Wood you like to craft?

Love Linky Party!

2012-02-10T08:50:00.000-08:00

I just {LOVE} Wood you like to craft!!! It is so much fun seeing how one idea can translate into so many different but equally fabulous projects!

In case you missed it, I kicked things off with my "love" heart door hanging...

Then the Crafty Sisters shared their take with a natural, woodsy heart hanging of their own. Isn't it lovely?! I just adore all that wood grain!

Wendy followed with her little love birds and tree. Aren't they just the cutest?! I just love all the little details on the birds... but I think that tree is particularly wonderful!

And then Melinda wrapped it up with her book-page heart. I had no idea you could cut a whole book with a scroll-saw. Isn't she brilliant?! And her heart is totally adorable!

Thanks so much for playing along ladies. You guys always impress and inspire me!

But now its your turn!!! We want to see all on YOUR "Love" wooden crafts!

Please include our button in your post or on your blog somewhere so others can join in...

And please remember, this link party is for WOOD projects only with the "LOVE" theme. Thanks!

Can't wait to see your great ideas!!

Ruffled Book {Heart}

2012-02-09T09:37:00.000-08:00

Hey! It's Melinda from over at Under My Umbrella. I'm a little behind today. I tried to sign-in to blogger and it told me I changed my password 24 days ago. The only problem is I don't remember doing it or what I changed my password to :) My excuse is I have four kids and I'm a little low in the brain cell department. I finally figured it out and I'm ready to share a project with one of my favorite themes {love} and two of my fav crafting materials...books and wood!

I'm calling this creation my ruffled book heart. Interesting, right?! It's different and I'm not sure I love it in the picture but I LOVE it in my house. The best part of this project is out of one book you get two projects that are easy to do. Stay tuned for the second project later in the post.

This project cost me $1.00. I went down to the dollar store and grabbed a hardcover book. I traced a pattern of a heart onto the cover. For the next part all of the tutorials I have seen for making a Christmas tree or pumpkin shape from a book you then have to cut out the shapes by a few pages at a time. This is where this project would have lost me as a crafter. No patience or time here for that! I'm going to share one of the best tips ever with you.... Use the scroll saw and just cut the whole thing out at once.

Easy and fast! It took me about a minute. It makes my {heart} happy!!! Here is what you have...

I then opened my book, decorated it and folded down a few pages for the ruffles. I left the hardcover part on the book and could have left the project that way but I wanted a little extra support and I couldn't leave my friend wood out of the picture. I traced a heart on a 1/4 inch thick piece of wood and glued it to my book. It makes the whole project more solid.

You now have a ruffled heart book! I think this project *might* make a great teacher gift.

Here is that second bonus project I mentioned before..... Takes about a minute and it sure makes me want to go read a good book!

So "Tweet!"

2012-02-07T22:37:00.000-08:00

Hey there everyone!

It's Wendy here today to share my "lovely" addition to this month's theme...

I've been wanting a set of chunky little birdies for awhile and Krystal's theme was a perfect excuse to make some. These are my little "LOVE" birds.

As I said I wanted chunky so I used a pine 2 x 6 and my jigsaw to cut them out. The wings and feet are cut from 1/4 inch MDF.

Just a quick saw note...if you're cutting wood that thick the jigsaw is the way to go. It's SO much faster than a scroll saw and you won't go through 700 blades trying to cut out one little critter!

I painted the bodies but paper covered the beak, feet, and wings. I used my drill to make a small hole in the top of each one to add some feather hair and then drilled through the boy's beak so he could hold the flower for his lady friend.

To make the flower I rolled a small strip of felt into a rosette and then glued it onto a twisted piece of craft wire. I twisted the felt leaves into the stem and also added a small scalloped felt circle to the back of the rosette to cover the wire. Then just slipped it through the drilled out hole, adding a little bit of hot glue to keep it in place.

I cut the tree trunk from the 2 x 6 and the leaves from the 1/4 inch MDF.

I used the milter saw to cut a well into the center of the trunk for the leaves to sit in. One, so that it was balanced and two so that I can take it out and easily store it.

The trunk was painted the leaves took paper and mod podge.

Definitely a fun and not to hard project.

Just what I was needing!

