Make It Monday! Make You Smile!

Last week, we wanted to add some cheer with our felt sunflower. This week, we want to add some smiles with a simple faux terrarium! It's so easy to put together! We even have a project sheet !

 

First, pick some fun stamp critter designs that you want to inhabit your little world. Here, we stamped and colored some of dandelion designs' cute pandas. Carefully cut them out leaving a little border and set them aside for now.

Take a piece of floral foam or in this case Styrofoam and cut to fit the mason jar you are going to use. Cut apart some greenery bush and stick into the foam to create your little "forest". Glue them in if necessary.

 

 

Cover the foam with reindeer moss. making sure to get in between the plants.

Now, take your stamped images and place them within your plants. Use a little glue to hold them in place.

Take the whole piece and place it inside of the mason jar. Add a little more moss around the edges if necessary. You can add in firefly lights, too!

Punch out a 2.5" circle from a scrap of cardstock and write "Smile!" on a it. Tape to the jar lid.

Share this with a friend to bring some smiles or keep it on your desk to brighten your day! Thanks for stopping by today! Have a Happy Crafty week!

Our first show for May!

The months are going by so fast! If you're graduating or know someone who is, I bet you're thinking the same thing! Well, this month we have a lot of fun ideas for your graduates!

 We start the show with our Beader Extradonairre, Gayle! She shows us how to make a beaded grad cap! You can use any size beads but Gayle uses large beads so we all can see better!

Then, we have one of our HM High Board members, Sarah, who is a Senior at Leilehua High School! Sarah shows us how to put together a great Memory Jar.

One of the great things we have in our stores are the HM High stickers. Kurt and Aleya shows us some fun ideas you can use these stickers for.

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can tune it to get some ideas for your graduates!

April Showers Brings May Flowers!

You know that old saying...well here's my twist. April brings Showers of craft ideas with a new Joy of Crafting episode. They may not be flowers but the lei are close!

Our first guest crafter is new to the show but if you've been over to Enchanted Lake, then you already know Julie Bolos!

Julie shows us how to take mason jars and create them into a fun Grad Cap centerpiece!

Then, one of our favorite lei makers, Gloria Arias from Pearl City, gets us ready for graduation and other celebrations with an overview on four types of 3-straw lei!

From Mapunapuna, we have Colleen Mossman, who shows us how to make a cute grad cap favor out of cardstock. These would go great with Julie's jars!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you get a chance to catch the show! Happy Crafting!