My favorite crafting tool — the Silhouette!

You probably know how much I love and use my Silhouette, that’s why it’s my favorite crafting tool. Here a little project I made with it last week — Easy DIY Summer Pallet Art.

I was over at my friends house a couple of weeks ago and she showed me a sign she had found from a high-end online store. The sign was sold out and I mentioned to her that I thought it would be easy to recreate. So I took that idea and I put my own spin on it by changing up the wording the colors of the piece. I used my Silhouette Studio Designer Software to create this project. I will be sharing the full tutorial later in the week!

This month Silhouette has a SUPER discount on their Portraits as well as their Cameos and their Silhouette Studio software. The Silhouette Studio software is fabulous beacause it lets you bring in images to your Silhouette and allows you to tranform them into cuttable images. My friend Heather at Whipperberry has a great video tutorial on how to do that here. 

And here’s a video that shows what the Silhouette Designer Software can do:

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If you don’t have a Silhouette, it really is a fabulous tool. I think you will love it.

Tatertots and Jello readers can get this exclusive discount by using this special link and the code TATER at checkout!

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Note that this giveaway ends at noon MST on July 8!

xoxo

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Valentine’s Day is becoming  one of my favorite holidays.

It makes January and February a little less dull and blah. So when the girls at Adorn It Fabric sent me their Happy Hearts Fat Quarter stack, I was excited to make something for Valentine’s Day.

I have seen so many great pallet projects around lately. And I had recently found some very rough boards on the side of the road. I decided to try my hand at making some pallet art for Valentine’s Day.

This is what I did:

• I started off by cutting the boards into 35 inch-wide sections.
•  I had 4 boards and once I cut them in half I ended up with 8 boards.
• I nailed a couple smaller boards on the back and then sanded it down a little to keep from getting too many splinters in my hands (I told you their were rough – LOL).

• Then I painted the boards white. And printed off a little saying with my Silhouette. But if you don’t have a craft cutter, I think painted the words freehand and sanding them down would be pretty!

• Then I took the Fat Quarters and made some hearts for a banner.
• I sewed along the edges of the hearts and stuffed them with a little quilting stuffing.
• I hot glued them onto some pretty Baker’s Twine and attached them to my board with a little hot glue, covered up with pretty upholstery tacks.

• Next I made a little garland with Dollar Store heart doilies, .99 Valentine lights I picked up on clearance last year, some white cupcake liners and little rounds from the Adorn It fabric I cut out with my Big Shot Machine.

• I glued the alternated between the heart doilies and the cupcake liners with a round piece of fabric inside. I glued them all to the lights. And Voila – a pretty little garland for my mantel.

• The last thing I did was make a simple rag wreath with the left-over fabric. I tied strips onto a Dollar Store wreath. And then hung a little heart ornament inside.

Overall, a simple mantelscape, but one that coordinates and I love the twinkling lights. Makes me happy to see the bring colors in the middle of gloomy Winter weather!

So tell me — do YOU decorate for Valentine’s Day??

What have you made to celebrate??

{Leave links to your projects in the comments so we can all come over and see them}

Be sure to check out these festive DIY Sweetheart Plastic Cup Lights from Crafts by Amanda!

And guess what!! An AdornIt Fabric Giveaway is coming up on Monday!! Yay!!

 I’m linking up to Beth’s awesome party – be sure to check it out!!

xoxo

PS — It’s Friday – my favorite day of the week!!

The Weekend Wrap Up Party is coming up tonight. 6 PM MST. I am excited to see YOUR ideas!!

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