Hey everyone, Vanessa here from Our Thrifty Ideas. I am excited to be sharing a fun tutorial with you today….but a little sad at the same time. Who would have thought that it’s time to start thinking Back to School already?! I feel like Summer just started, but have already started on our checklist of the hundreds of things needed to get done before my two little kids go back next month.

Although we have tackled a bunch of the things on our list, there’s some things that are a last minute task whether we like it or not. Our family made a list of 7 things to do the last week of Summer, to get us ready for that first day of the school year. Since my family is HUGE into the idea of countdowns (check out our Back to School countdown chain free printable over on O.T.I.) I decided it would be fun to make a back to school countdown pocket banner and each one will hold a task as we count down to the big day.

The banner consists of a bunch of items from the Jen Hadfield product line with AC and also a bunch of little odds and ends I had around my house!

Supplies:

• 1 Week until School Checklist (free printable here)
• Coordinating Cardstock Paper
• Gold Metal Clips
• 7 Pocket Tags
• Paper Cutter
• Double Sided Adhesive
• Glittered Ribbon
• Rick-Rack & other ribbons
• Thickers stickers

I started by cutting a bunch of different sized “tags” out of the coordinating cardstock. I did different shapes, different lengths, different widths and all different colors. The more variety the better the banner looks in my opinion!

String the pocket tags onto your rick-rack spreading all 7 out evenly. Place numbers 0-6 on the front of them, counting down from left to right.

Next I embellished the gold clips with some glittered ribbon. I cut some double sided adhesive to the same size as the front of the clip, and put it on the front. Then I cut the glittered ribbon the same size and adhered it to the front of the clip.

The funnest part comes next, a whole bunch of randomness!! I know it sounds silly, but I really just threw things up. I used the random tags and some scrap ribbon and held them in place with the glittered clips.

Once everything is up, I cut out the 1 Week until School Checklist into strips, one for each day, and stuck them inside each of the pockets. I kinda determined how much time we would need for each one, or which days would be best for each task and put them in accordingly. Obviously the night before one goes in the “1” labeled pocket, and the 1st Day of School goes in the “0” labeled pocket.

How much longer do you have until your kiddos go back to school? Make sure to get this quick banner put together so they can have a fun countdown list too!

I would love to have you check out some other fun ideas I’ve shared over on Our Thrifty Ideas!

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Thanks Vanessa! I just love this cute banner. And, I’m sure my kids would love to countdown this way, too! Vanessa has so many cute ideas on her blog. Here are a few more school ideas I think you’ll love:

She has some adorable ideas for a Back to school party with free printables!

And countdown to school with this cute Free Print & Cut Back to School Countdown Chain!

And, don’t forget about her recipes! These Healthy Blueberry Pineapple Popsicles look perfect for summer!

xoxo

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Hi! I’m Laura Bray and I’m so excited to share a creative way to get your business organized.

I’m a professional craft designer, writer, and illustrator. I inspire creative women to live a life of balance & simplicity by sharing my modern twist on traditional home arts.  Whether you stitch, cook, are raising children or just want to be a better homemaker, you are sure to find great tips and tutorials on my blog at Laura Bray Designs.

As a busy wife, mother, and creative entrepreneur, staying organized and inspired is really important. I don’t have a lot of time to work on my business, so when it is time to get to work; I need to know what needs to be done so I can get going right away. I created an inspiring business organization corkboard for my office using Jen’s new Home+Made line of paper crafting supplies. Now when I come into my office to sneak in a little work, I know exactly what needs to be done. Plus it’s super cute and crafty!

Supplies:

• Corkboard from an office supply store. Mine measures 34″ x 24″, but just choose the size that works for you!
• Jen Hadfield’s Home+Made paper crafting supplies from Pebbles, Inc.
• Craft Glue

To put together your business corkboard:

1. Dress up the edge of the boring frame of your corkboard by cutting 1″ strips of paper and gluing them to the frame of the corkboard.
2. Use paper to create different focal areas on the corkboard. I have 3 streams of income; blogging, teaching, and illustration, so I created 3 areas on my corkboard.
3. Use Home+Made chalkboard stickers to label your business areas. Using chalkboard stickers allows for lots of freedom to change your mind.
4. Glue Home+Made golden metal clips to hold papers and notes.
5. Use Home+Made kraft pocket tags to hold business receipts.
6. Use the Home+Made thickers to create an inspiring motto for your business corkboard!

