My Creative Lifestyle: 2020

Monday, August 24, 2020

Mandala Making

Good Morning,

I'm back!!

I've been trying to maneuver the new normal. It's been a challenging, right??

My creativity and inspiration really took a hit when Covid19 came to visit, so I put all focus on helping my family. My grandson came to visit for spring break and stayed as all schools went to virtual learning. We finished virtual second grade. Now we are becoming pros in third grade virtual learning. I hope y'all are making it through these weird times and finding some time to be creative.

Today I started learning about making Mandalas. If you follow my Pinterest page you can look at lessons I found to help me. You can also just click on the Pinterest box on this page and it will take you right to Pinterest. The name of the Pinterest board is Mandala art lessons.

I purchased some tools on Amazon to help. I will put the links below.

Happy Creating!

Shari

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Dollar Tree St. Patricks Day Sign

I love a good Dollar Tree project!

Supplies:

Unfinished wood clover from Dollar tree
Americana Multi-surface paint in Black Tie, Leprechaun, Foliage green
Americana Décor Distressed Harlequin 12x12 stencil
Sharpie metallic gold medium tip pen
Painters tape
1"paint brush
1/2" sheer ribbon
Thin twine
Makeup sponge or pouncer

A simple unfinished dollar wood sign gets an upgrade

Add swipes of each color green until completely covered.

Cover the clover with the stencil and tape it down. Using a cosmetic sponge, stencil the black tie paint over the stencil.

Using a metallic gold Sharpie, dot the center of each diamond shape, outline around the edges, and outline the clover. Tie the black ribbon on the stem and add thin twine to hang.

Super simple, super fast, super cute sign!

Shari

Monday, March 2, 2020

Cute, Easy, Diy Beehive Tutorial

I have been seeing so many cute bee décor ideas as we approach spring.
One that I keep seeing are these adorable bee hives. Inspiration hit and I had to try and create one for myself.

Supplies

Half of a plastic Easter egg
Twine rope
Hot glue gun and glue
Wax paper
Scissors
Small paint brush
Americana Multi-surface paint -black tie
Embellishments of your choice

I bought my plastic Easter eggs at Walmart. They are nesting eggs and were the perfect size for my beehives. For best results use the rounded end and not the flat end.

Wrap the egg half in wax paper. Twist at the top and fold under the egg. This keeps your hot glue from sticking to the egg and holds the shape.

Start at the large end. Add a drop of glue to the wax paper and attach the twine. Continue wrapping the twine around the egg hot gluing it to hold it into place. As you wind up to the next layer, and all layers after, you add the hot glue to the twine not the wax paper.

Cut the plastic wrap off the bottom and top. If wanted you can remove all the plastic wrap.

NOTE: In some places you will not be able to remove all the wax paper from the hive.

Cut a piece of twine for your loop at the top and another for the bee opening on the side. Glue into place. Paint the back twine of the opening with Americana multi-surface paint. Be careful not to get paint on the circle of twine.

Glue on any embellishments you want to finish your hive. NOTE: I added a wood base recycled from old coasters.

I hope this inspired you to make your own cute and easy beehive for your spring decor!
Shari

Friday, February 28, 2020

Tin Can Beverage Holders

I love a great reuse project! These cute beverage holders are not just for summer. You can decorate them for camping trips, around the backyard fire pit, music festivals, that labor day BBQ. Check out my full tutorial on the DecoArt website.

Beverage holders