Bottle Cap Fun!

SO I was at my favorite co op store the other day and they had these bottle cap thingys all over the place. They were really cute, and I decided I needed to figure out how to make them. So I kind of did but I am not 100% happy with it yet! Anyways I went to my craft closet and pulled out this gloss glaze stuff I had bought for a previous craft and bam it hit me this stuff would work. So here we go... I made these ones as magnets but I have seen them glued to hair clips, or how cute would they be as paper weights, or glued to the end of a paper clip, I don't know??? What else???

So now that I had the gloss my next, thought was where am I going to get bottle caps? I guess this project is more popular then I knew because Hobby Lobby had them and Ben Franklin, who would have thought??? I thought I was going to be drinking the night away!

PS I bought the gloss from Hobby Lobby forever ago, and this stuff lasts FOREVER!

Next, I looked in my embellishment drawer, yep I have an embellishment drawer! I decide to test it with Halloween brads, I just tore the brad part off of the back. and I cut a circle out in Halloween paper glue them both to the cap, and then put my gloss on top.

 You have to let them dry for like 24 hours and there you go you are done! They are simple and easy!

I tried doing it with stickers, and plain paper too, but the gloss discolors your paper, so I am thinking maybe if you laminated your print first and then glossed it it would maybe work?? I am not sure, but for now I guess I'll just stick to metal or plastic objects!

Halloween Advent Calendar

My mom saw this really cute idea on one of those morning talk shows so for craft night we got together and made these babies! I think they are so cute! So you can't really tell but the numbers are little metal party favor boxes. The lids have the numbers glued to them and then on the inside you place little candies, toys, goodies, love notes etc for the kids to open each day. I am going to add in mine clues to where to find bigger treats, jokes, and maybe some that say do the monster mash or different silly things for the kids to do. I also LOVE that I can flip this around and do Christmas on the back. The numbers are glued to a plastic circle on the lid so I can flip them and do Christmas numbers on the other side.


So here is the info:
We bought the magnet boards at the Heartland scrapbook store.
We bought Halloween scrapbook paper and used a cricket for the circles, square, and numbers.
Ribbon to embellish and or hang
And the the party favor boxes we bought at Michael's with a 40% off coupon.
And then just glued it all together.


Total cost was probably $19.00 which is kind of pricey but think it is for two holidays and it can become a family tradition!!! Plus I was thinking the other day I bet you could get cheaper magnet boards at home depot or Lowe's if you just went and got a metal sheet???

I LOVE Free!

I needed a little Valentines fun in our house, and Mr. Hess doesn't really like to pay for that little extra fun!! So I got creative! I found some sticks in the back yard and went to my handy dandy spray paint collection and started spraying. We sprayed them red and pink! (I must say that I love the rainbow colored grass it left behind!) Madi was the glitter girl and while the spray paint was drying her job was sprinkling the sticks with glitter. Then I had the kiddies color me some hearts and we hung them on our tree! It's kind of fun. But it was missing something... I wanted a cute table cloth so I went to my fabric scraps and found this pink cotton. I cut a square out of it and made some ruffles and sewed the ruffles and some pink ribbon on. originally I was going to ruffle the whole square but then my ADD kicked in and I just did the two edges. But I still think it turned out pretty cute, if I don't say so myself!

Raise your hand if you think I should stop blogging and go wash those dishes in the background!!!!