DIY: Tic-Tac containers turned Stylish Bobby Pin Holder

PINTEREST...THAT IS ALL!....joking!
     But in all honesty I have gotten my mother addicted to Pinterest, maybe not as addicted as I am but she's getting there...anyways, she seen some people put bobby pins in Tic-Tac containers just for convenience & i told her we should take it one step further with Mod-Podge & some scrap book paper! Which she immediately returned back with "Whats Mod-Podge?" So I decided to let her take the reins & do it to kind of show her how to use Mod-Podge & what it is and such. Here's how we made stylish bobby pin containers for our purses:

SUPPLIES:
-EMPTY TIC-TAC CONTAINERS (we have 2, one for mom & 1 for me)
-SCRAPBOOK PAPER (in any design or color you want it, we just used what we had laying around the house)
-SCISSORS (to cut the scrapbook paper & such)
-MOD-PODGE (to stick the scrapbook paper onto the containers. You can buy Mod-Podge @ Walmart)
-FOAM BRUSH (to brush on the Mod-Podge. got a pack of 9 in a variety of sizes for $1 @ the dollar tree)
-BOBBY PINS [optional]-(to put in the container, duh!)

LET'S BEGIN...

1. CLEAN TIC-TAC CONTAINER. Once you have your empty Tic-Tac container take all of the labels off & clean it so you've got a nice clean surface to work with.

2. MEASURE SCRAPBOOK PAPER. We just laid the Tic-Tac container on the scrapbook paper to decide how far up the paper needed to be cut to fit the bottle. (luckily for me this scrapbook paper was separated with 2 different kinds on one page, and one end was the perfect size, so I didn't have to do much measuring.)

3. CUT SCRAPBOOK PAPER. Cut it where you measured it reached.

4. MEASURE LENGTH & CUT AGAIN. I wrapped the scrapbook paper around it until I reached as far as it needed to and cut off the excess.

5. MOD-PODGE TIC-TAC CONTAINER. We used a small foam brush to spread Mod-Podge on all the outter sides of the Tic-Tac bottle.

6. STICK SCRAPBOOK PAPER TO MOD-PODGE. carefully place it evenly on the bottle. Then slowly & carefully roll the container sticking the scrapbook paper to it a little at a time all around it making sure to press out any air bubbles. Then hold the crease a few seconds to make sure it is sticking & that is is secure.

 7. MOD-PODGE ON SCRAPBOOK PAPER. Next we just used the small foam brush again to spread Mod-Podge over the scrapbook paper to seal it in.

8. LET DRY! I set it up so no wet sides were laying down and let it dry completely.

9. BAM! FINISHED! Put your lid on it, fill it with bobby pins & throw that bad boy in your purse or bag.

(CONFESSION: lol I totally got impatient & put the bobby pins in them & took this picture before they was actually 100% dry & you can kinda tell in the picture, but it didn't hurt them any!)

This was such an easy simple cute idea & i'm glad me & my mom thought to spice it up a lil but with some style. I hope this may have helped or inspired some of you! Keep DIY-ing on!

DIY: Picture Cutting Board!

Today I have a SUPER DUPER UBER easy do-it-yourself activity. A cutting board, with a picture on it. I totally give all credit for this idea to The Sweet Talk Shop website. I was floating around on Pinterest looking for good craft ideas when I seen this {Sweet & Easy Crafts} Decorative Monogram Cutting Board . This was a brilliant idea & I had a housewarming shower thing to go to this past weekend for my cousin & thought this would be the perfect time to try this project. Her kitchen is going to be done in Sunflowers, which was my inspiration for this board design.

Supplies:

-Clear glass cutting board (I got mine from dollar tree for only $1. it was a 7.5" by 7.5" I believe.)

-Your Picture or Design (you can print whatever you want, you can do a picture like i did [which was a picture of a sunflower] or a monogram like the sweet talk shop did.)

-Mod Podge (I used matte)

-Foam Paint Brush (I got a pack of 9 in all different sizes for only $1 at the dollar tree.)

Now because I got caught up in this project I didn't take pictures as I went but it's so easy you don't even need it.

1. Print Picture or Design (preferably print it to size of the cutting board so it will fit)

2. Cut Picture to desired size or shape (because my cutting board was round I decided to cut the picture to be round so they flow better)

3. Cover BACK of cutting board with Mod Podge! (I don't know how safe it is to put mod Podge on a surface where you plan to put food & things you will be eating so I would definitely recommend putting the mod Podge & picture on the back, hence why the cutting board needs to be clear [so you can see the picture through it].

4. Place picture on (wet) Mod Podge. Press the picture down good & make sure there are no air bubbles, (mine might have had a few because I didn't think to do this step.) [Make sure if the cutting board is face down, you put the picture face down. So when the cutting board is right side up, so is your picture.] (I know this is common sense but I feel like I must remind people because I know when I'm reading a tutorial I like very detail explained.) 

5. Mod Podge back of cutting board over picture. This is to seal in your picture. Make sure it's laying face down so the Mod Podge doesn't stick to your table or anything.

6. Let Dry! okay so this is the part that was tricky for me. I have read many tutorials on Mod Podge (since I haven't used it much yet) & they all say they will dry clear, So after I left it sitting out overnight & it still had some white on the picture on the front I started to worry. But after a few hours I checked & it had finally dried, had me worried there for a second. So if it does take a long time to dry don't be surprised, mine took hours.

At the housewarming shower nobody could tell this was home made, once I did tell someone it was homemade & she told my cousin who I made it for, they all could not believe it was do-it-yourself and went nuts for it. It was awesome! Talk about a crafting ego boost!!!

I tried & tried many times to get a picture without all the glares on the cutting board & just could not do it. So these were the best pics I could get. But be sure to check out The Sweet Talk Shop's Website for their great tutorial on this! 

