DIY St. Patrick's Day Banner {Easy!}

Sorry, no Keeping it Real today.  I just didn't have it in me.  I guess that's the beauty of having your own blog!  

I'll be back next Sunday with it, K?!

Today I wanted to craft! 

 I have been wanting to make a St. Patrick's Day Banner and when I saw Rebecca Coopers banner {with tutorial!} on her blog Simple as That, I just HAD to make one!  

You should go check out her blog.  It is AMAZING!  She is a fantastic Photographer, Scrapbooker, Crafter and Mom!  

For my banner, I bought an old hard cover book from a thrift store.  $2 bucks.  I love the old look of the pages!  

Then, instead of string, I used some grosgrain ribbon I had laying around.  I folded it in half, then used double stick tape to keep it folded.  

I almost sewed mine together, but I was too lazy to get my sewing machine out. 

I stapled the paper to the ribbon.  EASY!  

It took me about 45 minutes to make this and my 10 year old daughter helped trace the shamrocks.  She loves to craft too!

Hope your having a Lovely weekend!  It is 11:30am and I am still in my Jammies!  Yay!!

7 St. Patrick's Day ideas!

I'm not a big St. Patrick's Day person, but the last few years I have made some decorations for the holiday.  It's amazing what you can up with!  Just get your creative juices flowing!!

 You can't help but get motivated to make something when you see what other people are doing.  It's amazing!! 

 Here are some ideas I fell in LOVE with:

Here's a SUPER cute idea for a treat from It is What it is.

I didn't even know there was such a thing as rainbow licorice!

Subway Art is one of my favorite ways to decorate.  So easy and it looks great!  The girls at Eighteen 25 created a cool Subway Art and are so nice to share!!

Rebecca over at Simple As That made this cute and simple Clover banner.  I love the book pages!  I seriously want to make this!!

Jen from Craftomaniac made this adorable wreath for St. Paddy's Day.  I love the cute little horseshoes! 

I am Mommy made this absolutely DIVINE St. Patrick's Day Cake.  Yummo!

I love this!  I want to try it on my little Girl!  This is from Cute Girls Hairstyles.

One more Fabulous printable from Today's Fabulous Finds!

St. Patricks Day Wood decor Redo

Don't forget to enter my Spring cards and tags Giveaway!!  Click here to see what you can win:) Ends tonight at midnight!

Many moons ago, I made a cute St. Patrick's day Wood craft. It was when I was REALLY into Tole Painting.  Have you ever tried that?  It is so cool!  I loved it.  I made a TON of cute Wood crafts.  I still love this one, but it needed something.  Here is what I did:

Cute, right?  They were just plain old wood, with no embellishments.  I added burlap (of course!), buttons, and a cute shamrock cut out of some fabric I found at Joann's in their remnant bin (wahoo!).  

 

It's amazing how much better something can look with just a little sprucing, huh?  I feel like it's a brand new decoration! 

Have you redone an old craft of yours recently?  I would love to see it!!

So Lucky Canvas St. Patrick's day decor

I don't do much decorating when it comes to St. Patrick's day.  I don't mind the holiday, but just haven't felt the need to decorate....until this year!  I love all the ideas I am seeing from all you talented ladies.

The other day I showed you a little peek of what I made on Saturday.  I love love how it turned out! 

Whatcha think???  I was trying to think how to embellish it, so the shamrock is burlap with a ribbon rosette in the center.  Of course I had to add a few buttons in the middle!  I love BUTTONS.  They look cute with just about anything:) 

I was nervous about cutting this picture down, but I think it looks fabulous, after all I am sooooo lucky to have my family!  When I showed it to the hubs he said, "Thats really nice."  Good answer honey!

 Sorry, no tutorial, but it was super easy.  I painted the white canvas ($3) with leaf green paint (let it dry for about 1 hr.), mod podged the scrapbook paper on, let it dry for about 2 hrs.  Then I cut the "so lucky" out with the cricut using the Storybook cartridge.  Next, I googled shamrock images and found a shamrock template to print out.  I traced it on some burlap, cut it out and hot glued it on the canvas.  I also hot glued the rosette on the shamrock.  Lastly, I added the buttons and my cute family picture and DONE! 

I am still doing a giveaway later this week!  I am giving away some lovely EASTER goodies:)

I am linking up with these parties:

Night Owl Crafting

C.R.A.F.T.

Skip to My Lou

Craftomaniac
Polly Want a Crafter 
Me Making Do 
Keeping it Simple 
Mad in Crafts 
Shanty2Chic 
Get your Craft on 
Tea Rose Home

St. Patrick's Day Favorites

I don't usually decorate much for St. Paddy's day.  I am not sure why.  It's a fun holiday.  This year I am determined to try some new St. Patrick's day crafts and start some kind of traditions with my family!  Here are some fun crafts I found to help celebrate the Green holiday!

When I saw this banner on the Fiskars site, I just about drooled on my keyboard!  It is so pretty and isn't your typical Green St. Paddy's day decoration.  You could leave it up all Spring!

Don't these look DIVINE?  I love the bright colors!  The colors of the rainbow:) I found this on Family Fun.  My kids would love these!!

Here is a cute craft that looks super easy to make!  I found these on Thoughts in Vinyl.  You can order the kit!  How easy is that!!

Craft on....