{I'm sharing the patterns for the birds and tree trunk on my blog if you'd like a few birdies of your own!}

It's good to be back and crafting with WYLTC again!

These ladies I get to craft with each month are pretty awesome and too, I can't wait to see what all of you are making for your February decor.

Thanks Krystal for a great theme and inspiration project! Until next time...

Happy Crafting.

Valentines Crafty Sister Style

2012-02-07T09:57:00.000-08:00

Hi it's Nicole & Candace from Crafty Sisters

showing our take on Krystal's hanging Valentine!

This year we have really liked the soft subdued natural tones

for Valentines day so we were excited to

implement them into a Hanging Heart door hanger.

Santa brought me a Sawzall for Christmas

and we eagerly put it to use cutting down some branches from my yard.

You guys know us and how giddy we get for any excuse

to use power tools!

We cut down a branch that was approximately 6 feet long

and about 2 inches at the thickest diameter.

You can use rose snippers or a chop saw to cut the branch into 1/2" pieces.

We recommend using a saw if one is available

or your going to have a tired and sore hand....

Next we cut out a chunky heart from a 1"x12" pine board

with a jigsaw and sanded it smooth.

Using wood glue we then adhered all the little branch pieces.

Since our branch was fresh it took a while for it to dry.

What was cool was that as it dried the little branch pieces cracked.

It was completely unintentional but we loved the effect!

To paint it we made a cream "white wash" that

we literally poured over the top and let drip off in the sink.

It would take way to long to get into all those nooks and crannies

if you did it by brush alone.

After it dried over night we lined the edge with a strip of cream burlap

that we just glue gunned on and also created a bow tied with twine for it to hang from.

Pretty simple and fun to make!

You could really do a wash of any color over this and it would be great!

Thanks for the great inspiration Krystal!

We can't wait to see what the rest of you gals do!

{Love} Heart

2012-02-06T08:00:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here. It's my favorite time of the month again! Wood You Like to Craft time!!!! Since we are in February I naturally wanted to make a project for the big "LOVE" day and I needed something for my front door. So this is what I came up with.

I never know what to call these kind of things..... I guess its a wreath but not really. The official title could be a wooden-heart-mobile-door-hanging-thingy. :)

Whatever you want to call it, it was super fun to make!

All I did was get some plywood and cut out the heart shape with my jig saw. From there you can decorate it however you want!

I covered the center heart in a piece of scrapbook paper. Distressed the heck out of it and then hot glued on the little wooden letters. I got them at Hobby Lobby.

The outer heart I just painted by hand in stripes using colors from my paper design.

As you can see the stripes are far from perfect. I knew perfect wasn't going to happen so I varied the width and style of each strip so the imperfections would look on purpose. And I distressed the heck out the that too!

It still needed a little something at this point so I made some felt flowers and put an arrow through the whole thing.

The arrow was a last minute add on. I ended up just using a couple of skewer, like the ones for kabobs, that I had in my kitchen stash. Its just hot glued to the back of the heart and then further secured with some felt hot-glued over the top. The arrow tip and bottom are also just hot-glued on pieces of felt.

It was really a simple thing but I think the arrow made a big difference with the cuteness factor!

Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that the two hearts are simply attached to each other by a peice of ribbon stapled to the back. I also made a little loop at the top to hang the whole thing from. You need that! :)

So that's it! My Valentine's wood project. And it does look pretty dang cute hanging on my front door. Love it!

I can't wait to see what the rest of the WYLTC ladies come up with!

And in case you haven't figured it out yet, our theme this month is "LOVE" and we can't wait to see all the cute, wooden, Valentine's Day projects out there. The link party will start on Friday so be sure to come back and link up!

Thanks for reading!

Wood Manger-Crafty Sisters

2011-12-15T09:08:00.001-08:00

Hello again!

It's Candace & Nicole from Crafty Sisters.

Wasn't Melinda's barn door tree great?

We loved the inspiration of the barn theme and it reminded us

of another event that happened in a barn long ago....

Every year for Christmas, Candace's mother in law fills her home with the neatest nativity sets. We absolutely love a couple of her life size mangers. They are sweet reminders of what the season is all about.

This manger is probably the easiest manger you could ever build.

It's not meant to hold real babies..or 2 year olds...just in case any of you do that. ;)

But, a doll will work just fine! Or just use it for decoration.

