I love black and white for Valentine’s Day. And the lanterns from Ikea are so cute, affordable and accessible. So here is an easy way to decorate a shelf or mantel. It also makes a fun gift! 10 Minute Valentine Centerpiece Idea!

Here’s how to make this 10-Minute Valentine Lantern Centerpiece:

All you have to do is take an Ikea lantern, cut out four hearts with your craft cutting machine. If you don’t have a craft cutter, you can punch out hearts in vinyl with a punch or even trace hearts on vinyl and cut the vinyl out with scissors. So easy! Attach the vinyl hearts to the glass on the lantern. Then add a candle. This striped candle is from Michaels.

It makes a cute focal point for a shelf or mantel. It also is a striking centerpiece on a table. And it would be so cute on a porch or as a Valentine gift for a teacher or friend in your life!

And stay tuned – tomorrow I am sharing some matching easy 10 minute pillows!!

Three Valentine Heart Printables

Have a Happy Day!

xoxo

Sources:

Valentine Canvases (Shutterfly and free printables) 

Valentine wood heart – Wood Connection

Valentine Frame – Hobby Lobby

Lantern – Ikea

Clock and faux succulent – Homegoods

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Where did the summer go??? 

It’s so hard getting back into the early morning routine! I thought it would be fun to make a funny Back to School shirt. We all hate hearing the alarm clock go off so early. I hit the snooze button way too many times. So I created a little graphic and used my Cricut Explorer machine to cut two out using heat transfer material. So easy. All I had to do was peel off the excess heat transfer material and then iron the graphic onto t-shirts that my girls already had. And voila! Brand new shirt for Back to School. Ella wore hers for the first day.

Have you checked out Cricut Design Space? I have some projects I have created there. And you can download the images and use them to create the same projects. I will work on uploading the graphic for these shirts there and you can access it if you want to make some for yourself!      

Have YOUR kids gone back to school yet?

I hope you have had an awesome summer!

xoxo

Disclosure | I am a member of the Cricut Blogger Network. I may receive prizes in exchange for my winning projects. Even though I am not being directly compensated for these posts, I am under consideration for a prize with Cricut Design Space Star. All opinions are 100% my own

PS: I’ve linked up this post to these fabulous blogs this week!

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I am on a Mary Poppins kick lately. I had such a fun time creating the “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” printables last week, that I thought it would be fun to make a Spring wreath to go along with the printables. You know I love a good wreath.

And I have been having such an awesome time playing around with my new Cricut Explore machine, I created this new wreath with it! I took the printable kite that I created and saved it as an SVG file and then uploaded it into my Explore software online. Then all I had to do was resize it to fit the wood that I cut with my miter saw. I took a leftover piece of shelving that I use to make my giant signs and cut it into a kite shape.

Here’s how I made my “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” wreath: 

Supplies: 

Board for the kite (cut out using my electric saw) 9×11 inches

Vinyl for kite stencil

Two different colors of paint

36″ inch long piece of material by 4 inches for the kite tail

Wire

Wreath form

Fabric to wrap the wreath – approximately 1/2 yard.

paper to cut out for the paper bows – 1 sheet.

Ribbon to hang the wreath

Here’s how to make the wreath: 

Cut the board into a kite shape — approximately 12 inches long by 9 inches wide.

I took the SVG file that I created and cut it out of vinyl for the wood kite.

Lay the vinyl on the kite and then peel off the top right and bottom left sides of the vinyl.

Paint those sections with one color of paint.

Then peel off the opposite sides, leaving the center vinyl in place.

When all four sections of the kite have been painted, peel off the middle strips, revealing either plain wood or your original painted color.

Once dry, sand the edges and add a little stain to the edges if you want.

Take your fabric for the tail, lay a piece of wire in the middle and hot glue the fabric closed.

Then take the tail and hot glue it onto the back of the wood kite.

Wrap sections of the tail every 6 inches or so with a 3-inch piece of wire.

Cut  out the paper bows with your craft cutter.

Hot glue the paper bows onto each wrapped piece of the tail until you get to the end of the tail.

Wrap the wreath with your coordinating fabric.

Then hot glue the wooden kite to the side of the wreath and hot glue the tail in an “s” shape on the wreath.

Add some ribbon to the top.

And now you have a new whimsical Spring Wreath! 

Note – your wreath might be a little lopsided due to the weight of the wooden kite on one side. If that is the case, just add a medium-sized glue dot to the back of the wreath and your door or wall and the glue dots should keep the wreath straight.

And here are a couple other Spring Wreaths I have made: 

Spring Paper Wreath

Washi Tape Egg Wreath

Interchangeable Bow Wreath

Spring Moss Wreath

Spring Butterfly Wreath

Canvas Rosette Wreath

Have you made a wreath for Spring? 
Share YOUR idea in the comments!!

Have a Happy Day!

xoxo

PS: I’ve linked up this post to these fabulous blogs this week!

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