Aggies Wreath!

We are big Utah State University Aggie fans!  Go Aggies!!  So we wanted to make a wreath to support our team.  We bought navy blue burlap on Amazon and made the wreath using this tutorial. I bought the white ribbon at Hobby Lobby and the "A" we bought at The Wood Connection in Layton, Utah.  I spray painted the "A" white then cut out "Aggies" in vinyl. It turned out super cute!  On a side note, the post that it is hanging on was made by Stephanie's husband!  It is probably the most awesome thing that we have ever done!!  I love the wreath!!!

Super Saturday!

So I was asked to come up with some crafts for our wards Super Saturday. I had a hard time coming up with something that was cute and not too expensive. So here are the three crafts I came up with.

The first one is a temple name bracelet.  A few weeks ago I had gone to the Logan temple to do a session and I saw a bunch of ladies wearing these to hold their temple names.  They are super handy and cute. It took buying quite a few different things before I could find the perfect material for the plastic holder. I found some name badges on Amazon that were perfect. Then I cut it down to 2 inches.  I used my circle punch to punch a half circle on the top for easier access to the paper. The used my small hole punch to punch holes on each side.

The bracelet is a little wide on my wrist, but it isn't too bulky as to not to work with your temple dress.

The Christmas countdown board was pretty simple to make as well. I saw this here.  It looks like the snowflakes are vinyl, which I changed to a stencil. The wood is 12" x 14".  I painted mine red and green, but you really could do any color combination that you wanted. Then I cut out the chalkboard vinyl on my silhouette and also the lettering.

The Christmas charger plates were the easiest things that I did.  I bought the charger plates at Michael's for $2.  The I bought the Silhouette designs in the Silhouette store and cut them out.  Overall I chose really easy crafts that didn't cost a lot.  The cost for the the bracelet is about $3, for the countdown $7, and for the charger plates $5 each. 

Baptism Gifts

I know it's a little late in the year to be posting about baptism gifts, but I wanted to get it on here.  We as a presidency have decided that we wanted to give each child that gets baptized a gift the next day in primary.  We used to do a spotlight when our stake did all of the baptisms together.  Now that we do our baptisms on a ward level we no longer do a spotlight that the children will receive.  So we wanted them to receive something after their baptism.  This is the list of things we give them in their gift bag.  We give them a Faith in God book, a journal, article of faith cards, a book with notes from everyone at their baptism, and a framed pictured of them with the man that baptized them.  We tried to keep it inexpensive so the journal came from the dollar store.  For the boys it was just a smaller notebook and for the girls a cuter type notebook.  We also bought the picture frame for the picture at the dollar store.  The article of faith cards we used we found here, but there are tons of printable ones out there. Just look on pinterest. ;)
Now we come to the book with the notes.  I've been to lots of baptisms where they have the people there supporting the child write a little something to them and their testimony.  I really liked the idea and wished I would have done it with my two oldest kids. So I made a half sheet of paper with a tie border on each half for the boys and a flower border for the girls. We hand those out while the kids are changing and then gather them up at the end.  After the baptism I take them home and put them together.  I use the program from the baptism for the front of the book and at the end we used this letter.  Sugardoodle is actually where we got the idea for the book. I also laminate all of the pages.  I got a laminator from my husband for an anniversary gift a while back and it has been the best gift ever. I laminate everything!!!!  Then I bind the whole book together.  I go do this at Honor Copy in our town because it is open 24 hours and it only costs $0.75 to bind it.  There are other places you could take it to or you could use a hole punch and some brass rings.
I also take the picture and get it printed that day too.  It's kind of a lot to do after the baptism is over so that we can have it to give to them in primary the next day, but it is well worth it and is something special for them.

Spring Wreath

Sorry for the overload of posts, I'm still not very good at the whole blogging thing, but it will get better I promise.  So we saw this on pinterest and thought it was so adorable.  We always want to try to make things on our own.  Our favorite place to buy craft supplies is Hobby Lobby.  So we found the grapevine wreath there and also the wood letter.  I bought some of the tulips at Hobby Lobby, but the tulips I bought from the Dollar Tree were the ones we ended up liking the best. This was so simple to put together.  We stuffed the tulip stems through the wreath. Then topped it off with a cute bow and the monogram letter.  It stayed together through the spring weather and was so gorgeous.

Holiday Picture Frame

So last year we did this picture frame craft. We got a wood frame and painted it a neutral color so we could use it all year long.  We cut cardboard to fit the frame and covered it with burlap.  To make this fourth of July flag we use rick rack ribbon, then we got a thicker piece of blue ribbon and glued rhinestones to it for the stars.  We loved it so much that throughout the year we have worked on making more pieces to put in the frame for different holidays.

So far we only have a few holidays, but we try to use different materials for the character or object we put on it. We also have tried to use different backgrounds, even though our favorite to use is burlap. I think this is a simple, cheap craft, but is totally adorable.  The best part of this is that we get to think out of the box for each of the holidays.  We do seem to like buttons though! :) We will update as we make more for the other holidays.

Count down to anything!

So awhile back for our craft day we decided to make a countdown that we could use for any occasion.  We are all about keeping things simple and trying not to over complicate it.  When we first started our craft days we were doing complicated crafts that ended up not getting finished.  So I was determined to not making this one of those crafts.  So here is what we ended up with.

The board we bought at our local Ace hardware, then we bought two other wood pieces.  We painted the wood pieces with chalkboard paint and glued them on.  We used gold vinyl lettering for the "days until."  Then we decided to spruce it up by adding the hook so we could put different things to represent what we are counting down to.

This is the cute little wreath we made tor represent Easter.  We bought the wreath at Hobby Lobby and the colored Styrofoam eggs came from the Dollar Tree.  I was a project that took us about an hour to complete and the kids absolutely love it!  They love to count down anything, and that is the beauty of the whole project. 

Primary Advancement Gifts

I saw this cute teacher gifts for teachers being released from primary and thought it would be a good gift for kids turning twelve and advancing from primary.  So of course I had to make it more kid friendly.

 

So I saw these gumball machines at the Dollar Tree.  They come in your basic primary colors; red, yellow, and blue.  I ended up buying a case of 24 online.  I bought a big package of gumballs at Walmart for about $8.  Then I decided that I would use my new Silhouette to put the child's name on the machine with vinyl.  I thought it turned out really well for a fairly inexpensive price and it took maybe 10 minutes to make. Those are the best kind of projects!  I feel so accomplished when I get a project done!

Primary Birthday Gifts

This year in primary our theme is "I Know My Savior Lives."  So as a presidency we decided to make these blocks to give to the children for their birthdays.  The pictures are pass along cards that I bought at the distribution center in a pack of 100 for $2.  I bought a 2x4 for about $2 or $3 that was 8 feet long.  I cut each block 7 inches, so I got 13 blocks from each 2x4.  After I did it though, I decided that 7 inches was too long so the next batch I make will be 6 inches.  The best part of this project is that I got a new Silhouette Cameo for Christmas from my wonderful husband and I was able to use it! :) I cut the vinyl out all by myself on my new machine.  So this project was simply and turned out great for our primary kids.