She has a free Meal Planning eCourse that will help you get organized at dinnertime too!

And she has this fun tutorial for making these Pom Pom Clothespins! Don’t they look so cute on the bulletin board too?

She also has this fun tutorial for a Cozy House Night Light too!

Make sure to follow Laura Bray Designs and

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And if you’d like to try this project she shared today, you can find my Home + Made line at craft and hobby stores near you!

xoxo

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Hi everyone! I’m Amy from Atta Girl Says where I share ideas to make your home lighter and your heart brighter. Crafty, sassy, irreverent and just a little bit frazzled, I’m a decorator, cook, crafter, painter and dabbler in all things domestic. I’m always hopping from one project to the next, and juggling it all with mom duties and work duties!

I like to describe myself as a “recovering” journalist. While I loved covering a newspaper beat and writing business books, I love my job as a blogger even more. Creativity keeps me up at night, and I wouldn’t have it any other way! And I love sharing my ideas and encourage others to nurture their creativity. To me, having a creative outlet is as important as air, food and water.

That’s why it was such a treat to receive a box of crafty supplies from Jen’s new Home + Made collection. There were so many fun items to spark my creativity.

I decided to tap into my papercrafting roots and make some girly and glam scrapbook paper gift bags. (I am all about girly and glam, just take a look at my office and crafting space if you need proof!

Supplies

• Assorted black-and-white patterned paper from the 12X12 paper pad
• Gold foil paper
• Sweet Greeting with Foil Accent
• Gold Foil Garland
• Chalkboard Labels
• Butterfly die set
• Kraft pocket tag set
• Cottage Living RubOns

Other supplies from my craft stash:

• Sizzix Big Shot
• clear tape
• Scissors
• paper cutter
• gold curling ribbon
• gold glittered ribbon
• hole punch
• butterfly brad
• gold paint pen
• gold tissue paper

These gift bags are so easy to make, using a single sheet of scrapbook paper. These are great for gifts, of course. But I would also use these bags as custom favors for a wedding or party.

Using scrapbook paper means you can easily match the favor bags to your theme or color scheme.

These black, white and gold bags would have been perfect at the Oscars party I threw earlier this year.

The easiest way for me to show you how to make these is with a quick how-to video. You’ll see just how quickly these come together.

Oops, I forgot to tell y’all I speak southern! Can I get you a glass of sweet tea or a pimento cheese sandwich to go with that accent?

Seriously, these gift bags are super easy to make, which will leave you plenty of time to decorate and embellish them to the nines with Jen’s lovely Home + Made collection.

I’m in love with these gold kraft pocket tags and the butterfly die. I ran it through my die-cutting machine to make these gilded butterflies.

And yep, love pretty much sums up how I feel about these paper patterns, foil quotes and foil paper.

I need to fill these pretty bags with something, don’t you think? Seems like the perfect excuse to throw a party or buy pretty little trinkets for all my girlfriends.

I hope you’ll come pay me a visit at Atta Girl Says.

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Thanks Amy! What gorgeous gift bags! Definitely a great excuse to throw a party! Amy has such fun and creative ideas on her blog. Here are a few I know you’ll love:

She has this fun post full of Dry Ice Experiments for Halloween!

She also has this amazing recipe for an Easy Pumpkin Pie Milkshake. Yum!

She also has some pretty ideas for your tablescape in her post, Decorating with Metallics!

xoxo

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• Scrapbook papers: Sweet Mint, Dotted Blossoms, Lovely Lace, and black polka dots from the Home + Made Pebbles paper pack
• Round gold stickers
• Gold metal label

• 8×10 picture frame
• Paper cutter or scissors
• Double sided tape or glue
• Sharpie
• Screwdriver
• Dry erase marker

I used my paper cutter to cut the polka dot paper to fit inside the frame {though scissors would work just as well}.

