Cute as a cupcake

Who loves cupcakes?! That's right, we all do. I love baking cupcakes but today was a little different, I made a different kind of cupcake. Take a look:

Using the same pack of scrapbook paper I've used in another project (Papermania vintage notes) and buttons I created a pretty piece. Read on if you'd like to have a go too.

You will need some scrapbook paper, a frame this one is from ikea, buttons of your choice and letter stickers and also washi tape of your choice (not pictures)

First I cut my background scrapbook paper to fit the frame and cut a cupcake case from floral paper. I stuck the case on and began to lay out the buttons, I decided to use larger ones at the bottom and smaller ones as I moved up. I pretty much just went with the flow.

I then removed the glass from the frame and placed this in. The case looked a little bare so I added a strip of washi tape and used some letter stickers to write 'cute as a'. I love it and it was so quick to do. Have a go using any colours to create a piece for any nursery, child's room or even your own bedroom. It would even look pretty as a notebook cover too! 

Scrapbook paper decor

I fell in love with this scrapbook paper when I saw it on amazon. It's the Papermania Vintage Notes 12x12 scrapbook paper. 

I loved that it had the perfect pastel shade paper that would go really well in DD's nursery. I'd seen this decor on Pinterest that I thought was so cute.

So I decided to change it a little to create my piece. I used a single bird instead of the two.  I decided to use a very neutral background paper so all the focus was on the bird. First I started by cutting out all the different parts and placing them on the paper as I wanted. 

I then stuck everything down using a glue stick and added details like the legs, tail and beak with a brown pen. For the eye I used a white circle that did hole punched from white paper and drew a closed eye on it very simply. 

I then placed it in a simple white frame ready to go onto the gallery for DD's room, I love it!

I'm thinking about painting the frame pink, what do you think?

Personalised Plate decor

I have a real love for all things personalised! I really wanted to create a wall gallery for my DD's nursery, something similar to this:

Photo credit: http://asmallsnippet.com/2013/08/nursery-reveal.html 

I am still in the process of creating the different pieces and a few days ago had a go at a personalised plate for the

gallery. I started with a detailed white plate from ikea

I created a template for the letter I wanted, I just used paper but it would have been better with card. 

I found a font I liked online and traced it on the paper then cut out the middle, paced this on the plate and painted..

I then removed the template. Again the finish would have been sharper had I used card, but I'm happy.

I then added some sticker that matched the theme of the room to the plate. 

Have fun personalising plates, or anything else for that matter. 

Wall Art Craft

I'm currently in the process of completing DD's nursery and have been having fun with some wall art. It started with a trip to bm bargains where I found these inexpensive hanging hearts.

They looked very boring so I decided to spice them up a little and create a cute wall art piece. I used glue to place white card with stickers (which I found at Toysrus) attached to each heart. 

White card with a sugar and spice sticker.

Two hearts placed over each other on white card

This was a piece of an old birthday card that I cut out and used. 

Another sticker placed on white card for the final heart. I also placed buttons around it to liven it up even more. 

I finally added some ribbon onto the string.

I was really happy with how this turned out, and it can be done with any piece that has hollow spaces and you can customise however you want creating a piece of art for any theme. 

I had fun making this and maybe it's inspired you.