New Watering Can and Flowers
Today, Shalisa and I went flower picking in my garden this afternoon. It was the perfect day to use the new watering can. This is what we came away with.
Enjoy your day!
*Kelly*
Wonderful Family
Today I woke up to find these three Katie Brown “cozy mugs”, as I call them. Nathan surprised me with them and this great ceramic square plate to house them. I wanted one for Mother’s Day, but when we got home, the mug we thought we got wasn’t in our bags 🙁 .
But today he got me two others, along with mine, so I can have two friends over for tea! Wanna join me? ? 🙂
Chamomile anyone? <3
Judah and Nathan
They are the best thing I could imagine. <3
*Kelly* – happy & blessed mommy
Printable Cupcake Wrappers & Template
I was thinking about cake decorating & cupcake decorating recently. I have a huge respect for cake decorators (professional or hobbyists). I want to decorate cakes for a hobby one day when I have more time. Until then, a quick and easy way to decorate cupcakes (essentially tiny cakes) is to use cupcake wrappers.
There are a few cupcake templates online. With these templates, you can use the template to cut out cupcake wrappers from decorative card stock or scrapbook paper or print them directly onto white card stock and use my designs.
The size is for the standard cupcake size.
Supplies :
*Cupcakes in their paper cups they were baked in
*Card stock and/or scrapbook paper
*scissors
*tape or hot glue
Step 1: Print the wrappers onto card stock
Step 2: Cut out the wrappers along the outside lines.
Step 3: Attach the two ends, slightly overlapped, with tape or hot glue.
( I prefer tape just because glue around food makes me nervous)
easy peasy!
ENJOY!
Cupcake Wrapper Flower Template
Cupcake Wrapper Swirls Template
Cupcake Wrapper Hearts Template
*Kelly*
Paper Flower Bookmark
I’ve gotten a few questions on how I made the flower top for the Journal Jar. I put together this quick tutorial for the flower and made a bookmark out of it. I also created a pattern for the petals & flower so you can download and print it! You can expand on this, making it as large as you want or as small as you need.
Step 1: Gather Supplies
*card stock for the petals & leaves
*scissors
*E6000 glue
*popsicle stick
*the petal pattern
Step 2: Cut out all the pieces from the pattern
Step 3: Start assembling. Curl and bend the pieces to make them look more realistic (or not, and make a 2D flower). Glue the tail pieces to the stick.
Step 4: Make the 4 large petals look similar to this, then as you place the middle petals, off set them to make it add the the realism.
Step 5: Curl the center piece and glue it together with a dap of glue. Then add it to the center with glue.
Step 6: Add the leaves. Crinkle them and put the glue on the tail piece and slide it under the flower onto the popsicle stick.
Step 7: Enjoy your new bookmark!
*Kelly*
Cassette Photoshopping
It only costs $0.28 to send a postcard! I didn’t know that. In celebration of finding out that information, I decided to design a few. These are PDFs that you can print out on cardstock (that fits the specification of the postcard definition, and an index card thickness is thick enough)
Tonight I did an artsy photoshop rendering of a cassette tape on a postcard-sized canvas.
You can use it for a postcard, even a fun birthday card . Just fill out the TO & FROM on the peachy-colored parts!
Specs for a postcard:
▪ Rectangular
▪ At least 3-1/2 inches high x 5 inches long x 0.007 inch thick
▪ No more than 4-1/4 inches high x 6 inches long x 0.016 inches thick
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▪ What is high? What is long? Length is the side parallel to the address. Height is the side that is perpendicular to the length. betmaster fogadóiroda
Click here to download the printable PDF!
*Kelly*