Then I cut 7 rectangles from a variety of double-sided aqua scrapbook papers from the Home + Made collection. I cut one 6.5″ x 1.75″ rectangle, and six 3″ x 1.75″ rectangles.

I placed the rectangles on the table next to the background paper to decide on the arrangement I liked best, then I applied two strips of double-sided tape to the back of each rectangle and stuck them to the background paper.

I placed the paper into the picture frame, behind the glass, and then replaced the back of the frame.

Glass works perfectly with dry erase markers, but I decided to test out the gold stickers to see if they might also work with a dry erase marker, and sure enough they do! So I stuck seven gold stickers to the glass, one at the top right corner of each rectangle {note that the paper is below the glass, and the stickers on top of the glass}.

Next, I opened a package of  gold metal labels, and wrote on the included papers. I plan to use this dry erase memo board for making grocery lists, but it would also work well as a calendar or a to do list, so I went ahead and also wrote out labels for these potential future uses.

I then used a screw driver to attach the a metal label to the top center of the picture frame.

I really love the way this calendar looks sitting next to my countertop mail filing system, so I think a second dry erase memo board will be in my near future!

xoxo

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Hi! I’m Nikki and I’m the creative force behind Tikkido. I love public radio, archaeology, Irish dancing, crafting, DIY projects, and geekery of all sorts.

I especially love creative gift wrapping ideas. Love love love them. Actually, I love paper crafts of any kind, so when I received a box of beautiful paper crafting supplies from Jen Hadfield Home+Made, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them: transform boring, plain, white gift wrap into something artistic and hip and amazing.

The theme for these coordinated, creatively wrapped gifts was inspired by the hexagon papers in the Jen Hadfield collection. Beautiful, geometric papers for scrapbooking and any kind of paper crafting. There were several different designs using hexagons, and I knew that was my unifying theme.

The cardstock was remarkably heavy and high quality, and I decided to make a custom gift box out of the scrapbook paper to stack in my collection of beautifully wrapped, coordinated gifts.

Gift boxes can be made in any size you need, so I’m going to give you a formula, rather than exact measurements to make a custom cardstock box out of beautiful papers.

Materials For Making a Cardstock Gift Box

• two sheets of complimentary, but contrasting cardstock
• straight edge ruler
• scissors
• low temperature glue gun or double stick tape

Making the Bottom Portion of the Box: Decide how high the walls of the gift box will be. Decide how wide the box will be. Add the height of the box + the height of the box (for the other side) plus the width of the finished box. This measurement will be one dimension of the total piece of cardstock you’ll use to make the bottom portion of the box. Decide how deep the box will be (the other dimension of the square or rectangle). Add the depth + the height +the height. This measurement will be the other dimension of the total piece of cardstock you’ll use to make the bottom portion of the box.

Cut the cardstock to the dimensions you found using the instructions above. (I wanted a square box, so I used the entire 12×12″ paper, which was terribly easy.)

Use the ruler to measure the height of the box walls in from each corner of the large piece of cardstock. Do this on every corner. Take a look at the photo above. Basically, we’re making a square at each corner that’s as tall as the wall will be. Draw pencil lines connecting the marks you’ve made, so you’ll see a square (or rectangle) in the center, and four perfect squares at the corners. Score along those lines, and fold the paper along those lines. See the four squares at the four corners? Use scissors to cut along ONE edge of each of those corners.

Fold the edges up along the scored lines. Use a low temperature glue gun or double stick tape to glue the corner square to the inside of the perpendicular side. Some of these descriptions might give you a headache eerily reminiscent of 9th grade Geometry class, but really, it’s easy, I promise! Just look at the pictures. Glue all four sides together, and voila, you have the bottom of your box complete!

Do exactly the same thing to make the lid for the box, EXCEPT make the sides of the lid shorter (so you can see that pretty bottom box), AND make the center square just a *hair* larger. We’re talking 1/16″ larger, nothing dramatic. Just enough so that the lid will slip over the bottom box without bending the side walls.

