Valentine's Day Celebration Table!!!

IT'S HERE! LOVE DAY!!! I stayed up late putting together our family Valentine's Day table and making some last minute sweets!!!

 

 

****If you see something you like that didn't make it to the blog , let me know! I didn't make a tutorial on everything I made but if you want one I'll do it!

 

My daughter was so excited she started singing Happy Birthday, she just melts my heart! She clapped jumped up and down yelling "happy!" Aw she makes it all worth it :) Thank you for taking a peek at our set up. We have invited friends and family to stop by for amazing sweets and Valentine's gifts! Share the love!

 

 

 

Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Spoons (bottom right)

DIY Dessert Plates (bottom middle right)

Scrap paper wrapped candy bars (bottom middle left)

Chocolate Strawberry Chews (bottom left)

DIY Paper Boxes (above the Chocolate Strawberry Chews)

DIY Metallic Heart Candle Holder (above DIY paper boxes)

Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries (middle middle :)

Chalkboard painted platter (top left)

Greek Yogurt Chocolate Mocha Mousse in Chocolate Tuxedo Cups (top middle)

DIY Paper Rose Bouquet (very top middle)

Burlap Push Pin Board (in the back)

LOVE Push Pin Holders (on the board in the back)

Pebble Strand Garland (middle wall)

Heart Felt Garland (top of wall)

 

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

$1 NO SEW pillow! Perfect for Valentines Day Decor!

No Sew and did I mention it only cost me a dollar!!
It turned out elegant and whimsical!

 

I had the paint and stuffing already but even if you didn't it wouldn't cost you too much :)
I bought this red place mat for $1 and made the flower out of a scrap piece of burlap!
So back to NO SEW!!!!! I love no sew projects that look like you sewed :) 

 

 *****Now here's a bunch of side notes..... I tried using the white paint marker in the picture.......BIG FAIL! It did not work for me after several tries. I don't know if it was the fabric, me, the marker, who knows. All I know is I spent too much time trying to make it work.
So then I went rummaging for other white stuff in my craft room, nope none of that....every other color I mean every color but something white of use!!!
So I decided to look for white paint, bingo! So I painted the place mat instead with a small brush. (make sure you paint your place mat first while it's flat with no stuffing)
I then cut the stitches out of about one third on the side.
After the paint dried I stuff the pillow with some stuffing I had. (I could have stuffed it better obviously! I need to go back and do that but I needed the picture more:)
Now I could of restitched the area I made the opening and you could but I said no sew, so I glued it!
It worked and looks just fine :)
 I then placed a burlap flower I made on the outside and there it is my pillow that cost me a dollar, a big fail, a little time and some thinking!

 

Any advice with the paint marker anyone? Thanks!!

Valentine Bouquet To Last All Year

Here's a half a dozen paper rose bouquet that I kinda want to keep for myself! You could do yours with a dozen red roses if you wanted :)

 I trimmed one of our shrubs outside for the branches, grabbed a jelly jar, some twine and sequin ribbon and of course paper flowers which you can learn to DIY HERE

I wrapped the jar in twine except for where the rim is up top, I covered that with my sequin ribbon. I stuck the branches in the vase and poured glue into the bottom to hold the sticks in place. I then glued on my paper flowers I made from red card stock.

I love this creataion! :) It is such a beautiful combination.

After a day though I didn't like the way the inside of the glass looked so I filled it will little pebbles.

Paper Flowers, Book Pages??!!! What??? NO!!!

So once upon a time there was this craze, it was crafting with book pages. Ok so that statement kind of hurts my ears. Tearing pages out of a book??!!! Not that I haven't seen parties and gathering with really creative decorations and ideas all using book pages but I just didn't think I could do it, until......... My Grandmas house. I found a book in their shed under a skyscraper of spiders and their webs, laying in a stale puddle of water, torn in half. There it was that book that I just might be able to craft with. Wait though not until I tried every possible technique to salvage this book. I was unsuccessful in saving the book. Out of the over 500 pages I was able to sentence about 50 pages to doom for my use. After lots of thought and consideration of how I was going to use these precious pages I decided paper flowers. Beautiful paper flowers that the words on these pages could live forever.....aw so sentimental. After the first agonizing scissor cut through the page I became desensitized and in my own world of creation I cut, rolled, shaped and glued all the pages into my lively flowers. (saving every scrap for future use) I had a leftover branch from our Halloween party that I had about 20 visions for prior to this idea but this time I was going to use it! This was its purpose :)

 

I messy cut in a circle all the way in a circle to the middle you can also cut in a spiral with no mess. The one on the left is the clean edge spiral cut the one on the right is a messy cut. I did all mine free hand with scissors :) I put an X on what I refer to as the glue tab (you can barely see the X but it's there :) 

 

Book pages measuring approximately 6"x10"

 

Some pages I cut in half and made two flowers per a page other pages I got one flower out of it.
 

Here's how I did it..............
 

I started at the outside of the circle I cut where the point was and rolled the paper until I got to the center

 

 

 

I gently let go of the rolled paper holding it in place with my hand until I liked the shape 

I put a dot of glue on the "tab" that was the center of the circle 

 

 

And wham my paper flowers.......from a book :)

When I glued the flowers onto the branch I used that same glue tab to wrap the flower on the branch to hold the paper flower in place

*TIP I used my high temperature glue gun, going back I would have used a low temperature one to keep the glue from dripping 

 

It's going in my stair well when I'm done!!! (to hang out with Casper)