Wood Connection: Spring Crafts

Wood Co sent us these cute flowers and birds in the mail for being guest bloggers. They are the sweetest! Mindy and I decided we wanted to share the love and pay it forward. We stained, painted and glued paper on them to be super cute and then we gave them to the sisters we visit teach. We printed out cute printables and attached them to our creation. I can say the ladies I teach absolutely loved them! They could also make a great mother's day gift! 

Here's what you do:

OPTION ONE: FLOWERS

Flower Materials:

- Flower Trio

- Scrapbook Paper

- Wood Stain

- Wood glue

- Paint brushes

- Scissors

- Pencil

- Green embellishment stick ons

- sand paper

What to do:

1. Trace the flowers and leaves onto paper.

2. Sand everything

3. Stain the sides of the flowers and leaves and sticks. (Don't stain the middles of flowers unless you want to)

4. Cut out the paper

5. After the stain is dry, glue the paper on. See the tutorial tab if you want more instruction how to do this. Also make sure your hands are clean so you don't leave any stain fingerprints on the paper. I learned my lesson!

5. Either paint or apply paper on the middles. Glue onto flowers.

6. Put them together, add the cute green dots and you're done! So easy!

OPTION TWO: BIRDS

Bird Materials:

- Bird Trio

- Scrapbook Paper

- Paint (I used seafoam and white)

- Wood Stain

- Wood glue

- Paint brushes

- Scissors

- Pencil

- Blue embellishment stick ons

- sand paper

What I did:

1. 

New car!

Well I guess getting a new car was kind of a birthday present as well! Dan has been trying to convince me for a while that we needed a new car. My escape was holding up good but getting older. It didn't have too many problem either, but after a lot of convincing, we finally started to look. We wanted something with good gas Mileage and something we could grow into. We mainly drove these Kia sorrentos and fell in love! It was so smooth and quiet and had lots of extra room! It has a third row seat which will be nice when we have more kids. We bought it at the Larry h Miller used cars for a good deal! Wahoo! I love it!

My 27th Birthday

27! It's a pretty big birthday 😉 Dan and my family made it so special. When I got home from ward council Dan surprised me by decorating the house and making breakfast. He also got me a cute shirt (that I actually liked) and some home decor. My birthday fell on a Sunday and so my cute primary kids sang to me which made it great too. Later we had my family over for cake and ice cream! This will be a great year being 27. I feel so blessed to have great friends and family to celebrate with!

Color me mine birthday date

Dan took me on a nice birthday date the Saturday before my birthday. He surprised me and planned the whole date! We went and ate at Outback Steakhouse. Yum! Then Dan reserved us a spot at Color me mine. We love this place! I chose to do a tile for each of my kids. We sing them these songs every night before they go to bed. Dan did a Timpanogos football tile for his office. We had a fun time!

Wood Connection: Spring and Summer Interchangeable Door Hang

Hey everyone! Who's excited that it is so warm outside and that there are blossoms everywhere?! Yay! I remembered that I had my bunny doorhang still up from Easter, so I needed to change that asap. I couldn't decide what flower I liked from Wood Co, so I got both. The first one I made more Springy and the second looks more Summery. I'll probably put that one up in June.

Anyways, here is what you do!

Note- this is just for the interchangeable part, to make the gold and white slat sign, check out this post.

Spring and Summer Doorhang Materials:

- Flower overlay

- Paper (Spring: pink and green, Summer: purple and orange)

- White Paint

- Sandpaper

- Paint Brush

- Wood Glue

-Scissors

- Pencil

First, trace your flower and middle on the paper that you like. Then sand the edges of the wood and paint white. While that is drying, cut out the paper.

Apply the paper with wood glue. Smooth out the glue using a brush. Make sure it goes to the edges and make sure you don't apply too much so you don't have bubbles.

Once the glue dries, sand the edges. Then apply the middle to the flower with the wood glue. After that dries, put the velcro on the back and put on your door hang!