So pretty, right?

And the box works so well with the other coordinated presents. I also did a tutorial on my blog for each of the coordinating presents, like the  hexagon punch embellished present, the simple Be Awesome sticker present, and the scrapbook paper band embellished present. So easy, and so perfectly coordinated.

One present is great. But several? Gorgeously, thematically wrapped? Well, that’s a present in-and-of itself.

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Thanks Nikki! Those presents are just amazing, and so inspiring! I know I would love to get a gift so gorgeously wrapped!

Nikki has amazing ideas on her blog, here are a few I know you’ll love:

She has this fun tutorial for How to Make Adorable Popcorn Cupcakes!

She also has a super cool tutorial for making these Mirrored Cake Stands! So pretty!

She also has these fun Spider Web Cupcakes with Edible Spiders! So cute!

xoxo

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Hi, I’m  Niki Meiners, and I’m a contributor at 365 Days of Crafts. I’m so excited to be here today!

I grew up in a small mid-western town and was surrounded by a modest and resourceful family. My simple upbringing spurred my “Can do” attitude and gave me the confidence to try any challenge placed before me. I knew there was more out there than just my small town and set off after high school to explore the world. Through these travels, I discovered my love of art. It was not until I suffered a paralyzing illness that I realized I wanted to reconsider my corporate career as a Chief Paper Pusher, and my thoughts turned to my first passion, art. In 2003 I began an odyssey that would take me from product design to publication and everywhere in between.

I’m excited to share my Easy handmade cards I made with Jen’s Cottage Living Paper collections. The stunningly simple card trio looks great and is very easy to make.

Supplies for Easy handmade cards:

• Home + Made – Chalkboard stickers, Gold Stickers and Country Living Paper collection, Clear Acrylic Stamps #732792
• Cardstock
• Paper trimmer or scissors
• White ink
• Acrylic Block
• Tape Runner
• Jute Cording
• Button

Instructions for Easy handmade cards:

Card one – Do what you love

1. Cut card stock to 8×8 and fold in half to form a card base of 4×8.
2. Cut pattern paper to 3.5×7.5 and adhere to front
3. Use a contrasting pattern and cut a piece to 2×4 and adhere to front.
4. Stamp sentiment onto card stock label.
5. Tie jute around label and add a button to the knot.
6. Adhere to card front

Card Two – HI card

1. Cut card stock to 6×12 and fold in half to form a card base of 6×6.
2. Cut pattern paper to 5.5 x 5.5 and adhere to front
3. Cut the letters H and I from the pattern paper. Adhere to a piece of card stock. Trim off excess and adhere to front.
4. Tie jute around front Panel

Card Three- I adore you

1. Cut card stock to 8×6 and fold in half to form a card base of 4×6.
2. Cut strips off back side of pattern paper sheets.
3. Weave the strips and adhere to front
4. Stamp sentiment onto card stock on bottom right.

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Thanks Niki! Seriously gorgeous cards! I really love how she used the extra little strips on the back side of the pattern paper to make a woven card. Here are some more fabulous ideas of Niki’s that I know you’ll love:

I love her Super Fluffy Tutu Tutorial! It would be perfect for Halloween costumes!

And this Ruffled Teepee Tent is just darling! Perfect for curling up with a good book!

I also love her  Beach Themed Candy bar decorations she made for her daughters mermaid party.

xoxo

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I’m Kim from EverythingEtsy.com! In 2008 I took my lifelong love of making things to a whole new level. My husband and I “bet the farm” on a new online business. It worked and now I’m a full-time professional blogger, craft book author, and creative business coach. I blog about Etsy business and all manner of DIY crafty things at EverythingEtsy.com, shares tutorials and inspiring creative ideas at HandmadeandCraft.com, and reveal a more personal side at KimberlyLayton.com.

I’m super excited to share some craftiness with you today!

It’s that time of year when the school supplies start showing up in the store, and the reality sets in that summer is almost over. Now’s the time to create some fun back-to-school projects!

I’ve always been a fan of pretty paper, and I was fortunate to get an awesome supply of Home + Made paper collection designed by Jen!

