Patriotic Wreath

I am a little late with making a wreath seeing as July 4th is only five days away, but hey, better late than never right!? I still had this wreath up, and decided it was time for a change! I used a $4 grapevine wreath and a $0.94 flower bundle from Walmart
pulled the flowers off of the "stems" and arranged them how I liked,
used some red and blue scrapbook paper I had and traced circles using the lid of my Modge Podge for the small ones, and the cardboard around a spool of ribbon for the outer circles. I added some gold letters to spell "welcome,"
and here it is hanging on my door...
It was super easy and inexpensive, and would have been super quick if I had a Silhouette to cut out some circles; but even still it only took about 30 minutes! So this will last about a week or so before I change it to summer theme, but I'm enjoying it for now!




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A Spring Stroll

I had another canvas from the painting project gone bad (mentioned here) and really liked the way the book pages covered up all my mistakes! I covered my canvas and then it sat around for a couple days with no ideas. I saw this on pinterest and that became my inspiration! I was originally going to make it an Easter decoration (add a bunny maybe some basket and eggs) but when I was working on it I decided the scale I had cut it all off was wrong, and I just wasn't happy with it anyway. I completely changed my idea, but I love the way this turned out so much better! It's a family portrait of sorts (me, my hubbster, and our two dogs)


All of this was cut with just a regular pair of scissors, and took about 2 1/2 hours! I so wish I had a Silhouette machine! :)