Therese's Crafty Cabana

Hi everyone! Since Valentine's Day is just a week away, I wanted to create a fun project inspired by my husband. He's really great a giving me ideas of what to make and this time he said he wanted me to make a Valentine lamp. He even helped pick out the colors and I think it turned out super cute! First off, I have to shout out to SVG Cuts for making such cute files. I didn't have a lamp file of theirs, even though the do have one, so I got creative trying to piece together different components from different kits to come up with my version. The kits I used are: Santa's Village - I used the Santa hat box bottom for the lamp shade. Home for the Holidays - I used the pitcher for the base of the lamp (I modified it by covering up the holes where the handle goes). For My Valentine - I used one of the hearts in the extras folder to create the hearts on the lamp shade. Supplies I used: Washi tape (for the black border around the lamp shade and lamp base) ...

I am so excited to share some crafty Valentine projects featuring Trendy Twine's fabulous twine and SVG Cuts fantastic files.  I was invited to be a guest designer for Trendy Twine  (go check them out if you haven't yet), and I'm so thrilled to use their twine on my projects, it gives them that little something they were missing. I made a two projects, so for starters, I will show you a count down to Valentine's Day calendar. The SVG files are from SVG Cuts . The twine I used for this project is Valentine Cherry Cupcake and Peppermint Stick . I used SVG Cuts  Classic Christmas Advent Calendar , but ungrouped the files and created my own layout using only 14 of the 24 windows. The Be Mine Caption is from 24 Valentines . I mostly used left over pink red and white scraps that I had laying around, but I did use a few papers from K&Company's Geo Floral paper pad and the black and white border is from Me & My Big Ideas black and white speci...