I have quite a few projects in mind for these goodies, but here’s my first one…handmade bookmarks.

Handmade bookmarks are so easy to make, and it’s super fun to mix all of the paper designs together to create something just your style.

Here’s how you can make a bunch of these in no time! Share them with the little ones you love, or add them to books you’re giving as gifts. They’re a nice little handmade touch of goodness.

Gather up you’re beautiful supplies and let’s get creative!

The supplies I used:

• Beautiful Paper from Jen Hadfield Home + Made Collection
• Stickers
• Scissors
• Glue Stick
• Paper Cutter
• Corner Punch
• Hole Punch {I also used a large hole punch for decorating}
• Yarn and Twine
• Laminator and Laminator Sheets

Cut your paper 1 1/2” wide and 6” long for each bookmark.

Then round the corners with a corner cutting punch.

Use a hole punch to add a hole at the top.

Once you’re done with the basic shape you can cut out words or phrases along with other matching shapes to create a fun bookmark. I like to layout the design and then go back and glue it with a glue stick.

Now it’s time to laminate it! I usually run it through the machine twice just to make sure it’s perfect. I’m picky like that!

Then I cut around each bookmark and punch the hole at the top again.

If you want to add any puffy stickers…now is the time. {It’s better to add them after you laminate.}

Run a few strands of yarn or twine through the top hole and tie them together close to the bookmark.

Now you have a custom handmade bookmark! What a fun project!

You can tell I was having fun since I ended up making a big batch of bookmarks to share and a couple for myself!

When you have beautiful paper to work with it’s easy to mix-and-match patterns.

I hope you enjoy this simple and sweet back-to-school project!

Thanks so much for letting me share my ideas today!

~Kim

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Thanks Kim! I love these cute bookmarks, and they’re a great way to make reading more fun! Kim has awesome ideas on her blog. Here area a few I know you’ll love:

She has this fun and easy Crochet Bow Pattern!

 And this DIY Beard Oil is such a great gift idea for the man in your life!

 And, don’t forget to check out her Homemade Lavender Bath Salt!

xoxo

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Hey there Tatertots & Jello fans, my name is Dee and I blog over at Cupcakes&Crowbars. I mostly do recipes, but also dabble in crafting and DIY furniture renovation. I met Jen at Snap Conference last year. I’m not one to be starstruck – but she truly is such a creative inspiration – and so down to earth and nice – that I was scarcely able to do more than smile so big my face hurt. You’d best believe when I had the opportunity to utilize some of her new line of products, you’d best believe I was EXCITED! And so grateful for the chance to work with some truly beautiful materials. I’m so happy to be here today, sharing my 3-D letter art and storage jars with you – which were all crafted from Jen Hadfield’s Home + Made line of craft products (WHICH IS AMAZING). I used them to brighten a blank space in my craft room, but they’re gorgeous and useful anywhere. In fact, since I made this project, I’ve used her line to do other things in my home as well. Let’s get started!

Supplies:

(Jen Hadfield Home + Made Cottage Living Collection)
12×12 Paper Pack
Paper Flowers
Gold Metal Clips
Gold Metal Labels

(Misc Supplies)

3-D Letter Template for cutting machine
glass vases
Plain White Cardstock
Transparent Tape
Twine
Aleene’s Tacky Glue
Glue Dots

Directions:

Choose the papers you’d like to use for your project. I struggle with pattern matching – it is definitely not something that comes naturally to me – but luckily this Cottage Living Collection has a cool feature on the bottom of each piece of cardstock – a coordinating pattern is printed on each page. How cool is that? It made it super easy to choose my patterns and papers.

Use your cutting machine to size and cut the letters that you’d like to use.

The template I have is for enclosed 3-d letters, so I ended up with extra tabs – I just cut them off before gluing.

Fold the pieces and figure out how they fit together around each letter before you start gluing. I may have learned this the hard way. Maybe.

After gluing each piece, use small clothespins or paperclips to hold the pieces together while the glue dries- it only takes about one minute before you can move on to the next piece. Repeat until finished.