This is a picture of the actual manger copied.

Candace's mother in law was sweet enough to let her come over, measure, and draw it down on paper.

Every cedar slat is cut at 30 inches. Four for the legs, and eight for the top slats.

Cut a 2 inch notch out of each leg, the thickness of it will

be determined by the thickness of your board..

We cut our notch out with a jigsaw, 16 inches up from the bottom.

Here's what you will end up with.

We really wanted to use old wood, but it's just so easy to find the right size of cedar slats at the store.

So, we stained each piece with the new "weathered oak" stain from Min Wax.

Incredible!!!!

It has a gray tone and oh my..it is the perfect shade of old wood!

Not as good as the real thing, but pretty darn close.

This seriously took 30 minutes to build, and it is a wonderful prop to any Christmas Eve Nativity!

Thanks Melinda for the inspiring theme!

A Tree Stand and A Stocking Holder...

2011-12-14T06:39:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone! Happy December and Merry Christmas to you all.

It's Wendy from Craft Goodies here today to share a few quick and easy Christmas projects.

First, I have to give a big thanks to Melinda for her tree stand. Didn't know I'd be needing one until I pulled out the little trees and found one was completely missing all of the pieces to its stand!

I wanted something kind of "crate-ish", and country looking so I went with a few strips of cedar fencing.

I cut them down and made two boxes, then glued and nailed them together. I added slats across the bottom and then drilled a few holes through the base pieces and bolted the tree into it's new home.

I can't wait for the wood to age a bit and take on that "gray" color.

{I still might add a fun, roughed up holiday image to the sides...still thinking!}

All in all super easy, and really fast. Had this done in about half an hour.

New problem this year-I decorated my mantle a bit different and thus my stockings needed a new way to hang. I'm completely into anything personalized these days so pictures were a must.

I used a few chunks of 2 x 6, wood drawer pulls, and a small wallet sized picture frame.

The wood got a fun and fast spray paint job, roughed up with the sander, and then a layer of stain before being glued together.

The hardest part was figuring out the tape on the stripes!

And last, I removed the backing on the frame, glued the glass into the frame and added my pictures. I want to be able to change them out over the years so I used velcro dots on each corner to mount the frame onto the base.

And TA-DAH! Our stockings are now hung by the chimney with care...

Thanks for another fun month ladies!

And for helping me get my house a bit more festive.

Merry Christmas to you all!!!

Happy crafting.

Christmas Tree Quote Sign

2011-12-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

Hello! Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here. Isn't Melinda's Christmas tree stand adorable?! What a fun alternative to a tree skirt. Unfortunately, just like last month, I am in the process of moving and don't have access to any of my power tools. I don't have a tree yet either, so a tree stand was out for me. Bummer, cause its SO cute!

(Before you feel too bad for me though, we are moving TODAY so things are finally going to start to settle down! Hooray!)

So instead of a tree stand I just thought about Christmas Trees in general. (that works right!?) I went to the craft store and found a frame that had a 12x12 opening and decided to make one of those cute signs that uses a quote as the shape of the tree.... you know.... like this!

Now, I have to confess that this was one of those projects were everything went wrong! First I painted the frame and the board inside the frame the same grey color, used vinyl to make a stencil for the text and antiqued the heck out of it. It was cute but the colors I used were so similar that it was hard to tell what it was from a distance. I hated it.

So I redid the inside of the frame only (the outside stayed) in a cream color and used a bolder color pallet to paint on the text. This time though, for some reason when I pulled up the vinyl stencil it took half the paint with it. It was a disaster!

Then miracle of miracles, I got a fun package in the mail from Oh My Crafts later that very day. They sent me some vinyl to review (more on that later!) and they had a ton of colors. So I decided to give this poor sign one more shot. This time I painted the inside of the frame a light grey color, I added some "birchwood" texture inspired by my friend Sarah (although mine turned out more like a snow storm) and then just cut the text from the vinyl.

I worked like a dream! (the OMC vinyl is amazing!)

I love how it turned out and I LOVE the bible verse to remind me what Christmas is really all about. And it looks great with the rest of my mantle decor!

The outside of the frame turned out super cute too with the little stencil I put on the corners. I'm thinking once Christmas is over I will reuse the frame with something else.

