Therese's Crafty Cabana

Hi everyone! I hope the summer heat hasn't hit you like it has me, over here in sunny Florida. It's a scortcher! Well, since I'm on the topic of hot, I thought I share some pictures of some hot and fun wedding decorations I made for a friend's wedding last month. My dear friend commissioned me to make decorations for her entrance table, favor table, and memory lane table (which features a full scrapbook spread also designed by yours truly :) My friend wanted to make her favors special for her guests, so she shared 4 bakery items inspired by each of the bride and groom's grandparents. The cookie jars were decorative to hold the cookie favors and I decorated the tops with flowers from SVG Cuts, the 3D Mums and Fall flowers kit . This is a collection of all of the items I made, but they were spread out at the wedding reception onto the different tables. Here are a few closer pictures featuring a lot of flowers . I used SVG Cuts  3-D lette...

Well butter me up, 'cause I'm on a roll! I'm posting twice in one weekend, wow, I never get the chance to be so on the ball! Before I get to my project, I wanted to share what Spring looks like in my part of the world...beautiful sunny Florida! Ok, so today's project is my entry for SVG Cuts Spring Challenge. It's hard to come up with something that someone hasn't already made, and so far I don't think anyone made a bird bath.  Look at the cute blue bird family taking a swim! Bet you are wondering how I made this, and which kits I used. Well one kit is obvious, the birds and flowers with vines are from the Spring Birdhouses kit . The bath is made from the bottom of the 3-D egg (bottom half) and and base the is made from the pedestal from the Poplar Street Tulips kit . And the yellow flowers on the bath are from the 3-D Mums and Fall Flowers kit . To create the "water" I painted the bottom inside ...

Hello Everyone! I'm really enjoying this wonderful Spring weather, even a few thunderstorms that cool the temperatures are nice. {As my cat cowers in the kitchen terrified} A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of designing a banner for my friend's bridal shower; Take a look see... Supplies that I used :  Sizzix eclips, eCAL program,  Papers from DCWV Rustic Stack, Trendy Twine , Basic shapes from my shapes library for the banner and fringe, Lettering Delights and SVG Cuts files for details. Now for some closer pictures to show the details... I used my fonts, to create the words and then added a shadow layer in my eCAL program. The flowers below are from SVG Cuts Happy Birthday to You kit . The butterfly is from Lettering Delights Blossoms and Butterflies set . The twine, is Trendy Twine's Posy , that I used to tie all of the banner pieces together.  One last detail that I added was embossing on the lette...

This month SVG Attic challenged contestants to use moss green, grey, black and ivory in their submissions. So this is what I came up with... The box container is a candy holder that has a dispenser on the bottom from the Fun Favors SVG Collection . The rounded container is from the set Kiss the Cook , and it holds the little bird house, which is also a candy holder and it is from the set Welcome Spring . I used Trendy Twine's Posy twine which looks so perfect on Spring projects.       I had to shrink the original size of the birdhouse by about a third to get it to fit in the container. For some dimension I used a polka dot embossing folder for the roof accents.  I wanted to have a way for the bird house to hang from the twine on the top of the birdhouse, so I made a hole in the bottom of the container and threaded the twine through. To hang it, I tied a bow, but to get to the candy inside, you...

So this year for my nephew's birthday card I got my inspiration from The Pirate's of the Caribbean, and decided to make him a pirate themed card along with some pirate accessories such as a Happy Birthday Banner, a treasure chest and some eye patches. I used SVG Cuts's card base from the Everyday Cards kit  and changed the Party card to say Ahoy Birthday Boy. I used elements from my Lettering Delights kit called Aye Matey  and I just love all of the elements that helped make the card look rustic (especially love the compass on the back layer!) The papers I used are from DCWV Rustic Stack. I used Trendy Twine's Chocolate Truffle , if you haven't explored twine yet, I think it's such a great trend that has taken over in the paper crafting world! I used  black  brads to attach the anchors and the twine. Since I didn't have room to write my message on the card, I created a rustic-map looking page that I folded and unfolded and scrunched ...

There's just something so peacful about Spring, the birds start chirping in joy for warmer weather, the air is still fresh, and the trees and grass have the new baby green growth starting to bring life to what was a barren land.  I could do without the pollen though {it's the downside to Spring}. So with that said, I couldn't resist making a sign to welcome Spring. I used SVG Cuts star pattern from Made in the USA . I made the title by welding the shadow layer of the words together in eCAL/SCAL. To add dimension to the flowers I used Scotch foam tape. I used Trendy Twine's Strawberry Cupcake  in the center and for the star to hang with. To finish the words and make them stand out, I used Stickles Star Dust. Hope this gets you in the mood for Spring time fun.