Aug/Sept Craft Nights

A fellow mommy friend has started a monthly craft night, where we get together after the kiddos have gone to bed, to create a masterpiece (or two) for our home!  I'm a little behind in posting, as we've had two craft nights so far, so both of the nights' crafts will be shown off here!

Our first craft night was in the middle of August, before school started.  On the agenda were a canvas painting and a Welcome sign for a door.  I had no idea what I wanted to do for my canvas.  I came to the party a little unprepared, only knowing that I wanted to do something for Molli's room, since it was freshly painted the purple color she picked out!  I stopped at the craft store on the way, finding a vinyl phrase I could stick on the canvas and then paint over.  Well, the phrase was great, but I didn't use the vinyl I bought.  Instead, I used scrap booking letter stickers.  I stuck them on the way I wanted and then painted over them in a light pink color.  The stickers didn't stick on the canvas as well as I thought they would, so there was a little 'bleeding' of the paint under the letters.  But nothing a little touching up of white paint couldn't fix!  The completed canvas is currently sitting in Molli's room on her table.  I have yet to find the perfect place to hang it!

 
The second craft of the night (which I just recently completed, shhhh!) was a decorated empty frame for the front door.  My friend Jill, the awesome host and curator of craft night, provided the frames, already painted a mustard-y yellow, to go with the fall theme.  I made felt flowers to decorate the frame and made a pennant banner with letters to spell out "Welcome."  I already have a pumpkin for the month of October to go on the front door, so I thought I'd use this to decorate the door for the month of November!

September craft night was just a couple of nights ago, and I'm proud to say that I pretty much completed it that night!!  The theme was Halloween, and Jill found a cute paper flower craft on our favorite website, Pinterest!  If you don't know about Pinterest yet, it could be a good thing.  I LOVE IT though, it's just very addicting.  We made some paper flowers using scrapbook paper and a lot of accordion folding. We also painted clay pots, hot glued a lot, and shaved that styrofoam stuff that you can stick fake flowers in to keep them in place.  Sorry, I'm not crafty enough to know the technical name for it.  It's green and comes in a block and is messy when cut up!!!!  Anyway, what a SUPER CUTE and easy project.  I made two to put on our mantel.  I'm still working on the overall look of the mantel, so I'll have a follow-up post on the finished product:)

I LOVE craft night.  I have to thank Jill Loy for being the brains all the fun stuff we do!!  And sorry about my photos.  Someday I'll learn how to take great pics!