Anyway... I thought it would be fun to share the file I used to make the tree. So if any of you are silhouette users, you can click HERE and download the file to cut a bible verse tree of your very own.

Personal Use Only Please!

(let me know if that link works since I've never shared files that way before.)

I hope you all have a very merry Christmas!

Barn Door Christmas Tree Stand

2011-12-12T07:37:00.000-08:00

It's the best time of the year! Hey crafty ladies. It's Melinda from over at Under My Umbrella. December's WYLTC is all about Christmas. How can it not be?!!! I'm not a fan of tree skirts although some of them now days are darn cute. I'm a wood girl at heart. I love the smell of it. I walk into Home Depot and take a deep breath in. Ahh the smell of wood. With that said, this month I decided to focus on jazzing up my tree stand a bit with what else but wood!

You'll have to excuse my dark pictures! The sun hasn't been showing it's pretty face in these parts lately :) To make my barn door Christmas tree stand I built 4 mini barn doors with scrap wood.

I nailed three together.

I hinged the front door on so I can open and shut it to water the tree. I almost forgot that part and nailed the whole thing together. My poor tree wouldn't have liked that!

You're done! It's that easy to have a cute barn door Christmas tree stand.

This is before my kids put all the ornaments on the tree. It gets a little crazy. You know how it is...20 ornaments on one branch :)

Stay tuned to see what the other WYLTC girls have created. The theme this month is Christmas. Come back on Friday to link up anything you have made dealing with the theme. Can't wait to see all the cuteness!

Family Link Party!!!

2011-11-17T20:11:00.000-08:00

So were you inspired to create something fantastic this week?

All of the projects were great-I love to see what the week unveils...

It started here with my Family Rules board:

...fun and easy.

Krystal jumped in next with an amazing little family frame:

I love the quote! And too, everything came from the craft store-no tools needed for this project!

Melinda shared a favorite song and quote all in one with this fun sign:

I've seen these all over my local craft stores lately, Melinda made it super easy to make your own!

And finishing us off for the week, Candace and Nicole shared a great way to display some fun family photos:

And they too gave you the (almost) no tool way to finish this great gift idea project.

So much fun!

But now it's your turn. We want to see how you are celebrating your family at the start of this super-fab holiday season.

Link up your projects that show your idea of Family, we can't wait to see them!

Link will be open until next Friday...
Happy Crafting-
Wendy

Family Picture Block

2011-11-17T10:23:00.001-08:00

Hi everyone! It's Candace and Nicole from Crafty Sisters!

We were so excited to craft with this month's theme, FAMILY!

We love any excuse to display family pictures, and this project is simple to make!

A couple of years ago, Nicole cut out a bunch of these family letters on blocks for her friend Celeste. This week she is cutting more out for her friend for quick and easy Christmas presents that anyone would love.
We always wanted to make one for ourselves, and this month's theme, "family" was a perfect excuse.

We cut our letters about 3-4" ourselves with a scroll saw,

but you could easily pick up unfinished wood letters in many of the craft stores.

You will need letters, 1/4"dowel, mini clothes pin clips, and a 2x4 cut at 12 inches.

We arranged the letters how we wanted and cut the dowels accordingly,

approximately at 1 1/2, 2 and 3" increments.

Cut your paper and Mod Podge onto the front of the 2x4.

You can really personalize this any way you want with ribbons, flowers

and inspirational quotes.

Drill holes in the 2x4 and letters to fit the dowel, then tap and glue into the 2x4 and letters.

Make sure you tap gently or you'll split your letters.

Attach your clips with glue, and place your pictures on!

There you go!

A great way to display your favorite and meaningful family photos!

Thanks for the great theme Wendy!

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

2011-11-16T08:41:00.000-08:00

Hey all! It's Melinda from over at Under My Umbrella. I love the theme of a "family" project. They are all over my house. I saw the particular project I created in a magazine and knew at some point I needed to make one. I sing the song all the time in my house making it something my family knows well. If you have teenagers in your house you might too :) I'm also a big Beatles fan!

This project is a breeze! I know there are tutorial all over online but I will give you my own version. Grab some 2x4's. I cut mine 18 inches long and sanded them.

