DIY Pumpkins Speciman

Loved this when I saw this on www.myblessedlife.net. This is how she made it.

I love the fall time and this is perfect for it.

DIY Pumpkin Specimen Art

by MYRA on SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

I’m so stinkin’ excited to show you my pumpkin specimen art! I’ve been wanting to create specimen art for months, so I’m over-the-moon excited to finally have gotten it done in time for Fall!

Isn’t it cute! And yes, I used scrabble tiles {again}, but I couldn’t help myself.

Pumpkin Specimen Art Tutorial

Supplies:

• Photo frame {my frame is for an 11×14 picture}
• Scrapbook paper {or sheet music, newspaper etc}
• Foam board {Hobby Lobby runs 20×30 sheets on sale for $2.00}
• Scissors, pen, glue gun, glue sticks, ruler
• Pumpkin stencil, silhouette machine or make your own pattern with this clipart.
• Furniture felt pads
• Scrabble tiles {or just do extra pumpkins}

After giving my $2 yard sale picture frame a good coat of oil rubbed bronze spray paint, I used the mat that came with it to outline the size of foam board to cut.

I opened up the scissors to cut the foam board. Don’t try to cut foam board with scissors normally. Trust me. It isn’t pretty. If you have a box cutter on hand, use that, but be careful. Either way – be careful.

Next, I cut a piece of burlap and hot glued it to the foam board around the edges.

The spray painted frame looks beautimous now! I taped off the gold edge because I thought it would really pop with the bronze and burlap. I really like the extra detail too.

I determined how many pumpkins I wanted to use and what size they needed to be. Then I resized this pumpkin clip art in my silhouette machine to be 2″ wide. I cut out four “test” pumpkins out of copy paper so I wouldn’t waste scrapbook paper.

I then cut out 16 pumpkins out of various papers that I scored at Hobby Lobby on sale. Woot!!

Looking pretty!

I lined the pumpkins out to see what papers looked best together and to break up the polka dots. Ha!

Did you notice how the pumpkins stood out away from the burlap? Well these handy dandy felt pads did the trick. I stuck one on the back of each pumpkin and then I hot glued the pumpkins to the burlap. I used my ruler to line up the pumpkins.

Once the pumpkins were all glued down, I dug out my yard sale Scrabble set and found the letters for “pumpkins” and glued those down as well.

Paper Pumpkins

I saw these pumpkins and loved the look of them. They are really easy to make and are great for the next few months. Great for up coming holidays. I saw it on Pinterest and then it went from there. Instructions are at the bottom. Enjoy!

My girls and I made these as a table centerpiece. We cut 12 circles each: 4 inches, 5 inches, and 6 inches. We folded them, orange sides together, and then adhered the opposite sides together until we had a 3D sphere. We cut a bit off the bottom, so they'd stand straight. We added a green canvas flower, some rolled strips of green paper, and we made the stems by spraying a 2 inch strip of kraft soup staples with water, and then scrunching and twisting into a stem shape. Fun to make! They're great for Halloween, but we'll be keeping them up until Thanksgiving. Generic pumpkins always work through November. =) Click here for full credits.

September Visiting Teaching Message

Here is the Visiting Teaching Message for September.

This favor will for sure keep the Spirit with you just like and apple a day will too.

Come in and get yours before it is to late.

Fall Open House

We would love to see you there. Don't miss it.

Studio 5 Back to School

Are you all ready for Back to School. Some would say they are and some not. I am not quite sure because my daughter will just start kindergarten. I'm a little nervous about it.

Here are some great ideas for you to do for those back to school days.

These ideas were inspired all by the apple centerpiece that I saw on Shindig parties to go. I love that blog. They have been changed so that they are now my own design.

This is a simple scrapbook that was one piece of patterned paper from Adornit. I cut card-stock 6 x 6 and then cut the patterned paper into squares and placed them on corners. Each page will fit a school photo for each year.

Note Cards: who doesn't need note cards especially a cute gift for your new teacher.

Placemat will be perfect for every morning to help entice the kids to get all things done they need to before they leave for school. Dry erase so you can keep using it and using again.

Marshmallow apples: I took a large marshmallow and placed it on a skewer and dip it in chocolate. Then placed a piece of pretzel and airhead leaf on top.

This is also a great gift for those teachers every once in awhile they need a little boost.

Instructions for the Pencil Vase Centerpiece

Step 1: Gather your supplies: - Canned food with a pop top (or a can cut with a safety edge can opener) - Florist foam or styrofoam - 2 boxes of pencils - Scissors and hot glue

- Strip of paper that you like

- Apple sticker for center of medalion

Step 2:

- Empty out the contents of your canned food and save for another use. Wash and dry out the can and place a small piece of florist foam inside.

Step 3:

- Using a hot glue gun, place glue in a vertical line from the bottom to the top of your can and press one pencil into the glue, holding until the glue dries. Be sure not to skimp on the glue - you'll want your pencils to stay put.

Step 4:

- Repeat step 3 over and over again with more pencils until you've completely covered the can.

Step 5:

- Cut a strip of your printed green paper into a "ribbon" to wrap around the pencils on your can. Fit it around the center of the pencils and hot glue in place.

Step 6:

- Make circle on white card-stock and place apple sticker on it. Then mat is with green and black card-stock then clip edges and separate from each other back and forth.

CHOCOLATE COVERED OREO APPLE POPS

What you'll need:

- Wilton Shaped Party cellophane bags (I bought mine at Walmart)

- Red candy melts

- Wooden skewers

- Double Stuff Oreos

- Green Air Heads candy

- Stick pretzels

- Sharp Knife

- Shredded red tissue paper

- Pencil vase or another simple vase to hold your apple pops

Step 1: Melt your chocolate in a double boiler following the instructions on the candy melts bag. Freeze Oreo cookies in freezer for an hour. Then place skewer in Oreo and dip in chocolate.

Step 2: Place a small piece of pretzel stick with a little melted chocolate on it as well. This will help the pretzel stay in place.

Step 3: Then with the green airhead shape a leaf and dip in a little chocolate and stick it by the pretzel.

Step 4: Cover with sucker bag twist on tie. Then stick in floral foam in vase.

Step 5: Place your shredded tissue paper in-between the apple pops.

Cute little gift that was a mini Oreo dipped in chocolate and then placed a piece of pretzel and airhead leaf on top. Then placed a cute little tag on top.

These are the same little apples I made up above. I placed them in a snack bag and placed a topper on top as a cute thank you.

I hope you enjoyed all of these things as much as I did. You can also get your supplies at the Book Table and little kits will be available for some of them.

They'll go quick come in soon.

Visiting Teaching Message August 2011

Visiting Teaching Message for August 2011

Come and get yours. We are starting this new for each month. You can come in and purchase them already put together or just get the copies and make your own.

This month is on A Society of Holy Women. Get your visiting done this month with a cute little reminder and recipe for us to stick together.

They are inexpensive and are ready for you to pick up now. Be done early and look spectacular at the same time. You will love just like we did when we made them.

Located in the LDS department and Scrapbooking department.

Blow Out Sale

All patterned paper by the windows is 50% off.

Hurry, come and stock up on patterned paper

that you love and won't be able to get again.

Perfect deal for all those summer fun projects and back to school projects also.