Birthday Shirt

I needed a quick thank you gift for a nice family that is letting my husband crash on their couch this weekend while he interviews for a program for next year. (If you are reading this nice family because my husband is shamelessly promoting my blog- then thank you for letting him stay with you.) My husband told me they had a daughter and she was 22 mo- no other details- he's a guy after all... I'm impressed he remembered she was 22 months. So I thought I would make her a birthday shirt that's been in my head for a while now. I think my favorite part is the ribbon flame. Now I just have to wait until it's lil A's birthday to make another one- and that birthday can take its own sweet time- she's growing up too fast.

P.S. Today is the last day to enter our giveaway.

Seeing Green

Well now that it's February 16th and Valentines in officially past- time to start thinking green (St. Patty's green) without spending much green. I LOVE St. Patrick's day! To kick start St. Patty's I thought I would make some projects that would add some cute green to our house without spending a lot of money. Today's tutorial is covering a jar candle that I already had.

Measure your jar and cut your paper to fit the flat part of the jar. I then distressed the edges of the paper with a green ink pad.

If you've never distressed paper before, just rub your ink pad along the edges of the paper. Remember it doesn't have to be perfect in fact the less perfect the better. (Don't you wish that was always the case?!)

Then I stamped the word lucky on some white card stock and added some green shamrocks.

Cut our your word strip, and distress the edges in black to set it apart from the green background.

Modge podge your word strip onto your background paper.

Since I'm only using the cover for a month, I just taped it onto the back of the jar.

Viola instant St. Patrick's day cheer.