It kinda hurt to paint over this beautiful wood. I'm still deciding if I should have used the wood to my advantage! I painted the 2x4s black and let them dry.

I have a vinyl machine so I designed something and applied it to the wood. I then spray painted over the lettering with spray paint.

After the spray paint dries. Take off the lettering and sand. I also glued my 2x4s together with Gorilla glue.

My daughter informed me that you need more than love to live. She then listed food and water. I'm well aware! I just love the saying and think the world would be a better place if we all could love a little more!!

Family Motto Picture Frame

2011-11-15T07:00:00.000-08:00

Hello! Its Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here today! I'm so excited to show you guys my take on Wendy's adorable Family Rules Sign.

To be honest, I was a little nervous about this months project because we are in the process of moving to another state and my husband has packed up all the tools and moved them to our new house! So I knew that whatever I made, I was going to have to take some help from the craft store. There is nothing wrong in that right?!

So I went to one of my favorite local stores. (It's called Porter's if any of you have one near you) and found a 12x12 unfinished MDF frame that had a 4x4 opening. I grabbed that and went to see if I could find some scrapbook paper inspiration and found one of those 5x7 paper packs in adorable prints. Then a light bulb went off in my head!

I wanted to make 4x4 compartments and use each square to place a quote. Then thanks to pinterest I found the PERFECT family motto to put in my frame.

Here is the final result.

Ahhhh!!!! I love it! Seriously this is one of my favorite things I have ever made! (I swear I say that about every WYLTC project, but this time I mean it!)

So, do you want to make your own? This is how I did it.

A- First get a 12x12 frame with a 4x4 opening.
B- Paint it a base color that goes with all your papers
C- Cut your papers to 4x4 squares and arrange them how you would like them on your frame.
D- Modge Podge the paper on. I found it best to do the corners first and then the middle squares.
E- Once its good and dry, cut vinyl to make a stencil for your text. (if you don't have a craft cutter, you could use Wendy's transfer method too!)
F- Paint your text. I found it turned out better if I let my paint dry to the touch before removing my stencil.

And that's it!

Oh.... but you may have noticed that my frame has a good amount of distressing.

Funny story about that....

I walked away from this project to use the bathroom after doing the text in one square.... and left it and my paint sitting on the counter. (Do you see where this is going?) When I came back my 3 year old daughter had painted brown paint all over it!

I screamed.

Then I got a rag and scrubbed the thing off. Luckily the modge podge sealed it pretty well and most of the paint came off... Except for in a few spots where I scrubbed through the paper!

Then I cried.

Once I regained my composure I decided to just go with it. I strategically scrapped up the surface of the paper (just using my fingernails) and rubbed brown paint into the scratches. I actually LOVE the way it looks. So yay for happy accidents!

So anyway... thats it. My family motto picture frame.

I hope you love it as much as I do!
I can't wait to see what everyone else does!

November...It's all about FAMILY!!!

2011-11-14T06:00:00.000-08:00

Holy cow! Another month has flown by and it's time to get crafting again.

With all the excitement of the upcoming holiday season my thoughts are turned directly towards my family.

So what better theme for this month's project than that...FAMILY!

Not so super original-these are so popular lately! But it fit the theme and well, I wanted one so this is what you get.

Overall, it wasn't hard but it was a little time consuming. In other words, a great project for the upcoming Thanksgiving break.

Here's what I used:

1/2 inch MDF cut to 12 inches wide by 24 inches long

Valspar Spray Paint in Mediterranean Blue

Ceramcoat acrylic paint in Antique White

Paint brushes

Sand Paper

paper and pencils

To start I painted the board, a few quick coats of beautiful blue and then set it aside to dry.

Next I made a list of "Rules" that I wanted on my board and then I played around on my computer with fonts and sizes until I had something I liked.

It took 3 pages set on landscape to fill the board. You can print off the pages here if you wish...

Top Page

Middle Page

Bottom Page

I then taped the pages together omitting the margins so that everything lined up nicely. Then I used the old-school graphite transfer method to get my rules onto the board-you know the one. Rub your pencil all over the back side of the image, flip it back over-right side up. Tape it into place on the base board and then trace the outline of the image. The image is then transferred onto the wood leaving you a great pattern to follow.

