It's Stinkin' Cute Craft Thursday #38

I am nothing short of impressed with all of the BEAUTIFUL links from this week! Amazing and I totally wish I could feature you all. But, alas, I do have to pick. This week due to the INSANE amount of AWESOME ideas I am picking one feature and going to share with you all of her awesome V-Day ideas.... Hey friendly reminder... it is only 24 days away. EEK!

Amanda with We Are the Joneses linked up her Valentines Day Inspiration. Um... I will definatly be keeping some of these things on my TO DO list!


This entire shelf only cost her $19 to make the stuff and then she bought the candles for another $7 making this entire cute shelf only cost $26. I want the banner and the L-O-V-E sign and well, I will just have to take one of everything, and I just adore the candy balls. What a wonderful idea. Oh thank you so much for your great V-Day ideas!

Amanda, be sure to grab a featured button. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with this week! Go get crafty!

Let's get to linkin'!! Rules:

1. Please link craft projects that you have done (not advertising an Etsy site)!
2. Linky Tools will remain open until next Wednesday evening so there's plenty of time to link your projects!


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TTFN~


Rules for linking:
(1) Link to specific blog post, not blog home page!
(2) Link craft projects that you have done!
(3) Make sure to visit a few of the links and leave some comment love!
(4) Linky Tools will remain open through Wednesday, January 26th so you have plenty of time to add your projects!

Coaster Gift

Was going to post these yesterday, but wasn't feeling well. So here they are. The cute gift I made my friend that you can duplicate!

I started with these coasters. I talked about them here.

Here they are in the stand, but because I was lazy you really can't see it because it is on the black background for the photo box.


Then I used my Sure Cuts A Lot software (which you can purchase through Ashley at Cute as a Fox she talks about it in that post that I linked) to make the vinyl names... you have to flip the image how I do it, but the coasters will last LOTS longer because the vinyl won't get wet... I'll show you how.
So use your software and make the names backwards. Cut the vinyl out like this...


Here they are with the negative part pealed off...


Next you will put it on the transfer tape and then place it on the under side of the coaster. Here they are all finished.



My friend was like... I told you we wern't exchanging presents. I then promptly told her... REALLY it was NO big deal. (plus I got a good post out of it) **insert wink here**

So these were easy, fun to do and totally universal with colors, fonts, styles and gender neutral. So keep this in mind for your next small couples gift or an addition to a wedding gift (I mean you could do initials or anything like that). It is really a great idea for an inexpensive gift that looks like a lot. I loved it! What do you think?


TTFN~

Monday huh?

Ever had one of those weekends where you didn't really get anything accomplished that YOU wanted to do? Some of this weekends activities included:

1) Birthday Party Shopping
2) Birthday Party (I have decided my daughter needs a social calendar)
3) Going to a friends house so that the kids could play and having dinner there
4) Going book shopping
5) Going to Yougartland (this was an essential Mommy needed stop!)
6) Grabbing more powder (you don't want to see me without make-up)
7) Getting new shoes for Laci
8) The biggest thing we did was go to my sisters house to help her paint stars on her baby room wall. I will post pictures when the painting and trim is completed.
9) Oh, I was crafty this weekend for myself and made some of those coasters. I will post pictures of them probably tomorrow!

Needless to say I am exhausted this morning and was actually 45 minutes late to work. My boss actually called out sick today too. I almost did myself, I really couldn't lift my head off my pillow I was so tired.

Anyone have inspiration for me to start sewing my sisters baby bag? Anyone? HELP! I am lacking motivation and just want it to be done... It's not that I don't want to do it... I just feel like there are so many things to do and not enough time to do them.

TTFN~