Can you believe we are already 1/3 of the way through Summer? Not me. This week we celebrate 2 birthdays in our family. I LOVE what Traci and Christine have created today. These would be great additions to our birthday parties or decorations around my house… Lisa
First up is Traci. July?? You must be kidding! I can’t believe that the kids have been out of school for a month and we are well into summer! July 4th is only a few days away and I’m getting ready for a fun family BBQ. I thought I would be extra festive this year and have fun with a few table decorations. I love Lori’s popcorn boxes and the red and white stripes immediately reminded me of this special holiday. Filled with popcorn and a few of Lori’s 3D spiral stars, these boxes will look super cute on my table.
To add to the red, white, and blue theme, I decided to also add some fun firework place cards to my table.
These are easy and fun to make — I just cut some white card stock to 4×6, folded them in half, and added Lori’s adorable firework set
I can’t wait to finish my guest list and make some more!
Please stop by my blog, Artsy Albums, and let me know what fun plans you have for the 4th! If you do,
I might just celebrate the 4th with a giveaway!
Celebrating freedom,
Traci
Next is Christine.
If it’s time to do some last minute Fourth of July decorating, I have a easy table center piece for you. It takes minutes to cut and assemble. I used a bucket that I had picked up at the Dollar store and filled it with pinwheels and crepe paper. Here’s how I did it.
I used some of Lori’s digital paper for my pinwheels. I imported them into the Silhouette Studio program and filled my pinwheel shapes with different patterns of the paper. I turned off all my cut lines and printed everything on my white paper. But I needed some printed paper on the back too because when you pull the flaps of the pinwheel forward, you want to see more color. So I switched out my patterned paper fills, put my paper back in my printer upside down and printed again. Then I put that paper on my Silhouette mat , turned my cut settings back on and cut out all of my pinwheels. I would think that if you needed to, an 81/2 x 11 piece of paper would hold at least 10 pinwheels so an easy way to mass produce. Then I assembled my pinwheels, using some Echo Park brads for the centers.
Then I cut them to the lengths that I wanted and covered the wooden skewers with washi tape. Then it was just a matter of gluing the pinwheels to the sticks. I used hot glue and covered the glued area with a scalloped circle punched out of red cardstock. I stuck them in the can with pop glue dots on the bottom so that they would stay still and pushed red crepe paper to further secure them.
Then I had some fun decorating the front of my can. Lori has recently added these fun spiral shapes to her store. I can’t tell you how cool they look in real life. I think this is my favorite part of my project. I could sit and put these together for hours. 🙂 There is a large flat piece for the bottom and then seven little pieces for the petals. They fold up on both sides and then you glue them to the bottom and then to each other. I can see making these really big and then attaching some back to back and hanging them as decorations as well.
Well, I hope everyone has a happy Fourth of July! We’ll be celebrating with family and having a great big picnic!
Lori Whitlock supplies: 9 Starburst Seal Set, Spiral Stars, Patriotic Picnic Paper digital papers @ Jessica Sprague, Echo Park, Decorative brads from the Hello Summer collection, Echo Park, Little Boy paper collection
Both projects are awesome!!!
Such fun, festive projects! They put me in a happy mood just looking at them–I’ve pinned ya. 😉
Absolutely love all these projects, so festive, awesome job Traci and Christine!