From there started the time consuming part...filling in all the letters! I used the acrylic paint, thinned out just a bit with water and a fine detail paint brush. To get the color level I wanted I repeated this process once the first coat was dry.

Sand paper and distressing was last.

I hit the edges hard with the power sander and then went over the lettering with a fine grit sand paper to soften up the lines a bit.

{I'm still debating with myself if I should add a layer of stain or not.}

But there you go! Not to bad right? You could do it too!

I love it, my friends love it, and more than that my kiddos read it and talk about what it says. Maybe one of these days they'll put it all into action!

An after thought to share...

If I were to do this again I would use 1 inch pine instead of the MDF just so that I could get a little more character from the wood, kind of like this:

Love that you can see the grain and the knots! Oh well, next time right?

Until then, have fun creating.

I hope you'll check back in over the week to see what the other WYLTC gals have to share when it comes to FAMILY for them. And don't forget the linky party opens on Friday, we want to see how you celebrate FAMILY too...

Happy Crafting!

WYLTC? Halloween Craft Features

2011-10-16T13:04:00.000-07:00

Kelsey @ Tattered & Inked

made an adorable spooky sign with her son using scrap wood...

and his painted feet! Looks like fun!

Lyndsey's Craft Spot made a pumpkin from a pallet.

Lyndsey couldn't resist a leftover pallet that she found at a nearby warehouse.

We've been known to cut up a pallet or two ourselves...never let good wood go to waste! :)

Blooming Mommy

whipped up a cute Halloween craft by Mod Podging a print onto a wood plaque.

We'll be trying this soon, there are so many fun Halloween prints out there!

Nicole and I had so much fun playing around with our wood witch shoes

after making the Halloween "countdown" tree, that we made a few more witch shoe projects...

Nicole used her scroll saw to cut these fancy shoes....

then embellished them with Halloween papers, ribbons, and buckles.

Of course we couldn't stop there, we also made a witch shoe cake stand.

We've had so much fun creating with our wood shoes, that we might have to do one more!

Oh the things you can do with a piece of wood and a scroll saw!

A HUGE thanks to all those that participated and followed along this month!

Grab a featured button, if you like.

Stay tuned for news of the next WYLTC? project!

Halloween Wood Craft Link Party!

2011-10-07T14:30:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!

Are you ready to link up your favorite Halloween Wood Craft?

We had so much fun this week re-creating different wooden countdowns to Halloween!

Wendy

whipped up this spooky 3-D tree

and added cute ghost lollipops.

Melinda

created an original count down owl.

How fun are the rolling ping pong eyeballs?

Krystal

shared her Halloween countdown tree.

We adore the frames filled with past Halloween pictures!

Now it's your turn! Please come and link YOUR favorite Halloween wood craft you have made and share your creativity! You have a week to enter! You can grab our Wood You Like To Craft? Button HERE.

Thanks and Happy Crafting!

Advent Picture Tree

2011-10-06T07:29:00.000-07:00

Hello wood crafting friends! Its Krystal from Sassy Sanctuary here and I am SO excited to share my project with you today! I know I've said it before, but I love WYLTC! Each month it pushes me to create something that I never would have otherwise. Some of my most prized creations (besides my children) are WYLTC projects. But I think this one is my all time favorite.

When the Crafty Sisters first shared this month's project I was so excited. I loved the idea of an advent tree, but the last thing my kids need in October is more candy. I also had been brainstorming ideas on how to display pictures of Halloween's past so I knew I would kill two birds with one stone and create a count down tree with a photo display.

Ready to see it?

I just love it!

The base is magnetic so I can change out the number tiles while we count down to the big day. And the tree itself hangs little pictures of my kiddos in their costumes. So cute! I just love looking back on all those fun memories!

So if you want to make your own, here is the method to my madness. (its easy... promise!)

First I drew the tree silhouette onto a piece of 1/8" plywood and cut it out with my scroll saw.

If you are a newbie with a scroll saw, then a tree is perfect! If your cuts get crazy it just adds to the look! Then for the base I simply glued (gorilla glue) some 2x4's together, becuase its cheaper then a post and I had it in the garage. :)

Time to break out that magnetic primer I've been promising myself I'd use again! I did a liberal (you want it thick!) application of the primer and let that dry. Sand it smooth.

