Simple and quick Cute Silhouette Easter Bunny art

 Sorry FOLKS, this is a REPLAY week.
So here is a blast from the PAST!
I have plenty to share, Just not plenty of TIME!
So since Easter is around the corner I thought I would show you a quick and easy repurposing craft.

Good Monday Morning my Beauties! I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
I am busy busy busy, getting the new booth ready for the Grand Opening on Friday March 1st.
I am so excited not only for myself but for all the other NEW vendors coming into the store.
There are a ton of people starting out for the first time..living their creative dream.
Whats not exciting about that?!

Anywhoo..in order to start stocking up on more things I knew I had to get started on my smalls
for the booth. So I thought why not make some Easter stuff.
I had this old board that I got at Goodwill.

I painted over it with my CeCe Caldwells paint.

I then went to my silhouette program and printed out some bunnies.
I used just plain old contact paper to transfer the cut outs to the board.
I then used 3 different colored craft paints to paint in the bunnies.

Here they are, cute little Bunnies, ready for Easter!

One project down, only about 500 more until I am ready.
I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial!
Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

 

"HAPPY CAMPER" vintage window Summer Decor Vinyl Sign

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We are leaving for vacation so I thought I would hit REPLAY on one of my favorite summer craft projects from last year! ENJOY!

Good Monday Morning my BEAUTIES!!

We are in CRUNCH time here at the ART IS BEAUTY house...

(it seems we are always in CRUNCH time)

Never enough time and too much to do..

Hubby is re roofing the shed..(which I was was suppose to help with)

but then we both realized we leave for a family vacation in less than 10 days

and I had NOTHING for my booths.

I have been furiously working on furniture while he works on house projects..

OH and did I mention we are also suppose to paint our 2 story house within the next 10 days...

and yeah....I still haven't picked out a paint color yet..

Yeah..its how we ROLL....so while I was waiting for paint to dry

and working on other booth projects I thought...
"I will just quick sneak in a project for me"

Hah...no one would notice RIGHT????

Yeah he noticed....OH WELL..:)

If you remember I picked up a bunch of free windows over fathers day weekend.

I knew I wanted to make some projects with them and

just had to find the time to do them..

FUNNY....paint drying time is the PERFECT time..(especially when you don't feel like doing laundry)    :)

I cleaned up the windows and then had to decide what I wanted on them.

If you remember I made my Father in law a Wheel Cover for his camper

for Fathers day..

You can see that HERE.

I had liked the design so much and was trying to figure out how to incorporate it in the house.

The window was the perfect way.

 

I used my Silhouette to cut out my design with my vinyl 

and placed it onto my window.

I just love the VINTAGE feel that goes so well the window.

Normally Purple would not be a color I would choose,

but for some reason it just called to me.

I just loved it.

I hope you enjoyed this fun little project.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for the LINK party,

where you can show off all the goodies you have been working on.

Until next time..

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL.

French Easter Art using "Americana Decor CHALKY finish" paint

Hitting Replay today and showing you

how you can make some fun French Easter Art!

I got to try out the NEW AMERICANA Decor Chalky Finish paint and was

itching to try it out.

I was wracking my brain on what I wanted to use it on when I remembered a bunch 

of craft boards a friend had me rescue from her garage. 

Once I saw it the first thing I thought of was EGG...and with EGG I thought EASTER...

so I got to work.

 

I grabbed my Americana Decor paint and mixed up a little custom paint.

I wanted a slight pink..not to much..so I didn't mix all the way.

I wanted it to look blended on the board.. I used the colors Camel and Lace.

I loved that it was PINK but not TOO pink.

When the paint was dry I used Americanas French script stencil for my background.

I used my stencil brush and the LACE chalky finish paint to stencil on my script.

I was in love already and was loving how the paint was working all together.

This is where it gets even more fun. I used my Silhouette to

cut out a BUNNY shape (you could also use carbon paper and a bunny picture and simply

transfer on and paint a bunny) 

I used Americanas Chalky finish "NEW LIFE" to stencil on the bunny

and the french words "JOYEUSES PAQUES" which in french means

HAPPY EASTER. 

I thought it went perfect with the french script stencil.

 

to finish it off, I paired it with my little ceramic Bunny Family that my 

Momma passed on down to me...

I loved looking at them every Easter on the mantle (even thought the big one wearing the guitar was one I found thrifting so it matched my 4 kids) 

and now my kids get to grow up seeing it on my mantle....THAT IS...if they or I don't break it..

But I figure if it made it through me and my 14 siblings....

IT SHOULD in theory...make it here!

I hope you enjoyed the fun EASTER craft..(I can't believe for once I actually have a season up early)

and until next time...

Make someones day BEAUTIFUL!

Hugs,

Karin

Rescued wood turned Michigan "FALL" scrabble tiles.

  

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 While I run around like a chicken with its head off 

getting ready for the Randolph Street Market

I thought I would replay a FALL

craft I did last year!
I hope you enjoy!

Good Morning my Beauties!

Well guess what?

It has been feeling like FALL lately here

(which means I have been freezing my tookus off)

That being said....it did motivate me to create some Autumn Decor,

including decorating my mantle.

 While we were camping the summer (oh how I already miss summer :))

My Father in Law pulled a box of these wood squares out to burn in the campfire.

Now you all know me by now...

I looked at him and said...
"woa, woa, woa,......whatdayathinkyourdooingtherebuddy?"  :)

To which he replied.".Just getting ready to burn some kindling to start the fire."

I looked at him and said.."hang on"

I went next door to my camper and grabbed a bunch of kindling...and said..

"HERE....I am trading you"! 