For the storage containers, I picked up four 8″ glass vases from a local dollar store. Any cylinder vase/container would work, because we’re going to cover it in paper anyway!
Simply wrap a piece of standard 8.5 x 11 white cardstock around the vase, tape it together in the back, and trim the excess from the top. After the vases are covered, use a glue dot to affix the paper inserts from the gold metal labels to the leftover scraps from cutting your letters out. Contour the metal label to the vase by simply press it firmly against the side. Use a length of twine or hemp rope to affix the metal labels to the vases. Place a piece of tape in the back to hold the twine in place. Place a self-adhesive paper flower on the front, and you’re done!

These are from the Sweet Greetings paper pack – I just trimmed each little note out so I could use them in different projects.

I had a blank wall in my craft area that needed some sprucing up, so I hung all my cute new things there. I used teeny pins to attach the letters to the wall, and gold metal clips with glue dots to hang three of the Sweet Greetings phrases.

Add some burlap and twinkle lights for a sweet nightlight.

That’s it for me today! I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, and that it inspires you to create a beautiful small space in our own home. If you’d like to check out more of my projects, recipes, or general nonsense – pop on over, I’d love to see you.

I just KNOW you want to pin this for future inspiration … do eet. I’m so proud of this project!

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Thanks Dee! What a fun project, and I just love those storage containers too! Dee has great ideas on her blog. Here are a few I know you’ll love:

She has amazing recipe ideas that are easy too! Try her Easy Basil and Brie Appetizers!

She also has these fun Halloween Popcorn Balls and Free Printables!

She also has amazing Furniture Updates like this one! You won’t believe the before picture!

xoxo

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Hi! I’m Jen Goode (goodie), and I’m the  owner of JGoode Designs, an Illustrator and self proclaimed Creativity Adventurer based in Colorado. I create art to use in DIY project design and licensing and currently work with a variety of brands including HP and Cricut. I share tutorials, printables and inspiration on my blog 100 Directions to help YOU get creative.

Are you ready to get creative? I am so excited to be here today to share a fun DIY art collage project with you. I love the colors and patterns in Jen’s new Homemade collection with Pebbles Inc. It’s such a perfect set to create all kinds of beautiful pieces. I decided to create a wall art design to showcase the pretty florals in the 12×12 paper pack and then add a touch of gold accent. You can mix and match these papers to create your own custom collage art (or lovely art cards too). Pick the flowers and quotes you love best, grab your Mod Podge and you’re set!

Materials you need:

• Jen Hadfield Homemade 12×12 Paper Pack
• Jen Hadfield Homemade Jewel Stickers
• Jen Hadfield Homemade Gold Chevron Cardstock
• Jen Hadfield Homemade Gold Garland
• Wood board (I used a 12″x24″ board)
• Bakers Twine (green)
• Scissors
• Hole punch
• Mod Podge (I used the Chalkboard matte finish to decrease shine)
• Craft Glue
• Paint brushes
• Fine Point Sharpie Black Sharpie

Instructions:

Prep:

1. Sketch out the design you’d like to create. You can create the same design I did or customize your own, just move the flowers around how you like them.
2. Cut out flowers and other shapes from the patterned papers. Cut out quotes from word paper.
3. Cut garland pieces and trim off threads. Use a hole punch to create tiny gold circles from the cardstock.
4. Cut background paper into strips. This is especially helpful if your wood board is not exactly 24″ tall. Mine was really about 1/4 longer, so using strips of paper, I was able to give the illusion of a fully covered board.
5. Cut out heart shapes from the pink chevron pattern paper to include if you’d like.