Time to paint! You want to paint your tree, a dowel, and a pack of small screw hole buttons black. You also want to paint the small wood tiles orange. And of course distress to bring out the detail!

Then to assemble, drill a hole in your post and push your dowel into it. Hot glue your buttons all over the tree to hang your pictures from, and then hot-glue the tree to the dowel.

Finish it off by using vinyl (or paint) to add your text and numbers. Oh, and add magnets to the number tiles of course!

Then just hang your pictures and enjoy! I used little picture pendant from the jewlery section of the craft store for my mini frames.

Everything is cuter in miniature! I put nine frames on so I had room to grow and just filled the empty frames with scrapbook paper.

I love it!

But I've already said that. :)

Thanks for the inspiration everyone! This week has been amazing. You ladies always blow me away. I can't wait to see all the great Halloween wood crafts the rest of you are going to share! See ya soon!

Krystal

Countdown Owl - Under My Umbrella

2011-10-05T08:39:00.000-07:00

Hey all! It's Melinda from over at Under My Umbrella. I love Fall. It's the smells, colors and of course Halloween! It's one of my kid's favorite holidays! When something as great as a day comes where you get to knock on doors and receive candy a countdown is in order! This little owl is helping us countdown in our house.....

This little guy was easy to make. I glued together a bunch of wood I had hanging around in my garage. I seem to have a never ending supply! Apply vinyl in shape of the owl. I used my scroll saw to cut holes for his eyes. His eyes are ping pong balls spray painted and then I added the vinyl numbers. For the countdown just rotate his eyes around :)

My owl just might fly over to those cute countdown trees the other gals have made for WYLTC and eat some candy!

Halloween "TREE-ts"!!! with Craft Goodies

2011-10-04T08:18:00.000-07:00

Happy October all!

Hope it's shaping up to be a good one.

It's Wendy here today and I'm excited to be here sharing my take on

Candace and Nicole's countdown tree.

Mine came together pretty quick and in the words of my youngest it's a "NICE TREE!" I think all my girls will have fun with it-assuming I can keep the ghostly treats well stocked!

I started by free-handing a haunted-looking tree onto some poster board and then transfered that onto my 1/2 inch MDF. I used my jig saw to cut it out.

Then glued all the pieces together to form a free standing 3-Dish Spook-tacular tree.

Next I added the holes to hold my little ghosties. I just drilled through a few of the branches with a drill bit slightly bigger than the sucker sticks.

Last came the black spray paint, a ton of black glitter, and a sealer to hold it in place.

My little one helped me add the treats and we were done!

It will be a fun addition to our house this Halloween. Thanks ladies for the inspiration and as always for the good times! Can't wait to see what the rest of the week brings...

Wendy

Halloween Lollipop Tree Tutorial

2011-10-03T10:24:00.000-07:00

Hello Everyone!

It's Candace and Nicole from Crafty Sisters!

We are excited to share this fun project with you. We had so much fun creating our countdown to Halloween lollipop tree. We don't think our kids get enough candy on Halloween,

so we made sure this year to give them candy all month long! ;) That was oozing with sarcasm.....

Our tree inspiration comes from Garnet Hill. We saw this lovely floating around on last year and thought it would be easy to recreate! We thought a Halloween version would be even more fun!

garnet hill

We promise it is easier to make than it looks, all you need is a drill- and a saw to make straight cuts. The shoes are totally optional. Best part is.....it all breaks down for storage. A total must anymore with as many crafts as we make. Our husbands keep making landfill trips when we aren't noticing!

Alright, let's show you how we built our Halloween tree! Here's what you will need:

2 1x2" 8' long boards

1 36" long 5/16" threaded rod cut to 31 1/2"
2 locking nuts 5/16" size
9 1" wooden beads
1 4" piece of 4" fence post
5/16 drill bit for threaded rod
9/64" drill bit slightly smaller than lollipop stick/ to hold lollipops on 1x2
drill bit to fit & sink size of bolts on each end
optional witch feet or a larger base
31 funky lollipops
black, orange & white craft paint
die-cut numbers to fit 1x2, or number stencils 1/2" size

Here's what a threaded rod look like...if you have never seen one.

We found ours for the best price at Home Depot.

Cut your 1x2's to desired length.

We started with an 18" 1x2 on the bottom, cutting in one inch measurements

until the top piece which ended up being 3".

