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Bloggie Bestie – Sasha of Creations by Sasha

May 3, 2012 Leave a Comment

Hello dolls! This week’s Bloggie Bestie is someone you’ve been seeing around here a lot lately… Places like our sidebar (large ads on the left), in recent Sponsor Spotlights, and in sponsor shout outs on our Facebook and Twitter pages!
Today our girl Sasha of Creations by Sasha is sharing a fun, easy DIY with you!

Hope you’ll leave her some bloggie love here, and be sure to check out her fun blog and shop!

Take it away Sasha!!!!

Hello Everyone! I’m Sasha and you may remember my face from Sponser Spotlight last month. I’m excited to be here blog swapping with Kassi today! Kassi’s blogging over the Creations By Sasha blog today sharing a fun post, so I’m sure she’d love a visit over there when you’re finished here!’

I wanted to take the time to re-introduce myself. I blog but I also have my own store where my goal is always to inspire people – whether it’s through creative designs for your home, unique gifts for loved ones, or having a place for cherished memories.

But today, I wanted to share with you one of my most favorite and super easy projects. I sell these in my store, but you can also make them yourself – DIY Coasters. These coasters are SUPER easy to make. All you need are:
- four 4×4 tiles
- scrapbook paper
- mod podge
- felt bumper pads (for the bottom)
- clear spray paint.

To make these, simply trim your paper of choice to 4×4, modge podge to the tiles, add the felt pads, and then spray with clear spray paint to seal. As so you can see, you can do some many different things with these!

So THANK YOU to Kassi for hosting me today and for guest blogging over at Creations By Sasha. I hope you guys will stop by soon!

Happy crafting!

Thanks so much to Sasha for blog swapping with me today and for being the Bloggie Bestie this week on Truly Lovely!
Hope you’ll stop over and see what I’m sharing at her place!

Have a lovely Thursday!!!

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Vinyl + Tile = Booth Sign

September 21, 2011 7 Comments

Remember in August I talked about having a Scentsy Booth at the County Fair?

Well, here’s a quick little lovely I crafted up to display at my booth.

Materials needed:

A tile from my local Home Depot (they cost less than $1)

Purple Krylon spray paint

White vinyl

(Did you know the vinyl you can purchase at Wal-Mart for the Cricket machine works just lovely in the Silhouette SD? You just gotta trim it down to size.)

And a small tabletop easel

I spray painted the white tile with a couple of coats of the purple paint.

(Purple for Scentsy of course)

Cut out the wording in the white vinyl using my Silhouette SD.

Then using transfer paper applied the lettering to the tile.

By the way, if you’re interested in hosting a Scenty Catalog/Online party to earn FREE Scentsy products, let me know! We can ship all over the U.S. and Canada, so you can host a party anywhere!

See the sign? There toward the left corner of the picture.

And speaking of the County Fair…

How cute is my niece, Taylor, showing her VERY first lamb!

She won THIRD place in the fair and was able to sell her lamb at the auction.

We were all VERY proud of her!

Well done Miss TayTay!!!

Have a lovely day friends!!!

Filed Under: Crafts, Tutorials Tagged With: Silhouette, Tile, Vinyl

Tile Coasters

February 3, 2011 17 Comments

I recently took on a fun project!

I copied a status from someone else on Facebook to my own status… Basically it said,

“First 5 people to comment on this status get a handmade gift from me.”

I ended up allowing for two more, so seven handmade gifts in total.

The first two are finished, I decided to make them the same thing…

Cheap, easy, but super fun and way cute!! Tile Coasters!

I’ve been seeing these all over blogland. I initially saw them here at Mostly Food and Crafts where Danielle made some sweet Holiday coasters…

So I decided to take this idea and make my own.

The materials needed are:

4 square tiles (I bought mine at Home Depot for $0.14 each)
Scrapbook paper (about half a sheet for each set of coasters)
I used my Silhouette SD for the cutting, but you could use any stencil or hand cut the designs yourself…
Hot Glue Gun
Modge Podge
Foam brush
Modge Podge Sealer
Scissors
Sheet of crafting felt

I think in total the materials only cost me a couple of dollars

for each of the 2 sets of coasters that I made.

I made the first set of coasters for my friend, Katie.

I LOVE personalized things and TYPOGRAPHY, so I chose to use her name for one of the coasters.

And I used a cup with a straw from the free designs that came with my Silhouette.

I followed the same steps for the second set of coasters for my friend, Tess, except I used her name and the free wine glass that came with my Silhouette.

This is the screen shot of Katie’s cutouts on my Silhouette screen.

I simply measured the tiles, decided the size I wanted for the squares, inserted the cutouts and then printed/cut the page onto the scrapbook paper.

Next I used the foam brush to brush a layer of Modge Podge onto the two tiles, then took my cutouts and placed them in the center. I let those dry for about 15 minutes.

I brushed two layers of Modge Podge over the top of the cutouts on the tiles and allowed those to dry for 15 minutes each in between coats.

Once the second layer was dry, I sprayed two layers of the Modge Podge Sealer over the cutouts and tiles. Those dried.

For my last step, I cut out strips of matching felt and hot glued those to the bottoms of two of the tiles. The bottoms of the tiles are rough, so they felt serves as a protective barrier between them and the table surface they get placed on.