flowers from this tutorial and before I glued them to the wreath, I played around with the arrangement of how I wanted the flowers placed. Once I was happy with the arrangement, I hot glued each one in to place, starting at the top and working my way down. 

For the felt flowers I used 3 different sizes. I used the template below to trace and cut my circles. The sizes I used for this project was 2.5", 2" and  1.5."  Click here to download.    

                                                        

I hope you enjoy this colorful wreath and enjoy the rest of your summer!

Christmas Banner

 

I seen various crafts made using paint samples and loved the idea. You get to choose the colors you want and you don't have to paint. I don't have a lot of Christmas decorations so I knew a Christmas banner using paint samples would be perfect.

I found some great Christmas templates from Activity Village and traced them onto the paint sample, then cut them out. I then used my eyelet setter to create two holes on each pattern. Next I got string and a needle and threaded the string through all the holes. And the project is complete. This idea could be easily made for other holidays and I definitely plan to make more.

Magnetic me

I love the idea from Creative Juice and wanted to make one as a stocking stuffer this year. I made one for my son and his three cousins and I am thrilled with the way they turned out. The tutorial was very easy to follow and turned out to be a fun project. You can find the tutorial here.

The containers I bought from here were perfect. They had a clear top so I made a cover with each of their names on it. 

If you would like to use these designs, just right click on the image
and copy over to Word and then add your own text.

I used some photo booth props from the Creative Juice link but also found graphics from other websites.

*UPDATE: 08/07/2015, I have complied all the photo booth props used into one document and have also made new covers. You can found the link on this post.

Below are just a few examples of the props I used.

This project was very easy to do. I made four of them at the same time and it wasn't as time consuming as I thought it would be. It will be so much fun for the kids and I know there will be lots of giggles.