4th of July Wrap up

This is such a great holiday. I think that sometimes we forget about everything that people have given for us to have such wonderful freedoms. We really are so lucky.

Thank you to everyone who has given and sacrificed so much for our wonderful country!
These are the crafts we did this month.

Patriotic Plant Decor

America Banner

Flag Board

USA Blocks
Modge Podge Balls

4th of July Nails
I love celebrating the 4th! Here are a few pictures from our festivities:
A balloon ride in the balloon fest!Looking at the Booths at the Park. I ran into Moses from Biggest Looser.We had so much fun at the Stadium of Fire with my awesome family!One of the beautiful fireworks.We ran a 5k yesterday! It was awesome.
Parade Fun

I hope you all had just as much fun as we did!

4th of July Nails

Sorry these pictures are so bad. I really need a new camera.
There is this new nail painting technique going around where you drip your nail polish in water to make a design then you dip your nail in it. I tried it.. It looks pretty cool.

Red, white and blue paint.
As I have stated before I am pretty terrible about doing tutorials.

She has the best tutorial for you. Here
I also painted my two nieces nails. It does take some practice but it is fun and they loved it. I've also received a lot of compliments on mine.
If you do this please send me a picture of your nails I would love to post them.
craft-o-maniac

DIY: Patriotic Plant Decor

When I go to the craft store I walk around and just load my cart up with holiday stuff. Then I just kinda put stuff together till it is all used. That is how I came up with these.
Felt stars, star buttons, Fourth of July stickers, skewers, and patriotic ribbon.

One trick that I have learned is that if you cut the back of the button off you can just glue it and it works fine and doesn't stick out.

I just put a line of glue down the middle of the ribbon and wrapped it around the skewers. I put a sticker and some buttons on 3 of the felt stars. Then I took a plain one and matched it to them. I glued the skewer between the two stars with hot glue!

So patriotic. So easy. So cute.

I think they are perfect!

Happy 4th of July Crafting
craft-o-maniac

DIY: Flag Board

Easy, patriotic craft.
I had a board laying around the house. I drew the lines with a pencil then painted it. After it dried I took some sandpaper to it.
Ole' Glory!

DIY: America Banner

I used the same paper that I used on my blocks. Which is nice because they tie the room together.

This is my first banner and I am excited with how it turned out the only thing I would do differently is that I would back this paper with a hard card stock. It is really flimsy paper. I used hemp to tie the triangles together. I also had them laminated so they will keep longer. But next time like I said I would use card stock and modge podge.

I'm glad how it turned out! Linked to: Someday Crafts

DIY: USA Blocks

I already had my wooden blocks.. It really is the best idea to go to a home depot and buy a whole 2x4 and just cut the whole thing up.
I bought some cute red white and blue paper and I modge- podged it onto the blocks. Then I just cut out USA in vinyl. Because the paper was so cute I didn't even have to worry about embellishments! I think they look awesome with the midge podge balls. I also love that you can sit them down or stand them up!My son wanted to show off his blocks... He set them up and everything.
He was so proud!Craft-o-maniac

DIY: Patriotic Modge Podge Balls

I love these...but you already know that. I have some for almost all of the holidays... Well, it is about time I had some for Independence Day.I just got the napkins at JoAnns.I love them.Here is the original Post