Pretty Patriotic Pinwheel with Aleene's Instant Tacky

Turn plain scrapbooking paper into double-sided paper, quickly and easily with Aleene's Instant Tacky. You can create any custom color and pattern combination you want with this papercrafting technique. Then take your one-of-a-kind paper and turn it into a cute Patriotic Pinwheel using supplies you can find at the dollar store. Come get crafty with me!

Craft Fail - Talking Handmade Adventures That Go Horribly Wrong With Heather Mann

Translating something from Pinterest to 'real life' is often times not near as easy as the pinners make it look. I can attest to that from first hand experience. Hooray for Heather Mann and her new book Craft Fail. This hilarious book let's crafters, bakers and makers know that they are not alone when their great idea goes horribly wrong. Frying a heart shaped egg inside a piece of toast or stiffening yarn into a lamp shade can make even the most seasoned of DIY professionals throw their hands up and shout more than a few expletives. I recently got to ask Heather a few questions about her new book, her website Dollar Store Crafts and how she manages to be a crafty icon and raise four kids at the same time!

DIY Father's Day Frame

Here's a DIY Father's Day Frame you can make in a flash to show Dad just how much you love him.  I got the frame and vintage edition Hot Wheels toy cars at our local Dollar General for $8.50.  Just make the frame, print the graphic, cut to fit and place in frame.  An awesome reminder that in the race of life, the one who finishes with the most toys love wins.  Aleene's 7800 adhesive and Tulip dimensional paint make it easy to make this race car themed frame. 

What you need:

4 Hot Wheels vintage edition toy cars

5x7 frame (the frame edges need to be wide enough to accomodate the cars without overlap)

Cardboard 

Tulip 3-D Slick Paint

Aleene's Platinum Bond 7800 Adhesive

Pencil

Ruler

Heavy duty scissors

 1.  Measure center points of frame from edges, mark.  Mark around frame with pencil, this doesn't have to be perfectly perfect, but try to keep the spacing somewhat even.  2.  Use a heavy duty pair of scissors to cut small segments of cardboards to fit underneath cars.  These will help you glue them down without having to worry about the wheels moving around!  3.  Glue cardboard underneath cards and glue cars to frame.  Each car is one dash from edge, creating the illusion of movement.  4.  Use Tulip Slick Paint to go over the pencil marks.  Allow glue and paint to dry!

Print graphic sized to fit a 5"x7" frame. Cut to fit and insert into frame, you can secure it with a little Aleene's Spray Adhesive to keep it from slipping.

 

Fun, fast, fabulous and just in time for Father's Day!  What are you making for Dad this year?  Need ideas?  We've got lots of great DIY's for Dad on our website.

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Cheers,

Margot