IKEA Project #5 - Circus Themed Mobile

IKEA Project #5 - Circus Mobile

I am super excited about this one.

Below is a picture of what it looked like when I bought it from IKEA. This is a white  drying rack found in there laundry section. check it out HERE  

Supplies:

• IKEA drying racks (white, red or black)
• Tissue Paper
• Modge Podge
• Brush
• Wire
• Fabric Strips
• Ribbon
• Scrapbook Paper
• Glue Gun & Glue
• Pony Beads

The first thing I decided to do to this was add some color to the legs, these legs have an indent area on both sides. I picked out some blue tissue paper, grabbed my modge podge and brush and was ready to rock and roll. To apply the tissue paper, I first spread a little modge podge in the indentation and took a torn piece of tissue paper, pressed the tissue paper onto the modge podge and then took more modge podge and brushed it onto of the paper also, then if there was tissue paper on the sides I would just brush them towards the middle and seal them down.  I also covered the bottom round base with tissue paper also using the same technique.

Once I had the legs finished, I had to decide what theme I wanted. I came across some fantastic scrapbook paper of circus animals and all things circus in the "All About Boys Stack".

To make the Streamers:

Cut out the different designs from the scrapbook pages, organize them a bit on your table so you have a clear idea of how they should be glued onto each ribbon. Take a 10-12" ribbon and glue one design on one side of the ribbon, then turn over and glue the other design on the backside (these need to be the same size). Continue to work down the ribbon (I put 3 sets of designs on each ribbon). you will need 16 strands of ribbons for this part and 96 designs. Once your finished with a strand you can clip it to the mobile using one of the hanging clips.

To make the Big Top:

Take wire and make 2 circles. The first one measuring 2" across and the second one 15" across. I made the circles by taking my wire making a complete circle then going around the entire circle by wrapping more wire around. These are not solid circles, they are still going to bend (that is ok for this project). Now I grabbed red & white fabric. Each strip will me 9" long, you will cut strips at an angle as shown in the below photo (your strips need to be skinnier at the top and wider at the bottom). You will need 16 strips of white and 16 strips of red. Tie each strip onto the smaller wire circle, alternating colors. Now glue the larger wire circle to the top of the 8 legs. To glue the wider ends of the fabric strips to the larger circle follow this order (white onto the wire above one of the legs, red, white, red on the bare wire in between the leg you just used and the following one, repeat until you complete the circle.) I personally did all my white strips first then my red ones. Once all the strips are glued, cut v's into the ends of the fabric that are dangling over the wire.

To finish it all off. I glued yellow ribbon around the entire base (on top of the fabric) and then added a yellow bow to the top and your finished.

Hope you enjoyed this craft project.

Carrie

Daisy Corkboard's - IKEA Project

I recently attended a blog mixer to celebrate IKEA's new catalog.

After enjoying a nice breakfast and chatting with my fellow bloggers, we all had a chance to check out some of there great products. They also had a educational class on there comfy mattress sets, where we were taught the difference of how each material works and which material is best for your body. Then we of course all took a nap (JK) and tested the mattress's out ourselves.

IKEA is a fun store to not only check out there display rooms (office, bedrooms, kitchens) upstairs ,where you get a ton of inspiration, then downstairs you have more of a store/warehouse set up. I found items for future projects left and right. 

Check out there catalog: Here you can either download it to your computer, ipad or phone.

One of my great finds was a 3 pack of heat trivets for $2.99.  You can find here

these are normally used for putting a hot pot or dish on.

But I had much different plans for these babies. 

Because they are made of cork, I instantly thought of making some decorative cord boards for one of my walls. 

Ta-Da... see how cute these are. I made the flower background out of recycled cardboard and modge podged decorative scrapbook paper onto the cardboard. Once dry then I applied glue with my glue gun unto the back of the cork round and then applied directly to the middle of the flower. 

Now you can tack your important messages or notes onto the cork board. 

Happy Crafting!!!

Carrie

Bathroom Wall Art - Epic WIN

I am doing the happy dance.

uh huh, oh yeah

After my epic fail a couple days ago, I was determined to make this work.

If you want to check out the epic fail click here

So I figured while I was redoing it, I might as well make a few adjustments that will help this artwork last longer. My first attempt I used Card Stock, this time I grabbed 2 slats from a venetian blind and cut them up. Because after I put up the first set I thought to myself " hmmm card stock and moisture, not sure if that's a good idea". So after thinking about it for a while I thought of these slats that i had. and thought "hmm there plastic, plastic & moisture, purrrrfect".

The only reason I have these extra slats is because they broke off the blind and they were replaced by new ones. 

supplies I used for this project:

• 2 off white venetian blind slat's
• scissors
• hot glue gun & glue
• washi tape
• chipboard or recycled cereal boxes
• 3 different colored scrapbook paper 12x12
• glitter modge podge
• tacks

Let me know how you like my win on this project

Happy Dance!!

Carrie

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Easter Garland

I had an exciting, fun filled night with some terrific gals last night. 

I recently joined a local craft group that gets together once a month.

This month we made these fantastic Easter garland.

Thanks so much Emily for putting this project together.

Each garland came with 1 shamrock, 1 bunny head, 1 carrot, 1 flower and 2 eggs.

We started off with chipboard cutouts of these shapes.

Then we choose which scrapbook paper(s) we wanted to use.

So you take the chipboard cutout, turn it upside down onto the back of your scrapbook paper and trace.

cut out the paper flip it over and glue the paper to the chipboard. easy peasy.

Then you can add embellishments to the tops of the cutouts or leave them. 

To make into a garland, we punched 2 holes into each cutout. one on each side. 

then took wire and looped through holes and twisted off (you can curl the ends if you like.)

Last but not least add strips of colorful fabric and tie onto the wire using knots. 

If you have any questions please let me know.

Happy Easter Everyone!!!

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