                                                     

                                                                                

DIY: personalized shirt tutorial less than $5

Backstory:
So I seen a picture on Pinterest of a sweatshirt. It doesn't have a link to where to find it or buy it or even who made it so i would not have a clue who or where to credit it to. However I really liked the shirt & wanted one. All it showed was the back of the sweatshirt & it said "Because Hogwarts didn't accept FAFSA" which i thought was hilarious. However while making it I had to explain the point of it to a few people because no one seemed to understand what it meant. Guess I'm the nerdiest person in my family. Of course as most people know Hogwarts is the school in all the Harry Potter movies & books. & a FAFSA is the financial aid application you fill out to get financial aid for college. I am not ashamed to admit I go to school on financial aid. Anyways, I wanted a shirt that said this but had no clue where to find it, so i decided to get crafty & make my own. I've used iron on letters & they worked alright but fell off after a few washes so I decided to try something a little different. Also I wanted  Harry Potterish fonts & I knew that I couldnt find an iron on to look the way I wanted. So I decided I have some fabric markers that are supposed to be washable, which would be perfect.

p.s. All pics are not the best quality because they were taken with my cell phone.

Supplies Needed:

• T-shirt (in any color you want). I bought mine from the dollar tree for $1. It was a kids shirt but sadly I'll admit I can wear kids shirts & it was cheap, if you cant fit into a kids size though Walmart sells plain solid shirts in the mens section or in the craft section in all different colors.
• Fabric Markers (I bought a pack of like 5 for less than $5 but then I found another pack Sharpie brand for less than $5 & came with more in them, but I had already bought my other ones. Both of those can be found at Walmart)
• Printer (OPTIONAL) I did not use a printer, I done it the longer way that has more work because I'm too cheap to waste my ink when i don't have to. However it would be ALOT easier to print but I didn't mind the extra work.
• Paper. (I used lined paper because again on the cheap, printer paper is more expensive to waste rather than using lined notebook paper.)
• Xacto Knife. (This is an important tool to make the stencil for the shirt.)
• Cutting Board (So you don't cut up your table)
• Pen (OPTIONAL) this depends on if you draw your stencil like I did or print it.

Tutorial

1. Decide your size & Font. I used a piece of the paper I was going to use to put the words on and measure how big I want the words on the shirt by comparing the paper to the shirt and how big I could imagine it. Then I decided what kind of font I wanted the words to be in, I ended up using 3 different fonts.

2. Make Stencils. I used Microsoft word and typed what I wanted it to say and then drew it on paper or you could put the paper to your screen & trace. *TO MAKE THIS EASIER YOU COULD JUST PRINT IT BUT I'M TOO CHEAP TO WASTE INK* (FONTS USED: Candy Round (front), and I googled free harry potter fonts & picked 2 random ones for the words on the back)

3. Cut out Stencil. I used an Xacto Knife and carefully cut out all the words. This is the most tedious part of this shirt, it will make your hand hurt so taking breaks is the best thing u can do lol. MAKE SURE YOU USE A CUTTING BOARD UNDER IT SO YOU DON'T CUT UP YOUR TABLE.

4. Protect back of shirt. This is up to you, I just done this to be safe, but put some kind of cardboard or something inside the shirt just in case the marker leaks through the shirt and gets on the back of the shirt, which would be bad. I used a sketch book because it was relatively flat & wouldn't mess up me writing on the shirt.

5. Place stencil in desired position on the shirt. Just move it around and adjust it how you like. only do one side for now since you can only work on one side at a time. 

6.  Start to fill in the stencil with marker. Use your fabric marker & just start tracing with the stencil. Be very careful not to move the stencil around or getting underneath the paper which will screw you up.

7. Slowly Peel stencil off & start on a different section. try not to touch the parts you already colored because it can get on your fingers & you don't want black fingerprints all over your shirt. Do each line one at a time until you finish. 

8. Touch up & Fix any problems. So not all my lines and letters were perfect so afterwards I touched up some letters & straightened some lines & such.

9. Let Dry. I done the front one day & the back the next day because the marker says "Let Dry Flat Overnight" So I left it flat to let the front dry overnight, then the next day I done the back & let it lay flat overnight to dry. 

& YOUR DONE.

                         (its hard to take a picture of your back when your by yourself with a cell phone)

I loved how it turned out! Can't wait to wear it.

I have not washed it yet so I haven't figured out how the marker will work yet but it says that is machine washable safe so we will see. I hope so after all this work.

Now the point of this was not to say to make this exact shirt, It was to show you how you can make your own shirt for like less than $5 or $6 dollars. $1 for the shirt & less than $5 for the markers.

So you can make your own shirt in whatever color you want and draw or have it say whatever you want. The possibilities are endless... So enjoy.

Family Binder...Start!

Okay so I have a bunch of projects in the midst of my mind. All kinds.
I'm trying to get around to working on them while i manage my crazy life. I just have so many ideas I never know which ones to start on. However I have made a decision and have something in the process of being made.
It's a Family-Home Binder.
& let me tell you, this sucker has had me changing my mind a thousand times. I read a bunch of other peoples categories and what they put in it but my life is strange and so I have subjects I need others don't have and there's subjects alot of other people have but I just don't feel the need for.
So I have started with a list of all kinds of random things I would like to put in my binder. Receipts, homework assignments (since I'm still in college), to do list, calender, contacts, passwords, etc. and I've tried to organize them how I want them in order in the book and what will go where and what categories and subcategories there will be and lets just say the page is covered in scribbles since I've been moving everything around. I just want to have it completely planned out before I actually print everything & stick them in my book in case I change my mind last minute. I already have my binder & dividers & such. So be looking for a organizational binder comin from me soon. :)


-ashley the hillbilly princess