Showing posts with label Lemonade Stand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lemonade Stand. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Haunted House Dollar Store Decor

Happy Tuesday crafty friends!
I hope your day is off to a great start and you are enjoying the new season we just hit...FALL! It is our collective households favorite season! I am outvoted 3-1. All of my family members love fall most of all! I love it, because I love them! Anyway, the fall feasts are a lot of fun. One of the celebrations is halloween. While as a family we do not participate in halloween, I do have a couple of halloween events I do for my job. So I wanted to make something that I could used to decorate the booth. Here is what I created.

Here is my project. It is super cute. It is a free standing decor piece.

I started with a plain haunted house from the Dollar Store.


I painted the house with some purple paint. I made a base for it by gluing some jenga type wood blocks to both sides. I then painted them with some black paint.



With the black paint, I painted some "roof tops" While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled some glitter on them.


For the moon die cut, I used some wire and sandwhiched a couple of the dies together with some foam tape between them.


I then went to work adding in all the super cute die cuts I used. As with most of my projects, I started by die cutting all my pieces from white cardstock. I then colored them in with my markers.
In this close up you can see the following dies: The tops of the cake sho












Here is one last look at my completed project. Below are the dies I used.






Vintage Lamp Post
From the new Christmas Release


Holiday Door
Used the bottom base, door, and columns for the door are of my project.
Used the oval window top for the two windows on each side of door.



Snowman w/ Country Shed
Used the shed wood base for the background of my door area.



Cake Shoppe
Used the Roof top and the awning of the front window. The roof top piece is over the door and over the left second story window. The awning piece is over the third story window. 


Candy Cart
Used the Top for the awning on the seccond floor to the left window. It is layered underneath the roof top piece of the cake shoppe die.


Lemonade Stand
Used the base of the stand for the window box planters on the bottom windows. Also used the little penant. it is on the second story window on the left.


Cute Ghosts


Halloween Victorian Gate. Used at the front of the house.


Jack-O-Lantern Witch. Used the Jack O Lantern and the hat on one of the pumpkins


Spooky Fence Mini
Used a cut piece from this for the 2nd floor skinny window on the right side.


Spooky Kitties


Used the little pumpkins


Used te spiders and some of te web pieces


Used the roof top on the 2nd floor side piece as window awnings on the small windows and also used the 2nd floor as my chimney.

Trick or Treat Phrase


Witch Hat



Witch Legs
Used the legs as "Shutters" for my first floor windows.

Well that about covers it for this project. 

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Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!
-Melinda

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Mini Lemonade Stand Shadow Box

Hello Cottage Cutz friends,
Melinda here with you on this wonderful Wednesday. Today I am sharing a cute little shadow box I created for my entrance table decor. I love making tiered tray and themed little decor pieces for that front table. It is a treat to come home and see the seasonal decor. Here in Florida it is hard to feel the four seasons. We just get varying degrees of HOT...lol!

Here's a look at my finished little shadow box. I started with a shadow box from the dollar tree. It had another image in the center but I took that out to start with a flat surface.

I started by decorating the inside of the shadow box with some paper. I used some black cardstock for the base. I then added a white mat and some diagonal plaid patterned paper that I created and printed from my home inkjet printer. I cut it to size and then added all that to the shadow boxes inside.


I created a little sign for the top by adding the word fresh and one of the lemon wedges from the Lemon phrases die set. I cut the lemon wedge down. For the black base of the sign, I cut out the lemonade stand in black cardstock and cut the top and sides off. I used just the bottom piece.
I then cut out two banners in white cardstock and then used my markers to color the pennants of the banner in yellow and green. 

Next I went to work creating that sweet little lemonade stand. I cut the base out in kraft cardstock. I then added some brown marker to bring out the wood grain look. I used my black marker to darken the word Lemonade. It cuts out with the die cut to make things real easy! I then cut and colored the banner and added my pitcher, glass, lemons and stand sentiment. I added all that to a square scallop stitched mat with a green polka dot patterned paper.

Next, I needed to make something to give my little lemonade stand some lift off the base of the shadow box. I didn't want to layer a bunch of foam tape. So instead I made a little 3" x 3" box. 


Here are some .75" x 11" strips that I scored and folded at 3". I did this so I could adhere them to the inside of the box or riser as I like to call it. It makes it super sturdy.

Here is my little riser after I have added the extra layers. Nice and strong. It will keep my little lemonade stand nice and sturdy and flush. I adhered this to the base of the shadow box and then added my little lemonade stand.


Here is a view with a slight angle. You can see how much lift the stand mat and sentiment have off the base. But it is nice and sturdy and the edges won't collapse in. The shadow box is 1" thick so making my riser .75" thick still kept the mat inset enough.


Here is one last look at my completed shadow box. I am making a few more items for my decor that I will be sharing and then I will share a final photo of how it all comes together. 

Dies Used


Nested Scallop Square Set
The stitched one I used is unavailable at the moment.
This one would be a great alternative.


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Well that about covers it for today! Until the next time, have a wonderfully crafty day!