He knew.....I couldn't let these perfect little square pieces of wood be burned.

He accepted my offer and I brought the wood home....

where it sat........in my garage....

My hubby was thrilled.......NOT!

He said.."what are going to do with those?"

I said..."Make scrabble tiles"

To which his reply came in the form of a NON VERBAL 

response that can only be heard by wives...

It was the sound of his eyes ROLLING into the back of his head with 

the classic "YEAH RIGHT" look on his face.  :)

 Well I took it as a challenge....I didn't know when I was going to make them.

But now I HAD to.

So one night while the hubby was teaching at the college

I stained up some of the squares to look like scrabble tiles.

Then I pulled out my Silhouette cutting machine 

and created scrabble letters out of vinyl

and for the "A" I used a state of Michigan graphic that I have 

used on other Projects. 

You can see those HERE.

Now this is the part where it almost turned into a FAIL...instead of FALL craft.

I laid out my vinyl on my squares...

as usual things were not going smoothly.

I got all the vinyl transferred to my wood blocks but they were

 not sticking for NOTHIN...

I thought...I will use some poly to spray over top of them...

Well, I didn't use the normal poly spray I normally do.

This stuff must have had some other alcohol or acetate chemical in it.

Where I sprayed over the letters it started to basically MELT..

DOH!!!!!

Well, instead of scrapping them right away...I thought

I will wait this out...

I am glad I did.

I let it dry and where I had laid my vinyl there was a perfect impression

of my letters. a nice little raised edge.

So when it was all dry; I pulled off the vinyl and used 

a permanent paint pen to color the spots that were not covered in poly.

 I actually like how they turned out BETTER.

I don't have to worry about the letters peeling up.

and it fits in perfect with my Fall Mantle.

 So like I try to remember...

Be patient...sometimes just like Bob Ross says..

They are happy little accidents.

I hope you enjoyed this little fun Autumn craft.

Until next time.

Go make someones day BEAUTIFUL. 

Pumpkins Cider and Hayrides Autumn Craft from old Cupboard door

I am trying to Motivate myself to get working on some Fall
Crafts. So I am recapping this old post in the hopes of being INSPIRED!
ENJOY!

Good Morning my Beauties.
Just a quick post to show you IN FACT that I did do an
Autumn craft this year..:)
I actually did it a couple weeks ago and just now
am getting around to posting it.
Its modeled after the one that Ella Claire did which I just loved.

I have a ton of these old doors in my shed thanks to a friend who remodeled her kitchen.
I save them for when I have just the right sign I want to make.
I just filled the the old hole from the knob and started painting.

I used some custom mixed colors on this to get the reddish orange on the edge.
and painted the middle white.
Wanting the sign to look old its nice because it doesn't have to be perfect.

Using my silhouette I just cut out the words "pumpkins Cider and Hayrides" in'
different fun fonts and then added the arrow.
I used acrylic paint to paint in the stencil.
When it was done I waxed and buffed the whole thing.
and now I can say I did an Autumn craft and get that whole monkey off
my back..LOL!!
I hope you enjoyed!

and now I really want some CIDER..:)
Have a BEAUTIFUL day...
Until next time,
Karin

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Rescued Table and Chairs Turned Vintage Farmhouse Milk and Cream Table

Since its Thursday Today I thought I would do a little
THROWBACK Thursday post.

So I am Reposting one of my Favorite posts from while back
as a Throwback!
Enjoy!

Good Morning my Beauties!!!
Did you all have a good weekend?????
We had a very very busy weekend.
Remember me telling you its been the slow season at the booth?
Well that all changed in a weekend. I have had to bring furniture to my booth 3 days in a row..
and I am NOT complaining...but it meant I needed to get cracking on some more furniture..
BREAKS OVER...

I picked up this table and chair set on mega clearance at Goodwill..
$15 bucks for the set basically before it went to the furniture recyclers..AKA..
the wood chipper...

You can see why...BUT my heart knew it could be saved...I thought of all the other
furniture that ends up in the dump or wasted and I knew it was time to pull up my big girl panties
and prepare for some FAIRY GODMOTHER MAGIC!!
On the bonus side..I couldn't really make it look WORSE!!! :)

You can't even tell from the back HOW bad the top was, but once I started to sand
it really shows you how bad the wood...and I use the word WOOD in the loosest term possible when
referring this table top as wood.
Where the spots are is where all the RAISED spots were.I needed to bring it to a level area.

Once I got it a smooth as possible I decided that this table top was gonna need some sort of
graphic or something on the top. So I painted it with some
CE CE Caldwells Vintage white...and I painted the legs with
Beckly coal.

For the chairs I went all MAD SCIENTIST and just mixed a bunch of blues and creams I had to get
this smokey pale blue color. I wanted the table black and white, but you know I need color and
I knew making the chairs a different color would really  make it POP!
(Mind you this is after all the wood filler and sanding I had to do to cover up
what ever animal ate this table and chairs!)

This is where my Epiphany hit...
In the moment of trying to save this table and make it beautiful again, I knew I instantly wanted it to have a vintage feel...and I had just done that vintage MILK AND CREME window..
You can see that HERE
well how much cooler would that look in a larger size on a table???
I had to find out.
So I used my silhouette to cut it out again, this time on a much larger scale.
I painted it in with black paint and when
everything was dry I distressed it and Poly'd the top!!

Oh and I had to show the chairs a little lovin, so I added numbers to them too..:)

And there you have it...What once was almost in the garbage and beaten up and
abused...

Now has a second chance...And honestly....If I didn't need a table for 6..
This SOOOOO would have been MINE!!!!  LOL!!



Thank you so much
and have a BEAUTIFUL day!