You will have 16 cut 1x2's pieces when you are finished.

Find the center on each 1x2, drill one hole with a 5/16th drill bit.

Drill holes for lollipops, about 3/4" of the way into the 1x2 on each end.

Use a drill bit that is just slightly smaller than the lollipops you are using for a snug fit.

Sand and paint each piece of wood, beads, base, and shoes.

Nicole used her Cricut to cut and size numbers from paper to a 1x2, they need to be about 1/2" in size.

You can stencil or use a paint pen to draw on the numbers too!

Drill a hole through the wood base with a 5/16 drill bit.

On the bottom, use a large drill bit (or paddle bit) to fit the bolt, to sink it.

We used a "locking" bolt at the end, so there would be no slipping and you don't need a washer

to hold it in place.

Carefully do the same to your top 3" piece. You only need to go deep enough to fit that bolt. It's okay if the paddle tip pokes through the other side a little bit since you'll need to drill a hole for the lollipop.

We used the wood beads as spacers. So easy and no need for any extra drilling or parts!

Cut your threaded rod before you thread everything on or else you have a very likely chance of bending the rod and you'll end up with a crooked tree. Yes, lesson learned the hard way on this one.:)

A hack saw works great!

We have loved all the witch shoes we've seen everywhere lately and knew

they would be perfect for our tree base.

You can personalize them any way you want! We used some really cute paper from K&Company from their Halloween line this year. We loved their paper last year we used on our Spooky Villages.
If you're not feeling confident enough to cut your own witch shoes out, we have some extra unfinished witch shoes you can purchase. Send us an email if you are interested.

The lollipops we picked up from Oriental Trading Company and they are solid and worth getting. You can also use anything you can find locally, or make your own. The Halloween pops are so popular right now.

If you don't want your kids to have candy all month long, faux lollipops would look great too!

That's it! Not too bad?

We are definitely going to need another tree for Christmas, our kids are so spoiled!

Make sure to join us this week as the WYLTC? ladies knock off their version!
On Friday we will have a linky party right here to share
all Halloween wood crafts, so if you have made something fun
this year for Halloween, come and share it!

Halloween Lollipop Tree

2011-09-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

Hello from Crafty Sisters!

You know how we love us some Halloween crafts

so we couldn't resist putting together something for Wood You Like To Craft

that had some Halloween flair and Halloween Candy!

It's a Halloween Lollipop Countdown Tree!

Trust us, this is one you'll want to make for the kiddos

and it's super easy too!

Make sure to check back on Monday October 4th for the full tutorial!

In the mean time start gathering your supplies!

2 1x2" 8' long boards

1 36" long 5/16" threaded rod cut to 31 1/2"

2 locking nuts 5/16" size

9 1" wooden beads

1 4" piece of 4" fence post

optional witch feet or a larger base

31 funky lollipops

black, orange & white craft paint

We are so excited to see what everyone creates!

Make sure to join in

and Come Craft With Us!!!

Button Winners!

2011-09-18T17:45:00.000-07:00

Thanks so much to everyone who joined in and built shelves with us this month! I just love shelves and how different they all can be. Here are a few of my favorites from the party.

Stare if you must built her own built-in shelves. I know! This spot use to be a window before a room was added on it got sheet-rocked over So Felicia ripped out the sheet-rock and built the shelves to fit the space. Amazing job! It looks incredible Felicia!

Lyndsey from Lyndsey's Craft Spot built photo gallery shelves from Ana White's Plan. This particular project is also on my to-do list so its a ton of fun seeing how someone else did them. I love her arrangement too. The best part though, a $5 price tag!

Bloom in Color created this beauty of a shelf for her son. She was inspired by Pottery Barn, but hers is better! I love that she cut the side pieces herself. Way to go!

And finally, the winner of our "Top Cut" goes too....

Sweet Suite 10 who made this bathroom shelf! I love the great use of space here and that her shelf extends the counter top, but the reason it wins top cut is the sheer genius of using a cutlery tray to make the drawer. Brilliant!

Thanks for all the inspiration and to all those who participated. If you were featured you can grab a button HERE.

Next month the Crafty Sisters will be leading us in a fun Halloween Project. More on that to come! See ya then!

-Krystal