Assembly:

1. Decoupage the background paper to the board. Using a paint brush, apply Mod Podge to the raw wood board and then place a paper strip. Rub the paper smooth and apply Mod Podge to edges to seal. Repeat the process until the entire board is covered with the background paper. Do not cover the entire board as the Mod Podge might dry quicker than you can place all the paper at once.
2. Coat the entire board with Mod Podge to seal the entire piece. Allow to dry.
3. Lay out your design on the board, placing flowers where you’d like them without adhering them yet. Once you decide on your layout, decoupage each piece to the board. Use a paint brush to apply Mod Podge to the flower or shape, place where you’d like it. Rub smooth on to the board and then brush Mod Podge over the top to seal in place. Repeat until all your paper images are in place.
4. Using the paint brush, apply Mod Podge where you’d like your stems. Carefully place Bakers twine and then seal in place with more Mod Podge.
5. Decoupage the quote pieces in place as desired.
6. Finish the art with little touches of gold confetti and garland circles. Use glue to apply these pieces and do not coat with Mod Podge. Apply anything on top of the gold will decrease the shine.
7. Allow to dry.

I hope you have fun making this custom art for your own home. Experiment a little, change up the colors and add in some fun hand drawn accents. You can personalize your decor art as much as you’d like. This beautiful collection of papers and accents that Jen has created will look gorgeous in your home!

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Thanks Jen! I love your artwork! It’s just gorgeous! Here are a more ideas from Jen that I know you’ll love:

She’s got this gorgeous Floral Art Card Printable that would be so cute for a card!

She also has this Pretty Painted Place Setting that is just gorgeous!

And she also has this fun tutorial for creating Floral Art for Your Phone!

xoxo

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Hello TT&J readers!
I’m thrilled to be here today sharing a quick + easy DIY project featuring some of Jen’s wonderful paper/craft products.

I’m Andrea, an indie biz owner {Knitty Bitties} … sewing her heart out, drinking iced tea and doing her best to live with joy in the everyday!
You can read more about my everyday adventures in life + sewing on my blog, Knitty Bitties.

Do you know how inspiring it is to have a box full of creativity show up on your door step?!

I love the colors in this line … a perfect blend of brights with neutrals.

It was hard to not be overwhelmed with ideas!

In fact, I had to take a deep breath and think about creating something true to my style. Long before I started sewing, I was an avid paper crafter and I’ve always been drawn to projects that are simple and feature a lot of ‘white space’ for the eye to rest and take in the little details.

We are currently expecting our second child {a most wonderful surprise after 10+ years of waiting} and we just found out the gender … another BOY!!
So as my mind is swirling with all things nursery planning + preparation, I thought it would be fun to create a simple instagram display for the nursery that would allow me to switch out the instagram photo as this little one grows and changes.

I love polka dots so I was drawn to the heavy weight double-sided paper featuring white polka dots on a gray {one of the nursery colors} background. Then I just grabbed a few other products that caught my eye and threw in a few fabric scraps in the nursery colors.

Supplies needed::

• 8×10 Frame
• 8.5×11 Sheet of Cardstock
• Fabric Scraps
• Instagram Photo
• Silhouette / Die Cutter
• Sewing Machine

From Jen Hadfield Home+Made::

• Patterned Paper (Spring Meadow from Cottage Living )
• Gold Metal Clip
• Gold Dot Garland

Step 1.
Cut your patterned paper to 8×10.
Cut out single word {Smile, Happy, Love} on preferred cutting tool {I used my Silhouette SD}.

Step 2.
Place cut patterned paper on piece of cardstock and trace the letters onto the cardstock to guide your fabric placement.
Glue fabric scraps to each letter, checking that they don’t overlap and they line up with your word.

Step 3.
Glue cut patterned paper onto piece on cardstock.
Using a sewing machine, add decorative stitching around your word for a little extra detail.

Step 4.
Add a length of gold dot garland giving a little more interest and providing a place to secure the gold clip.
Tape ends of garland to back of the cardstock.
Add gold clip and a favorite instagram photo.

Step 5.
Remove glass and backing from frame. Set glass aside for another project.
Place project into frame and display on a shelf or hang on the wall.

A simple and easy project that you can do-yourself in less than an hour.
I love that focus is on the memory you’re featuring!

Thank you so much for inviting me to share with you today.

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Thanks Andrea! I love Instagram and I love this idea too! Such a fun way to display your photos!

I love this cute Fox in My Pocket Tutorial!

And I’m amazed how she turned this Unisex tee into something more fashionable!

And she has this super cute Halloween Table Runner too!

xoxo

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